"Printing" Houses

You must be very easy to please.

I've never seen anything from Ikea that I had any desire to own.

You don't necessarily *need* a steel former, but it does save an awful lot of concrete compared to filling a trench which will be a lot wider than needed.

You incur the costs of hiring, fixing, striking and cleaning the formwork, plus you need to backfill the edges of the trench. That must be weighed against the saving in the cost of concrete.

The message from Bruce contains these words:

It's a well-established method of building oil rigs, too.

not even share certificates ?

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember geoff saying something like:

I don't know about Ikea, but things are s*it for Habitatty here.

I have gotten completely out of retail crap as an investment along with property in any shape size or form.

The areas of growth are commodities and energy, and manufacturing and infrastructure. Thats where growth will be. WE dont need any more fitted kitchens made out of cardboard, or silly interior design feetchas, what we actually need are roads railways and sewers that work, houses that are cheap to heat and so on.

I dont foresee the end of Capitalism, but with luck, we may see off the worst excesses of Consumerism in the next decade. And that means bye Curry's Dixons, PCworld, Ikea, MFI, Starbucks, Honest Johns Mobyle Phone Shoppe, and indeed most of the out of town and high street operations.