Maybe. I do own a car. I do have plenty of money for it in the PRESENT. However, I have children to support and also will eventually retire. I actually could live like a rich man and squander it all...
Let me say it again...Point again where do I talk about a phone. I do not give a flying fuck wether or not people have a smartphone. In fact, when I was younger, we did not have them and I saved boatloads of money neither having a car nor a smartphone. It is because of people like you that one day I will leave slashdot for good.
If you say so...on the other hand, I had a car far later in life than most of my peers, however I literally own my home and car, and not the bank. And no loan shackles to get me worried at night wether I not I will lost everything if I am fired.
I live in a crowded city. I have flex time and arrive quite early for work. I also arrive VERY early to the beach in the summer. I understand the work traffic, I do not understand how the idiots put themselves in a 2h-3h traffic lane in the summer. It is not exactly that they wont know that will happen.
Not really. I was talking that between taxes and depreciation a new car has a fixed cost around 100-400 per month, plus extras, gas, parking, maintenance, that is a money sinkhole, and that if you avoid it early in life you can save money.
Pretty the same here. I can live in a shithole, have a big house with a garden, and spend my week in the car - almost 2h traffic in the morning, same in the evening, or have a smaller apartment near work and spend my weekdays with my wife. Although we have a much higher population density, for granted.
(cars lol -- I hate the idiocy in facebook where people have to make snide remarks making up shit...reading the comment above and I am commenting young people can save a lot not having a car while they can avoid it. I do not give a fuck wether they have a phone or not)
I live in Europe 4km from my job, and the tube just right by the door...a luxury, granted, even here. As you kindly point out, the problem is not buying an (old) car. It is easy to do the math taxes and insurance, and I do not live in the most expensive of the countries (in Euros) - 100 per month - gas, work and leisure around 150. Car usage, make it 100-200 (I paid it upfront, so no interest). Lets dilute the parts needed, maybe 50 per month. So as a rough estimate, going around by car costs me 350-400 per month. you may well do small reparations, but you still have to buy parts or outsource the bigger ones. If you are not making a downpayment into a new car, you are still making a payment in parts. Here, for people who lives on the suburbs, public transportation costs 1/10 of the value if you really do not own any car at all.
Driving is not only wasting time, but squandering money. If you live in a area well served with affordable public transportation, you save thousands by the year. And actually is one less shackle enslaving you. If you can afford to at least go without a car until you have children, you will save thousands. Depending on the country, the kind of car you drive, the downpayment, the maintenance and the depreciation, the taxes, a car might translate very well into an expense of 300-1,000 Euros per month.
One of the reasons of some may attacks "from China" is that they have of the largest network of "pirate", not maintained, old XPs...the rest is just political talk. Look, a flying commie that eats baby just went by!
My father, always a smart man, wanted to go into computing in his late 60s, dropping hints he was not keeping up with ages. I was an expat at the time, gave in my old PowerBook (old Mac). He learned to use it on his own. Later he got an old MacBook Pro, and last year I have him a brand new iPad. Support calls are far and between, how do I do this and that, and the upgrades when I visit. Nothing draining. Sis also has an iPad nowadays, in the Mac era they were pretty clueless how to help him too. Has for family members or wife friends, the motto is "I do not use Windows and do not know how to use it"; bring it over and it will get Linux. 5 machines in Linux so far. After this windows 10 fiasco, also trying to convert Wife to Linux...but I suspect she is after my Mac.
The employee must be an addict that likes to sniff car plates, that should be it. Otherwise I do not see clearly a reason for him to be there...or maybe he is Mr. Magoo and needed to have a real look at the plate to be able to see it. That excuse of taking the photo is so dense...
I would have thought you do not have to be 1 inch near the car or in the car direct line of view to take a photo of the plates. My iPhone must be magic.
I have been installing Mint Cinnamon for my technophobe relatives and so far, so good. They seem to like it, and love even more not getting the pesking malware.
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In a male dominated board. Bring it on fuckers, it is excellent PR.
Maybe. I do own a car. I do have plenty of money for it in the PRESENT. However, I have children to support and also will eventually retire. I actually could live like a rich man and squander it all...
Let me say it again...Point again where do I talk about a phone. I do not give a flying fuck wether or not people have a smartphone. In fact, when I was younger, we did not have them and I saved boatloads of money neither having a car nor a smartphone. It is because of people like you that one day I will leave slashdot for good.
If you say so...on the other hand, I had a car far later in life than most of my peers, however I literally own my home and car, and not the bank. And no loan shackles to get me worried at night wether I not I will lost everything if I am fired.
I live in a crowded city. I have flex time and arrive quite early for work. I also arrive VERY early to the beach in the summer. I understand the work traffic, I do not understand how the idiots put themselves in a 2h-3h traffic lane in the summer. It is not exactly that they wont know that will happen.
A surface pro runs the operating system of the devil, insensitive clod.
Not really. I was talking that between taxes and depreciation a new car has a fixed cost around 100-400 per month, plus extras, gas, parking, maintenance, that is a money sinkhole, and that if you avoid it early in life you can save money.
Pretty the same here. I can live in a shithole, have a big house with a garden, and spend my week in the car - almost 2h traffic in the morning, same in the evening, or have a smaller apartment near work and spend my weekdays with my wife. Although we have a much higher population density, for granted.
(cars lol -- I hate the idiocy in facebook where people have to make snide remarks making up shit...reading the comment above and I am commenting young people can save a lot not having a car while they can avoid it. I do not give a fuck wether they have a phone or not)
I am talking about phones only, jerk.
I live in Europe 4km from my job, and the tube just right by the door...a luxury, granted, even here. As you kindly point out, the problem is not buying an (old) car. It is easy to do the math taxes and insurance, and I do not live in the most expensive of the countries (in Euros) - 100 per month - gas, work and leisure around 150. Car usage, make it 100-200 (I paid it upfront, so no interest). Lets dilute the parts needed, maybe 50 per month. So as a rough estimate, going around by car costs me 350-400 per month. you may well do small reparations, but you still have to buy parts or outsource the bigger ones. If you are not making a downpayment into a new car, you are still making a payment in parts. Here, for people who lives on the suburbs, public transportation costs 1/10 of the value if you really do not own any car at all.
forgot to mention taxes (which are there, and parking in city areas)
Driving is not only wasting time, but squandering money. If you live in a area well served with affordable public transportation, you save thousands by the year. And actually is one less shackle enslaving you. If you can afford to at least go without a car until you have children, you will save thousands. Depending on the country, the kind of car you drive, the downpayment, the maintenance and the depreciation, the taxes, a car might translate very well into an expense of 300-1,000 Euros per month.
You pay me 2 years salary, that is fine, otherwise, I am leaving...
One of the reasons of some may attacks "from China" is that they have of the largest network of "pirate", not maintained, old XPs...the rest is just political talk. Look, a flying commie that eats baby just went by!
Tell us the truth, you secretly hate your parents, right?
My father, always a smart man, wanted to go into computing in his late 60s, dropping hints he was not keeping up with ages. I was an expat at the time, gave in my old PowerBook (old Mac). He learned to use it on his own. Later he got an old MacBook Pro, and last year I have him a brand new iPad. Support calls are far and between, how do I do this and that, and the upgrades when I visit. Nothing draining. Sis also has an iPad nowadays, in the Mac era they were pretty clueless how to help him too. Has for family members or wife friends, the motto is "I do not use Windows and do not know how to use it"; bring it over and it will get Linux. 5 machines in Linux so far. After this windows 10 fiasco, also trying to convert Wife to Linux...but I suspect she is after my Mac.
Excellent pun sir, well done.
And I think I will stop opening slashdot too...
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The employee must be an addict that likes to sniff car plates, that should be it. Otherwise I do not see clearly a reason for him to be there...or maybe he is Mr. Magoo and needed to have a real look at the plate to be able to see it. That excuse of taking the photo is so dense...
I would have thought you do not have to be 1 inch near the car or in the car direct line of view to take a photo of the plates. My iPhone must be magic.
And they hit the security guard BECAUSE....? There is some flaw there genius.
I have been installing Mint Cinnamon for my technophobe relatives and so far, so good. They seem to like it, and love even more not getting the pesking malware.
I could swear RISC processors, namely acorn archimedes and MIPS were doing that before that patent was filled...