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it should not come as a surprise. to make it into the hundred-millionare club and above, you have to take enormous risks, and with chance of forture comes risk of collapse.

the energy-capacity problem of batteries is not likely to be resolved for many generations, as batteries have been around 100 years and have not seen the exponential growth curve you see in other technologies like semiconductors. and it's not like companies don't do research on batteries...

this is a bad example. how many homes went from $30k to $500k in 30 years? only in particular markets like san francisco did that happen. yet you compare best-case real estate markets with the dow which is merely an average case for stocks. why don't you compare individual best-case stocks...

your corolla probably has a $2000 trade-in value. so it'll pay part of the sales tax on the M5 :D i should warn you, when going from a piece of crap car to a luxury car, you may need to convince the dealer to take you seriously and give you a test drive. i took the same route as you, going...

not everyone puts styling as the most important 'feature'. the mazda 6 and 626 are pieces of shit, consistently ranked below average in reliability for 10 yrs running.

easy credit did not begin later in the cycle. i attended some real estate seminars in 2003 and they were providing lists of banks that would lend for *investment* properties with 5% down, nevermind for primary residences (which are even easier to get loans for). i myself qualified for option...

bil and shv are the closest etf's to a money market fund, but they are yielding 0.2% and 0.4% respectively. "investment-grade corp bonds" are not in the same risk category as a money market fund and shouldn't be considered an alternative. ib should have offered money market funds in their...

i've used computers since the 80s and didn't use an anti-virus for my own computers until around 2001, and my personal machines have never been infected. at my previous jobs is another matter. we were required to run anti-virus software but that didn't prevent some people's machines from being...

scan time shouldn't be related to % of drive occupied. it should be based on cpu speed, hdd speed, file fragmentation, and perhaps the types of files. maybe you should defrag your drive.

it took a little over 30 min to scan about 75gb worth on my computer. i'm running avg 8.x. yours seems really slow.

this is totally false. low interest rates didn't cause the real estate bubble. they played a minor role, but the primary cause was loose lending standards and poor oversight. if you think low interest rates necessarily cause real estate bubbles, look at the 50s and part of the 60s. rates...

i'd replace the battery asap. you're living on borrowed time. there's little difference between a lead acid battery in a toyota and in any other car. don't think that yours is higher quality because it's in a toyota.

this is akin to how the malls are all packed with shoppers yet every retailer except maybe walmart is reporting yoy declines. high sales doesn't mean high profits, and ultimately profit is what a business needs in order to survive.

just like they can't take the gold of citizens, because it's not the government's, right? (ahem) you're so naive.

well, a woman with a fat body cannot have an attractive face, because moon faces are not attractive. so yes, men prefer women with nice bodies over fat women.

we're capitalists when things are swell and dandy. we're socialists when things turn sour. a lot of people benefited from the bubble economy of 2002-2006, and not just ceo's of banks. autoworkers and the little guy benefited too. now that things have turned south, they somehow feel...

back in the old days when only techies owned computers, you would get meaningful replies whenever you had a computer question. nowadays any clown and his grandma uses computers, hence 90% of the stuff you hear is total garbage. a software application cannot cause physical damage to a hdd...

asian women probably age the best if you mean physical-only. it's fairly common to see a 35 year old who looks 26-32, but with white women, that's the exception not the rule. by the time a white chick is 35, she looks 35-42. i once knew an asian woman who i thought was 27, and i was shocked...

you thought wrong. i have one credit card with over $20k @ 3% fixed, and another card almost $30k @ 4.9%. the main disadvantage to doing this is that it lowers your fico by about 10-20 pts because your ratio of debt to total credit lines goes up. but there are definitely companies that...

define "good deal". suppose you could get a 1978 pinto for $2500 and a 2009 camry for $12,000, which one represents the better deal? according to you, the pinto is the better deal because it's so much cheaper.