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So if one is successful they should just buy new cars, not a variety of cars that interest them for different reasons?

I seen a friend not long ago he was riding a brand new Kawasaki KXF 450 and thought he was the boss, those bikes are so advanced, the power delivery is constant yet smooth, I got my ancient Kawasaki KX 250 that was produced in 1998 out, unlike his advanced 4 stroke this was a 2 stroke and the power valve in the exhaust port was pinned open meaning there was no power at the bottom end, as soon as you hit a certain rev range the power band kicks in, you either ride in the band or you do not ride at all.

Every line you take has to be lined up with the correct gear and rev range, you have to work the engine, you cant open the throttle and have the power in any gear to power out of a corner or save your ass, but as he found out you cant open the throttle in first gear like its a bike that was designed to be easy for you, he flipped the bike and crashed within 3 seconds of being on it, riding in a straight line.

The precision power delivery of those new dirt bikes can be fun and they make any one a better rider, don't get me wrong I like them, but they lack something major and will never have what has come before them.

The difference is to be seen with cars to, cars with just ten years between production, they all have their pros and their cons, if you aren't driving to be looked at and aren't scared to get your hands dirty there's a world of cars to explore.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K3jvZFsRKg Such as the Skyline R34 from 1999 :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jrr-VPmWO8Y Or mid 90s Supras :D

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This thread is funny at so many ends, not just what Surf has to say but most other users.

So, on one hand most users claim to be part of the winning trading crowd (or should I say minority?). Yet, their whole life deals with buying used, selling used, we moved from collectors' super cars to stock Ferraris, all the way to some Ford makes.
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New is great, vintage is great and so is used. No one is buying second hand underwear but you can always change the wrist band on a watch if you're fastidious so the bottom line on asthetics is that it can be difficult to find what truly rings the bell and, when you see it in your price range, you should lift that offer. I bought some vintage luggage 30 years ago (it was pre-war) and, given my heavy travel schedule, it took quite a beating. For 20 years held up well before it started to fray. I threw it out and regret it. I should have had a good craftsman rework it.

My point is that new, vintage or used is not the issue. If you like it ... you like it!!

PS ... the phrase prewar for you younger guys generally means before WWII ... not Iraq ... lol.
 
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How about this.

<img src='http://www.instablogsimages.com/images/2007/12/21/goldvish-le-million_48.jpg'>
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Looks cool, although very feminine
 
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In fact a women who arrived in ones life via the influence of a car is likely to be leaving ones life at some point with the car, the house, a passive income for life and most likely the children, its a shame a lot of folks never work that one out until its to late.
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??? Nah, be smart and they'll just leave with some cash or present before they even get wrinkles. Don't do kids with those, but enjoy young babes ( I never owned a car btw, and care very little abt the various gizmos mentionned in this thread, but definetely enjoy the company of younger birds attracted to a bit of luxury in their life)
 
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......and then at the first chance I get I'm making out with a girl after knowing her for an hour and trying to stick my fingers somewhere! Lol
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Finger - is that all? I would be thinking of sticking...
(use imagination)
 
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This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to own marketsurfer's Vertu ti titanium telephone. I no longer have need for such a device. This handset comes complete with a year prepaid concierge service, silent circle military grade incription system...
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Incription? Really, Mr. Journalist?
 
I fully agree with your points re normal, rational people. Those who need to buy phones which cost 9k, 90k, 900k are not rationally thinking people. Even a Warren Buffett reimburses his office for personal stamp use each year. People who came to riches quick usually are out of touch with reality and lack an appreciation for money. They are too occupied to show everyone that they finally made it (in whatever way they did it) and they are more scared of getting to where they came from than about death. That is the curse that many newly rich suffer. I only share my observations because I have been born into and grown up in a wealthy family which at the same time was obsessed with understatement. So, in a sense I never learned nor developed the interest to show off material wealth. I value learned skills, knowledge more than anything else simply because I knew that having money at my disposal does not define me nor does it tell anything about my real self. I am proud of my education and own achievements, career wise, but other than that I purchase things that I perceive as beautiful or of value, not because I try to impress anyone else.

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I do agree with you that people who brag about exclusive clubs and luxury restaurant shouldn't deal with used items, it's just poor taste.

However, there are people who get more pleasure from new items and then there are the ones who enjoy getting a good deal. One of those two creates more pleasure for the consumer and that's what the person will go with, I belong to the latter group.

For example, I could never imagine spending money on business class tickets, no matter how much I'd earn - it simply seems like a bad deal to me, even if it would be just an insignificant expense to me.
There's also the fact that by buying used, you actually do some good - less items being thrown away and these days we are literally drowning in our waste. Most people don't consider this fact and it's their choice.
I don't see ever buying new furniture if there's an used alternative available, not only does it make financial sense but you will get items that will outlast the items made with modern production techniques.

Getting a new car and knowing how much the depreciation is when you drive it off the lot makes one feel that he got a bad deal. That's psychologically hard for a certain type of people, myself included.
Now, for billionaire traders, it won't matter since it's all pennies anyway but how many billionaires are on this board?
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normal people should do whatever pleases them, heck anyone should do what pleases them. My point was targeting those schmucks who define their whole self worth through material wealth and have to show it off to the world to gain attention. Hearing from such people that they buy used when others can't see (Surf could not care less what people on an anonymous chat board think of him but OBVIOUSLY he cares a lot what the people in his real life think of him otherwise he would not be so obsessed with this pos phone and other ridiculous stuff.).

My whole point was that phones that are priced above 1k are ONLY priced for the reason to sell a status symbol, not the actual phone. The whole point of status symbol is to "show status", to show that one can afford it. To have to buy or sell such used items is a total irony because it only shows that such person cannot afford such phone but wants to pretend he/she can afford it.

Quote from sheda:

So if one is successful they should just buy new cars, not a variety of cars that interest them for different reasons?

I seen a friend not long ago he was riding a brand new Kawasaki KXF 450 and thought he was the boss, those bikes are so advanced, the power delivery is constant yet smooth, I got my ancient Kawasaki KX 250 that was produced in 1998 out, unlike his advanced 4 stroke this was a 2 stroke and the power valve in the exhaust port was pinned open meaning there was no power at the bottom end, as soon as you hit a certain rev range the power band kicks in, you either ride in the band or you do not ride at all.

Every line you take has to be lined up with the correct gear and rev range, you have to work the engine, you cant open the throttle and have the power in any gear to power out of a corner or save your ass, but as he found out you cant open the throttle in first gear like its a bike that was designed to be easy for you, he flipped the bike and crashed within 3 seconds of being on it, riding in a straight line.

The precision power delivery of those new dirt bikes can be fun and they make any one a better rider, don't get me wrong I like them, but they lack something major and will never have what has come before them.

The difference is to be seen with cars to, cars with just ten years between production, they all have their pros and their cons, if you aren't driving to be looked at and aren't scared to get your hands dirty there's a world of cars to explore.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K3jvZFsRKg Such as the Skyline R34 from 1999 :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jrr-VPmWO8Y Or mid 90s Supras :D
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I liked that last line, funny.

I recently searched on you tube for the terms "mmap" "indexing" hoping to find some reference to an R package to memory-map large data sets, all I found was some obscure links to "MineCraft", and I have never seen nor heard of it. It looked extremely 80s and I was absolutely shocked when I saw it to be one of the most popular computer games NOW. I am in my 30s, so I wonder, what is going on in this world? Computer graphics going back to the 80s/90s, base salary at American Axle in Detroit halved from 10 years ago (currently usd 10.5/hr) which is not just synonymous for the fallout of Detroit. I am so used to move forward not backward and have a hard time to understand those that cling on to drowning industries, jobs, lives, and instead look for their satisfaction in everything retro. Obscure but if it makes them happy what can I say...

Quote from Swan Noir:

New is great, vintage is great and so is used. No one is buying second hand underwear but you can always change the wrist band on a watch if you're fastidious so the bottom line on asthetics is that it can be difficult to find what truly rings the bell and, when you see it in your price range, you should lift that offer. I bought some vintage luggage 30 years ago (it was pre-war) and, given my heavy travel schedule, it took quite a beating. For 20 years held up well before it started to fray. I threw it out and regret it. I should have had a good craftsman rework it.

My point is that new, vintage or used is not the issue. If you like it ... you like it!!

PS ... the phrase prewar for you younger guys generally means before WWII ... not Iraq ... lol.
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