[citation][nom]WTFsWrong[/nom]NewbieTechGodII... If you can in good conscious spend $75000 on a car... a car... a car... and feel good with yourself... Give yourself a pat on the back and tell the world you're a success financially. Thumb your nose and snub others for wanting more for society. This idea of greed and self indulgence is embedded in our society and you've bought in, following the carrot. We can have so much more collectively if we didn't want so much for ourselves. Why not get a reasonable car and put the rest toward an ideal or sponsoring a start-up company you believe in or help find a cure for something or anything else? You don't because to do so requires work and more sacrifice (in standard of living, time, etc.). You've worked hard to get where you are and don't want to take a "college risk." Those are for young people and people like me. So enjoy your $10 Starbux in your overpriced ego-automobile tweeting away on the latest gadget telling friends about how to live the "good life." The economy needs you, but society really doesn't.As for your comments on the topic, there has to be a reason why most great apps don't embrace abstracting onto an interpreted runtime environment like the clr or jvm. Performance, control, and quality. To make a hello-world app in .NET WinForms yields a 20 meg process at runtime sad to say. What a waste of resources. Then you have apps like uTorrent and VLC that go out of their way to avoid being a memory hog and improve performance. Native code gives us unfeathered control while .NET/JAVA/etc. restrict us. While resources are growing more abundant, there's no need to waste them. Chrome, FireFox, Maya, 3D Studio Max, Photoshop, serious 3d games, and so many more use native. What's really strange is Microsoft pushing everyone to use .NET/WPF/etc for years when they don't use it as much as they want others to. Word, Excel, Explorer, and so on use them in moderation because they're use is in helping others extend their products. To get rid of native for interpreted would require us all to have a 32-core beast of a system to handle the wasted resources and computing demands. So no... .NET is not as wonderful end-all solution for the future... And I don't want Microsoft getting any ideas that it is. Keep it however. It's a great technology, but keep native APIs too. Or see the death of their platform.[/citation]
So what's a sensible car? How much of MY MONEY am I ALLOWED to keep? The WORST THING for society is the WELFARE STATE. Alexandra Pelosi, daughter of nancy pelosi, did a mini-documentary on welfare, and to a person, not one of them wanted to work- they wanted their obama bucks. Give a man a fish and he eats for a day, teach him how to fish and he never goes hungry.
But let's stay on your rant about the 'evils' of capitalism: my state charges 7.75% sales tax, so my luxo car brings in well over $5K to the states' coffers. your suggestion of a 'sensible' car (which would be what- a yaris?), would bring in a measly $1300. Now which one do you think gives more money for your bleeding heart, budget-busting policies?
And then you talk about start-ups, and clearly you don't know what you're talking about here, either. I employ a maid service, landscapers, and various other construction workers- all of which were started by individuals with drive and not by some friggin' government agency. The point is, I CHOOSE WHERE TO SPEND MY MONEY, not some asshole in DC.
So let's talk about 'curing some disease'- how many hundreds of billions have been spent on cancer, aids, and the like? funny- I still see these diseases alive and well.
Wait I forgot something- when people like me buy goods and services, we are the ones helping to maintain and create jobs. Do you think that cars, yachts, and planes appear out of thin air? PEOPLE are employed to build those things. People are EMPLOYED maintaining those things. The luxury boat business really took a nose dive during billy clinton's term when he decided to 'punish' the rich by imposing ridiculous extra taxes on such items. All he did was move a bunch of people out of the marketplace which resulted in lost sales and eventually, lost jobs and closures of businesses.
And then you act like I'm some greedy, selfish bastard (as if that's bad). Unless you're working for the IRS, you don't know squat about my finances (hell I could be making all of this up for all you know), therefore, you don't know anything about my charitable contributions.
Where do you think the money for venture capital and philanthropy comes from- the poor? No, it comes from people who busted their ass and took risks to make it big.
Seriously, wouldn't you be happier in russia or china or cuba- you know, the lands of opportunity and freedom and equality? JFC I can't understand the lot of you.
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