Posts by v0rtex

4 pages and no mention of Debeers' marketing of diamonds? That campaign has been playing consumers like a retarded fiddle for close to a century.

Quote: Originally Posted by harvey_birdman False con, she won't be barely legal in 20 years so there's no reason to continue being with her. That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get...

Quote: Originally Posted by TheDarkKnight But one month is just the average - if you go several months, you need that $2000 a month of your own cash. I don't know many people with $2000 per month of truly disposable...

Quote: Originally Posted by gdl203 Did you type this post in October 2007 ? No, then I'd be using numbers like "I can put down $500 and pay only the interest, then flip it a month later, do that 10 times...

Quote: Originally Posted by otc How does owning some rental property put you into the 1m range? You gotta first have/earn a million to buy a million in property (since you won't have time for it to appreciate so...

Quote: Originally Posted by Pennglock In the category of scenes I wish I could "unsee," there are a couple in the movie Irreversible. There's a difference between powerful/moving and shocking,...

No-one turns up to "upper-middle class narcissist club" in real life, they all think they're too good for it... Seriously, the trouble is that successful, intelligent people usually have a lot to do besides posting on the...

Would be interesting to see some actual projections and outlines of people's plans to get there and not just wishful thinking/random guesses I'd like to be there by 35. I have somewhat of a plan involving rental property that would...

"Mugabe and the White African" was incredibly moving; hidden camera documentary about a Zimbabwean farming family trying to protect their farmland from seizure by the Mugabe government.

Quote: Originally Posted by scurvyfreedman If each generation were actually lazier than GDP (held constant for inflation) would go down instead of up, but it grows geometrically not even linearly. That's...