Reply to: Motorway car choice

[Euler]

or in your case then you have just wet yourself again.

Ther are 3 sources of 6-figure income in our household.
One of them is the house, although that is the most variable.

[vetran]

It's a nice feeling when you're thrashing your house in earnings though, double whammy.
Give you a warm glowing feeling inside

or in your case then you have just wet yourself again.

[Euler]

Arr, the "I am successful and rich because my house it worth £5K more this week than last week" brigade.

Well down house, you are a high achiever

It's a nice feeling when you're thrashing your house in earnings though, double whammy.
Give you a warm glowing feeling inside

[DimPrawn]

Other countries are just as bad.
And where else can you grow rich just by living in your house?

Arr, the "I am successful and rich because my house it worth £5K more this week than last week" brigade.

Well down house, you are a high achiever

[Euler]

And then Labour come along with their wealth redistribution policies and punitive taxation of any form of success or achievement and your right back alongside Suity......

Other countries are just as bad.
And where else can you grow rich just by living in your house?

[DimPrawn]

There's a finite supply of people with an IQ above 130.
The normal distribution ensures that.
My guess is that the world has enough high paid work to ensure those people will always be rich, if they want to be.
As the world becomes more complex, the split between the cognitively gifted and those less so will become larger.
It's even becoming the case, I think, that being cognitively gifted is better than inheriting capital.
With the right qualifications and experience nowadays it's so easy to make money.

And then Labour come along with their wealth redistribution policies and punitive taxation of any form of success or achievement and your right back alongside Suity......

[Euler]

its all right people with crayons in leafy Surrey are at risk as well.

There's a finite supply of people with an IQ above 130.
The normal distribution ensures that.
My guess is that the world has enough high paid work to ensure those people will always be rich, if they want to be.
As the world becomes more complex, the split between the cognitively gifted and those less so will become larger.
It's even becoming the case, I think, that being cognitively gifted is better than inheriting capital.
With the right qualifications and experience nowadays it's so easy to make money.

[vetran]

So far, they haven't been able to. Or rather, they picked it up but generally didn't know what to do with it next.

its all right people with crayons in leafy Surrey are at risk as well.

[d000hg]

"Highly trained IT specialists" aren't the ones suffering in austerity Britain.
It's the ones who once picked up C++ and assume that 2 billion Chinese and Indians can't do the same who deserve their fate.

So far, they haven't been able to. Or rather, they picked it up but generally didn't know what to do with it next.

[darmstadt]

Mine can copy your CDs to MP3 (Nissan call it "jukebox") at a less than brilliant 128 Kb/s. Lame, never used it. Usb stick beats all.

Nissan Nav/entertainment system is good. Only drawback is Satnav updates cost hundreds of £££.

Yeah mine does that as well. A CD takes about 5 minutes but I just copied my iTunes to USB and then copied that over. Sometimes I'll plug my iPod or Android phone in and use that instead if there's stuff not already on the hard drive, I can also stream Spotify but don't bother and apparently that looks quite cool in the HuD (except I didn't order that) although the screen does show the album cover

[unixman]

My car entertainment system has a built in 20gb hard drive so everything just sits on there. I can also Facebook, e-mail and Twitter from it, if I so wished

Mine can copy your CDs to MP3 (Nissan call it "jukebox") at a less than brilliant 128 Kb/s. Lame, never used it. Usb stick beats all.

Nissan Nav/entertainment system is good. Only drawback is Satnav updates cost hundreds of £££.

[darmstadt]

What if it breaks down and you are put in a hire car?

Thats a big 'what if' and if that should ever happen then my coverage gives me an equivalent model

[FatLazyContractor]

My car entertainment system has a built in 20gb hard drive so everything just sits on there. I can also Facebook, e-mail and Twitter from it, if I so wished

What if it breaks down and you are put in a hire car?

[darmstadt]

It has moved on love. It's called Bluetooth these days!

My car entertainment system has a built in 20gb hard drive so everything just sits on there. I can also Facebook, e-mail and Twitter from it, if I so wished

[unixman]

It has moved on love. It's called Bluetooth these days!

Nay, nay and thrice Nay FLC. Bluetoothing your i<whatever> is for kids and non-techies. Just copy your music onto a USB stick and have done with it. Perhaps users of i<whatever> aren't allowed to copy their music.