Lotteries or SKAs make you rich

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NickFitz replied

11 November 2007, 18:08
Originally posted by Newbie000 View Post

SKAs?

Super Killer Applications. AtW has been slaving away over a hot SKA since the dawn of time... some kind of search engine IIRC.
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Newbie000 replied

11 November 2007, 18:05
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Originally Posted by Newbie000 View Post
SKAs?
We have no time to explain what SKA means to newbies. Read all the current 6600 posts of AtW and the 20000 posts on the former CUK board.

Ta Francko, noted.
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Diver replied

11 November 2007, 13:41
Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post

Here's a clue - A skua is a bird that goes around scavenging and stealing rotting odds and ends and then vomiting them up in digestable bits for its dependents.

Bit like yer average contractor then
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threaded replied

11 November 2007, 13:30
Originally posted by AtW View Post

A couple of divorces

ROFLOL, Class!
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AtW replied

11 November 2007, 12:29
Originally posted by VectraMan View Post

how far would £20m cash get you?

A couple of divorces
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VectraMan replied

11 November 2007, 12:23
Lotteries give you an injection of cash; there's no ongoing income. If you wanted to live a "rich" lifestyle, how far would £20m cash get you?
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AtW replied

11 November 2007, 12:05
Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post

Here's a clue - A skua is a bird that goes around scavenging and stealing rotting odds and ends and then vomiting them up in digestable bits for its dependents.

I've seen worse business models
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OwlHoot replied

11 November 2007, 11:50
Here's a clue - A skua is a bird that goes around scavenging and stealing rotting odds and ends and then vomiting them up in digestable bits for its dependents.
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Francko replied

11 November 2007, 11:23
Originally posted by Newbie000 View Post

SKAs?

We have no time to explain what SKA means to newbies. Read all the current 6600 posts of AtW and the 20000 posts on the former CUK board.
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Newbie000 replied

11 November 2007, 11:16
SKAs?
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AtW replied

11 November 2007, 11:10
It is (now) more important for me to do what I want to do rather than pure wealth. If I was stuck in a carppy job even at £100k pa then I am sure I would be unhappy, where as if I do what I want then even £20k pa would do.
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TimberWolf replied

11 November 2007, 11:01
Or have connections to the political uberclasses:

Wife of former Downing Street policy adviser Lord Birt set to land £2 billion ID card contract
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1770
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Francko started a topic Lotteries or SKAs make you rich

11 November 2007, 10:40
Lotteries or SKAs make you rich

I should have realised this a long time ago.

Only lotteries can really make you rich because they give you the illusion that you can always be rich. Anything else just brings you problems. House prices can go down, inflation, fear of losing your job, etc.

The only real rich people are the ones that believe they will be in the future (like AtW), not the ones that are afraid to lose what they have.

So my suggestion is to either buy a lottery ticket each week or work on your own SKA.*

*The probability of success is more or less the same in both cases
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