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tyler Now that is the post I can agree with. I am actually not very interested in Irvine, much less its real estate. But since Irvine is so close to LA, what happens in Irvine will be felt in LA, so I spend my time here. Plus, IR's post is quite interesting to read regardless of whether...

tyler I do think buying luxury goods outside one's mean is not wise. But if it is within one's mean, why not? After all, we can not take anything with us when the maker/god/nature decides it is our time.

momopi This is a point I am rather tired of making, but I guess I will do it one more time. EU came about because Germany apologized for its past war crime and made compensation for that crime. If Germany is still worshiping Hitler as a god, I would like to see how many European countries...

I was told by a friend that CW has a debt obligation topping 200b. If that is true, then the 2B BofA injected into CW this week probably won't go too far if the default rate increases beyond the current level

Graphrix I think Saab used GM's chassis (Epsilon?) but did they own tuning. Sort of a sports tuned version of a Chevy with a lot of interior upgrades. It is not much more expensive than a Camry so maybe there is some reason behind buying a Saab.

Mendelsson Let me see, the PM goes to a temple where the convicted mass murderers are worshiped as gods. In japan, it is viewed as a nice political move, in Germany, the same thing will put you behind bars for 15 years. The mass murder japanese did in Asia was systematic. There was a policy...

Eva Actually 318 is the best of the BMW family, it has a highly flexible engine that can be tuned very effectively. The profile gasket problem I understand was mainly due to the gas, and I was under the impression it primary happened in UK due to the harsh North Sea oil. BMW 4 has a very...

Mendelssohn I think you are making the argument that because Chinese worship a mass murder (Mao), it is OK for Japan to worship theirs as well. I can't agree with that, furthermore, I deeply resent that view. Labeling Mao is a mass murder is not a universal view, and arguments are still...

haha, graphrix, I will bring my E30 M3 one day and we can have a go. Nice job on that Picasso.

Hi, Janet, My guess is that you are looking at a complete engine rebuild not just the header gasket then.

Hi, Eva I did read 1491. It is quite interesting, and I do agree they could have gone to Europe via Africa, but South America, I believe that will be pretty hard.

Furthermore, the current Chinese government DID pay compensation to my family for our suffering during the early 50s and 60s, and we received an official letter from current Chinese government stating my family was mistreated and the government then did a terrible thing and they apologized for...

My family suffered a great deal under Mao, more so than under Japanese in fact, which is why we left China so many years ago (I was a baby when we left China 20+ years ago) I don't think he is worshiped at all in China, at least I did not see any of his portrait on the public buildings when I...

Eva I was on a (believe it or not) Rolex scholarship, and one of the requirement is I have to do some diving helping out various organizations. We were doing some search for some Mayan burial site. I always liked Mayan culture, and I thought it would be fun.

CK, I am afraid I don't share your view. The gun violent case doesn't really interest me because Japanese are not allowed to have guns. If we don't remember history, then history will find a way to repeat itself. The very fact Japanese PM decided to visit that temple again so recently after...

haha, Eva It is not all that interesting actually. Some people like cave diving, I personally hated it. For extended range cave diving, you usually have a base camp somewhere in the cave system to allow you to go through the whole system. We also had a base camp because we were gathering...

Regarding luxury goods, one of the most hated example is the Rolex watch. But when I was doing cave diving as a part of my research in Mexico, seeing these green illuminated dots on my Sea Dweller made me calm at night in these dark caves.

Laing_lies, you are absolutely right. One of my PP watch went up almost 100%. Most of my wife's luxury handbags can be sold at or above the original price on the second hand market. So sometimes, luxury goods in fact are not as expensive as people think.

tyler, I am glad you asked that question. This is not a political forum, so I will be brief. German fully acknowledge their war crime, and have paid compensation. Furthermore, they educate their young so that the history won't be repeated. You should look up the Sophie Scholl story. It is...

That is totally unnecessary, tyler. We spend less than 10% of our income on cars, and yes, we do have a BMW and a MBenz. We happen to like German cars, and we refuse to buy Japanese because of their war crime in WW2 (and their continued refusal to acknowledge the crime). German worship...