If you buy a foreign luxury car then yes your maintenence cost will be high. But if it is an American car you may be lucky enough to buy a car that uses common parts. I used to drive a 1993 Mercury Grand Marquis, I was able to get salvage yard parts for that car from both Ford Crown Vics as well as Lincoln Towncars.

You do know that 15 of the 19 hijackers that flew into the World Trade Center were Saudi citizens right?

I just don't see how the company has any incentive to provide services to the secondary market if it does not help their bottom line. These are companies, not charities. Games are entertainment items, not necessities. So the companies have the right to charge what the market will bear.

Actually something similar happened years ago in Glen Ridge, NJ. Many from that town blamed the victim.

How is it possible to setups a "trust that can't be touched".

right, but in those cases you should read the middle part of my post where I explain product lifecycle, and how used sales artificially extend that beyond the company's projections.

The manufacturer won't charge you a "road driving fee", but in most cases, you won't be covered by the original warranty assuming you bought it from the original owner.

Here is how I see it. When you buy a game, you buy what is on the disk, anything else is gravy. Online play=gravy, DLC=gravy. You are not entitled to anything that isn't on the disk at the time you bought it. (this does not apply to "DLC" that is actually on the disk at manufacture, I find that practice to be…

Probably something to that, being assertive doesn't come naturally to me. Especially when I'm among my "betters", meaning my superiors at work, or people of means. I've gotten much better with being property assertive at work, but I still get butterflies over it.

For me it's that many people are just so blase about the privilege they have enjoyed through their lives. There's a saying that sums it up nicely, "born on second base and thinking he hit a double".

I am like your "friend" (without the good grades or engineering degree). I was someone who had to fight tooth and nail for a college education. I created children young and had to work to support them all through my college years. My dad was an auto mechanic and mom have a variety of service jobs. So I can very much…

I did not find a single exposed gear in that picture, and I looked very closely.

The duel between Aaron Burr & Alexander Hamilton took place in Weehawken, NJ. The site has railroad tracks running through it now and there is a monument atop the Palisades cliffs overlooking the area.

That makes some sense and maybe you don't give it as much weight as other hiring managers. But it still rubs me the wrong way.

So in other words. If I'm looking to change jobs in a way that will leave me earning significantly more than I'm making now I need to lie about my salary figures. Because if I tell you what I'm currently earning I'm afraid you'll lowball me.

You didn't answer my question. You instead answered why you want to know the expected salary. I can totally understand why you would want to know that.

Ok, I see there are a few HR people responding here and I have a related question.

I had always heard of it as:

What's the problem with candy in goody bags? It's not like it makes kids hyper, that's a myth your know.

My understanding is that spacecraft are uninsurable because they are considered to be "experimental" aircraft. Not because they were built by the lowest bidder.