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Ha I can beat that,
Both cars together < £400
Bike ~ £180
But then I live in the arse end of the universe where you only ever see tractors and not the Chelsea ones either...
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I'm Italian, I have a 0.9L car, I have inherited the best merit rank (It grows better each year without collisions, there are 18 of them and the 1st is the cheapest - means you drive since 20 years without collisions) from my parents thanks to a pretty new law AND I pay 500 € (roughly 750$) a year.
AND gasoline costs 1.6 € (approx 2,5 $) per liter. Plus, my 14-years-old car costs no less than 2500 €, so approximately 3800$.
Yes, I know something... and as a programmer my wage is about 1800$/month...
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I live in Poland and pay <$700/year for full insurance (including Auto Casco - full refund even if car is stolen or trashed because of my fault), just after two years of owning a car (8yrs, 1.3d).
You can buy a compulsory insurance for less than $200/year if you have good insurance merit.
Gasoline - $1.6/l
Average wage: ~$1200/month (~$1600/month for programmers)
Anyone to beat that?
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I forgot to say, mine is compulsory AND the lowest possible price, no extras, with the cheapest insurance. Plus we have to pay 120$/year as "bollo auto", alias the "owning tax"!
We're almost neighbours though!
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With ease...I have car from the company...No insurance, maintenance or gas...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
תפסיק לספר לה' כמה הצרות שלך גדולות, תספר לצרות שלך כמה ה' גדול!
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You are SW developper and you have a company car ?! What am I doing wrong ?
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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In this company software developers are first class citizens
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
תפסיק לספר לה' כמה הצרות שלך גדולות, תספר לצרות שלך כמה ה' גדול!
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In the UK, you would pay through the nose for that in Income Tax!
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I pay income tax of course, but that much less (about 1/7th) of the money I would spend on it on my own...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
תפסיק לספר לה' כמה הצרות שלך גדולות, תספר לצרות שלך כמה ה' גדול!
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Sure can. I ride my bicycle to/from work year round. Gas cost $0/yr. Comprehensive Insurance $0/yr. Health benefits $priceless.
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Reminds me of when Trans Ams first came out. I liked the look, didn't even think of the power involved and I was a 16 year old who should have been blinded by that. The insurance company got that idea out of my head when 1 year's insurance would be 1.2 times the cost of the car. Just as well, I needed that money to get through university training.
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Michael Martin wrote: ..has any body seen Mi KeHunt?
No, but I have seen Colin Forsecs.
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I think I've met Mike's brother, Yorick.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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And his cousin, Hugh Janus.
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Didn't he live next door to the Peacock family? I heard he was friends with their son, Drew.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Last I heard of Drew, he was waiting for his German mate: Pils Twerk
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Wasn't he the chemist who invented Mycoxafloppin™?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Don't forget the other brother - Warwick.
Andy B
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I though he'd change his last name to Davis?
Every time I see him on TV, I think of his original name before switching channels.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Are you it's not Richard Head?
I feel that all of the financial services sector is much the same. What is the collective noun? ... a wunch of bankers!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Good one, it took me a second to remember that Richard has a nickname.
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I have been using cruisecontrol.net for my project. I would like to improve its performance by zipping the files before they are copied from the build machine and unzipping it before they are deployed on the server. Any idea, how it can be done?
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Yes.
Set the cruise control to the legal limit, and continue to drive up the page until you get to the bit where it says "if you need specific help please use the programming forums."
Then turn around, drive back here and apologise to everyone for not bothering to read, then post your question in the appropriate place: http://www.codeproject.com/Questions/ask.aspx[^]
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Wouldn't have this problem if you adhered to the Agile methodology. Since working in an Agile environment, the yelling has gone way down, except perhaps when my laptop locks up and does the kicken' chicken.
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