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7 hours ago, Kinkstaah said:

Driving a less enjoyable toy car because worried about what anonymous people may think instead of being comfortable and saying "I enjoy driving enjoyable cars"

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Anonymous people / police / clients

and since when do you "drive" your car... 

 

6 hours ago, Birds said:

There's points to both sides of this. I am fortunate that my employers don't care what car I drive. However, there are some industries where a car is no different to a suit and will be used to judge your success and personality even if the assumptions are off-point. I don't envy these - it's a job expense as far as I'm concerned. You wear an ill-fitting cheap suit and it rubs off on your image, ala Hamish if he were to drive a 33 again...in spite of the gingham shirt. And if Alex drove around in anything less than a Lexus people might think real estate agents aren't pretentious dbags and we can't have that.

I'm back to client facing again - suits and car matter again

 

7 hours ago, Kinkstaah said:

I can, and do.

See also: Comfortable heterosexual man enjoying driving MX5 with no power.

Cars as status symbols? Embarrassing no matter how you explain it away.

Cars ARE status symbols - you can't pretend for a second that you don't care for looks when you own a modified skyline with mag wheels / bodykit etc etc

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Yeah, but some people can see through that "status symbol" bull. That's why Kia exist. Some people buy for reasons other than to impress total strangers (or people they know, i guess).

Cars as a status symbol is too complex a subject to make any sweeping generalisations about it. It's almost strictly case by case. Too many variables.

One example comes to mind - my old CEO who drives a Ford Ranger and has about 200mil to his name. It means some to others and nothing to some.

Yeah, but some people can see through that "status symbol" bull. That's why Kia exist. Some people buy for reasons other than to impress total strangers (or people they know, i guess).


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Cars as a status symbol is too complex a subject to make any sweeping generalisations about it. It's almost strictly case by case. Too many variables.
One example comes to mind - my old CEO who drives a Ford Ranger and has about 200mil to his name. It means some to others and nothing to some.


Vs my old CEO who paid $2m for personalised plates LOL
I wonder if Symantec creates/leaks viruses so that it can secure against them. Looks like good money in it. Who polices the police. Who Symantec's the Symantec?
/tinfoilhat

Norton?

I've oft wonderes about this myself.

 

but considering we are protecting gliches in other peoples software it's prob not happening.

Doubt we could bribe Microsoft to put in a vulnerability in their OS just to sell a little more Anti virus.

 

there enough bad code out there already without us having to get more.

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