Will E Worm
Conspiracy...
How are you going to live on that? Pffft...:tongue:
Nut. :tongue: I see you want to own a Lebaron. Was the previous owner Jon Voight?
The love of money. :hatsoff:
How Much Money is Enough?
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How are you going to live on that? Pffft...:tongue:
Nut. :tongue: I see you want to own a Lebaron. Was the previous owner Jon Voight?
The love of money. :hatsoff:
StanScratch will live on it when he BUYS THE WORLD!
Enough so that I would never have to work another day in my life. I want freedom. If I want to ***** in on a Wednesday then I want to be able to do that. If I want to catch an early weekday movie showing I want to do that. If I feel like taking a random trip to Vegas then I want to do that. Basically, I don't want to spend 1/3 of my day making someone else rich.
om3ga
It's good to be the king...
Sometimes I think the real question is whether you will be happy, if and when you achieve your perceived wealth...case in point:
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Keith Gough, 58, won a £9 million (US$13,690,295) lottery jackpot with his wife Louise in June 2005. He spent much of his winnings on racehorses, fast cars and an executive box at Aston Villa Football Club. But according to newspapers, Mr Gough was also conned out of more than £700,000 (US$1,064,800) over two years by fraudster James Price (who was jailed for three years and four months for the crime), and in 2007 he split from his wife of 25 years and began ******** heavily...
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But in answer to the question, for me enough is allowing me to retire to the West Indies and putting my feet up....
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Keith Gough, 58, won a £9 million (US$13,690,295) lottery jackpot with his wife Louise in June 2005. He spent much of his winnings on racehorses, fast cars and an executive box at Aston Villa Football Club. But according to newspapers, Mr Gough was also conned out of more than £700,000 (US$1,064,800) over two years by fraudster James Price (who was jailed for three years and four months for the crime), and in 2007 he split from his wife of 25 years and began ******** heavily...
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But in answer to the question, for me enough is allowing me to retire to the West Indies and putting my feet up....
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Google: Jack Whittaker.
At the same time, It would be a cold day in hell before I ever wept for anyone who came into a small (or in this case, large) fortune.
So at the current exchange rate that would be exactly £5.63.
Its not so much the money but the ability to spend it as I wish.
I come from a realestate ******.
Money isn't just enough, they have to have power as well.
If you have less money or less power than someone who wants what you have, you are not going to keep it long.
I would love to have just enough money to live in peace somewhere remote, but the very nature of money is that it attracts the greedy and causes conflict.
I come from a realestate ******.
Money isn't just enough, they have to have power as well.
If you have less money or less power than someone who wants what you have, you are not going to keep it long.
I would love to have just enough money to live in peace somewhere remote, but the very nature of money is that it attracts the greedy and causes conflict.
The Grasshopper
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Put a chip in my arm and I'm happy!! 
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Jagger69
Three lullabies in an ancient tongue
I have actually done a calculation to determine how much money on an annual basis I would need to maintain a specific lifestyle. Nothing outlandish or pretentious mind you....just very comfortable with some nice amenities and free of any monetary worry. At the current value of the American dollar, the magic number is somewhere between $275,000 and $300,000 per year. I would be home free with that kind of income.
I just want to work a decent job where I'm treated fairly and get a honest days living wage for an honest days work. I want to live in a sensible moderate home, have enough money to properly take care of any future wife and ******** I might have, have enough to afford a car that works well or have a stable means of transportation that's necessary in the society I live in, enough for all my basic necessities to be taken care of and enough for some ***** luxuries here and there, like a good computer, or getting a new video game every now and then and things like that.
I don't want for myself what I wouldn't want for almost everybody else in the world. I don't want to get ahead at the expense of anybody else, even indirectly.
Sure, I would also like things like a high performance sports car or a great home on a huge piece of property and things like that, but if I never get those things it won't bother me that much and my life won't be any less significant because of it. As far as being very wealthy, I have no desire to have that. I don’t even care to be upper class. I have seen greed and the lust for power corrupt pretty much everything in my life. I don't think I would fall pray to that, but ironically maybe that's because I also have no desire for those things. I just want "enough". Unlike most other people I can understand the concept of that and stop. I don't want to have anything that will make me part of the problem with world.
I don't want for myself what I wouldn't want for almost everybody else in the world. I don't want to get ahead at the expense of anybody else, even indirectly.
Sure, I would also like things like a high performance sports car or a great home on a huge piece of property and things like that, but if I never get those things it won't bother me that much and my life won't be any less significant because of it. As far as being very wealthy, I have no desire to have that. I don’t even care to be upper class. I have seen greed and the lust for power corrupt pretty much everything in my life. I don't think I would fall pray to that, but ironically maybe that's because I also have no desire for those things. I just want "enough". Unlike most other people I can understand the concept of that and stop. I don't want to have anything that will make me part of the problem with world.
. i think that's about it.
StanScratch
My Penis Is Dancing!
$10.00 more than anyone else would just about do it
Rey C.
Racing is life... anything else is just waiting.
If you're looking for an old Bridegeport just to play with, they can be had for as little as $100... some in need of repair can be had for nothing, just so the shop doesn't have to haul them off. They're good, well built (manual) machines. You can learn the basics of machining with an old Bridgeport knee mill and a good Hardinge lathe.
If you're serious about getting into this field as a career, you should think about getting into an apprenticeship program, in addition to a degree. I'd suggest a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, along with the apprenticeship. The companies I've worked for considered degrees in this field as just pieces of paper. Most places seem to start newbies with a degree the same as someone who is self-trained, or has a degree in something else: as an entry level CNC machinist (aka "button pusher") or a machinist's helper. But if you're a Journeyman Machinist, you go up the scale depending on your years in the field... degee or no degree. And if you've got a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering AND you can write G-code (as well as know how to use AutoCAD and something like MasterCAM)... you'd never be without a job for long. With the company I used to work for, the average Journeyman machinist probably made in the mid $40's... whereas the average CNC machinist probably made in the mid/high $30's. That's average +/-, and the ones who worked over in the aerospace division all made more, though the Journeyman designation still made more.
I just want to write CAD/CAM programs for fun, make goofy **** out of aluminum on my Haas machining center, go to races (Monaco would be posh), make amateur porn movies on the side... and cash my dividend checks.
I would say 10 million is good for me
My (late) uncle had a milling company (I think it was drill bits he manufactured) but he ****** before I could get in on it (I was still almost a baby). Actually, they sold the company for some good $$$ and I can't remember how it all played out. Been a while.
Anyway, the hand made pieces I think are what I'm after (that's how Scotty Cameron started out, his ***'s Bridgeport in their garage, and now his annual gross is like $50 million or some crazy number), but if I were to venture into something big time obviously to mass produce I would have to learn the CAD stuff. But those pieces in that link I provided obviously have a hand crafted touch, which, I don't think were produced using anything more sophisticated than a Bridgeport.
As far as their price, I've seen them as low as a few hundred but shipping is a bitch. Not to mention metal - although you could I suppose always practice on wood or plastic.
