4/22    How many of you were dotcom paper millionaires a couple of years ago?
        And what company was it?  Curious.
        \_ http://gamers.com. We were too big and too proud, and the hubris got us.
        \_ Does paper millionaires count vested options or exercised-and-held
           options?
                \_ shut the fuck up you banal fucks
                   \_ Bitter?
                                _|_
        \_ I was.  And our company was featured on <DEAD>fuckedupcompany.com<DEAD>
           \_ And how much of it were did you end up with?
              \_ Less than a thousand.  It will almost cost me more
                 to unlock and sell the shares than what it's worth.
        http://www.theonion.com/onion3814/home-buying_up.html
         \_ The Onion blew it with this one.  Home buying isn't about being
            a suburban dork.  It's about economic freedom and maturity.  Kids
            rent, adults buy.  Why make someone else rich?  Why die poor?
            \_ the lame part is when it talks about how you have a 30-year
               committment to the mortgage.  Unless the renters think they
               won't be paying rent 30 years from now...  -tom
               \_ That's just one of many lame parts.  It's endless.
         \_ My rent is 1/3rd what a house would run, and I share a 3 bed
            place in a nice part of SF (with one other).  Renting is for
            those who don't want to commit to the area for 5 years.
            \_ In 5 years your new rent will be higher than my mortgage.  You
               think about that one for a few minutes.  My grandmother's
               mortgage was $156/month on her $300k home when she passed.  If
               she had been renting all that time her rent would've been about
               $1750 for the same place/location/house/etc. and eating cat
               food without family help.  Also your rent is 2/3rds not 1/3rd
               because you're *sharing* with 1 other person.  I could rent out
               half my house and share if I wanted to cut my mortgage expenses
               down.  Compare like with like.
        \_ Cool, so people who take the Onion's attitude will leave
                more houses for the rest of us intelligent people...
                - new homeowner
           \_ Nonono, as a new home owner you *want* lots and lots and lots of
              housing competition now that *you* made it.  You are now in
              control of your destiny.  You can either upgrade in the same area
              later when you have more money when the local market is low or
              you can sell when the local market is high and move to another
              area where housing is low and cash in mega bucks.  Renting is for
              suckers and short termers and kids.  Buy, buy, buy!
           \_ You're a bunch of overpaid spoiled fucks, aren't you. Of COURSE
              owning is preferable to renting! What else are you going to do
              until you've got the frickin' cash? What housing market do you
              think we're in? Pittsburgh, PA?