[Toshiro]

By comparison, train trips in the USA cost as much as flying does for long distances.

[Drew]

To get back onto the subject of the Amercian national debt, here's a timely article from the AP.

National debt grows $1 million a minute - Yahoo! News

Turns out, the picture is slightly bleaker than I'd thought, our interest payments are already pretty absurd.

Though, to be fair, Alan Greenspan's point is valid - a certain amount of debt is probably healthy for the economy, if nothing else because if suddenly the government stopped issuing Treasury notes because they were no longer needed to finance the government, there would be some pretty wide-ranging shakeups in the financial world - if nothing else, pricing of Eurodollar futures contracts is dependant upon T-bills, and it'd be a fuck of a lot harder to manage a short term cash equivalent portfolio without a large number of readily-available bonds that were about to mature...

[Nick]

i think the train actually costs more than flying here lol

this thread has went on a serious tangent lol

[JJ Rodriguez]

Because as ignorant as he was, TotallyBr00tal was keeping this thread on topic

[Naren]

Originally Posted by Nick

However you guys dont get raped first on the price of learning to drive (we must now sit a minimum of 20 lessons usually priced around £17.50 ($35 each) so $700 to take lessons we then have to sit a theory test which i passed first time and cost me $40 for the pleaseure but if you fail you need to pay each time and keep sitting it till you pass. You then have to sit the practical test which will cost your around $160 and is the same that if you fail you pay each time you re sit.

That may be a lot more than the US, but that's pocket change compared to how much it costs to get a driver's license in Japan. The normal price is between $3000 and $6000. And I know of one place that advertises themselves as being INSANELY CHEAP for costing around $2500.

My girlfriend wouldn't believe me when I told her it cost me $25 for my driver's license (classes included). She seriously thought I was joking for almost 10 minutes. I mean, that's over 100x more. In many cases, over 200x more.

[Nick]

Originally Posted by JJ Rodriguez

Because as ignorant as he was, TotallyBr00tal was keeping this thread on topic

truth check his rep out though its fucking amazing!

[Stitch]

Originally Posted by Naren

That may be a lot more than the US, but that's pocket change compared to how much it costs to get a driver's license in Japan. The normal price is between $3000 and $6000. And I know of one place that advertises themselves as being INSANELY CHEAP for costing around $2500.

My girlfriend wouldn't believe me when I told her it cost me $25 for my driver's license (classes included). She seriously thought I was joking for almost 10 minutes. I mean, that's over 100x more. In many cases, over 200x more.

...but we aren't talking about how much they cost. We're talking about how much they cost when compared to other modes of transport. Thats pricy as fuck, but Japanese public transport is without a doubt the best I have ever used. The subway is always on time, the trains are frequent and punctual, and the Shinkansen...just wow. An absolute pleasure to use.

Sure, cars are expensive there, but there REALLY isn't a great need for one, especially in urban Tokyo. Even when I stayed near Mt. Aso the public transport was frequent enough that we ever once needed a car.

Originally Posted by Nick

truth check his rep out though its fucking amazing!

[Drew]

Hey Stitch, read this. I posted it just for you.

Also, I love how he has three positive reps, and two of them are accidental.

[garcia3441]

Originally Posted by Stitch

I fuckin' love that car! Which version did you get?

GTE SE6A

[BigM555]

Originally Posted by Drew

Also, I love how he has three positive reps, and two of them are accidental.

"Here's some more just because I don't like you."

That slayed me.







BigM555 is thinking this thread has run it's course.