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Title: Who Wants To Be A Billionare?
Post by: Pegasus V on April 13, 2003, 10:55:18 pm
If you found/inherited/won 10 billion US dollars, what would you do with it?

Want to know what I'd do with it?:

$10,000,000 on my Mansion

$1,000,000 Car

$1,000,000 Alternate Cars

$500,000,000 to Parents

$250,000,000 to Brother/Wife/Nephew

$250,000,000 to Family/Friends
---$5,000,000 each Grandparent (x 2 = $10mill)
---$8,000,000 each Uncles/Aunties (x 6 = $60mill)
---$5,000,000 each   Cousins (x 12 = $60mill)
---$7,250,000 each Friends (x 6 = $42.5mill)
---$2,000,000 each   Aquaintences (x 30 = $60mill)
---$16,500,000 Others

$50,000,000 for Investment Properties

$100,000,000 Gaming Company

$100,000,000 on my Silent Threat Game

$x on FreeSpace III + paying 25 of you to give advice and perhaps even employing some of you...

$4,000,000,000 donation to HighLiftSystems (for Space Elevator = 40% of the cost for building the darned thing)

$50,000,000 on a Holiday Island/House

$1,000,000 towards my Silent Threat Book Series

$500,000,000 on my mega blockbuster Silent Threat Movie #1

$500,000,000 on my mega blockbuster sequel Silent Threat Movie #2

$100,000,000 on my hit Silent Threat TV Series

$1,000,000 on an as yet unnamed Nightclub

$1,000,000,000 for Enterprise-E Reconstruction, which will act as a tourism hotel...

$1,000,000,000 on starting various companies

$500,000,000 on miscellanious things

Total so far = $8,914,000,000

Annual Savings Budget = $15,000,000

Annual Income = $17,000,000
-Rent: $2,000,000
-Gaming Company: $2,000,000
-Silent Threat Book Series: $1,000,000
-Silent Threat Movies: $10,000,000
-Enterprise-E Reconstrustion: $400,000
-Miscellanious: $1,600,000

Total Annual Budget = $32,000,000
Title: Who Wants To Be A Billionare?
Post by: Stryke 9 on April 13, 2003, 11:04:01 pm
I'd hoard it and use the massive attendant power base to slowly take over the government, then order the military to replace all of its weapons with rocks and clubs and invade the most backwards hellhole I can find. After kitting out the natives fully with armor. After about four years (with the highest casualty being a broken thumb, caused by friendly fire no less), I'd declare war on the Moon, nuke it to atoms, and unilaterally pass an emergency war act replacing what was left of Congress with flamingoes. By government order (enforced by my jackbooted special police forces riding around in black helicopters), all TV stations would be forced to play the Sundance winners or any other movie that's actually any good. Then, I'd have a massive propoganda-saturation campaign suggesting that the only way to protect oneself against the inevitable Moon-man counterstrike would be to dress up like Lucille Ball.

Then, I'd spend the money buying a large island in the Carribean, and move there with about two hundred largely female attendants (hand-picked) and the rest of the country's nuclear arsenal. As a last act as secret leader of the US, I'd pressure France to invade Maine.
Title: Who Wants To Be A Billionare?
Post by: Bobboau on April 13, 2003, 11:14:22 pm
I'd buy some frends :(
Title: Who Wants To Be A Billionare?
Post by: tEAbAG on April 13, 2003, 11:17:05 pm
LOL, dude.

Think about what a guy could do with that kind of scratch, I could buy my way into high :buuurrrraaapp: society.

I'd start my own space program, research subspace, and hunt me some shivans:D
Title: Who Wants To Be A Billionare?
Post by: Turnsky on April 13, 2003, 11:21:19 pm
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Stop kidding yourself, we're the ones being hunted, pilot.


i don't know what i'd do with that kind of money...
Title: Who Wants To Be A Billionare?
Post by: Carl on April 14, 2003, 02:46:36 am
i'd stick it in the bank and live on the $45,000 in interest i'd get every hour.
Title: Who Wants To Be A Billionare?
Post by: Fetty on April 14, 2003, 02:48:55 am
id know what id do with 1 million
with half of it buy appartment
rest cary to bank and live of the interest
Title: Who Wants To Be A Billionare?
Post by: Carl on April 14, 2003, 02:52:36 am
can't live on interest from 1/2 million :rolleyes:
Title: Who Wants To Be A Billionare?
Post by: Nico on April 14, 2003, 02:58:09 am
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Originally posted by Carl
i'd stick it in the bank and live on the $45,000 in interest i'd get every hour.


what "scaley thinguy" sez.
Title: Who Wants To Be A Billionare?
Post by: Shrike on April 14, 2003, 03:01:31 am
I'd buy you.  Each and every one of you.

Everyone has a price.
Title: Who Wants To Be A Billionare?
Post by: Fetty on April 14, 2003, 03:10:18 am
im cheap ;)

and why cant i live of 5000 bucks a month ?
no rent
2k for HBK (runing costs)
3k to feed myself and a woman who brings in aditional money ;7
Title: Who Wants To Be A Billionare?
Post by: Nico on April 14, 2003, 03:34:42 am
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Originally posted by Shrike
I'd buy you.  Each and every one of you.

Everyone has a price.


yeah, but you'd need more than that to buy me :P
Title: Who Wants To Be A Billionare?
Post by: Nico on April 14, 2003, 03:35:41 am
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Originally posted by Fetty
im cheap ;)

and why cant i live of 5000 bucks a month ?
no rent
2k for HBK (runing costs)
3k to feed myself and a woman who brings in aditional money ;7


you need 3kUSD to feed two people for a month :wtf:
you sure eat a lot...

No, you're NOT cheap :p
Title: Who Wants To Be A Billionare?
Post by: beatspete on April 14, 2003, 04:26:29 am
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Originally posted by Shrike
I'd buy you.  Each and every one of you.

Everyone has a price.



You but if you own us, what use is money to us?
Title: Who Wants To Be A Billionare?
Post by: Sesquipedalian on April 14, 2003, 04:43:51 am
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Originally posted by Shrike
I'd buy you.  Each and every one of you.

Everyone has a price.
I'm already sold to someone who paid far more than any here ever could, Shrike.  :)
Title: Who Wants To Be A Billionare?
Post by: Stunaep on April 14, 2003, 04:53:44 am
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Originally posted by Shrike
I'd buy you.  Each and every one of you.

Everyone has a price.


Never give that man enough money. I don't like whips.
Title: Who Wants To Be A Billionare?
Post by: silverwolf on April 14, 2003, 07:41:40 am
*remembers that shrike quote* errm i'm expensive as hell
Title: Who Wants To Be A Billionare?
Post by: Martinus on April 14, 2003, 08:21:54 am
[color=66ff00]I'd get educated in high level robotics and help in the effort to build a new robot for Mars exploration. I'd also pump a lot of money into libraries and various interesting research projects.

Also I'd buy an OC768 connection. :drevil:

The rest? I'm not sure.
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Title: Who Wants To Be A Billionare?
Post by: Riven on April 14, 2003, 10:43:15 am
lol, yor billion seemed rather large, but then i remembered americans can't count :ha: i real billion is a thousand million!
Title: Who Wants To Be A Billionare?
Post by: Knight Templar on April 14, 2003, 10:57:35 am
:wtf:

Intrest. innntreessstt
Title: Who Wants To Be A Billionare?
Post by: Fetty on April 14, 2003, 11:13:37 am
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Originally posted by venom2506


you need 3kUSD to feed two people for a month :wtf:
you sure eat a lot...

No, you're NOT cheap :p


hmm ok throw in a 10mbit con too :D
oh and i mostly cook with high quality food only and i smoke :D
Title: Who Wants To Be A Billionare?
Post by: Shrike on April 14, 2003, 11:38:59 am
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Originally posted by Riven
lol, yor billion seemed rather large, but then i remembered americans can't count :ha: i real billion is a thousand million!
Um..... which is exactly how much he has up there..... :wtf:
Title: Who Wants To Be A Billionare?
Post by: Stryke 9 on April 14, 2003, 11:42:42 am
Yes, but it's bad form to detract from a "LOL!!! Amerkinz aer teh ST00p1Dlolololol!!!1111" post with actual reality.
Title: Who Wants To Be A Billionare?
Post by: Black Wolf on April 14, 2003, 11:52:55 am
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Originally posted by Riven
lol, yor billion seemed rather large, but then i remembered americans can't count :ha: i real billion is a thousand million!


You sir, have amused me. That's no small achievement. Well done.

 - This guy has one of the longest locations on the board, and you still got it wrong.

 - The American billion is the one thousand million, wheras the british billion that I think Peg was referring to is one billion billion.

 - That :ha: smiley is the single most ridiculous and immature available on the board. Please, never use it again.
Title: Who Wants To Be A Billionare?
Post by: wEvil on April 14, 2003, 12:02:24 pm
I'd sort my immediate family and friends out with reasonable lump sums of cash, houses cars and the rest, then i'd buy into a large, stable share portfolio which would sustain all my immediate material needs (to the tune of a mere £100,000/year)

Next i'd start looking at how to use my immense financial pull against exploitation of third world countries and pro-corporate/plutocrat lobby movements.  This is where most of the money would go.

Assuming the next twenty years would be successful, corporate personhood would be illegalised (like it was meant to be) and most exploitation practises would be greatly curtailed by an additional regulatory arm of the UN, or whichever body replaces it.

I'd also push for increased investment into microgee engineering and hopefully live to see the moon colonised and asteroid mining begin.  

Research would be nice to invest in but we're too socially immature to handle the technology we have already, we need to iron out the amount of disparity in the worlds' wealth mis-distribution (here's a kicker - if capitalism is based on infinate economic growth and resources why are we so scared to give all our cash away to the third world, cuz we're only going to make more...) before we can consider ourselves capable of organised space travel.  

I refuse to admit this is as good as it gets for our species, because if it it life just sucks.
Title: Who Wants To Be A Billionare?
Post by: 01010 on April 14, 2003, 12:06:51 pm
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Originally posted by Shrike
I'd buy you.  Each and every one of you.

Everyone has a price.


NEVERRRRRR.

Ok, maybe some Doritos. MADE OF DIAMONDS, mwahahahaha. :drevil:

::Edit::

If I had that kind of money? I'd write a will stating that ALL the money goes to charity and promptly kill myself.
Title: Who Wants To Be A Billionare?
Post by: Stealth on April 14, 2003, 01:12:14 pm
i've had a lot of time to think about this.

i'd keep the house i'm in at the moment.  definately.  i'd buy the house (empty) on the side of my house though, keep the house intact, but put a 20 car garage in the back (with my own gas station, mechanics, etc.).  i'd then buy a lot of cars i've always wanted to buy, such as a 2003 bentley, ferrari, viper, and older cars, like 1974, 1959, and 1960 cadillacs.

the cars done, i'd put everything left of my "fortune" in a highly expensive and highly secure safe deep in the ground.  probabaly with a dedicated security system, and 10-15 foot thick steel walls.  that's like 5 million dollars+ right there.  however, i'd keep 15 million dollars in different banks, and i'd live off the interest (approximately $1,000,000 a year).

i dunno what else i'd do
Title: Who Wants To Be A Billionare?
Post by: diamondgeezer on April 14, 2003, 01:14:49 pm
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Originally posted by Black Wolf
wheras the british billion that I think Peg was referring to is one billion billion

:ha:

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Diamond Geezer was recently tricked in to eating calamari
Title: Who Wants To Be A Billionare?
Post by: Stryke 9 on April 14, 2003, 03:05:29 pm
But... but... everything looks so... final with the :ha: . It's like saying "this is the case, let there be no argument about it!"

This thread is gay.:ha:
Title: Who Wants To Be A Billionare?
Post by: 01010 on April 14, 2003, 03:41:23 pm
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
But... but... everything looks so... final with the :ha: . It's like saying "this is the case, let there be no argument about it!"

This thread is gay.:ha:


This gay is thread :ha:

No wait...
Title: Who Wants To Be A Billionare?
Post by: Nico on April 14, 2003, 03:57:25 pm
mmh, if I had that, I would give it all to a psychiatrist, coz obviously I'd have turned psycho :p
Title: Who Wants To Be A Billionare?
Post by: Sandwich on April 14, 2003, 04:10:14 pm
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Originally posted by Sesquipedalian
I'm already sold to someone who paid far more than any here ever could, Shrike.  :)


:nod:
Title: Who Wants To Be A Billionare?
Post by: Stryke 9 on April 14, 2003, 04:16:41 pm
Damn, you guys made that deal with Satan, too? I was hoping for a monopoly.
Title: Who Wants To Be A Billionare?
Post by: wEvil on April 14, 2003, 04:18:12 pm
bleh, i like my soul as it is.  even if it is totally worthless.
Title: Who Wants To Be A Billionare?
Post by: SKYNET-011 on April 14, 2003, 05:33:36 pm
Amen to that dude. :nod:
Title: Who Wants To Be A Billionare?
Post by: Stryke 9 on April 14, 2003, 08:21:43 pm
Are you sure? See, he's got this "Sign up a friend, get a free upgrade package" deal...
Title: Who Wants To Be A Billionare?
Post by: Nico on April 15, 2003, 02:02:10 am
yeah, plus "hell is a summer convention"! :ha:
Title: Who Wants To Be A Billionare?
Post by: Tiara on April 15, 2003, 03:04:09 am
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Originally posted by Stunaep


Never give that man enough money. I don't like whips.


*slap*

Shaddap, I didn't give you permission to talk.

*puts up a sign: Stunaep for sale!*

:p

Hmmmm... 10 bill eh? Hmmm...


And still have $7234900000 left :D
Title: Who Wants To Be A Billionare?
Post by: Nico on April 15, 2003, 03:12:19 am
mmh, all those people who forget inssurance costs, legal property rights, high income taxes, people to pay for all that crap they want to buy, kerozene for the helo, etc, etc. You should all get a passport for Wonderland and move there, first ;)
Title: Who Wants To Be A Billionare?
Post by: Gloriano on April 15, 2003, 03:38:47 am
if i win 10 billion  then i create world biggest Corporation
and very large house 10km and buy Jumbo jet
Title: Who Wants To Be A Billionare?
Post by: Tiara on April 15, 2003, 04:59:59 am
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Originally posted by venom2506
mmh, all those people who forget inssurance costs, legal property rights, high income taxes, people to pay for all that crap they want to buy, kerozene for the helo, etc, etc. You should all get a passport for Wonderland and move there, first ;)


True, but i'm sure that'll be covered by my 7.23 billion that I had left. And don't forget the income of my Rollercoaster park.

Meh... Fantasy is running wild :p
Title: Who Wants To Be A Billionare?
Post by: Razor on April 15, 2003, 05:07:17 am
If I had that kind of money, I would probably nuke every singe thing on this planet I don't like, including you know who and what. ;7
Title: Who Wants To Be A Billionare?
Post by: Martinus on April 15, 2003, 08:15:04 am
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Originally posted by Razor
If I had that kind of money, I would probably nuke every singe thing on this planet I don't like, including you know who and what. ;7

[color=66ff00]I have a russian friend with a bunch of MIRV 6's that you might want to speak to in such an eventuality.
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Title: Who Wants To Be A Billionare?
Post by: Cannikin on April 17, 2003, 03:34:14 am
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Originally posted by SILVER DRACON
if i win 10 billion  then i create world biggest Corporation


:wtf:

Somehow I doubt that you could accomplish that with a wimpy 10 billion...

Oh and: http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,9761.0.html
Title: Who Wants To Be A Billionare?
Post by: Gloriano on April 17, 2003, 03:40:59 am
that would be start money
Title: Who Wants To Be A Billionare?
Post by: Razor on April 17, 2003, 05:43:45 am
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Originally posted by Shrike
I'd buy you.  Each and every one of you.

Everyone has a price.


Sorry dude. Razor is not on sale. :) :p
Title: Who Wants To Be A Billionare?
Post by: Turnsky on April 17, 2003, 05:48:22 am
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Originally posted by Shrike
I'd buy you.  Each and every one of you.

Everyone has a price.

Bribing an officer of the KGB is an Offence against the motherland, Comrade...:D
Title: Who Wants To Be A Billionare?
Post by: Razor on April 17, 2003, 06:00:53 am
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Originally posted by Turnsky

Bribing an officer of the KGB is an Offence against the motherland, Comrade...:D


Eh...I think we got over that Communist small talk.
Title: Who Wants To Be A Billionare?
Post by: Stunaep on April 17, 2003, 06:15:28 am
*looks at the titles of the newer members*

Kak vyi hotite, tovarisch Shrike!
Title: Who Wants To Be A Billionare?
Post by: Turnsky on April 17, 2003, 06:28:10 am
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Originally posted by Razor


Eh...I think we got over that Communist small talk.


Hush you... :wink:

actually, in the spirit of the thread.... i'd buy myself some art lessions:p
Title: Who Wants To Be A Billionare?
Post by: Razor on April 17, 2003, 10:29:53 am
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Originally posted by Turnsky


Hush you... :wink:


Now..now :drevil:
Title: Who Wants To Be A Billionare?
Post by: tEAbAG on April 17, 2003, 11:53:06 am
I hereby denounce you as an enemy of the party!  The commissar will send you to the gulag for you trechery.  Have a nice day "comrade"!