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Title: What would you do if you had Bill Gate's entire fortune?
Post by: Cannikin on September 01, 2002, 12:35:31 am
Just curious as to what depraved, maniacal acts you people would do.

Just to give you a good comprehension of his INSANE amount of money...

If you were given it, retired right now (or if you're even just a student and never were employed), never earned another penny, and spent a million dollars every single day, you could never possibly live long enough to spend it all.
Title: What would you do if you had Bill Gate's entire fortune?
Post by: Stryke 9 on September 01, 2002, 12:38:40 am
That or purchase a small, nuclear-armed nation to reestablish the communist bloc and piss off the US. Prolly get sick of ruling pretty fast, and turn it into a quasi-anarchist or absolute democratic nation, after I'd taken a couple potshots at the Pentagon.
Title: Seen this movie?
Post by: Star Dragon on September 01, 2002, 01:03:09 am
1.) Create a video game to test those of outstanding ability and recruit them to operate the secretly constructed army of battlemechs and starships I have amassed and then TAKE OVER THE UNIVERSE!

  2.)oh yeah - world peace, save the enviroment all that stuff...

  3.) find a hair restoration process THAT REALLY WORKS! (this really should be #2 on the list huh?) :nod:
Title: What would you do if you had Bill Gate's entire fortune?
Post by: Dr.Zer0 on September 01, 2002, 03:03:31 am
I would buy off any company that owns the rights for FS, then I would use those companys to make nothing but FS novelty items, now everyone can have the 32 hour Colossus model kit, the SF Mara coffee mug, the GVC Aten paper weight, the Hades floor lamp, the Herk II key holder, the Ravenna coat hanger, and a cuddly plush Hatshepsut toy, then we can go into the Shivan, Vasudan, and Terran action figures  :D :D
Title: OH god!
Post by: Star Dragon on September 01, 2002, 03:22:27 am
Whatever you do....

Don't give them a 'kung fu grip'! Especially the Shivans (3)?

Having GI Joe flashbacks.......

"A real GTVA Hero, GI Joe is there, Fighting for freedom on Capella or Altair, GI Joe is there!" UGH! Shoot me!:lol:
Title: What would you do if you had Bill Gate's entire fortune?
Post by: Kellan on September 01, 2002, 03:29:07 am
It's all already been said.

However, I think that Gates' fortune is pretty safe with him. It's not like he's investing in Evilâ„¢, and he has enough consumables that he can now give head-spinning amounts away.

Which is, y'know, nice.
Title: What would you do if you had Bill Gate's entire fortune?
Post by: Knight Templar on September 01, 2002, 03:33:22 am
hell , i'd rule the world
Title: What would you do if you had Bill Gate's entire fortune?
Post by: Fury on September 01, 2002, 03:50:35 am
I would spent most of the money to do good, for example to give money for those poor people who can't afford enough food or clean water!  :(

Next would be a lot of money to space technology. ;7
Title: Re: What would you do if you had Bill Gate's entire fortune?
Post by: Solid Snake on September 01, 2002, 04:24:13 am
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Originally posted by Cannikin
Just curious as to what depraved, maniacal acts you people would do.

Just to give you a good comprehension of his INSANE amount of money...

If you were given it, retired right now (or if you're even just a student and never were employed), never earned another penny, and spent a million dollars every single day, you could never possibly live long enough to spend it all.


IF? no no, when

probably I will do absolutly nothing with it. it will sit in some stupid bank account and do a-b-s-o-l-u-t-l-y nothing.  I have no need for money.
Title: What would you do if you had Bill Gate's entire fortune?
Post by: Knight Templar on September 01, 2002, 04:33:37 am
to hell with poor/old/homeless/poor people... i'd buy um. what am i looking for... no not an escalade.. jeez... um... what's that you say? a U.S. Presidency? Well if Bush can do it, then why not me, hmm?
Title: What would you do if you had Bill Gate's entire fortune?
Post by: Nico on September 01, 2002, 05:59:39 am
I'd buy lot of stuffs, what do you think? :p
but I would keep working, coz man I feel bad when I don't work ( scarry, i used to think the exact opposite a couple years ago ). I'd probably wouldn't care if my PC had a pb, I'd just buy a new one, for exemple ( yeah, I'd build a full network for myself -I have lots of friends :D- :p )
I'd also go to a pshychanalist (sp?) coz there's no way that would happen and so that'd me I've turned mad.
Title: Re: OH god!
Post by: Dr.Zer0 on September 01, 2002, 06:45:25 am
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Originally posted by Star Dragon
Whatever you do....

Don't give them a 'kung fu grip'! Especially the Shivans (3)?

Having GI Joe flashbacks.......

"A real GTVA Hero, GI Joe is there, Fighting for freedom on Capella or Altair, GI Joe is there!" UGH! Shoot me!:lol:


nah, more like super snipes and bosch the beer bandit
Title: What would you do if you had Bill Gate's entire fortune?
Post by: delta_7890 on September 01, 2002, 07:48:32 am
I think I'd buy the moon, and charge people to look at it.  ^^;
Title: What would you do if you had Bill Gate's entire fortune?
Post by: Kazashi on September 01, 2002, 08:19:59 am
I'll buy some 'Mechs off Star Dragon...

Otherwise I'd be giving it to someone who cares.
Title: What would you do if you had Bill Gate's entire fortune?
Post by: aldo_14 on September 01, 2002, 08:47:58 am
1 - Buy entire street over, cover with retractable glass bowl, demolish the house of neighbours I don't like :devil:
2- found football team in back garden.  (stadiuum built on top of remains of neighbours houses)
3- Get Ibrox / Hampden debentures
4- Build a walk in aquarium
5 - Buy a small Scottish island and move it to the Caribbean (more fun than buying a caribbean island)
6 - Build a concert hall underground, hire the winners of Pop Idol to play in it, then detonate a below-ground thermonuclear warhed.  Repeat with all annoying boy bands / pop groups, excepting the attractive women :D
Title: What would you do if you had Bill Gate's entire fortune?
Post by: vyper on September 01, 2002, 09:19:06 am
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Originally posted by aldo_14
1 - Buy entire street over, cover with retractable glass bowl, demolish the house of neighbours I don't like :devil:
2- found football team in back garden.  (stadiuum built on top of remains of neighbours houses)
3- Get Ibrox / Hampden debentures
4- Build a walk in aquarium
5 - Buy a small Scottish island and move it to the Caribbean (more fun than buying a caribbean island)
6 - Build a concert hall underground, hire the winners of Pop Idol to play in it, then detonate a below-ground thermonuclear warhed.  Repeat with all annoying boy bands / pop groups, excepting the attractive women :D


:D :D :wtf: :wtf: :lol: :yes:
Title: What would you do if you had Bill Gate's entire fortune?
Post by: an0n on September 01, 2002, 09:54:35 am
1) Perfect the Genome Project
2) Buy any and all scientific equipment, the best of the best at everything
3) Buy lots and lots of construction equipment
4) Buy lots of building materials and supplies
4a) Get engineers and scientitsts to use the above and build the below
5) Build a huge space-station with uber-stealth
6) Build a base on the dark-side of the moon
7) Get 30 genetic samples of every plant and animal (no insects)
8) Use the space-station to pepper the entire globe with high-yield neutron bombs, 1 per 10 square miles
9) Wait 30 years
10) Return to Earth having given it enough time to recover
11) Start the Earth over again with better ideologies and lots of genetic engineering
Title: What would you do if you had Bill Gate's entire fortune?
Post by: Nico on September 01, 2002, 11:11:24 am
even with bill gate's money you couldn't get half of that, and anyway i got you killed first coz that's evil :p
Title: What would you do if you had Bill Gate's entire fortune?
Post by: an0n on September 01, 2002, 11:13:01 am
12) Kill Venom and Bill Gates.
Title: What would you do if you had Bill Gate's entire fortune?
Post by: Thor on September 01, 2002, 11:16:56 am
I'd buy a bunch of things.

But, I'd have to buy the FS rights and Volition, so we'd get are FS3!  That would take up a sizable amount of change.  You also get the benfit of owning a game company.

Quote
1.) Create a video game to test those of outstanding ability and recruit them to operate the secretly constructed army of battlemechs and starships I have amassed and then TAKE OVER THE UNIVERSE!


Sweet Movie!  I love it. But I'm not going to tell you what it is.  lets see if anyone else knows it.  I think thats what started my obsession with space fighters, or maybe Starwars, maybe both?
Title: What would you do if you had Bill Gate's entire fortune?
Post by: Knight Templar on September 01, 2002, 02:01:19 pm
hi an0n... Can i be with you?:)
Title: What would you do if you had Bill Gate's entire fortune?
Post by: CP5670 on September 01, 2002, 03:17:51 pm
I would do almost exactly the same things as an0n. :D
Title: What would you do if you had Bill Gate's entire fortune?
Post by: wEvil on September 01, 2002, 03:54:26 pm
I'd do these things:

A) Build a particle beam weapon
B) Crack Fusion or Zero-point power, whichever came first
C) spend money on pro-GM and Nuclear power campaigns.
D) Fundamentally oppose religion in any possible way.
E) utilise the particle beam weapon to scare off bullies like the US.
F) Use revenues from Fusion/ZP power plants in addition to the startling turnaround my software company would show as far as the IP debate goes to setup a corporate-sponsered utopian nation.

G) see how things go from there.
Title: What would you do if you had Bill Gate's entire fortune?
Post by: Nico on September 01, 2002, 04:20:29 pm
nah, you'd try to conquer the forums, brainwash DaveB, but finally get kicked out until you come back for revenge :D
Title: What would you do if you had Bill Gate's entire fortune?
Post by: Zeronet on September 01, 2002, 04:53:24 pm
Too much money, cant decide :shaking:
Title: Re: Seen this movie?
Post by: Sandwich on September 01, 2002, 05:18:08 pm
Quote
Originally posted by Star Dragon
1.) Create a video game to test those of outstanding ability and recruit them to operate the secretly constructed army of battlemechs and starships I have amassed and then TAKE OVER THE UNIVERSE!


Quote
Originally posted by Thor
Sweet Movie!  I love it. But I'm not going to tell you what it is.  lets see if anyone else knows it.  I think thats what started my obsession with space fighters, or maybe Starwars, maybe both?


Black text: The Last Starfighter

And yes, that movie, along with Flight of the Navigator, were the ones that probably inspired me, too. :D

Quote
Originally posted by aldo_14
4- Build a walk in aquarium


:wtf: :wtf: :wtf:
Title: What would you do if you had Bill Gate's entire fortune?
Post by: Nico on September 01, 2002, 05:18:42 pm
oh yeah, I'd give money to the gvt so they hire more cops, i'm fed up of all the cars being forced open, I know nobody who hasn't been victim of those damn thiefs ( save me, but my car looked so old I guess nobody would have thought of finding anything interesting in it )
Title: What would you do if you had Bill Gate's entire fortune?
Post by: penguin on September 01, 2002, 09:54:28 pm
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Posted by Dr.Zer0
... the SF Mara coffee mug, ... the Herk II key holder, ...
I'll take one of each :)

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Posted by Thor
But, I'd have to buy the FS rights and Volition, so we'd get are FS3!
Hire me, please ;7 :thepimp:

Here's what I'd do, in order:
1. Buy new PC, maybe even 2
2. Quit job, work on FS.
3. Get new engine for my '74 beetle so I can sell it
4. Wife would make me buy a new house
5. Buy a commercial space transportation company, even if it's losing money :D
Title: What would you do if you had Bill Gate's entire fortune?
Post by: Stargazer_2098 on September 02, 2002, 02:21:39 pm
I would build a huge fleet of colony star-ships, and get most of the human-race off this planet while we still can.

And I would also buy myself a residence on Luna for good measure. :cool: :wink:


Stargazer.
Title: What would you do if you had Bill Gate's entire fortune?
Post by: Kellan on September 02, 2002, 04:22:13 pm
I would purchase all the humour in the world and keep it in a jar at home, living the most interesting and exciting life in the world. Yes, more exciting than you, peons.
Title: What would you do if you had Bill Gate's entire fortune?
Post by: Sandwich on September 03, 2002, 07:11:17 am
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Originally posted by Kellan
I would purchase all the humour in the world and keep it in a jar at home, living the most interesting and exciting life in the world.


:blah:
Title: What would you do if you had Bill Gate's entire fortune?
Post by: Gortef on September 03, 2002, 08:02:49 am
I'd propably buy stuff... donate some of the money into good cause etc... can't really decide...

Hmm... or maybe I'd hire people and start making animations. Yea, that's what would do :)
Title: What would you do if you had Bill Gate's entire fortune?
Post by: Vertigo1 on September 03, 2002, 08:07:26 pm
Lets see...

1.  Buy out Titus and Sierra.
2.  Buy the rights to Star Trek and tell B&B to get stuffed.
3.  Start a business selling modded comp cases with custom freespace ship shaped holes cut in the side.
4.  Buy daveb some honeys since he can't seem to get any himself. :lol:  Guess women aren't keen on meen dressed up as a pirate from a 50's movie. :p
5.  Buy myself an island and hold private parties there.
6.  Buy the Playboy Mansion and move it to my island. ;7
7.  Build my own GTF Pegasus and fly around the universe. :D
8.  Buy NASA and start a real GTA. :)
9.  Buy out Sony and force them to release stuff in the US first.
Title: What would you do if you had Bill Gate's entire fortune?
Post by: Nico on September 04, 2002, 02:27:47 am
lol, billgates don't even has enough money to buy Sony :lol:
Title: What would you do if you had Bill Gate's entire fortune?
Post by: Vertigo1 on September 05, 2002, 12:15:22 am
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Originally posted by venom2506
lol, billgates don't even has enough money to buy Sony :lol:


Thats what they WANT you to think. ;)
Title: What would you do if you had Bill Gate's entire fortune?
Post by: Kamikaze on September 05, 2002, 12:20:31 am
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Originally posted by MD-2389
9.  Buy out Sony and force them to release stuff in the US first.


Go Japan!!!

............:nervous: ...........
Title: What would you do if you had Bill Gate's entire fortune?
Post by: Vertigo1 on September 05, 2002, 12:26:52 am
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Originally posted by Kamikaze


Go Japan!!!

............:nervous: ...........


*hops in GTF Perseus and flies to a safe distance as the area around Kamikaze is BFGreened to death*

:drevil: :D
Title: What would you do if you had Bill Gate's entire fortune?
Post by: Kamikaze on September 05, 2002, 12:30:42 am
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Originally posted by MD-2389


*hops in GTF Perseus and flies to a safe distance as the area around Kamikaze is BFGreened to death*

:drevil: :D


that would be in your own country :D (I live in the US...)

but I still support japan! :D

(http://www.indstate.edu/fll/japan-flag.gif)
Title: What would you do if you had Bill Gate's entire fortune?
Post by: Vertigo1 on September 05, 2002, 12:56:40 am
Quote
Originally posted by Kamikaze


that would be in your own country :D (I live in the US...)

but I still support japan! :D

(http://www.indstate.edu/fll/japan-flag.gif)


Good thing beam weapons are precise then huh. ;)
Title: What would you do if you had Bill Gate's entire fortune?
Post by: Nico on September 05, 2002, 01:59:49 am
"places a deflective shield above Kamikaze"
Go Japan! Btw, for Sony's price, check the bourse ( english word? ), BG doesn't have that much :)
Title: What would you do if you had Bill Gate's entire fortune?
Post by: Razor on September 05, 2002, 04:42:19 am
Hm let's see. If I had all of the Bill Gates's fortune, I would constructa a BIIIIIG orbital plasma (beam cannon) and other mini beam turrets ( to defend it) in the Earth's orbit and I would shoot down at Pentagon, CIA, FBI and all American bases and organizations that harmed all those innocent people and ruined those poor suffering countries. Heh, a good plan for World Peace and total annihilation of America's military.
Title: What would you do if you had Bill Gate's entire fortune?
Post by: Razor on September 05, 2002, 04:47:38 am
By the way,

GO YUGOSLAVIA!!!

(http://www.krstarica.com/slike/yu.gif)
Title: What would you do if you had Bill Gate's entire fortune?
Post by: Vertigo1 on September 05, 2002, 11:42:08 pm
Quote
Originally posted by venom2506
"places a deflective shield above Kamikaze"
Go Japan! Btw, for Sony's price, check the bourse ( english word? ), BG doesn't have that much :)


Even more wonderful since beams ignore shields. :D
Title: What would you do if you had Bill Gate's entire fortune?
Post by: Ace on September 06, 2002, 12:06:56 am
Quote
Originally posted by an0n
1) Perfect the Genome Project
2) Buy any and all scientific equipment, the best of the best at everything
3) Buy lots and lots of construction equipment
4) Buy lots of building materials and supplies
4a) Get engineers and scientitsts to use the above and build the below
5) Build a huge space-station with uber-stealth
6) Build a base on the dark-side of the moon
7) Get 30 genetic samples of every plant and animal (no insects)
8) Use the space-station to pepper the entire globe with high-yield neutron bombs, 1 per 10 square miles
9) Wait 30 years
10) Return to Earth having given it enough time to recover
11) Start the Earth over again with better ideologies and lots of genetic engineering


Didn't a James Bond villain try to do this? :p
Title: What would you do if you had Bill Gate's entire fortune?
Post by: Sandwich on September 06, 2002, 02:54:50 pm
Quote
Originally posted by venom2506
...Btw, for Sony's price, check the bourse ( english word? ) ...


Stock Market? Hehehe - it's the same word in Hebrew if so. :D

Oh, and even with his entire fortune, Bill can't protect himself from getting "Entarted" (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,9860.0.html)!!! :lol:
Title: What would you do if you had Bill Gate's entire fortune?
Post by: ShadowWolf_IH on September 06, 2002, 02:58:20 pm
i would do three, oops four things....first....pay my own way on a trip to the moon.  

second......set up a business so that future generations of my family will be provided for.....

third....i love the beach...so i owuld buy some beachfront property......Bermuda will do nicely.

i forgot number 4....get my exwife some silicone, cause it certainly isn't her brain that will get her ahead in the world.
Title: What would you do if you had Bill Gate's entire fortune?
Post by: aldo_14 on September 06, 2002, 04:24:01 pm
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Originally posted by MD-2389
Lets see...
6.  Buy the Playboy Mansion and move it to my island. ;7


Better make sure the girls are in there first... otherwise that would sort of defeat the point of the whole operation ;7
Title: What would you do if you had Bill Gate's entire fortune?
Post by: beatspete on September 07, 2002, 07:59:37 am
Well, i think i'd keep Bill's billions for a rainy day. :p



... other than that, the only thing i can really think of at the moment would be to fly to Italy to see my friend Amy, who's out there for a few months...
Title: What would you do if you had Bill Gate's entire fortune?
Post by: lobsterclaw on September 08, 2002, 12:34:40 am
lets see...

1)buy Rhode Island, just for the hell of it
2)build a huge house on rhode island
3)buy Taco Bell
4)pay a research center to use my bro as a test subject
5)buy a pool full of jello and swim in it (always wanted to do that!)
6)buy every national monument and move it to my backyard in  
   Rhode Island
7)umm...kill Saddam!!!
Title: What would you do if you had Bill Gate's entire fortune?
Post by: Stealth on October 18, 2002, 10:44:09 am
there is no doubt in my mind what i'd get!!!

(http://ebiz0.ipixmedia.com/abc/ebiz/_EBIZ_b9714577728767fe6a2f2a0e558a7c8f/i-1.JPG)

(http://208.60.195.54/A123IH/95ea330a-7a26-4f2d-b434-f50bbbf15364,2G2FV32G122130270,01,webimage001m.Auction123)

(http://www.nxcess.net/go/1x54sil3/MVC-003S.jpg)

(http://ebay1.ipixmedia.com/abc/M28/_EBAY_eed8592d222b422104f2cc0ef7f784b1/i-1.JPG)

(http://ebay2.ipixmedia.com/abc/M28/_EBAY_8de827049db8c070d7c254091f6248ba/i-1_B.JPG)


those five, all i ask for, i could not ask for more.

someone try to name all five WITHOUT looking on the internet.  it's not that hard, they're all new except for one.
Title: What would you do if you had Bill Gate's entire fortune?
Post by: Cannikin on October 18, 2002, 11:04:46 am
Bumping ancient topics is baaaad, Stealth. :no: :no:
Title: What would you do if you had Bill Gate's entire fortune?
Post by: Stealth on October 18, 2002, 11:45:59 am
replying to people's posts that bumped topics is even worse!

and it's not too old, it's only like a month or so old!  and i saw someone browsing through it in the "Who's online" thing, so i just replied to it :D
Title: What would you do if you had Bill Gate's entire fortune?
Post by: Stryke 9 on October 18, 2002, 01:30:29 pm
Can we lynch him? We haven't had a good lynching in MONTHS!!!
Title: What would you do if you had Bill Gate's entire fortune?
Post by: Fineus on October 18, 2002, 01:32:28 pm
Or not :rolleyes: