[Tiara]

Originally posted by Razor
If you must know, I never actually HAD a girlfriend.

And yet you are drawing conclusions like this? Sheez, just don't.

[Razor]

I am drawing concluions from what I see.

[Tiara]

Originally posted by Razor
I am drawing concluions from what I see.

You shouldn't. You should draw conclusions from experience about these kind of things..

[Odyssey]

Yay, another derailed topic on the subject of gender personality traits. And this time it wasn't even started by me! ~assumes argumentative don't-give-a-damn-what-side-I'm-on-so-let's-support-the-pretty-gender mode~
Razor, what Tiara said. She knows what she's on about. Yes, a lot of girls are shallow. Yes, 99% of boys are shallow. AFAIK, 'a lot' is less than '99%', QED. Get over it. Think what a ***** life must be for girls looking for the 1%

EDIT: Oh, and so that this post cannot be considered entirely OT, if I had that kind of money I would employ a boat-building company to build me some kind of uber-boat that was totally environmentally friendly and self sustainable. Maybe with solar panels and crop growth areas and stuff. Then I'd live on it. The rest of the money would go into banks etc., with the majority of the interest going to good causes, and a minute amount of it being used for port fees and miscellaneous cool stuff I might need every now and then ^_^

[mikhael]

Originally posted by Stealth
You underestimate A) my basic misanthropy and B) the propensity of my wife and I to spend money.

in response to "A", i'm going to just say this:
You're not American, are you? (without looking in your profile)... in fact, i'd guess German or Russian... right? no offense, it's jus interesting the different ways of thinking of different nationalities

in response to "B",
c'mon... you and your wife are just going to "spend" a billion dollars? you'd probably have a hard time spending 10 million, let alone 1000 million.

besides... even if you only save 5 million... you could live very comfortably in the US with the interest.
 

First things first: I'm an American, born in Europe, and lived all over the world. To be more precise, I'm half puerto-rican and half North Carolinian. I'm a military brat thru and thru.

Second, spending the interest off of a billion dollars would be very easy between my wife and I. First off, a CAVE Virtual Reality System will run me a cool million right off. My render farm would cost me another $20-30 million in hardware, plus another $25 million in building, power, water and lands costs. Consider that the cost to get a TIME SHARE on a LearJet60 for 800hrs per year is about $12.5 million and I want to BUY ONE. Then there's things that need to be done like buying out underused corporate properties from negligent holders. How much do you think it will cost to buy the rights to all the games licenses that I love? We're talking hundreds of millions now. I haven't even gotten to my wife's spending yet and already, I'm pushing a signifigant fraction of a billion.

We live in a world where the really interesting stuff costs signifigant fractions of a billion dollars. I'm not concerned at all about being abl e to blow through that interest.

[Stryke 9]

Bah, planes are a ripoff. Never mind that they guzzle incredibly expensive fuel like a wino drowning in a keg, never mind that modern civilian planes are built with all the skill, durability, and quality one would expect of the end product of a one-armed autistic monkey undergoing electroshock, if you just buy the engines straight from factory and set up your own body (with a handful of engineers, of course, and a machine shop if you can't access one already) and never go far above five digits.

But helicopters are so much cooler anyway- why on Earth wouldn't you put that same money towards a slightly crashed, rebuilt gunship?

[vyper]

Originally posted by aldo_14
And probably chuck a few hundred million down Ibrox way, just for the hell of it.

Maybe we could bribe big Alex to manage the national team?

[neo_hermes]

I would buy some Coca-cola stock and Pepsi stock then i would place half of the rest in...a bank. then i would see if i had enough to buy a F-35 Joint strike fighter. even though i can't fly it it will give me great pleasure in knowing i own a state-of-the-art aircraft.

[mikhael]

Originally posted by Stryke 9
But helicopters are so much cooler anyway- why on Earth wouldn't you put that same money towards a slightly crashed, rebuilt gunship?

Rotorwing craft will never have the raw speed and carrying capacity of a fixed wing aircraft of comparable size. Besides that, if you didn't know, they are prone to a hell of a lot more mechanical problems--there's more moving parts.  On top of that, they're usually designed and built by the same autistic, electro-shocked monkies you mentioned before.

Besides, most of the people on this board can't figure out inertial flight dynamics in a game. A helicopter would... kill... the lot of... them...

HELICOPTARS FOR ALL!!!!1!!

[YodaSean]

aren't airplanes easier to fly?  On not an expert on this or anything, but I've heard helicopters aren't naturally stable or something and you have to be constantly adjusting them so they won't screw up

[Dark_4ce]

Actually, planes and choppers are as difficult to fly. Trust me. Even Flight Simulator gets the flying a plane wrong. Or not wrong, but it leaves out a lot.

They are different to fly, but as difficult to learn.

[redsniper]

I would buy Interplay and force them to give up the rights to Freespace
or I would buy a B2 bomber just because I could.