You have 100 Billion dollars.

Discussion in 'Free Thoughts' started by LeeDa, May 20, 2006.

  1. LeeDa Danger! Read with caution. Registered Senior Member

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    What would you buy if you had 100 billion dollars? How would you invest it? I need some ideas some serious some silly in case I ever have 100 billion dollars.

    One of the things I would do is

    I would build a brand new 100 story building and use it as a mansion.
    50 storys would be ok I guess. Mmmm a mansion with many rooms.

    What are your ideas to do to some of the rooms? What sort of rooms would you have?

    Post anything you have in regards to having 100 billion dollars.

    Thanks
     
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  3. Ophiolite Valued Senior Member

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    Mars. Manned expedition.
     
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  5. invert_nexus Ze do caixao Valued Senior Member

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    20 billion packs of cigarettes. And postage to your front door.
    Kidding?
     
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  7. LeeDa Danger! Read with caution. Registered Senior Member

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    hehe
     
  8. Communist Hamster Cricetulus griseus leninus Valued Senior Member

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    A big load of shares, a few ingots of precious metals, a replica of the Palace of Soviets, a select few concept cars, build some desalination plants around the most drought stricken areas of Africa, and a huge amount of aid work (not merely giving money to charities; working with charities orders emplying some aid workers. That way I know my money is going somewhere.).

    Also an island to make my own communist state, even if it is tiny.
     
  9. Bowser Namaste Valued Senior Member

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    I would follow the sun and do some good along the way.
     
  10. draqon Banned Banned

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    Invest all the money in space exploration and space technology. Buy 100 or so modified spaceshipone/whiteknights to gain revenue from tourists. Invest in project to explore planet Mars. Invest in nanotechnology research applicable to space exploration.
     
  11. Fraggle Rocker Staff Member

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    I'm older and more worn out and disillusioned than you kids. I would do some serious research and find the best possible place to retire. Some place where my wife and I and our dogs and all the other animals we would surely get could find comfort, safety, and culture. Maybe we would stay in rural northwestern California and continue to be hermits with more frequent excursions to the big cities in our private jet, or maybe we would go to Italy or Portugal, or even Switzerland.

    I know we would not want a house full of servants because we are much too private. That limits the extent of one's excess because a cleaning lady and a gardener who don't live on the premises and become part of the family can only do so much.

    Philanthropy, of course. But I guarantee that any of you would quickly realize what I already know: Even with all those zeros on your bank account, there's a stark and depressing limit to how much you can change the world. I'd probably set my sights on something modest like the Central Asia Project. That guy in Montana who builds schools all over the Middle East that are required to take girls. In many places it's the first time girls have ever had a chance at an education, and even for the parents of boys it's an attractive alternative to the Saudi-funded terrorist training camps that masquerade as schools over there. You have to be wise enough to find the one thing you can do that will really make a difference, and boy did he figure that one out. Educating women is the key to peace.

    I would like to get into the media. Many of you urge me to increase the range of my spouting off and I would probably enjoy that if I didn't have to make a big profit off of it and I didn't have to worry about being fired every time I offended somebody. Publish my own magazine, program my own TV station.

    Of course I'd have to give up the name Fraggle Rocker or else buy the Muppets from Disney.

    Buy the Muppets??? Hey, this is starting to sound like fun!
     
  12. Jaybee from his cast Banned Banned

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    1) Personal harem with 200 hand-picked models, starting off in amazing shape and then honed into almost superhuman curves;

    2) Pay Bono to duet 'Vertigo'

    3) Private 200-seat jet (I need 70 of my harem at any given time)



    Jaybee.
     
  13. dagr8n8 Registered Senior Member

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    Buy the nicest stuff that i could aford; house, car, plain..ect then buy a LARGE company ie philip moris, or pespi or sumthen

    my o2 cents
     
  14. Roman Banned Banned

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    Bwhahahahahahaha!
    You pussy!
     
  15. cato less hate, more science Registered Senior Member

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    "two words: nuclear FUCKING weapons!"
    joking.

    first, I would spend it on an earth protection system. many satellites and super computers dedicated to making sure earth is not wiped out by an asteroid.

    second, work on getting countries to reduce their populations. IMO, 90% of the worlds problems could be solved with population control.
     
  16. Possumking I think, I am? Registered Senior Member

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    Would you really need to invest it? I mean you do have 100 billion dollars.

    First of all (to please my conscience) I'd donate blocks of 500 million dollars to maybe 20 different charities. That leaves 80 billion. I'd then buy the best, most pimped out computer ever and install tons of software on it. I'm talking about something crazy like 100 gigs of ram, 10 or so terabytes of space, and cpu(s) with huge operating speeds. I'd sponser companies to develop this, of course. I'd then have it tricked out with accessories and installed with every bit of badass software that exists. Lets assume that that costs a total of 1 billion dollars. I'd then buy a sweet house and have that made super rad. After that I'd probably go for a couple years traveling around the world, staying in the best hotels. Along the way I'd give out million dollar packets of money (not actual packets but wire transfers or something of the sort) to homeless people. After that I'd hire advisors to help me decide some way to put my money to use for something beneficial to the entire world.

    Jesus. Its hard to imagine that bill gates is nearly there.
     
  17. Possumking I think, I am? Registered Senior Member

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    I second that ; )
     
  18. Beryl WWAD What Would Athelwulf Do? Registered Senior Member

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    Buy land. Lots and lots of land.
     
  19. Killjoy Propelling The Farce!! Valued Senior Member

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    Stole my idea...!

    How many d'yer suppose one could get... plus rockets of course...?

    Can't have a 4th of July without rockets !

    Stand the sumbitches up and launch 'em while blasting the US national anthem so that the warheads all go off in mid-air just as it reaches the words:
    "....aaaaaaand the rockets red glare...
    ...the bombs bursting in air..."


    heh...

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  20. Carcano Valued Senior Member

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    I'd open up a chain of private schools for 12-18 year olds. There would be no flourescent lighting, no computers, no chalkboards no auditorium, no swimming pool, no gym and no music or art programs.

    Phys-ed would focus on flexibility instead of chasing rubber balls. The kids would do more reading and wouldn't be allowed to take notes. The emphasis would be on the three R and lots of history - the history of science, politics, philosophy, etc...not the comings and goings of kings and queens.

    At the moment, public education is really nothing more than a very expensive holding pen.
     
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  21. cato less hate, more science Registered Senior Member

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    I disagree with part of what you say carcano. computers are incredibly useful tools. moreover, flexibility is a secondary aspect, making sure they burn the right amount of calories to maintain their weight would be the primary goal. also, not taking is a helpful memory tool. however, I think students should have homework sessions directly after the call, while the information is still fresh. I sometimes can't get to homework for several days after the material was tough, and it makes it much harder.
     
  22. Carcano Valued Senior Member

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    Yes computers are useful tools, but I'm glad I never owned one until later in life. Its disastrous for kids to be staring at monitors all day in school and then go home for more of the same. Children need to deal with real people...flesh and blood, bricks and mortar reality, not virtual fantasy worlds.
     
  23. Jaybee from his cast Banned Banned

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    ????????

    What's cowardly about that?? Bravery/cowardice doesn't come into it. Come to think of it though, do YOU have the balls to sing 'New York New York' in front of a few hundred New Yorkers?

    Try a stadium full of them, bucko, and then talk to me about pussies...

    Ah, I forget...the only time you'll ever enter a stadium is to clean the toilets, how quickly I lose track of who I'm talking to.


    Jaybee.
     

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