What would you do with a billion dollars?
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BANNED
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written Sunday, December 18 2005 19:04
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...last time I heard, planes were a hell of a lot cheaper. -------------------- * Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Sunday, December 18 2005 20:23
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I'm not sure a billion will go very far toward your time machine, TM. Even an ordinary particle accelerator can cost more than that. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Sunday, December 18 2005 20:31
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I'd buy administrative rights to this board and make slight changes to the CoC. Also more strict membership requirements. I'd probably give the balance to leftist guerilla groups to aid their fights for freedom. And since this is imaginary money, and it seems multiple people are wishing TM well with his time machine endeavor, I would help by using the "ends justify the means" clause in my moral code. That would make happiness. *this message has been grinched* -------------------- quote: Posts: 4114 | Registered: Monday, April 25 2005 07:00 |
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Shaper
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written Sunday, December 18 2005 20:42
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Time remains a stalwart foe, No machine shall e'er o'erthrow. I, for one, am glad that this is so, Lest TM conspire to lay me low. [ Sunday, December 18, 2005 20:44: Message edited by: Synergy ] -------------------- A4 Item Locations A4 Singleton G4 Items List G4 Forging List The Insidious Infiltrator Posts: 2009 | Registered: Monday, September 12 2005 07:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Sunday, December 18 2005 20:48
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quote:Yet I prefer trains. -------------------- Apparently still annoying. Posts: 612 | Registered: Saturday, October 13 2001 07:00 |
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written Sunday, December 18 2005 21:04
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quote:I will abort you with my well-endowed member. -------------------- * Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Monday, December 19 2005 00:59
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quote:Do I get the remaining 63 million for telling you there is no need to use reality bending powers to make the numbers work out? :) -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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Apprentice
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written Monday, December 19 2005 01:22
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By the way, I made a typo when I said dollars I actually meant rupees, meaning you own exactly 2,217,591,495.69 U.S. Dollars. HA HA HA HA HA :D Posts: 32 | Registered: Friday, March 18 2005 08:00 |
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Warrior
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written Monday, December 19 2005 03:27
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Pay off my school loans, pay off my parents' house, buy my own house and fit it out (computer, furniture and all), and try to make a deal where I can pay all of my taxes at once. After that I don't know. -------------------- Reports of my demise are extremely accurate. And I AM the clone Posts: 102 | Registered: Wednesday, January 12 2005 08:00 |
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Apprentice
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written Monday, December 19 2005 03:37
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I'd donate quite a bunch of millions to Spiderweb (hey, who wouldn't ;) ), I'd donate to charities, I'd donate some to organizations researching cures for cancer, AIDS and other currently-incurable diseases, I'd travel around the world, I'd give enough money to all my family members so that they can live happily until they die without having to work or anything (and nothing for my 'friends', for that matter; they tend to backstab me and other people when it's convenient for them, so I don't hold much proximity with them anymore), and...I think I'd travel to the Moon, then I'd come back and organize a coup and take hold of the Chilean Government, moment after which I'd lead the Chilean nation to ultimate prosperity and happiness. Yeah, that's it. I don't want much. >_> -------------------- "The only use of fancy titles is to draw attention away from one's lack of power" - Erika the Archmage "Well, that's what you adventurers do, isn't it? Break into creatures' homes, slay them, and take their stuff, isn't it? Damned impolite, if you ask me." - Provisioner, regarding quests (Bandit Hideout, Avernum 3) Posts: 38 | Registered: Wednesday, October 16 2002 07:00 |
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written Monday, December 19 2005 04:22
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quote:Me. PS- I will be present at your birth. -------------------- * Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Monday, December 19 2005 04:44
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TM, you've made your point. Enough already. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Monday, December 19 2005 05:17
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quote:That's happened a few times, no? -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Monday, December 19 2005 06:16
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At least. And one of those times, the leader of the coup settled for being a mayor and stealing a communist leader's wife. ... (I'm waiting for Thuryl or Imban on this one.) -------------------- * Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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Master
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written Monday, December 19 2005 06:42
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i think I wouldn't have to say anything, and still people would know what i would do. i wont say it, unless people ask me too. this is for two reasons: 1) people like Spring will shout at me. 2) people like TM will shout at me. Now you probably think: "yay! Why wont you say it then! Annoyinh TM is a GREAT thing!" Well, no. I'd rather keep peace. -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 | Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00 |
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Shaper
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written Monday, December 19 2005 08:12
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TM... this time machine (did nobody else notice?)... If you are serious about this, you're telling people that you're going to kill them when they're already dead. If you go back in time and kill them, they won't exist in this timezone, and so you're either talking to dead people (which are then answering you), or this time machine idea is one big joke... What's more, if the time machine thing does/has/is happen/happened/happening, I won't be writing this piece of nonesense. Ergo, it's safe to assume you ain't gonna go back in time. Edit: Typos. Which made my browser crash, hence the lateness of the clean-up. [ Monday, December 19, 2005 08:38: Message edited by: SupaNik ] -------------------- And when you want to Live How do you start? Where do you go? Who do you need to know? *Name by Slarty Posts: 2864 | Registered: Monday, September 8 2003 07:00 |
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written Monday, December 19 2005 09:36
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Well, that has happened quite a few times here. And all of them have been excellent, except for Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, who made the whole country enter a huge state of poverty. But the rest, including my oh-so-dear-general-who-ordered-the-torture-and-persecution-of-many-people-including-my-own-dad-who-luckily-was-never-caught Augusto Pinochet (yeah, the CIA-backed coup? well, it had to be done, I guess...marxism was taking over and the economy was horrible), have done an excellent job in restoring the country. So, yeah, I'll be the next. As soon as our fragile monoexporting copper industry crumbles and collapses, I'll be there to lead my nation back to prosperity. Yeah. I wish I was a politician. >.> -------------------- "The only use of fancy titles is to draw attention away from one's lack of power" - Erika the Archmage "Well, that's what you adventurers do, isn't it? Break into creatures' homes, slay them, and take their stuff, isn't it? Damned impolite, if you ask me." - Provisioner, regarding quests (Bandit Hideout, Avernum 3) Posts: 38 | Registered: Wednesday, October 16 2002 07:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Monday, December 19 2005 11:55
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I would also like to add that, after getting rid of Bush and planting someone I could control in his place, I would go back to Chile and fund a paramilitary group to take down Saurion's regime and start a golden age for Chile under me, Overlord Nazgul. PD: I am slightly disapointed to find out that there is actually an older spiderweb member from Chile in these boards. :P [ Monday, December 19, 2005 12:01: Message edited by: The_Nazgul ] -------------------- "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it through not dying." Posts: 469 | Registered: Thursday, May 1 2003 07:00 |
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Guardian
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written Monday, December 19 2005 12:00
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I'm sure we've done all of this before. At any rate, I'd purchase a plot of land in Arizona or some such place, build a fortress along the lines of those of the Moghul emperors, including a large palace for myself and friends, a heavily-populated harem complex, with its occupants hand-picked by me, and a small auxiliary palace for my many ferrets. I'd also hire many, many servants, of course, to keep things up. -------------------- Stughalf "Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered. One falls down when reasoning is destroyed."- The Bhagavad Gita. Posts: 1798 | Registered: Sunday, October 5 2003 07:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Monday, December 19 2005 12:06
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Hey no one will virtually control my country as long i still be around here!! But i don't like politic that much so i won't say anything about the chilean presidents, politic can be so boring some times... Hey Saurion you are from chile too!!! I thought i was alone in this damn forums!! But you don't seem to be new...anyway i have never seen you. En serio weon pensaba que yo era el unico que conocia los avernums en todo chile!! [ Monday, December 19, 2005 12:06: Message edited by: chicho1102 ] Posts: 446 | Registered: Friday, July 22 2005 07:00 |
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written Monday, December 19 2005 12:27
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Just spend money on a subliminal mind control device ,and have everyone do your bidding. Much easier then having a a uprising then crushing everything. [ Monday, December 19, 2005 12:43: Message edited by: The Forgotten ] -------------------- George Bush is a Nazi - Eric Cartmen I'm not as think you stoned I am Visit the RIFQ Forums Posts: 462 | Registered: Tuesday, June 21 2005 07:00 |
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written Monday, December 19 2005 12:58
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Chicho, yo tambien soy chileno porsiaca (de Concepción). Pero estoy viviendo en Inglaterra. The Forgotten, you are missing the whole point, the uprising and crushing part is the best! -------------------- "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it through not dying." Posts: 469 | Registered: Thursday, May 1 2003 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Monday, December 19 2005 14:50
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Weon? Enlighten someone who would like to understand Spanish? —Alorael, who can't believe he neglected to mention the $30 million that would have to be earmarked for skribbane purchases. A million is probably more than enough to cover all conceivable bullet and rifle maintenance expenditures. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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Shaper
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written Monday, December 19 2005 15:14
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quote:I never knew I was in league with TM. I wouldn't shout at you, though. We are on the internet. Oh, and quote: -------------------- I'll put a Spring in your step. :ph34r: Posts: 2396 | Registered: Saturday, January 29 2005 08:00 |
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Apprentice
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written Monday, December 19 2005 17:00
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I'd find meself some sparsely populated place (Scotland? Friesland? Kasachztan?) and buy a huge chunk of land, build a good-sized house on it with a full-blown old-fashioned library (one of thoose with galleries and ladders on wheels) and build a huge wall around it. (I so don't enjoy neighbours.) Then, after making sure my friends and family are well-cared for, I'd spend my time anonymously helping other people with my money. I wouldn't want every Bob and Harry to come knocking at my door for money, so I wouldn't tell anyone who donated it. Gosh, that sounds boring now. Maybe I'd get trigger-happy and buy myself into the Jet-Set instead. -------------------- I outnumbered them one to thirty! Posts: 33 | Registered: Tuesday, September 6 2005 07:00 |