What would you do with a billion dollars?
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Law Bringer
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written Monday, December 19 2005 17:06
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quote:HA! HA! I am using THE INTERNET! -------------------- 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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Infiltrator
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written Monday, December 19 2005 17:41
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If I had a trillion dollars, I would buy the US. [ Monday, December 19, 2005 17:45: Message edited by: Polyester ] -------------------- Apparently still annoying. Posts: 612 | Registered: Saturday, October 13 2001 07:00 |
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Apprentice
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written Monday, December 19 2005 17:55
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Yes, yes, I am Chilean, and I love Spiderweb Software games with all my heart. :D And for the above poster...how do you plan to pay off the public debt afterwards? >.> -------------------- "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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Warrior
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written Monday, December 19 2005 18:29
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if i had a bilion dollars id buy mints and gum -------------------- MMORPG developed by jagex ltd. Join RuneScape.com today! hawk kings editor edited by me for geneforge 2 http://www.ironycentral.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=16&t=000906#00 0000 Posts: 91 | Registered: Monday, October 3 2005 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Monday, December 19 2005 18:33
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quote:I'm sorry, but that shows a depressing lack of creativity. -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Monday, December 19 2005 18:50
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quote:If the US can sit on it, so can I? :P -------------------- Apparently still annoying. Posts: 612 | Registered: Saturday, October 13 2001 07:00 |
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Warrior
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written Monday, December 19 2005 20:32
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quote:fine... id buy a PSP, PS1, PS2, ps3, X box, X box360, ds system, Gameboy advance, a super computer, world of war craft acount, dark age of camelot acount, a new keyboard, a motor cycle, a BMX helmet, pliers to remove my braces, a tv with tivo and 900 channels, and id buy guild wars -------------------- MMORPG developed by jagex ltd. Join RuneScape.com today! hawk kings editor edited by me for geneforge 2 http://www.ironycentral.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=16&t=000906#00 0000 Posts: 91 | Registered: Monday, October 3 2005 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Monday, December 19 2005 21:03
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I don't know the price of a motorcycle exactly, but the rest only comes out to a few thousand. You haven't spent even 1% of your money. Not even 1% of 1%! Unless, of course, you mean a supercomputer and not just a superior personal computer. Those can be quite pricey to build and expensive to maintain. —Alorael, who has an urge to see how many games of tic-tac-toe all of the Google server clusters can play per second. FLOPS can be replaced with TTTGS, which are not only less useful but impossible to pronounce! Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, December 19 2005 22:43
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quote:Or if he meant to actually BUY the concept. One mass-producted hunk of time wasting plastic won't set you back very much, but to become the owner of those things, whatever they are, would cost the billion. Why buy an example, when you can get the whole thing? *this message sponsored by the royalties family* -------------------- quote: Posts: 4114 | Registered: Monday, April 25 2005 07:00 |
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Lifecrafter
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written Tuesday, December 20 2005 12:44
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With a billion dollars, I would raze and rebuild the local high school from its current state as a low-lit cockroach paradise, buy a vibraphone, get a MiniCooper, add another story onto the house, and donate a hefty amount to the United Way, the Heifer Project, and epidemic and space/physics research. Then I'd buy Mount Washington, set up a wind farm, and live in a little tethered-down hut, equippied with only the barest necessities of life and something completely impractical, expensive, and really cool, like a combination cheesecake maker, life raft, and Hoover vaccuum cleaner, or something, just because I'd be rich and bloody well could. Atop the mountain, I would distribute electrical power and profound philosophical advice to the poor peasants on the steppes below. The copious amounts of money left over would be stashed away for my Presidential Campaign in 2024, provided the Mayan predictions that the world will end on December 21st, 2012 don't come true. Vote Thomas for President in 2024! [ Tuesday, December 20, 2005 12:46: Message edited by: Robert the Fourth ] -------------------- Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck. 'Spiderweb Software' anagrammmed: 'Word-bereft A**wipe' Posts: 702 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Tuesday, December 20 2005 12:56
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quote:You've missed my point... those are all just things. Things that anybody could buy. That's not creative. Things like overthrowing the Chilean government and reorganizing Google's servers to play tic-tac-toe are creative. I mean honestly, come up with something outlandish before TM's time machine scheme comes together (though perhaps it already has, and there are just a lot of annoying people who never lived long enough to get to the boards). An example of something creative: Construct a freakin' huge dartboard in the middle of Wyoming, and fund the new reality TV show Human Darts, where celebrity idiots skydive for valuable prizes. Simply put, they jump out of the plane and aim for the bullseye. In fact, that would also rid us of some particularly annoying people, as I could ensure that their parachutes fail to open. -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Tuesday, December 20 2005 14:26
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A better show would be putting everyone in a room in a plane with, say, five parachutes for ten people. A timer counts down as they're in the air, and when it reaches zero, the floor opens and everyone and everything falls out. Survivors are winners! —Alorael, who might make it even more exciting by putting in 15 parachutes, five of which work, five of which are deliberately sabotaged, and five of which contain bombs that will go off a minute after the main timer. Then it can involve some desperate high-speed thinking, too. It would be like Cube in the air! Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Tuesday, December 20 2005 15:03
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quote:We're the cream of the crop... Also, on second thought I would like to use the money to build a super computer capable of artificial intelligence. -------------------- 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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Law Bringer
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written Tuesday, December 20 2005 15:33
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quote:I'm afraid I can't let you do that, Aran. —Alorael, whose moniker is especially appropriate for this, and who chose the moniker before seeing the quoted post. [ Tuesday, December 20, 2005 15:34: Message edited by: Automated Posting Unit AL0-335 ] Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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Lifecrafter
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written Tuesday, December 20 2005 16:26
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I'd set aside however much I'd need to survive until the end of my natural life and use the rest to secure vital necessities for those without, and live free of the anguish living well as others suffer would leave on my conscience. Either that or I'd get a really fast car. VROOOOOOOOOOOM!! [ Tuesday, December 20, 2005 16:28: Message edited by: Belisarius ] Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Tuesday, December 20 2005 17:07
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Me Id buy a large bit of land in Arizona and build a large underground fortification have ten million worth of weapons for close combat and fifty for large-scale warfare. i would buy a "super computer" or a computer that is fifty feet square and i would have every program for tracing destroying and other such things along with 500 gigs for games. including of course all spidweb's and other favorites such as unreal tournament and such whatever was left would be placed in various titanium steel vaults across the world buried 500 feet under the ground, along with land mines all around each having a small bomb shelter specifically made for me so that when society eventually crumbles around us i will still have food water and weapons for my own disposal, while i wait of course i will have a simple little safehouse in cleveland where i will pay all taxes all at once so i never pay again and 500 pounds of dried beef and bottled water along with my emergency 'jetpack' for a quick escape. Posts: 507 | Registered: Tuesday, March 1 2005 08:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Tuesday, December 20 2005 17:08
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Fast cars while nice tend to kill people. -------------------- 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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Shock Trooper
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written Tuesday, December 20 2005 17:53
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quote:Uh... if TM was willing to let you use his time machine, I greatly doubt you'd need that much. After all, Louisiana went for only $15 *million*. -------------------- ~Note : The professional newbie's advice should not be taken seriously, or at all.~ LINKAGE Posts: 364 | Registered: Saturday, January 17 2004 08:00 |
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Warrior
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written Wednesday, December 21 2005 04:03
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In addition to what I've already said, I'd buy my own private island, a mansion built into the largest hill there, and some women to populate it with me. (No men, and I'm not sorry about it.) -------------------- 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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Law Bringer
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written Wednesday, December 21 2005 05:14
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quote:Go choke and die plz. Still, one is curious where you intend to buy women in this day and age. -------------------- 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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Law Bringer
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written Wednesday, December 21 2005 05:16
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quote:China is doing that already. :P -------------------- 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 Wednesday, December 21 2005 05:44
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Every time I see the title of this topic, I feel an inexplicable urge to append the phrase "earl-y in the morning". -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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Apprentice
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written Wednesday, December 21 2005 06:22
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quote:Well, 'weon' is, originally, vulgar Chilean slang (although severely mispelled; it should be 'huevón') However, nowadays, it has lost its meaning (due to the use and abuse of vulgar slang by the majority of the population), and now it's used for anything, practically. "Oye weon, traeme las zapatillas!" "Oye weon, te vamos a matar!" "Hace tanto tiempo que no nos vemos, weon!" "Aweonao!" Etc. <.< So it doesn't have a clear meaning in English, like many other Spanish slang stuff. It all depends on the context. ;) -------------------- "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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Law Bringer
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written Wednesday, December 21 2005 07:39
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quote:I just get the urge to sing "I'd buy you a fur coat... but not a real fur coat, that's cruel" and such. Just like on the last one of these... quote:Well, following that string of logic, you might as well go back even further in time and buy the planet. The only problem would be explaining the value of your pieces of paper to everyone before somebody tries to kill you. -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00 |
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BANNED
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written Wednesday, December 21 2005 08:37
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You could also purchase gold in *this* time and use that instead. -------------------- * Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |