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Simple question, what would you buy/invest in/donate to if you had $1 Billion? Would you buy a fast car? or instigate a revolution? or just laugh a hobos?

I would start a long distance relationship with someone who lives in Poland, so I could fly and see her at weekends.

I would buy an NFL team.

I would buy an NFL team.
Which one? The Denver Broncos? Until you answer, I am going to assume the Denver Broncos.

1 - buy a blue corvette. a red one. a yellow one. and a pink one for my niece.
2 - buy my own house on a small plot of land.
3 - buy a new suit for every day of the year.
4 - have fun...

Buy a controlling interest in Mastercard when it IPOs.

Which one? The Denver Broncos? Until you answer, I am going to assume the Denver Broncos.

ew, the broncos? buy the colts! w00t!

Well...

First, I would put 300,000,000 into deep savings, and 100,000,000 into more accessable savings. After doing that, I would put 200,000,000 into charity (thereby assuaging my guilt for having too much money).

I would then buy a few nice guitars, some good equiptment and couple basses, and a huge ass CD/Vinyl collection. (probably costing me less than $200,000 at most.) I'd get a nice house, not too big, not too small. I'd get some kickass gaming equiptment, a Prius (modded for even more feul efficiency), and I'd invest in a green energy/sustainable products company (both a huge payout, and a boon to the economy).

Given what I'd end up buying, I still can't see paying more than 2 or 3 million for all that (and that's assuming I get a big ass house).

Other than that, I have no CLUE what I would get.

i would buy a stick of gum on ebay for 1,000,000

and chew it

then i would make a giant pool/vault. get all my money in quaters, and jump in like uncle scrooge does in duck tails

i will also buy a house that is not too big. costing somewhere from 1,000,000 - 2,000,000 and pay the entire cost in quaters:D

1. buy a penhouse in Manhattan.

2. Sail around the world.

thats it.

Buy a large island somewhere, like puerto rico and start a communist microstate. use the remaining money (after construction, publicity etc) to import supplies we don't produce and to create an industry in whatever it is we don't create. Oh yeah, and import a lot of teachers for the kids, but with our own educational system with a lot of communist literature and big emphasis on cooperation.

Pick up the phone, dial *******, and say 'Hey. It's Mr Monkeypimpenstein here. Yeah? I quit. Bye.'

ew, the broncos? buy the colts! w00t!
I pick the Broncos purely for their ew effect.

Get into some serious motor racing.

Alternative choice: make a deal with someone with a terminal illness, have them take out the biggest life insurance premium in history, and then go to Reno, and shoot them, just to watch them die (and collect the insurance).

*touches pinky to corner of lip*

Simple question, what would you buy/invest in/donate to if you had $1 Billion? Would you buy a fast car? or instigate a revolution? or just laugh a hobos?

Is that after or before taxes? :D

Set up a fund that gives grants to low income workers who need to commute for vegitable oil powered cars of vans for car pools. Fund local co-ops to deal with the increased vegi-usage. Fund with grants local renewable power sources. All on the local level. Also grants for research for renewable fuels and energy. If it works, my area becomes cheaper to live in and cleaner. If it doesn't have enough in reserve to fix it.

Keep just enough to make a small movie.

Get tared and feathered as a damn hippie before the fund gets off the ground...

Two chicks at the same time. I figger if I had a billion bucks I could hook that up. ;)

Two chicks at the same time. I figger if I had a billion bucks I could hook that up. ;)
With a billion bucks you could hook up look alikes for the Comic Book Guy trifecta of Uhura, Catwoman, and Agent 99...

Two chicks at the same time. I figger if I had a billion bucks I could hook that up. ;)

As I say to my friends. Either you can hook that up, or you can't. Teh money thing is irrelevant.

(Not done it myself though :( )

Me? I'd put one million in the bank for myself to live on, and give the other 999 to other people.

*touches pinky to corner of lip*

Simple question, what would you buy/invest in/donate to if you had $1 Billion? Would you buy a fast car? or instigate a revolution? or just laugh a hobos?
Bitches & ho's, bling, grill, ride, and respect.

Whad I do?

Renovate entire local cities. They became so run down and shitty.. it'd be nice to flip an entire city *nod*

Then I'd go on a shopping spree.. I have my eye on 2 condos and one house in Philly.. make it so if I'm there and tired and across town.. I can just go to the closest one I own :D

Then go in to business with Donald Trump, pwn him, and kick him out of the workforce *nod nod*

Then set up a scolarship at my school and pay for an entire education.

Donate to breast cancer charities.

And then I guess with whats leftover I can live off of till I die.

I would buy stuff.

Hire an intelligent economist to make me more money for me.

Pay NASA to take me into space.

Buy an extremely large house somewhere in switzerland.

Start up a business that sells disposable socks.

Make a massive donation to CERN

Buy a supercomputer

Retire and spend the rest of my life trying to solve the Riemann hypothesis

I would buy stuff.

Buy some more money. ;)

I'd donate 95% to various charities around the world, 4% to friends and relatives, and spend the remaining 1% on a trip around the world, a mansion, and assorted goodies.

I'd donate 95% to various charities around the world, 4% to friends and relatives, and spend the remaining 1% on a trip around the world, a mansion, and assorted goodies.
1%, that's only one million dollars. How is that going to buy you a manson, never mind the other stuff? Though, this is probably scewed by my Vancouverness: the land of half million dollar apartments.

Ok, after some thought, I have decided where some of my money is going to go.
The first chunk would go to creating an uberserver that could be used to host the Nation States forums! It could finally have things like working javascripts, nonself-deleting database, and avatars!

I would sponser some programs that aim to make 64-bit Linux more complete (ie media codecs, flash, etc).

I would startup/buy out a games maker and have them make Linux versions of their games.

Retire and spend the rest of my life trying to solve the Riemann hypothesis"Ambition", anyone? :D

I would start a long distance relationship with someone who lives in Poland, so I could fly and see her at weekends.

Why Poland? (Just curious as thats where I'm from originally....)

"Ambition", anyone? :D

If Andrew Willes can solve Fermat's Last Theorem in 7 years, then surely I can solve the Riemann Hypothesis in the remainder of my life. :D

If Andrew Willes can solve Fermat's Last Theorem in 7 years, then surely I can solve the Riemann Hypothesis in the remainder of my life. :D
Depends on how old you are, what your telomeres have to say about it, how reckless a life you lead, and the distraction/motivation factor, doesn't it?

Alternative choice: make a deal with someone with a terminal illness, have them take out the biggest life insurance premium in history, and then go to Reno, and shoot them, just to watch them die (and collect the insurance).

And as that train keeps a-moving, you'll hang your head and cry. You guilty bastard LOL. (J/K of course).

Donate half to charity; the rest go into savings; Every five years, donate another quarter to charity.

Maybe buy Cuba and make a parking lot. Then, there'll be nobody to use the handicapped spots but me! Sadistic bastards!

Live the rest of my life doing absolutely nothing. That, or travel around the globe, which one sounds the best?

Definitely, build a volcano lair on a pacific island somewhere. You know, henchmen, travelators, nuke silos, my face carved into the side of the volcano...

Why Poland? (Just curious as thats where I'm from originally....)
Ha, I guess I wasn't clear. I didn't mean just some random Polish person...I meant a particular person, who happens to be Polish and, well, it's a long and boring story. But yeah, if I could see her more, I would, and a billion dollars would certainly help in that respect.

Depends on how old you are, what your telomeres have to say about it, how reckless a life you lead, and the distraction/motivation factor, doesn't it?

Well, I'm 16 years old, my life is anything but reckless, and I am rather motivated to do something if nobody else can do it.

Invest in an energy-heavy portfolio, load up on blue-chip stocks. Live off the dividend, which could let me afford a upper-middle-class living without doing any work at all.

And to answer the question....

If I had one billion dollars, I wouldn't stop working (yet). I went through seven years of medical school and I'm not about to stop work just because I was suddenly a billionare.

I would also:
-Invest money into properties
-Invest in stocks (or have someone who knows a lot about the stockmarket invest for me)
-Invest in businesses (Like Jimmy Choo, yummmmm)
-Help fund medical research (especially research within my field of study)
-Buy a beautiful NYC townhouse (or two :) )
-Give money to several charities that I already donate to
-Pay my parents back for med school

I'm sure I would buy things for myself and for my family/friends, and lend close friends money to pay off loans/debts as well.

Ha, I guess I wasn't clear. I didn't mean just some random Polish person...I meant a particular person, who happens to be Polish and, well, it's a long and boring story. But yeah, if I could see her more, I would, and a billion dollars would certainly help in that respect.

Awwww :).

Where in Poland does this certain girl live?

Two chicks at the same time. I figger if I had a billion bucks I could hook that up. ;)
chicks dig a dude with money

Definitely, build a volcano lair on a pacific island somewhere. You know, henchmen, travelators, nuke silos, my face carved into the side of the volcano...
I would do the same, except I would make a 1984-ish society! Woot!

And it would be really remote! Woot! No escape for you!;)

Where in Poland does this certain girl live?
Warsaw.

Well, I'm 16 years old, my life is anything but reckless, and I am rather motivated to do something if nobody else can do it.
May i suggest, then, gravity defiance?
I don't mean like "Denial ain't just a river in Egypt" :D
More like antigravity & the like?
Maybe resolve the stupid regional issues of the world and make everybody nicey-nicey?

Well, I'm 16 years old, my life is anything but reckless, and I am rather motivated to do something if nobody else can do it.
10 hour keg stand?

personally I would buy a beach and a stack of kites ;)

With a billion dollars I would:
1. Pay $300,000,000 in taxes to the IRS (Let's be realistic here! :p ).

2. Put $10,000,000 in longterm CDs in various banks around the country. Since the FDIC only insures up to $100,000 per bank that would mean 100 banks. But assuming I got 5% interest on each CD that should provide me with adequate income for a while. ^_^

3. Put $500,000,000 into the stock market. Companies like Merck, Boeing, Dell, Microsoft, Intel, IBM, Exxon/Mobil, and Glaxco among others. :)

4. Spend a lot more time at SF, Anime and gaming cons. ^_____^

5. Give $20 Million to Jerry Pournelle with the conditions that he put up or shut up on his ability to get a functioning SSTO spacecraft going if someone would give him that much money to do so. Another $20 million would go to the Lunar Reclamation Society in Milwaukee with similar instructions to put up or shut up about their claims towards being able to build a moonbase on $20 Million. In both cases I would make clear that these were oneshot grants. I'd probably also make grants to the Mars Society, the NSS as a whole and the Foresight Institute even though I'm not as certain of their reliability.

6. Smaller grants through Paypal to Greg Stafford and to my favorite webcomic artist. Possibly to the Palladium company as well although I feel a private company should be able to stand or fall by its own merits. >_>

7. Donate $100 million to various churches and missionary groups to further the spread of Christianity. ^_^
8. The remainder would go into bonds and real estate.
Here endth my spending spree. ^_~

personally I would buy a beach and a stack of kites ;)

Kites.....you tease ;)

Kites.....you tease ;)
well you know me :fluffle:

May i suggest, then, gravity defiance?
I don't mean like "Denial ain't just a river in Egypt" :D
More like antigravity & the like?
Maybe resolve the stupid regional issues of the world and make everybody nicey-nicey?

No. The Riemann Hypothesis is appealing because it's pure mathematics. I find things that are useful in the real world rather boring.

Nothing.

...and...

Two chicks at once.

Literally, come that time of year when I have no financial concerns, I don't have to go to work or class, I have nothing that really concerns me at all, well, that's when I do nothing. I kick back, wander around my parents house, eat their food, go to bed early and sleep late and generally hope that my parents don't combine my birthday presents with my Christmas presents...again.

A Christmas break, the only time of year when I really do get to take a break from the world.

Two chicks at once.


Why stop at 2? Why not.....I don't know.....20?

Either:
1. Donate money to the RSPCA and World Vision($60,000,000 total).
2. Buy an apartment in Auckland, Sydney, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City and London($4,200,000 total).
3. Buy a private 747($125,000,000 total).
4. Buy a black Chrysler Crossfire, those cars are fucking sweet($75,000).
5. Rebuild the Titanic with more modern features, but still the classic environment(est $45,000,000).
6. Have a cookie the size of NY's Central Park baked($????????).
7. Fund research into the Gravity Gun and BFG 9000's real-life birth($????????).

OR:
1. Buy a plot of land in the American Mountains and build a 2,000 storey Citadel, like the one from Half-Life2.
2. Build an airport and buy a private jet and a Cessna Amphibian
3. Buy a Land Rover Defender SUV.
4. Get all kinds of firearms for a personal collection.
5. Fund into research for the creation of Gravity Gun and BFG 9000.


More to come when I think of it, but the rest I'd save in the bank.

Why stop at 2? Why not.....I don't know.....20?
Office Space
:D

i'd build a cross between ananda and train mountain and invite everyone who would rather create then destroy to live there.

=^^=
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No. The Riemann Hypothesis is appealing because it's pure mathematics. I find things that are useful in the real world rather boring.
You'll make it far here.
Most notably in postcount .... ;)

You'll make it far here.
Most notably in postcount .... ;)
:D

design and build a nice house and some extra land by a beach, somewhere warm, set against a backdrop of mountains and lush forests
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kit the place out with shitloads of cool technology (and glitz!)
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get a private jet and learn how to fly it
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get one of these and drive it around
http://www.boatcouncil.com/i/yachts/sunseeker.jpg
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tour the world
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write and do photography of arty things or hot babes for a "living" (not that i'd need the money, hehe)
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pay off parents' debts and get them a nice house too, in the south of france
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oh and invest...

Actually, if I had a billion dollars I'd give it to Tink so that she could stop being a nurse and come back to NS.:(

- 150m in a bank account
- mansion
- private jet, luxury cars etc
- buy an island
- buy a nuclear missile silo, like I saw on one of the threads here
- 20m to charity
- buy a supercomputer so I can run Oblivion at full graphics detail
- buy lots and lots of games
- build the world's largest plasma TV
- travel the world
- give money to friends or family

Aah, the possibilities... *daydreams*

On the other hand, I'd be perfectly happy with 50kgs of weapons grade uranium.
;)

Convert it to pounds :p .

Then buy some stuff, and then donate some of the money to a charity.

Convert it to pounds :p .

Then buy some stuff, and then donate some of the money to a charity.

I was gonna say that, but £539,519,827 doesn't quite have the same ring to it. I propose that you convert it into the currency of an incredibly poor, sub-Saharan African country. What effect would that have?

I'd buy myself a nice patch of land somewhere and grow food and stuff on it. I'd aim at setting up a self-sufficient community, while paying some people who work for me from the community proceedings.

- $500 million into various investments and savings funds...no sense in not living off of interest. :)

- $200 million to various charities and companies I deem worthy...*demands worship* :p

- $100 million dispersed to various family members and friends

- $200 million all for me...to purchase...

- 3 decent houses, very modern amenities (sp?), but nothing obscene in size. Gonna go for a nice furnished basement, fireplaces, decks and patios, and of course...locations: the Italian Alps, the Australian coast, and Washington state. Maybe a nice apartment in Rio. :D

- 3 cars...a nice fuel efficient one, a badass performance car, and an original Hummvee...not an H2 or H3 piece of trash, but the original commercial model. For when I feel like going camping. :)

- Various stuff...movies, computer, stereo, music, furniture, books, and anything else I damn well please.

- Hmm...I'm going to need to build a greenhouse somewhere. ;)

I would build my Ultimate Funhouse. :)

I would build my Ultimate Funhouse. :)
Like... a Micheal Jackson one?:eek::D :p :D

- give 10% to my church
- start a charity
- keep 30 million for myself

with my 30 million

- put 10 million in a trust fund for each of my girls
- buy my hubby the cobra he always wanted (a real one not a kit)
- buy myself something fuel efficient
- buy a house
- invest the rest

Buy an E-type Jag.

Convert the rest of it into pennies, melt it down, and have a fucking gigantic statue of me built. Outside the Houses of Parliament.

With a billion dollars?

I'd hire someone much smarter than I am to invest a lot of it, get that money out finding more money.

Then I'd pay off my tuition for the next two years with a large suitcase of money. I'd keep going to school because I'd still keep with my plan, which is to teach English in francophone Europe.

I'd probably found some sort of development corporation and hire some very smart people to work on development in Detroit. Damn, that city needs some help.

I'd set my mom up for life. She's had a rather hard time of it, and it'd be nice for her to finally have a break.

Oh, and I'd buy the Detroit Lions (for $52.85 and half a pack of Mentos) and fire Matt Millen! Why didn't he get Matt Leinhart?!

The Basic stuff:

Have it exchanged into Pound Sterling (then it will be 537,835,000) by a Couple of Pacific Islands have a few hotels built on them as well as an airport and a sea port (for ships and sea passanger planes) encorage the British to work and to have package holidays on the Islands then sell them to Britain for double what it cost to buy and build up the islands and then start over again, gradually rebuilding the British oversea's terrortory and getting a cut from the tourism trade.

Then after that give a two million or so to a corrupt Mp for a Peerage then put whats left in the bank and live off the interest.

I almost forgot go on Dragon's Den and Invest Wisely.
Also forgot about Charity: 1 million each year sound good to me.

Buy a house in my home city. (~40 000 000)

Establish great library in basement, insured and protected against all possible bad things. Then buy all books from Amazon... ok, buy all fiction books except soap operas. Buy all movies from Amazon. And buy tons of music. (idont know - ~2 000 000)

Pay my debts, invest in my upstart company (1 000 000, not debts - investment ;) )

Donate one time sums for a lot of people who do great things for free - like write little extremely helpful programs that save my neck and make them freeware and put on internet. I love these people. 100 000 donations for each of them, and i could find 100 of such people, that's another 10 000 000.

Make very cheap restoran and bar that works 24/7. Subsidize it.

Invest 100 million investments in protection against crisis of peak oil.

Then sit back and read books.

I said
I would buy an NFL team.
Then you guys said:
Which one? The Denver Broncos? Until you answer, I am going to assume the Denver Broncos.
ew, the broncos? buy the colts! w00t!

Are you guys nuts? This is my nest egg, to make me money so I can blow the rest on...well, blow. Or hookers. Or sexcapades, or cars, or whatever.

I would go broke owning the Colts. They have to pump artificial noise into their own damn stadium, and they are in the bottom 10 teams in revenue.

The Broncos...um, no. Ew.

I would probably try to go with the Redskins (#1 in revenue), Seattle (just so I can change those ugly ass uniforms), but probably the Saints -I can move them to LA and make zillions- not to mention the coolness factor of an atheist owning a team called the Saints in the City of Angels. I could change the name to the Diablo's, cover the place in goats blood, draw pentagrams everywhere, and the stadium would still be packed every week because the people of LA would be so damn glad to have a team again.

Ahh....

I would probably try to go with the Redskins (#1 in revenue), Seattle (just so I can change those ugly ass uniforms), but probably the Saints -I can move them to LA and make zillions- not to mention the coolness factor of an atheist owning a team called the Saints in the City of Angels. I could change the name to the Diablo's, cover the place in goats blood, draw pentagrams everywhere, and the stadium would still be packed every week because the people of LA would be so damn glad to have a team again.

Ahh....

How would you make zillions moving the worst team in NFL history to the city that had two chances to keep an NFL team and failed on both?

I would put 100 million in savings then spend the rest building the largest virtual reality arcade that I could

A billion you say?


I would be buying and operating a MiG-21.

http://military.sakura.ne.jp/aircraft/photo1/1_mig21.jpg

* $50 million to my family
* $20 million to my grandmother, and aunt
* $25 million to other friends
* $5 million to other family
* $500 million in a interest bearing account
* $149,990 for a Bentley Continental GT
* $111,600 for a Porsche Cayenne Turbo S
* $50 million for a mansion in Southampton New York, $20 million for a Penthouse apartment on Central Park West.

Then I'd save the rest.

I would take a long toilet break... ah the sweet taste of vengence. In your face you damn colonials!

I think I might then try and launder the money and spend it on something... like toilet paper that is actually soft and smooth.

Hmm...

- 69 Pontiac GTO Judge Ram Air V ($100K)
- 69 Plymouth Road Runner 440 6-bbl ($90K)
- 68 Shelby Mustang GT500KR ($140K)
- 70 Chevy Chevelle SS454 ($130K)
- 70 Buick GSX Stage 1 ($100K)
- 70 Olds 442 W-30 ($70K)
- 70 AMX 390 ($40K)
- 68 Dodge Charger R/T ($70K)
- 70 Cougar Eliminator Boss 302 ($90K)
- $3000K mansion in San Diego County, CA.
- 60ft yacht ($???)
- 71 Lamborghini Miura P400 SV ($300K)
- at least $10000K on charity...
- $3-4K on a Fender Custom Shop Strat
- at least $100K on furnishings for said mansion, including 80' HDTV
- another house in New York, NY
- stuff for previously mentioned house in NYC
- another house in Hawaii
- stuff for previously mentioned house in Hawaii
- another $10000K on charity...
- another $10000K on charity...
- a 1200-month subscribtion to Maxim
- and another $10000K on charity...
- maybe another $10000K on charity...
- invest in stocks, maybe buy Wal-Mart on Microsoft or somethin...

I should still have quite a bit left...
And live off the rest foreve, maybe keep a part-time job.

Alternative choice: make a deal with someone with a terminal illness, have them take out the biggest life insurance premium in history, and then go to Reno, and shoot them, just to watch them die (and collect the insurance).
When I hear that whistle blowin, I hang my head an cry...

Like... a Micheal Jackson one?:eek::D :p :D

He built an amusement park. I'm talking about an evil funhouse. Like they had back in the 1920s and 1930s. With rapidly spinning rooms and trapdoors. Except I'd 'goofballize' it a bit too. Rickety rope bridges over mudpits would be nice. :)

Oh, and I'd buy Valve, so I could plan the story of Half-Life...

If I had a billion dollars
I'd build a treefort in our yard
If I had a billion dollars
You could help it wouldn't be that hard

If I had a billion dollars
I'd build a treefort in our yard
If I had a billion dollars
You could help it wouldn't be that hard
Bare Naked Ladies for the win!

I'd totally get a green dress. But not a real green dress.

But seriously, I'd set up those members of my family who don't talk down to me (Essentially, just my mom and a couple of Great-Aunts I h ave) as well as a couple of select friends (Only 2 or 3 at the moment I'd consider for it) with $50M each. I'd organize a private flight to Toronto a few times a year (for all the anime conventions) for the next 20 years or so, or as long as anime conventions go on, as well as flights to some of the major US conventions, and in sewing lessons so I might be able to make my own costumes. (Yes, I R geek. Hear me squeak and hide from the light.) This all would probably amount to all of $350M at the most.

Then, I'd give a good $150M to my province for health care and education, because we really need the help. I'd also donate $50M to cancer research. I've a lot of relatives with cancer or who had it in the past. Brings me up to $550M, I believe.

Of the rest, I'd buy every book on my wishlist at the moment, which adds up to a pitiful $2500 or so, as well as every movie I ever enjoyed, which would probably add another $5000 or so, give or take. I'd buy myself a nice hybrid car (Not sure what kind I'd want to go for yet, though) and a nice house overlooking the ocean here in NL. I'd then go adopt a whole buncha cats (and maybe a dog or two...Maybe.) from animal shelters. All that'd take me up to, at the most, $551M.

The other $449M, I'd probably just let sit for any potential progeny of mine. Or maybe I'd get myself a clone made. Who knows? That's a hell of a lot of money, after all. And what with the Canadian dollar being on the rise, I might even be able to get a decent return on things bought in the US these days. ;)

Just click the link.

Just click the link.
You'd still have $995 400 000 left, though! What would you do with that?

*touches pinky to corner of lip*

Simple question, what would you buy/invest in/donate to if you had $1 Billion? Would you buy a fast car? or instigate a revolution? or just laugh a hobos?

Keep $500 mil and invest/save it. Take the other half and put it into a push for public policies that I like (FairTax, anti-gun control, etc.)

I would invest in a small mercenary army in an Africa. I will conquer the smallest African nation, and establish a base there. I will make sure NO ONE leaves the country and escapes with the news of the invasion. I will then amass a part mercenary (which I hope to buy out permanently), and Citizen-Soldier army. I will then spread out, Blitzkrieging nearby African nations, constantly on the move, my army never stopping or rarely stopping. When I conquer a considerable amount of territory (such as about 10 African nations), I will stop and fortify my position. By this time, of course, news WILL have gotten out. So I will get ready for the immediate UN invasion. Hopefully the fact that I have enforced strict non-genocide and non-rape laws will let the UN see I am a compassionate government. When the UN calms down, and I get even more soldiers (at least a million.) I will Blitzkrieg the rest of Africa, until its all mine. Then I will fortify for the obvious US invasion. Even if I am compassionate, it is obvious that my growing power will threaten the rest of the world. When their attacks fail, if they do, I will simply stay in Africa with my massive empire. No more conquering. The rest of the gained money, if it hasn't all been spent on mercenaries and my armies, will then be sent into infastructure, medicine, welfare, and rebuilding Africa beyond what it was before my invasions, so that Africa will become the definition of a First World Country. Even if I am further attacked by NATO, a UN coalition, or the US, I will not retaliate, and simply wallow in the massive empire of Africa. (Yes, I know it is very fantastical, and will probably never come true, but I can dream, can't I?)

Cry, because it sounds like such a paltry sum in Sterling. (Well, I say paltry...)


After that I dunno - whatever took my fancy really. Badass entertainment system would be in there. An awesome adventure playground too - adult sized, just because I missed out on them as a child (I'm thinking like the Playground in Halo: The Fall of Reach for those tha have read it).

Uuuh... and general cool stuff... move to New Zealand! Yeah! Then the money becomes a load more, so thats the first bit gone... dunno really lol.

Oh btw, Naliitr, your dream is messed up man :eek:

*touches pinky to corner of lip*

Simple question, what would you buy/invest in/donate to if you had $1 Billion? Would you buy a fast car? or instigate a revolution? or just laugh a hobos?

I'd finish school and then, get this, NOT get a job. I'd never ever work again. I'd buy what ever the f**ck I wanted and not worry about a damn thing. Ever. Lol... Man I wish I had a billion dollars. Or even a billion danish kroner! That'd be nice too!

I'd choose a select few charities and divide 20% of the money amongst them. Then I'd invest 30% of it in viable stocks. The remaining 50%? I'd use it to raise my own private army and start a revolution in some third-world dictatorship, overthrowing a tyrant and creating a democracy. I'd say that'd take a few years, so after that's done, I'd pull the invested (and increased) 30% out and reinvest a portion of that in different stocks. Then, I'd take the remaining money and retire away in a small town somewhere.

I've always wanted to start a revolution somewhere.

sickest superyacht ever.
It would be the size of a fucking aircraft carrier, have casinos, a dog track, and a convention hall big enough to host E3 (which I would do)

The final touch: I'd name it the Ego trip

I'd spend 700 million on it, and keep the other 300 million in banks and low-risk invesemnts so that I could affor maintnance and insurance.

Though one would hope that the casino would eventually have it pay for that itself.

Buy a private island, retire to a nice country home (that I had built on it) with my family, and only people who are related by marrige, or blood could come (or, in some exceptions, good friends). Get a nice computer, and live my days away thinking of God...:D

Nothing, absolutely nothing.

*touches pinky to corner of lip*

Simple question, what would you buy/invest in/donate to if you had $1 Billion? Would you buy a fast car? or instigate a revolution? or just laugh a hobos?
Put it in the bank and decide later.

Put it in the bank. Take enough out of the interest to live comfortably, and use the rest to set up charities.

OMG...I'd spend it all on like a million penny sweets or something.

OMG...I'd spend it all on like a million penny sweets or something.

You're really being over-charged on penny sweets, eh?

first- I'd take a deep breath and then relax for a little while. Let all my troubles- which are ALL money related- melt away.

nuclear weapons. :D

Hmm.

1. Invest in a studio, so I can paint with room.
2. Invest in a music studio, so I can record music without it sounding like poop.
3. Invest in a large house in California.
4. Invest in Google.
5. Deposit a fuckton into savings accounts with high interest rates.
6. Make sure my family is cared for.
7. Buy the best computer EVAH.
8. Invest in the infrastructure of my hometown.
9. Buy a vinyard in Austrailia.
10. Buy a brewery in Belgium.
11. Party.

Hmm.

1. Invest in a studio, so I can paint with room.
2. Invest in a music studio, so I can record music without it sounding like poop.
3. Invest in a large house in California.
4. Invest in Google.
5. Deposit a fuckton into savings accounts with high interest rates.
6. Make sure my family is cared for.
7. Buy the best computer EVAH.
8. Invest in the infrastructure of my hometown.
9. Buy a vinyard in Austrailia.
10. Buy a brewery in Belgium.
11. Party.

Not one for charity then...?

Not one for charity then...?
Frankly? No.

I would put half of it in charity, and the rest on me.

OR I would kill all the pimps in the WORLD, buy a Chinese restaraunt firm, force George Bush to say OOGA BOOGA! real loud unexpectedly during a speech, AND get a fat smoking trailer girl named Maurice to f?!* either a Tyrranosaurus Rex or Bill Gates.

I AM SO EVIL/CONSERVATIVE/DEADLY/AMAZING/SILLY/PACIFIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Well I'd bank 90% of the money as a secure fallback for my later years, and any of my relatives who shall succede me. With the remaining, I should invest half in the stock market and with the over I should Spend. When my money has made enough, I shall instigate a revolution unless a favourable government is in power.

Unless it's a New Labour one. Then I'll merely buy a peerage.

Get into some serious motor racing.
Meh...$1bn would only get you 2, maybe 3, seasons in F1. If you wanted to win.

I would buy an Airstrip and an SU-47, probably invest anything left over, assuming $1B is enough to buy a Jet Fighter that advanced. I'd then spend my time wishing I could dogfight someone without getting the crap shot out of me once I landed.

Well, let's see.

- First, I'd put aside the rest of the money I'll need to pay for grad school every month for the next two years (I didn't take out a loan, I'm on a payment plan so I can pay monthly). I'd continue to work at my current job while I completed grad school unless they pissed me off too much.
- Then I'd pay off my car, which I do have a loan on.
- Then I'd buy a nice little condo in Columbia for the investment potential, and a nice little house in Mt. Washington (about 30 minutes away) because that's where I want to live.
- Then I'd get another dachshund to keep my first one company, probably from the shelter so it wouldn't cost much initally but the vet bills and all would add up.
- Then I'd give my parents a bunch of it to cover my sister's college expenses for however long it will take her to finally figure out what she wants to do.
- Maybe I'd also get her a condo, if she wants one...I don't know.
- I might pay for the rest of my boyfriend's education. I'd think about it.
- The rest I would save/invest, and I'd donate some to animal rescues. I wouldn't use any for current spending money for whatever crap because my job would cover that. I don't need to go on a major shopping spree.

With 1 billion i would buy an entire town, the whole thing in a Wild West theme, made entirely of chocolate. Each room in the obligatory whore house above the tavern will be furnished with naked super models(not made of chocolate). That is all.

I'd open an orphanage...

...and raise a generation of good anarcho-capitalists.

The best way to change the political landscape of a country is to educate the children and wait for the elderly to die.

I cannot possibly fathom how could spend a billion dollars. I know that I never could. Most likely, I would donate a huge percentage of it to humaniatrian organizations or other private charities.

Well, if I had $1 billion, I'd pretty much just laugh & point at all you who don't have $1 billion anymore. =)

But none of us have a billion dollars, so ...blah

I would buy a H2, guns, build a huge fort and shout profanity at people (lol) and kill them or run them over if they say anything back. And then do wat ever shit I want to do.:p