If you were Bill Gates (or just happened to have $58billion), what would you buy?
I think personally, I'd start with Iceland 
It's only got a GDP of $12billion, so surely they'd settle for 5 years' output as a nice fair price? 
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maybe a good computer and some nice games and never work, just live off those 58 billion and have a good life...
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The popes soul...and what ratty said plus some food!
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The popes soul...and what ratty said plus some food!
dyou really think after buying the pope's soul there'll be much left to live of?
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. – Mark Twain
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i would firstly buy woolworths! and make it much better
then i would give money to charity
then go to uni, have a great time with no debts
buy a house and keep the rest for a rainy day
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If I had 58 billion I would buy MicroSoft and hide it somewhere safe where no one could ever find it again!
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If i had $58billion I'd join the space race on a grander scale and also spend money on a few phd's to develop a decent AI to solve problems that cant be solved by money alone then ask it about paradoxes
and with what's left over try out decadent lifestyles with friends and family.
Where are we going and why am i in this handbasket?...
...Oh! always try to look on the bright side...
... Um anybody got any marshmellows.?
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I would quite like the challenge of trying to stay the same person I was before. Anotherthough would be to try and found out the balance of how many socks do I need to buy to put all the money in I'm using for bying my socks as well and therefore will be less than $58billion because of the socks bought so the question remains how many pairs of socks is needed and also where do I store it wich will probably be another house so less money for the socks and therefore also less socks so more money left to store in the socks wich means more socks again... It just is too complicated. Maybe I'll settle for Alexes AI.
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Re: If you had $58 billion
The popes soul...and what ratty said plus some food!
dyou really think after buying the pope's soul there'll be much left to live of?
Oh come now - surely the Pope's soul wouldn't be that pricey? It's not like there's very much of it...
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anyway.... what would you do with it?
life is hard. after all it kills you.
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Re: If you had $58 billion
The popes soul...and what ratty said plus some food!
dyou really think after buying the pope's soul there'll be much left to live of?
Oh come now - surely the Pope's soul wouldn't be that pricey? It's not like there's very much of it...
MS
maybe, but he wouldn't admit that now, would he?
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. – Mark Twain
Save the rats, eat a dwarf!
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Eh...
voodoo,black magic,world domination...Eh, just a curio really...
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That post just earned you one of the mysteries Kudos, Hex
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Hmm I think we just write a new post every time we give out a kudo. That way at least we're kept busy in the threads
btw you just got a Kudo from me for giving a Kudo to Hex. Aren't I nice
"The problem with Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again." - George Miller
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btw you just got a Kudo from me for giving a Kudo to Hex. Aren't I nice
*wonders if she should give a kudo to andy for giving a kudo to scrubby for giving a kudo to hex :-P*
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. – Mark Twain
Save the rats, eat a dwarf!
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*wonders if she should give a kudo to andy for giving a kudo to scrubby for giving a kudo to hex :-P*
Go for it
"The problem with Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again." - George Miller
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Some time later, a group of thudders woke up and wondered what the world "outside" might look like
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*wonders if she should give a kudo to andy for giving a kudo to scrubby for giving a kudo to hex :-P*
Go for it
but then someone has to give me a kudo for giving you a kudo for giving scrubby a kudo for giving hex a kudo....
Some time later, a group of thudders woke up and wondered what the world "outside" might look like
what are you talking about? world outside?
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. – Mark Twain
Save the rats, eat a dwarf!
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if i give a kudo to ratty.... will someone be giving a kudo to me? pretty please?
life is hard. after all it kills you.
katherine hepburn
What is the point of education if people go out and use it?
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*considers starting to deal with kudos*
Well, if someone sends me a present I will give him/her a kudo. What are your offers?
"The problem with Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again." - George Miller
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i would spend half a billion on property, lifestyle optimisation and general debauchery...then the rest i would use to fund creative solutions to the world's problems, creating awareness for various causes which would drastically change the standard of living in this world.
i would also spend much of that money on chocolate, maybe buy an island...one which comes with a built in coffee maker
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Oh, I know, I'd convert most of It to Icelandic Krona, and become their GOD! Do you think I could pull of a cape and huge war-axe?
Oh, and an anti-chav spray to be sprayed over the planet by crop sprayers...I'm not racist, they ACTUALLY try to be violent and thuggish.
Sorry about that, went out walking and was almost "jumped", bit irked.
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I would bank it in an account under a false name in the Camans, earn billions on the interest, buyout the US military and Microsoft, take control of all the worlds computers and hold them for ransom for even more billions, keep the worlds computers anyway, buyout the worlds armies, assume control of the planet, get bored with it, give it to my friend, build a fleet of spacefaring colony ships, go and look for a new planet to buy out. (insert 'find a means of immortality' in there somewhere)
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I would buy an army surplus store!
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Army surplus? Why not just buy a complete standing army?
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Well for me it would be because you can sell army surplus (wouldn't know what to do with it anyways), whereas it will be difficult selling an army (Well, I wouldn't know what to do with the army neither...)
"The problem with Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again." - George Miller
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Take over the world, then the galaxy, then the universe, then try to find a way to another dimension. All you need is an army. (the US's one would be nice)
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British army is the best.
Swells chest with pride
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