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Offline lazs2

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Re: What would you do with $100 million?
« Reply #60 on: July 03, 2008, 02:36:48 PM »
I might kill off all the condors.. those buzzards are causing a lot of problems.

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Re: What would you do with $100 million?
« Reply #61 on: July 03, 2008, 08:02:53 PM »
I'd give 10% to my church.

I'd give 10% to the Oklahoma Police Officers Pension Fund

I'd start a 501c non-profit that takes over paying expenses for fallen Police officer's families for 5 years after the death occurs; then fund it myself.

I'd buy a new home, custom built, outside of Claremore, Ok. Nothing lavish, just big enough for my family. 100 acres to run around on. A house for my parents too.

Travel the world for a few years, then settle back down in my beloved Oklahoma.

I'd put the rest into the bank and collect interest.

I'd still work in Law Enforcement.

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Re: What would you do with $100 million?
« Reply #62 on: July 04, 2008, 01:19:47 AM »
finish college, do my time in the USAF, then build a home at the age of 28, retire, and spend the rest of my life traveling

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Re: What would you do with $100 million?
« Reply #63 on: July 04, 2008, 01:27:08 AM »
Any thing I want at the time that I want it.

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Re: What would you do with $100 million?
« Reply #64 on: July 04, 2008, 04:08:07 AM »
2Chicks at once? Nothing to brag about... 4 at once is a lot of work though.
$100mil? Since Sarah and I have no personal debt, I'd be paying off bills for our families, getting a nice comfortable house for Sarah, Brianna and I, making sure we had room for one or two extras down the track :D
Then I'd buy as many subdivided blocks of what passes for land as I can, and build decent affordable housing on reasonable sized ĵacre blocks and put a BIIIG cat amongst the rental overlord pigeons :lol
I'd probably continue to work at my current job though. I'd go nuts if I had nothing to do.
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Re: What would you do with $100 million?
« Reply #65 on: July 04, 2008, 04:46:29 AM »
i would get amnesia ... i wouldnt remember anyone ;)

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Re: What would you do with $100 million?
« Reply #66 on: July 04, 2008, 04:51:05 AM »
1. Invest enough for my family and future generations that they would never need to worry about finances.
2. Invest in business opportunities.
3. Ongoing Donations and programs/development to UNICEF
4. Invest in the local small community where I grew up.
5. The rest I could spend aimlessly on material things. But I would rather spend a few good years travelling on a motorbike
    around the world taking my time and each year have a go at the Paris to Dakar.  :D


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Re: What would you do with $100 million?
« Reply #67 on: July 04, 2008, 05:00:28 AM »
Initialy invest all but 10M.  Mostly safe and long term stuff like land.  Set myself up with a perfectly sci-fi but economical life so I can dedicate the next 10 years to learning everything possible about neuroengineering and anything 1 or 2 degrees removed.
Get into a career to reverse engineer the brain...  Depending on how things play out I'll start a pet company like Flugwerk and find some way to inject a ton of warbirds in private collections for as cheap as possible.. For people who'll fly them, not just display them.  Target would be as many warbirds in the air, not profit.  I'd probably keep profits only large enough to keep the machinery running. I'd at least fab myself a Ta152.

I'd never dip investments under 50% of the total sum.  I'd only lend money to people who had a solid plan for profit and agreed to 25-50% returns to me in the first part of their plan but nothing after that, depending on whether they do it just for their own profit (50% ROI to me) or if they have some altruistic plan that pushes human progress (25% or whatever low ROI is worth it, in that case), like an angel investor of sorts.
Fusion, self-replicating machinery and nanomanufacturing, artificial intelligence, medical progress, space exploration (mostly consequent on progress in materials, AI, etc, I'd push bottom up, not compete with NASA or anything), and probably a good deal of effort in education either localy at a mid/high level, or as incentives for wider lower-level education for small kids... That last one would probably be a huge time sink, though.  I'd probably not do it unless I could visit every target site myself at least once a month to see that things are working like they're supposed to.
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Re: What would you do with $100 million?
« Reply #68 on: July 04, 2008, 05:06:42 AM »
4th of July and I was just noticing yesterday how ratty the grill was...so I'd probably buy a grill.
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Re: What would you do with $100 million?
« Reply #69 on: July 04, 2008, 05:10:31 AM »
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I'd still work in Law Enforcement.

Repo I couldnt see winning 100 m and still getting up every morning to push that beat car around the block.

I'd be out of this uniform faster then Superman.
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