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HOWTO: Spend A Billion Dollars

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the my-own-bunker-in-my-own-mountain dept.

shine-shine writes: "Forbes is running an article helping you figure out how to spend that spare billion you got laying around (don't you just hate when that happens?). Apparently, a geek would buy 500 black-market clones of himself, while the narcissist would most likely build "a monument similar in size and scale to Mount Rushmore, featuring his own face.""

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  1. Land, land, and more land by idiotnot · · Score: 3, Informative

    - Primary residence on North Carolina's Outer Banks
    - Vacation home in Northern Europe
    - Ski Chalet (Rockies)
    - Plot in a Banana Republic

    Of course, also I'd need...

    - Multi-million dollar yacht
    - Plane
    - Fleet of cars for each residence
    - 1967 AMC Ambassador SST

    Computers...

    I can't, really....several offerings from Sun, a top-o-da-line TiBook (every single time they release one that's better, I'd get a new one), Cray.....

    With the rest, I'd put it into a trust where the interest will be protected, and I'll live on the interest. At death, Uncle Sam will get a cut (unfortunately), and the rest will go to worthy causes of my choice (my alma mater, Debian project....)

  2. Speaking of Bill Gates... by cscx · · Score: 5, Informative

    This may sound a little simplistic, but Billy G. would give a billion away to charity.

    $1 billion over 20 years to establish the Gates Millennium Scholarship Program, which will support promising minority students through college and some kinds of graduate school.
    $750 million over five years to the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, which includes the World Health Organization, the Rockefeller Foundation, Unicef, pharmaceutical companies and the World Bank.
    $350 million over three years to teachers, administrators, school districts and schools to improve America's K-12 education, starting in Washington State.
    $200 million to the Gates Library Program, which is wiring public libraries in America's poorest communities in an effort to close the "digital divide."
    $100 million to the Gates Children's Vaccine Program, which will accelerate delivery of lifesaving vaccines to children in the poorest countries of the world.
    $50 million to the Maternal Mortality Reduction Program, run by the Columbia University School of Public Health.
    $50 million to the Malaria Vaccine Initiative, to conduct research on promising candidates for a malaria vaccine.
    $50 million to an international group called the Alliance for the Prevention of Cervical Cancer.
    $50 million to a fund for global polio eradication, led by the World Health Organization, Unicef, Rotary International and the U.N. Foundation.
    $40 million to the International Vaccine Institute, a research program based in Seoul, South Korea.
    $28 million to Unicef for the elimination of maternal and neonatal tetanus.
    $25 million to the Sequella Global Tuberculosis Foundation.
    $25 million to the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, which is creating coalitions of research scientists, pharmaceutical companies and governments in developing countries to look for a safe, effective, widely accessible vaccine against AIDS.