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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. Does it bother anyone... by billstr78 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ... that 2 companies dominate with thier heirs or stock holders comprising of 8/10 of the top 10 richest persons in America. Also, it is slightly un-settling that Walmart alone keeps positions 4 to 8 in the list.

  2. Re:Bill's donation schedule by sehryan · · Score: 4, Interesting

    $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.

    Taking out the ones that you bitched about, here is what is left. Still totals over $400 Million. How much have you given lately?

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  3. Re:I'd never clone myself by dirk · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'd clone my girlfriend (2 or 3 times should be enough)

    Which brings up an interesting question. If you clone yourself, and have sex with yourself, are you gay, or is it masturbation? And if you clone you girlfriend, and sleep with them all, is it really cheating?

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