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What Would You Do With A Million Bajillion Dollars

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    Metzger MeisterMetzger Meister It Gets Worse before it gets any better.Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Ruby Rhod wrote: »
    Tam wrote: »
    http://stealthmachines.com

    these guys build some pretty cool computers


    edit: granted you could buy and assemble all the parts yourself for waaaay cheaper, but whatever, in this scenario i'm wealthy and therefore about 7 and a half grand is NOT a huge concern.

    shit i could write it off as a business expense.

    I'm surprised they don't offer gold trim and cheetah blood anoinment

    They don't list them on the website. People without money might taint the product.

    hey now... they're not all that ridiculous for custom gaming pc's.

    like i said, i designed one on this one website that they said i'd need to pay them THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLARS for.

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    Ruby RhodRuby Rhod Multipass!Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Well, who needs a new car.

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    Metzger MeisterMetzger Meister It Gets Worse before it gets any better.Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    like i said, while i was designing it i was pretending to be some kind of multi-billionaire bill gates type fellow, so money really did not matter AT ALL, and it had so much ram that there is no current operating system that could even run it.

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    Ruby RhodRuby Rhod Multipass!Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    I just went through and built their super Enigma computer all the way up. It should be over 10 grand, but it Glitched down to 900 on the price. I wonder if they would honor that?

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    TamTam Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    metz, at that point, just shell out ten million and have yourself a supercomputer

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    TossrockTossrock too weird to live too rare to dieRegistered User regular
    edited April 2010
    like i said, while i was designing it i was pretending to be some kind of multi-billionaire bill gates type fellow, so money really did not matter AT ALL, and it had so much ram that there is no current operating system that could even run it.

    Horse shit. You can address 2 terabytes of main memory on lots of server oriented OSes. RAM, not disk.

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    WimbleWimble Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    if I had a million bajillion dollars I would buy blizzard and let tossrock tell the sc2 map editor guys to include/change whatever he wants

    then I would be mean to him when he made maps I didn't like

    maaad with power

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    ascotascot Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    If I were a billionaire I'd hope I had so much other great stuff to see/do I wouldn't even own a computer

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    TamTam Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    But on those flights to and from Svenborgia, you might want to play a computer game or something.

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    Ruby RhodRuby Rhod Multipass!Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    What if you used your money on a computer you could go inside and see/do great stuff?

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    StaleStale Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    I got to price out and build a couple NOCs while at EA.

    Yeah, these are chump change.


    When you have $150k+ Routers and Switches. It adds up fast.

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    TossrockTossrock too weird to live too rare to dieRegistered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Wimble wrote: »
    if I had a million bajillion dollars I would buy blizzard and let tossrock tell the sc2 map editor guys to include/change whatever he wants

    then I would be mean to him when he made maps I didn't like

    maaad with power

    obviously in this situation I would only make maps you like

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    HellaJeffHellaJeff FAB FRESH RAIIINBOOWWWWWRegistered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Tossrock wrote: »
    Wimble wrote: »
    if I had a million bajillion dollars I would buy blizzard and let tossrock tell the sc2 map editor guys to include/change whatever he wants

    then I would be mean to him when he made maps I didn't like

    maaad with power

    obviously in this situation I would only make maps you like

    Dick shaped maps where all the vespene is in the balls and only yellow minerals at the head.

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    OkamiOkami On the internet nobody knows you're a dog. Nobody. Land of Ports, OreganoRegistered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Swill wrote: »
    Okami, my scooter makes me happier than most things

    so I think that is a fair and valid option!

    Go do it!!!!!!

    and a scooter is so perfect for Portland

    man I should stop being so stingy about buying myself nice things

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    WimbleWimble Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Tossrock wrote: »
    Wimble wrote: »
    if I had a million bajillion dollars I would buy blizzard and let tossrock tell the sc2 map editor guys to include/change whatever he wants

    then I would be mean to him when he made maps I didn't like

    maaad with power

    obviously in this situation I would only make maps you like

    good answer! I'm giving you a raise!

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    CogliostroCogliostro Marginal Opinions Spring, TXRegistered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Oooh! I could buy blizzard and promptly shut down WoW.


    The divorce rate would plummet like a stone.

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    STATE OF THE ART ROBOTSTATE OF THE ART ROBOT Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Cogliostro wrote: »
    Oooh! I could buy blizzard and promptly shut down WoW.


    The divorce rate would plummet like a stone.

    Supporting this.

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    Ruby RhodRuby Rhod Multipass!Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Cogliostro wrote: »
    Oooh! I could buy blizzard and promptly shut down WoW.


    The divorce rate would plummet like a stone.

    And suicides would skyrocket.

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    STATE OF THE ART ROBOTSTATE OF THE ART ROBOT Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Ruby Rhod wrote: »
    Cogliostro wrote: »
    Oooh! I could buy blizzard and promptly shut down WoW.


    The divorce rate would plummet like a stone.

    And suicides would skyrocket.

    I like to think of it as taking out the trash.

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    Ruby RhodRuby Rhod Multipass!Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Ruby Rhod wrote: »
    Cogliostro wrote: »
    Oooh! I could buy blizzard and promptly shut down WoW.


    The divorce rate would plummet like a stone.

    And suicides would skyrocket.

    I like to think of it as taking out the trash.

    But mountain dew and hot pocket stock would plummet! Don't you care about the economy?

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    STATE OF THE ART ROBOTSTATE OF THE ART ROBOT Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Ruby Rhod wrote: »
    Ruby Rhod wrote: »
    Cogliostro wrote: »
    Oooh! I could buy blizzard and promptly shut down WoW.


    The divorce rate would plummet like a stone.

    And suicides would skyrocket.

    I like to think of it as taking out the trash.

    But mountain dew and hot pocket stock would plummet! Don't you care about the economy?

    The only places that would be hit are the places that I really don't care about.

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    DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited April 2010
    Nogs wrote: »
    i would play all the video games

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    Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Athena's pretty good in capcom vs. snk

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    FizFiz Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Did anybody see that Kingpin movie with Woody Harrelson and Bill Murray? I loved the part of the movie where they were trying to earn some money by gambling at random places, and they ended up in the mansion of some... mafia-ish guy who had a bowling alley in his mansion.

    I want a mansion with a working bowling alley. It is totally impractical and expensive, but that would be so awesome.

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    Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    edited April 2010
    the white house has a bowling alley

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    FizFiz Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Shoe, I gave up on my global conquest plans when I found out war and racism still happens. It just made me too sad.

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    Shazkar ShadowstormShazkar Shadowstorm Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    today i was talking with my friend about something, i think chorizo, and was like there is such a thing as too much chorizo

    and then i was trying to think of things that there is no such thing as too much of

    and so the first thing i said was no such thing as too much money

    and then i think he got offended somehow

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    SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Too much money leads to inflation, which is a Bad Thing.

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    Shazkar ShadowstormShazkar Shadowstorm Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    but i mean could you personally have too much money

    i guess if it meant if it was at the expense of other people having money
    then its too much

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    unintentionalunintentional smelly Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Does all the debt and wealth of the world add up to $0?

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    L|amaL|ama Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    you're actually best off picking even numbers for lottery

    reason: You have an equal chance of winning with any set of numbers, but you will win more if you pick numbers that other people don't pick. Odd and especially prime numbers seem 'more random' to us when picking random numbers, so we pick them a lot.

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    SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    That is necessarily what it would mean. Money exists as a device to regulate the distribution of goods and services. If you can magically have lots of money without anyone else losing any, then money loses all its meaning and you get inflation, because the demand for the mountains of stuff you buy with that money would shoot up because of you. That's why the nazis air-dropped fake cash over London during WW2 - they were trying to hurt England's economy.

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    Shazkar ShadowstormShazkar Shadowstorm Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    so i guess then there is such a thing as too much money

    okay

    how about... too much ummm

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    SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    so i guess then there is such a thing as too much money

    okay

    how about... too much ummm

    Too much ummm leads to people losing patience with you because you just won't give them a straight answer.

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    L|amaL|ama Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Does all the debt and wealth of the world add up to $0?

    Don't think so because we have stuff that is worth money? Maybe? Nah I confused myself and thought of about 3 conflicting explanations just then.

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    unintentionalunintentional smelly Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    L|ama wrote: »
    Does all the debt and wealth of the world add up to $0?

    Don't think so because we have stuff that is worth money? Maybe? Nah I confused myself and thought of about 3 conflicting explanations just then.

    I was thinking that going off of the gold standard probably fucked this up too

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    L|amaL|ama Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    I think the important thing to take away from this is: fuck economics

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    SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    There are economic transactions that don't involve debt... like getting paid for work or buying stuff. So I'm pretty sure there's more money in the world than there is debt.

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    unintentionalunintentional smelly Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Both of those examples are debt and wealth changing hands.

    If you get paid, someone had to pay you. They lose money.
    If you buy something, you lose money, and someone else gains it.

    It's like newton's third law!

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    MrMonroeMrMonroe passed out on the floor nowRegistered User regular
    edited April 2010
    L|ama wrote: »
    Does all the debt and wealth of the world add up to $0?

    Don't think so because we have stuff that is worth money? Maybe? Nah I confused myself and thought of about 3 conflicting explanations just then.

    I was thinking that going off of the gold standard probably fucked this up too

    :?

    of course the total wealth of the world adds up to more than $0

    leaving the gold standard doesn't change that at all

    money is just a replacement for wealth that is almost perfectly fungible

    essentially you buy money with your wealth in the form of labor or production or whatever and then buy the wealth you want with the money; doesn't matter whether the money is gold or silver or greenbacks or gorilla urine

    edit: think about this, Unintentional:

    you buy a house with a mortgage worth $150,000

    you owe the bank $150,000, and you have a house worth the same, so the wealth cancels out, right?

    no

    the bank owns $150,000 worth of your house, an unmitigated asset on their balance sheets, while you have a house with $0 in equity on it, an absolute value of $0 on your balance sheets

    no matter how much you owe on it the house is still there and still worth the $150k

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