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Originally posted by Kontiki
Can't make the mega bucks on transactional work.
Can't make the mega bucks on transactional work.
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You can certainly make mega bucks. You just can't make giga bucks.“It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”
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Meh, potato, potahto."The French caused the war [Persian Gulf war, 1991]" - Ned
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I have had the same thoughtOriginally posted by DanS
These guys as billionaires is going to be fun to watch! Next stop, Mars!Originally posted by Drogue
What impressed me were the Google founders - now the youngest in the top 25 at 32 years old each. That's really young to be a multi billionairre!
. Note also how they are smart, and are capitalizing on the overvalued google stock by selling lots of it .
Did you know that Paul Allan was the investor behind SpaceShipOne?http://www.hardware-wiki.com - A wiki about computers, with focus on Linux support.Comment
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Yes, I knew Allen funded SpaceShipOne. But Allen's not a true believer. He spent 20x that sum on his personal yacht.
I was only about 1/4th joking about the Mars stuff. Brin and Page briefly wanted Google to get into the rocket business, Brin's mom works for NASA, etc. I could see Google putting up a communications satellite constellation, but mostly the Mars stuff is just fun speculation about what space fanboys will do with their billions.Last edited by DanS; September 26, 2005, 17:57.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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You can also pull all the stringsOriginally posted by pchang
You can certainly make mega bucks. You just can't make giga bucks.
Originally posted by Serb:Please, remind me, how exactly and when exactly, Russia bullied its neighbors?
Originally posted by Ted Striker:Go Serb !
Originally posted by Pekka:If it was possible to capture the essentials of Sepultura in a dildo, I'd attach it to a bicycle and ride it up your azzes.Comment
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Well now I know who to rob.Comment
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Found this article interesting. Especially on page two with the interview.
According to Forbes, Mr. Kelley is 48 and worth $1.3 billion. I Googled him. Nothing, or at least nothing substantial. I ran a LexisNexis search, only to discover that, until now, Mr. Kelley had for the most part been overlooked by the news media. I called him at home...
The truth is, if you buy up 1.25 million acres of ranching land across southwestern Texas, Florida, and parts of New Mexico, as Mr. Kelley has done recently, you can't escape attention forever. If you proceed to dedicate parcels of that land to wildlife conservation, as Mr. Kelley has also done, you're practically crying out to be noticed. Eventually someone like Mr. Kelley, who's spending millions of dollars conserving black rhinos, white rhinos, pygmy hippos, okapi, anoas, impalas, white-bearded wildebeests, Nile lechwe, Eastern bongos and Beisa oryx is going to be the subject of an article in The New York Times.Concrete, Abstract, or Squoingy?
"I don't believe in giving scripting languages because the only additional power they give users is the power to create bugs." - Mike Breitkreutz, FiraxisComment
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