Powerball hits $450 Million

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Not to worry. The 45 footer I want is best parked outside the parks, and the F450 with 860 lb/ft of torque I want should be able to move it down the road at a reasonable pace.

The F450 Compensator is quite spectacular, isn't it?

[Shiranu]

People who don't know what to do with that much money lack imagination... I've seen them Saudi sheikh's sons... I think I can blow money at that pace :P.

[PopeyesPappy]

People who don't know what to do with that much money lack imagination... I've seen them Saudi sheikh's sons... I think I can blow money at that pace :P.

It isn't how fast can you spend it. It's spend the last penny the day you die old and happy with a smile on your face.

[josephpalazzo]

You don't need brains to spend money, even fucking morons can do that.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

[Shiranu]

It isn't how fast can you spend it. It's spend the last penny the day you die old and happy with a smile on your face.

Meh. It has no obligation to make you happy; die with a smile/die with a frown you knew what to do with the money (spend it). That is all money is for... transferring wealth or possession from party A to party B. So saying they don't know what to do with it doesn't particularly make sense.

Now if you want to say they wouldn't know what to do with their life if they acquired money that's a different beast all together... but no one really has that figured out all to well anyways.

[aitm]

Actually I have thought about it, not just winning money but trying to make it real now. I want to get into combining large aqua-ponics and agra-ponics into locally owned companies, hire only handicapped vets, train them, let them run the things. I think using modern tech we could use old abandoned K-marts and other large building even during winter with the help of mirrors and a little help from deep radiant heat, establish year round growing veggies and raise healthy talapia as well. With that kind of money I could probably start about a hundred franchises around the country employing about a fifty thousand handicapped vets.

Not only that, but I would also have as friends….50,000 ex vets…sure go ahead…fuck with me..

[Shiranu]

Actually I have thought about it, not just winning money but trying to make it real now. I want to get into combining large aqua-ponics and agra-ponics into locally owned companies, hire only handicapped vets, train them, let them run the things. I think using modern tech we could use old abandoned K-marts and other large building even during winter with the help of mirrors and a little help from deep radiant heat, establish year round growing veggies and raise healthy talapia as well. With that kind of money I could probably start about a hundred franchises around the country employing about a fifty thousand handicapped vets.

Not only that, but I would also have as friends….50,000 ex vets…sure go ahead…fuck with me..

This. All joking and rhetoric-knit picking aside... a huge reason the money "destroys" people's lives is it is people who come from nothing economically and generally come from a low social and educational background. The exact same thing happens to many sports players and rappers who come from poverty into suddenly being multi-millionaires. It goes to the head unlike it would for someone who has been "spoiled" all their lives... and they spend most of the money on themselves rather than others.

While many fail... many don't. I think the majority of us here... if given that type of money... would know what to do with it in one way or another. And likely it would destroy some of our lives and other's make better.

[Baruch]

Governor Christie? ;-(

[Mermaid]

I'd change my passwords at work to "Fuck you" and pay off everyone's mortgage. Yes, you too.

[aitm]

I'd change my passwords at work to "Fuck you" and pay off everyone's mortgage. Yes, you too.

and I would be happy to let you. Let me know when you want my address. :)

[stromboli]

Actually I have thought about it, not just winning money but trying to make it real now. I want to get into combining large aqua-ponics and agra-ponics into locally owned companies, hire only handicapped vets, train them, let them run the things. I think using modern tech we could use old abandoned K-marts and other large building even during winter with the help of mirrors and a little help from deep radiant heat, establish year round growing veggies and raise healthy talapia as well. With that kind of money I could probably start about a hundred franchises around the country employing about a fifty thousand handicapped vets.

Not only that, but I would also have as friends….50,000 ex vets…sure go ahead…fuck with me..

Damn that is actually a good idea. You been using the noodle there, aitm.

I don't have that kind of drive to see something like that through. I would just try to get money to people who could do something useful with it, but a startup of a progressive company is a good use of money. In my case I would try to get behind some alternative energy startups or environmental cleanups or something like that.

[Baruch]

Damn that is actually a good idea. You been using the noodle there, aitm.

I don't have that kind of drive to see something like that through. I would just try to get money to people who could do something useful with it, but a startup of a progressive company is a good use of money. In my case I would try to get behind some alternative energy startups or environmental cleanups or something like that.

The Chinese already dominate in solar and wind power ... you are too late.

[Johan]

I think the first thing I would do is seek out a financial planner with a proven track record of handling sudden fortune cases successfully. But I'm boring like that. Oh and airplanes. I'd buy a couple airplanes.

One for turning avgas into noise.



And one for going from point a to point b. ...and also turning avgas into noise.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Actually I have thought about it, not just winning money but trying to make it real now. I want to get into combining large aqua-ponics and agra-ponics into locally owned companies, hire only handicapped vets, train them, let them run the things. I think using modern tech we could use old abandoned K-marts and other large building even during winter with the help of mirrors and a little help from deep radiant heat, establish year round growing veggies and raise healthy talapia as well. With that kind of money I could probably start about a hundred franchises around the country employing about a fifty thousand handicapped vets.

Not only that, but I would also have as friends….50,000 ex vets…sure go ahead…fuck with me..

WTF is an "ex vet"?