Never said anything about sharing the info. It’s step one toward world domination. Consider it a ‘friendly’ nation theft, followed by continental expansion through Africa.
An island in the Caribbean, people it with a small village of happy well paid, fed, educated, folk to see to my needs. (Lovely modern homes, school, hospital, nice pier some power boats, whatever they like!) Including a great cook or three, couple of pilots, some fishermen, bungalow builders, a gardener and farmer or two, for a large variety of fruits and veggies for everybody, etc.
Build me a half dozen varied sized bungalows (aircon) on the best beach, a nice airstrip, no pier but I’d want a reef nearby. It’d all be solar and green of course, hammock, tropical flowers, fresh seafood. Windsurfers, kayaks, paddle boards, snorkel equipment etc, all on hand.
A short walk away from the beach enclave, out of sight, would be a building with tvs, movie set up, computers and satellite connections etc. Charge your phone, call back home, surf the web! (But not from the beach!)
And a few small ( but not too small ) planes to run me and my friends back and forth. So I’d need a couple of ‘on demand’ pilots in Canada too, of course. And a couple of vehicles, with on call drivers, to meet those planes and shuttle folks back and forth to their homes from the airport. (All of my employees will be well paid and their families will enjoy the best benefits, full health care, college funds, retirement accounts, lots of leave and sick days, etc!)
Of course this would cost large, but what do I care. Whenever I fancy, on my whim, as it were, myself and anyone I care to take can whisk off to a tropical isle, with a lovely quiet untouched beach, good food and friendly people!
Yep, that’s what I’d do!
I’d finally buy a Starbucks latte. Maybe a large one.
Ah yes your little tropical Eagle’s Nest. The last stronghold of monarchist reaction in the Western Hemisphere and an excellent location for live-fire target practice by the brave sailors, airmen, and drone operators of the Trumpist air and naval forces.
That’s odd. If you had written a women’s sports team with a couple of girls of every race there would have instantly been people along to point out that race is not biological, it is a social construct…
Maybe it’s different in harems?
I’d buy a new Hubble Space Telescope - but bigger and better. And it would be designed to last, like the original. Being a private purchase it would not be subject to the cost over-runs so prevalent in government space projects - because I wouldn’t pay.
I’d also buy a probe to Titan. A dirigible.
Easy! I would buy a full set of healthy childrens organs from a top notch human trafficker and get them installed pronto. Dont you reckon most billionaires have done that? Sure, they dint ask where the surgeon got them, just like they never visit their garment factories neither!
I’m there with you, and I’d want to have a “one of each” of the horses, so I could also have some of the ones I loved as a kid, including a Palomino.
I’d also help out the trainers and other staff to realize their dreams, and would provide free housing for the lowest-paid-staffers’ horses. Maybe set up a scholarship or two to help some people along.
Also, I’m going to need a really good riding instructor, since I’m rubbish on an English saddle.
Then I’d need a private plane so I could take the horses and groom(s) of choice anywhere I want.
I want all of this someplace beautiful.
The OTHER thing, is to set up my own clothing line for (ahem) larger women (which these days seems to be everyone over a size 12), creating classic-but-not-stuffy clothing that don’t make the wearer like a hooker and won’t cost an arm and a leg. And alterations on suits, dress pants, and skirts are free. And all of the sleeveless dresses will have SLEEVE options that can be snapped or sewn on for those of us who don’t have skinny arms, goddamnit.
And staff. I’m going to need staff in my giant house. A cook/chef, house cleaners, someone to look after my wardrobe, groundskeepers, a couple of chauffeurs, and so on. Probably a “Mister Carson” to oversee the whole thing.
ETA: I want a harem of guys. What is that, a he-ram? Anyway, hot guys. But not young hot guys, older hot guys.
Grumpy Bunny, but of course you’d be entitled to a he-ram of studly distinguished gentlemen.
Oh come on but of freakin’ course, this is 2015! And like I said, as billionaires we would be swamped with applicants, we’d probably need a vetting panel for the hopeful young ladies.
Harems are a social construct and the proponents said nothing to lead us to believe their harem composition would be defined by anyone but themselves according to their own social constructs.
Really dudes, lighten up.
Seriously Qin? Every post I make you’re gonna rage away about my position on the Thai monarch?
Just leave it in that thread, like an adult, okay?
If I knew it would hit and nerve and set you off to this degree I would have kept my position to myself. Just calm yourself okay?
Again, this thread is just a little fun we’re having, can’t you just let it go?
Seriously Qin? Every post I make you’re gonna rage away about my position on the Thai monarch?
Just leave it in that thread, like an adult, okay?
If I knew it would hit and nerve and set you off to this degree I would have kept my position to myself. Just calm yourself okay?
Again, this thread is just a little fun we’re having, can’t you just let it go?
A harem. With a very large nursery next to it.
Assuming philantrophy was taken care of (If I were a billionaire, I’d do what Paul Allen does and invest hundreds of millions into neuroscience research) I would probably buy condos (nothing huge mind you, just a bunch of them) in a couple dozen cities all over the world and have a nice yacht and private jet so I could travel between them. Also a revolving door of prostitutes.
My telescope will be better than your telescope. Billionaire telescope arms race?
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Relative to the Hubble Space Telescope (arguably the most revolutionary astronomical instrument of our generation), TMT will have 144 times the collecting area and more than a factor of 10 better spatial resolution at near-infrared and longer wavelengths.
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Game on! It’ll be humanity that benefits, of course.
I’d travel as much as I wanted to. I’d keep a private jet with a chauffeur/pilot, and fly whenever and wherever the mood took me. I’d rent fully-furnished luxury homes to receive me in whatever city I wanted, or countryside estates if I felt like a stint in the country.
This has no place in this thread. Knock it off.
I believe we have found the alternative to the harem
I’d send the PAYPAL of some poor under-funded poster named Count Blucher lots of money.
LOTS.
And maybe tix to box seats for half a season of some major NFL team.
Oh, not EVERY game. Maybe just Some games.
“Ya Never Know” -
Found and run my own private high school/college. Pay the creamiest of the croppiest professors to teach there. Enrollment by invitation- or reference-only, with a strong preference for nerds. I’ll handpick every student. Attendance is free of charge. Weekly symposia by Bill Nye, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Yo-Yo Ma, Bill Gates, etc. I’d go on to provide distinguished alumni the opportunity to stay on-campus for the rest of their lives - teaching, research, partaking in the culinary stylings of my live-in sushi chef.