Seriously, what would you do with a 1/2 bill?

[riser4]

I'd try and pay my bookie. Depending on the late game today it may or may not cover it

Ouch.

[gravitylover]

Hang out and chill. Somebody would bring me my drinks and smoke. I'd ski and mt bike, surf and fish, drink and smoke,... Work? Hell no. Put my feet up and watch the world go by? Yup. Travel, see places and do things. Join an archaeological dig somewhere and go all sorts of places to learn things. It wouldn't be about buying things (I think) even though I have always wanted a cool car collection but the more I think about it I don't want to be tied to any one place. Bouncing around the continent in a big RV holds some promise, heading towards where the snow is good this week and then where the surfing is good next week kind of thing. Having somebody to drive me around would be at the top of the list and some way to fly private jets when I want to be further away. Would I give some away? Maybe, it would depend on the situation I think. I would make sure my kids were hooked up for life but probably wouldn't care much about many other people in the family, a little sure but it wouldn't be a focus. I mean my kids turned 17 yesterday and my parents didn't even bother sending a text, my brother did but nobody else so f 'em.

[sb]

I wood buy 1.3 billion $1 tacos and share them.

[dtown]

Outside of the normal travel, ski, fish, trusts, investing I would work because I have small kids and they need to go to school, they play sports, etc. so I'd be in 1 place a lot so work but on my terms...maybe a start up brewery or outdoor company where the investment isn't mine but you could work on a passion. Wouldn't work for free but minimal salary and no Benefits...maybe 20 hours a week. If I leave for 3 weeks they don't care and I don't stress about leaving them hanging.

[summit]

Couple of days in orbit... can you still do that for $20 mil?

Learn to fly. Buy a plane for fun flying.

Lots of travel. Lots of heli skiing. Lots of diving. Lots of biking.

Family and close friends would find themselves debt free.

Philanthropy. Start a 501c3 or two...

1 bil is enough to live an unbelievably sweet life and do things most people only dream of. It isn't quite enough to change the world though... like crazy level changes like funding your own space company or bribing enough politicians to put trams on every worthwhile mountain ridge in the west.

[skiballs]

Some of you guys are really boring. I like the 10,000 monkeys.

[iceman]

You could build snow skis.

What will you do after you run out of money?

[MontuckyFried]

Couple of days in orbit... can you still do that for $20 mil?

While an orbital cruise is only $250K, for a bit more you can go to the freaking moon!
http://news.discovery.com/space/priv...ion-140613.htm
If I was a billionaire, oh hell yes.

[BmillsSkier]

You could buy and airline with all that money and become a millionaire!

[summit]

While an orbital cruise is only $250K, for a bit more you can go to the freaking moon!
http://news.discovery.com/space/priv...ion-140613.htm
If I was a billionaire, oh hell yes.

I don't want a suborbital flight. I want a couple of days in orbit on ISS better yet something like a Bigelow Aerospace BA330.

Crammed in a Soyuz for 8 days for a lunar flyby? Better uses for $150mil. I say that as someone who would happily volunteer for almost any Mars mission with a reasonable chance of success.

[MontuckyFried]

I don't want a suborbital flight. I want a couple of days in orbit on ISS better yet something like a Bigelow Aerospace BA330.

Crammed in a Soyuz for 8 days for a lunar flyby? Better uses for $150mil. I say that as someone who would happily volunteer for almost any Mars mission with a reasonable chance of success.

I hear ya. Well, hand over yer winnings to Mother Russia, and odds are they'll hook you up with whatever your little heart desires.

[char_]

Buy the apartment complex I am currently living in and promptly evict everyone that litters, throws their cigarette butts on the ground and doesn't pick their dog shit up. I'm not bitter about it.

Leave the country for a year or two.

[BmillsSkier]

Spaceape.

[RootSkier]

I would sell my winning ticket for half its cash value on the condition that the buyer could never disclose my name.

[Tippster]

Vow to never spend more than a month in one country until I'd seen them all. Pick my favorites and buy houses; rotate among them as seasons change.
Have myself cloned as an organ backup for the inevitable failed liver.

Enjoy Burkina Faso. I hear they have good potatoes.

Heh. I am sure it wuld. I would love to be neighbors. However, I am rather partial to New England. And I would want sugar maple trees. Although, Washington has that legal MJ thing going on. So I guess I would need two places, one on each side of the country.

Maine will likely pass legal MJ in November.

I would sell my winning ticket for half its cash value on the condition that the buyer could never disclose my name.

Fuck that. Hire a law firm.

The crazy thing about this whole thing is that at some point somebody (or group of somebodies) will actually win close to $1.5 BILLION dollars (or more!) Imagine in one stroke of luck joining a group of humans that only numbers 1,645.

On the planet.

[MontuckyFried]

I would sell my winning ticket for half its cash value on the condition that the buyer could never disclose my name.

Hmmm. Math on that doesn't quite work out for the buyer. You might have to reduce your rate to 1/4+ for buyer to recoup initial investment plus taxes.

[Flyoverland Captive]

Buy Rax Skis and take their company to the next level.

[mall walker]

Buy a truck and a house in the mountains and do some touring exploring all over.

[iceman]

[QUOTE=Tippster;4637539]Enjoy Burkina Faso. I hear they have good potatoes.


Maine will likely pass legal MJ in November.[/quote}

note: Maine has lots of potatoes too.

edit: I can't fix the messed up formatting in that post ^^^ for some reason. I tried.

[abraham]

Enjoy Burkina Faso. I hear they have good potatoes.


Maine will likely pass legal MJ in November.

note: Maine has lots of potatoes too.

edit: I can't fix the messed up formatting in that post ^^^ for some reason. I tried.

Better? You had a } instead of a ]

[iceman]

Better? You had a } instead of a ]

geez I couldn't see that, thanks.

[bendtheski]

Buy Alta, open it to snowboarding for two years, then ban snowboarding, then sell it back at a handsome profit. Then MRG, then Deer Valley.

Has furious masturbation been mentioned yet? (see what I did there?)

[Chugachjed]

Give everyone in the US one million dollars and watch the world crumble.

[iceman]

Give everyone in the US one million dollars.

Youre gonna have wait a few weeks for the jackpot to get into the trillions.

[Tippster]

Youre gonna have wait a few weeks for the jackpot to get into the trillions.

Well first of all that, and what does he think this is - Alaska?