If You Were a Billionaire for Five Hours
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Man Finds 88 BILLION in His Bank Account
Question for AMT Peeps....
What if, for five hours, you truly did have $89 billion?
What would you do with the money? The ground rules are that you would have to give the money back — and whatever you bought or invested with it — after five hours.
Peace
If You Were a Billionaire for Five Hours
When Paul Fischer checked his bank account Friday night, he had a happy surprise. His balance had exploded to $88,888,888,888.88. A very lucky number indeed, and close to $89 billion.
Of course, the balance was a technical error by SunTrust Bank , which quickly fixed the problem. It also may have occurred in other accounts.
"You say, 'Eighty-eight billion, what can I do with that?'" said Mr. Fischer, who owns a jewelry concessionaire for Florida theme parks. "Maybe a handful of us could have brought down SunTrust Bank."
Mr. Fischer had other ideas as well. Before the problem was fixed, he asked a SunTrust rep if he could move the money to an interest-bearing account until it was reclaimed and donate the interest to charity. Total interest: more than $7.3 million.
The bank said no.
The money was stripped out of his account by Saturday morning.
"It's all gone. I'm poor again," he said. "I was a billionaire for five hours."
This kind of bank error happens frequently.
Question for AMT Peeps....
What if, for five hours, you truly did have $89 billion?
What would you do with the money? The ground rules are that you would have to give the money back — and whatever you bought or invested with it — after five hours.
Peace
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*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
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But on the other hand I have always thought about what I would do If I did win the powerball.
here goes.
1.I would take care of my parents. I would buy them a home and make sure they never had to work again.
2. give to several differnt charities.( surfrider foundation,march of dimes,ect ect.
3 travel all over the world. 1st stop the surf station in St. Augustine to pick up a quiver of Al Merricks and then off to the South Pacific.
it’s not about the money, it’s about sending a message. everything burns.
lame
if i had that much money, i'd hire someone to slap you :twisted:
why so serious?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqcbgSpHMFs
glad to see you knew i didn't really mean what i said.
That was too cool.
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*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
What a brilliant idea!
This thread kinda reminds me of Brewster's Millions... except different.
I would buy Rupert Murdoch's empire, Rush Limbaugh's EIB, and all of the right wing media outlets, fire everyone and pay them a nice severance package, except upper management who get NOTHING, and THEN burn all of their facilities into the ground.
:twisted:
Yes, typical of a lib. Silence those that don't agree with you, screw that 1st Amendment.
Haha, you obviously forgot how Rupert Murdoch built up his empire. Or that Rush Limbaugh takes advantage of a monopolistic system where he's heard everywhere and no opposition point of view gets heard. The famously liberal and pro-union Ed Schultz couldn't get a foothold in the heavily unionized city of Pittsburgh because he's being locked out.
Besides, there's enough right wing voices in a typical market. CNN just hired the infamous right wing blogger Erick Erickson, for instance. The Washington Post has BIll Kristol and Charles Krauthammer. Even "liberal" MSNBC has a former Republican congressman hosting its morning show, ferchrissakes. And the "liberal" NY Times has Peggy Noonan.
All I'm doing is destroying the monopoly. Don't you right wing nutjobs believe in competition?
Then again that's typical of a wingnut - only apply rules to the people you don't agree with. Pay lip service to the Constitution, but undermine its intent.
donate a shitload of it to SPCA and to the BC Childrens hospital so they can build their new building
and donate a bunch more to other charities....
then i would buy a plane ticket and fake passport and leave some place no one could find me
and NOT give the money back
2-rescue all the animals on the street and give they a place
3-buy a lot of instruments and books
was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
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Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
:P
He was being facetious. I suggest you quit your constant complaining and go looking for your sense of humour. I reckon it's to be found submerged somewhere within the airwaves of U.S Conservative television.
Oh great, another wingnut bonehead. Aside from you obviously missing the humor in my post, you keep forgetting that:
1. The Fairness Doctrine is still in the books. It was never repealed.
2. What the Fairness Doctrine actually does is mandate that stations that broadcast on PUBLIC airwaves be made to serve the interests of the PUBLIC. Which means that you can't broadcast propaganda and make it look like news, among other things.
3. The only people who want to "silence" others are the idiots on your side of the fence, who gin up false controversy and outright lies to stir up fear and hate, and to saturate the airwaves with the propaganda YOU approve of and block out other points of view.
Then again, the more astute posters here recognize where I"m coming from.
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Humor eh ? Yeah right.... :roll:
If you are so concerned about fairness on the air waves whether it be radio or tv shouldn't there be more stations like fox ? After all, all the other networks lean to the left. So lets be fair...
1.The fairness doctrine is not by any means fair. It does nothing but diminish FREE SPEEECH..
The Federal Communications Commission repealed the Fairness Doctrine in 1987 admitting the doctrine “had the net effect of reducing rather than enhancing the discussion of controversial issues of public importance.”
The reason left wing talk radio fails is because no one hardly listens to it. Air America is a prime example.
Do you have any proof of any conservative or right wing talk show host or tea party member trying to silence anyone?
Its your party that wants to silence those whom they dissagree with.
When informed that the Fairness Doctrine might take Limbaugh and Hannity off the air, the percentage of Democrat likely voters who support the Fairness Doctrine rose to 53 percent. The percentage of Obama supporters supporting the Doctrine rose four points to 53 percent. However, the percentage of Independents opposed to the Fairness Doctrine rose to 49 percent.
When Chicago radio station WGN scheduled journalist Stanley Kurtz to talk about Obama’s ties to Ayers, the Obama campaign recruited 100,000 supporters to act in a cult-like manner and besiege the station with protests.
When “Joe the plumber” questioned Obama about his plan to raise taxes on small businesses, Obama supporters sought to destroy Joe and publicly embarrass him by digging through his tax files, work history, and personal life. Was this a warning to average Americans not to ask questions?
Obama forces also tried to hush a national organization that ran TV and radio ads attacking the candidate’s position on an issue. In that instance, Obama’s general counsel fired off a letter threatening the licenses of stations that didn’t pull the ad “for the sake of FCC licensing and the public interest.”
http://newsmax.com/Politics/obama-fairn ... /id/326168
liberal talk radio fails because it is on in only 14% of the markets, in som eplaces like oregon thom hartmann kills rush and beck by 35 points. so it can be succesful if it was in more markets.
i read tht talk left on xm has significantly higher ratings than its right wing counterpart.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
More all right-wing stations? When there isn't even ONE all left-wing station?
And what station leans to the left? CNN, that recently hired that repulsive wingnut Erick Erickson, who called Justice David Souter a "goat fucking child molester"? ABC, whose parent company Disney owns the all right wing station KSFO in liberal San Francisco? MSNBC, who has a former Republican congressman hosting its morning show, and regularly calls on the likes of Pat Buchanan to appear on the air?
And unlike FOX, the other stations actually separate their opinion shows from their news shows.
Who's being fair again?
Wrong again, boyo:
In the Radio Act of 1927, Congress mandated the FCC's forerunner, the Federal Radio Commission (FRC), to grant broadcasting licenses in such a manner as to ensure that licensees served the public convenience, interest or necessity.
As former FCC commissioner Nicholas Johnson pointed out (California Lawyer, 8/88), it was in that spirit that the FRC, in 1928, first gave words to a policy formulation that would become known as the Fairness Doctrine, calling for broadcasters to show due regard for the opinions of others. In 1949, the FCC adopted the doctrine as a formal rule (FCC, Report on Editorializing by Broadcast Licensees, 1949).
In 1959 Congress amended the Communications Act of 1934 to enshrine the Fairness Doctrine into law, rewriting Chapter 315(a) to read: A broadcast licensee shall afford reasonable opportunity for discussion of conflicting views on matters of public importance.
It is the purpose of the First Amendment to preserve an uninhibited marketplace of ideas in which truth will ultimately prevail, rather than to countenance monopolization of that market, whether it be by the government itself or a private licensee. It is the right of the public to receive suitable access to social, political, esthetic, moral and other ideas and experiences which is crucial here. That right may not constitutionally be abridged either by Congress or by the FCC. - U.S. Supreme Court, Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC, 1969.
A decade later the United States Supreme Court upheld the doctrine's constitutionality in Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC (1969), foreshadowing a decade in which the FCC would view the Fairness Doctrine as a guiding principle, calling it the single most important requirement of operation in the public interest, the sine qua non for grant of a renewal of license. (FCC Fairness Report, 1974).
The FCC stopped enforcing it, but it's still in the books, since Congress wrote the actual doctrine into law and it was never repealed by Congress nor struck down by the Courts.
Air America failed because its management failed, like how most businesses fail. Of course you crazies never mention the numerous failed conservative talk show hosts like Alan Keyes and John Ziegler. Not to mention ClusterFOX's disastrous attempt to compete with Jon Stewart.
And as far as left wing radio failing - don't you people ever stop lying? Thom Hartmann, Ed Schultz, Bill Press, Stephanie Miller, and a bunch of other left wing radio people have huge successes in the market. In fact, they regularly trounce their right wing radio counterparts in a LOT of stations, especially Hartmann.
You mean like calling for people to be killed? Where do I start?
The way the market is set up is that a handful of media conglomerates - such as Rupert Murdoch's empire - buy a bunch of broadcast stations and newspapers to saturate any given market, and then force right wing programming on all the stations and papers they buy. The notorious attempt of Sinclair Broadcasting to force all their affiliates to air an anti-John Kerry movie in 2004 being the most obvious example. And of course, they refused to have any opposition broadcast. Had it not been for their stock tanking in the wake of public outcry, they would have followed through.
Hahaha, never fails, you right wing lunatics trying to scare your poor followers with fictitious accounts of morons like Limbaugh and Hannity being "forced off the air" and "silenced" when
a. The FCC has never applied the Fairness Doctrine to a talk radio host, nor does the regulation force stations to give equal time for every perspective, and
b. The Obama White House itself opposes reintroduction of the Fairness Doctrine, at least according to those notorious communists at ClusterFOX News.
Moreover, nobody in the established liberal circles seriously wants Hannity, Limbaugh, or even real incendiary types like Michael Savage off the air. Find me an example of such a person. ANY person.
LOL, cult like manner? Democrats can't even agree on anything as a body, let alone "order" any group to do anything. Did you numbnuts consider the fact that when Ayers was in the Weather Underground, Obama was only 8 years old? Especially since:
Neither Ayers nor the Obama campaign would describe the relationship between the two men. Dr. Young described Obama and Ayers as “friends,” but there’s no evidence their relationship is more than the casual friendship of two men who occupy overlapping Chicago political circles and who served together on the board of a Chicago foundation.
But of course, the whole McCarthyite guilt-by-association schtick works for you guys, doesn't it? Has everyone you ever met been absolute saints? If not, should we throw you in prison for shaking hands with a child molester?Ahahah...you think all that opposition research would have happened had this idiot not tried to pass himself off as a "plumber" when he was never a licensed plumber, a "concerned citizen" when he had ties to the Republican Party, and an "independent" when he actively participated in the McCain campaign?
So it's OK to trash Obama over a non-existent relationship with Bill Ayers but whine about the treatment Sam Wurzelbacher recieved when he was being actively partisan and involved with the McCain campaign?
I swear, you right wingers crack me up totally.
Are you talking about the NRA's false and misleading ads about Obama supposedly threatening to take away everyone's guns?
AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
RIght, Newsmax is such an accurate source. Try fact checking your sources before you cite them, buddy. Unless you love the feel of egg on your face.
I'm heading there in July after the Berlin show.
Though with the extra money maybe I'd turn the planned one year of travel into a lifetime of travel.
Basically, traveling's all I wanna do. I wanna go everywhere and see everything.
Also, having $7.3 million would enable me to buy a house somewhere to store all my books and records....and Ukrainian ladies of the night :P
Are you two fucking serious?? You can't even let people have a lighthearted thread without using it as an opportunity to start shit? Please, take it outside.... and go get laid or something, will ya? :roll: