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Unread 07-11-2007, 04:04
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Re: Upon winning the lottery, What would you do?

OK, the sad part is that we have actually sat around at work and debated this (hey, we are working on government salarites, what do you expect? ).

First, an observation. Have you ever noticed that when any of the major lotteries start to get really large, the local TV stations all start to interview the people standing in line to buy tickets, hoping that they will win? They all seem to find the same guy to ask the question of: unshaven for 12 days, no teeth, big hunk o' chaw in his lip, 14 strands of hair in a comb-over, and a nasty old Cowboys jacket that hasn't been washed since 1973. And then they all ask the same question: "Sir, what would you do if you won the $84 million in this weeks Powerball lottery?"

"We-e-e-all, first off, I guess I would git me a new truck..."

<sigh> some people just don't know how to think big.

Me? If I won a few dozen million dollars, I would start off by buying a small Caribbean country. Preferably one that entirely occupies its own island. With whatever was left, I would purchase an air force for Dave-land and give them just one command: keep all the lawyers away. Eh, maybe two commands: keep all the lawyers away, and let me take the airplane out for a spin whenever I want. OK, so make that three rules: keep all the lawyers away, let me take the airplane out for a spin whenever I want, and make sure to fly in enough Krispy Kremes whenever the supply in Dave-land starts to get low.

Yeah, that is how I would spend my lottery winnings.

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Re: Upon winning the lottery, What would you do?

First thing I do is turn off the phone and leave the house and stay someplace only my immediate family knows.
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Re: Upon winning the lottery, What would you do?

If I won millions and still had millions after taxes, I would still finish getting my degree, but instead of taking summer classes, I would spend the summer months traveling to as many places as possible!

I would get my parents out of their crappy neighborhood that has an average of 2 shootings a week... I would buy them a house, probably closer to where my sister lives.

Our house here is pretty nice, so I would pay it off and then Eric and I could discuss if we wanted to sell it and buy something newer (we do not need anything bigger, 5 bedrooms for 2 people is pretty big) or remodel.

I would buy a vacation house somewhere... maybe Alaska... almost definitely in the mountains somewhere...

I would get a nicer car and I would hire a full time chauffeur and the world will be a safer place all around.

I would buy the best camera equipment out there and go on wonderful photography trips in the wilds of the world!

And I would invest and save... and help out where I can... most likely with animal charities and charities designed to help those in extreme poverty.

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Re: Upon winning the lottery, What would you do?

Scratch Lottery -> Segway
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Re: Upon winning the lottery, What would you do?

I would buy the Browns a decent pass rush.
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Re: Upon winning the lottery, What would you do?

Taxes
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Donation to Houston Robotics
Also donate other programs around world [esp. in India] that teach kids about computers
Start some sort of Robotics Scholorship [Notice I didn't limit it to FIRST],
Donate to sites like TBA/CD that make FIRST work more smoothly.

Buy IFI hopefully?!?
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Re: Upon winning the lottery, What would you do?

i havent answered... but this is what i'd do

buy a warehouse with a overhead crane

fill it with stock metal

buy all the land around it and expand

create a massive lan center in 1/4th of the area, the rest will be filled with hundreds of thousands of dollars of tools, and then ill lock myself inside, letting all the neighborhood kids come in ofc (like willy wonka ) and sit around with nothing to do like mythbusters, and just make awesome stuff all day for no reason
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Re: Upon winning the lottery, What would you do?

Pay the taxes

Buy myself a new car. Nothing fancy. Just something new and more fuel efficient than my 14-16 mpg 14 year old Explorer.

Take a couple months to vacation in various places around the world (Australia, New Zealand, and Europe are at the top of my list)

Buy myself a decent sized house (4 bedrooms or so). With a shop/garage thats nearly as large as the house. Outfit the shop with a full complement of manual and CNC machine tools, a waterjet, welders, power and hand tools, and everything else you'd need to take on any project you could ever think up.

I'd set up a trust fund for both the FIRST teams I've worked with.

Endow some grants for other FIRST teams.

Set up an organization to find and support other charitable ventures.

Other than having the coolest garage ever, and flying first class whenever I travel, I don't think I'd alter my lifestyle at all.
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Re: Upon winning the lottery, What would you do?

i would spend all of it on a really nice car..... haha, no prolly just bank it and go from there, just more stuff.... Mostly impulse buying.
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Re: Upon winning the lottery, What would you do?

1. Rent a 777 or two or three
2. Send them around the world to pick up friends
3. Send limos for team 116 and other local friends to take to plane(s)
4. Meet on Lavery's island, or buy my own
5. Have a whale of a party.
6. 2, 3 weeks (months?) later, when party is over, send them all home.
7. If any money left, buy a box of Krispy Kremes.
8. Spend the remainder of my life guarding the KK's...
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Re: Upon winning the lottery, What would you do?

- Pay Taxes.

- Shiny shiny trust fund for 973.

- Grants for teams I have friends on or those who are in need of financial aid.

- Let Step-Dad build that Concrete Dome he's always talking about.

- Build own Concrete Dome, those things are cool.

- Go to college, get PhD in Biomedical Engineering.

- Visit international friends.

- See the world.

- Build a TARDIS.

- Look into getting ride to the ISS via Russians.
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Re: Upon winning the lottery, What would you do?

I'd share it with myself. //but that doesn't work if you're me =|

then.. I'd buy a Galaxy Aerospace Westwind 1125 (now referred to as Gulfstream G100 ^^),
convert it into a full computerized ("glass") cockpit,
get the license for this class,
and then have that trip around the world with it
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Re: Upon winning the lottery, What would you do?

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Taxes
College
Stock Market
Donation to Houston Robotics
Also donate other programs around world [esp. in India] that teach kids about computers
Start some sort of Robotics Scholorship [Notice I didn't limit it to FIRST],
Donate to sites like TBA/CD that make FIRST work more smoothly.

Buy IFI hopefully?!?
Oh ya, I also would like to buy an Island and call it Pirate Island and donate it to The Pirate Bay!~ And another to be used as the headquarters of the Pirate Party! http://www.piratpartiet.se/international/english
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Re: Upon winning the lottery, What would you do?

Finance a trip to South Africa for our team so we could see our partners' country as they have seen ours for the last 2 years.

Oh heck, take along a few dozen KoP's and stage the first African regional!

Set up a charitible foundation to manage the rest - I'd quit my current job and the foundation would be my work.
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Re: Upon winning the lottery, What would you do?

The first thing I'd do is buy Sealand.
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