Some guy to donate $37 billion.

***Ace Mercury*** · 06-26-2006, 12:41 PM

Thirty-seven billion dollars. US dollars.

http://money.cnn.com/2006/06/25/maga...ex.htm?cnn=yes
http://money.cnn.com/2006/06/25/maga...tune/index.htm
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You may've heard of Warren Buffet, second richest man in the world. Well, he's donating most of the $37B to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, co-founded by the first richest man in the world. Life's funny like that.

I'm really impressed. Although he'll not be in abject poverty afterwards, I don't know if I would live up to those ideals if I had a GDP of a small nation under my mattress.

Discuss.

DELICIOUS POISON · 06-26-2006, 12:57 PM

Yikes. Well, I don't suppose you really need more than a few billion to live a hundred really comfy lives >_>

Swordmaster Link · 06-26-2006, 01:50 PM

That's cool.

***Ynot Shane*** · 06-26-2006, 05:43 PM

That's dumb. Give me some.

***Ace Mercury*** · 06-26-2006, 07:18 PM

Shane is a charity case.

***Ynot Shane*** · 06-26-2006, 09:43 PM

I know.

06-26-2006, 12:41 PM	#1
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06-26-2006, 05:43 PM	#4
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06-26-2006, 09:43 PM	#6
*Ynot Shane* Not Ready to Make Nice Join Date: Apr 1999 Location: Flaflooga Gender: Posts: 131,639 Thanks: 43 Thanked 418 Times in 216 Posts Points: 260,510.56 Bank: 19,111,241.06 Total Points: 19,371,751.61 Donate	I know. __________________ When in the real world am I ever going to need chemistry or history or math or the English language?

06-26-2006, 12:57 PM	#2
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06-26-2006, 07:18 PM	#5
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