If you were Bill Gates...

[apprepcen]

It is good to get away from the daily stress of life in the fast lane. So let's dream a bit. If you had all the money in the world, what would you buy? Where would you live? What will you do to get rid of the excess cash?

[Martinco]

What will you do to get rid of the excess cash?

I do not know yet but I am sure it is going to be with great difficulty. I will have to think about this for some time but I am sure if you bank it, it will vanish on its own !

[apprepcen]

I will have fun with the banks first. I will deposit R150 million into Nedbank and withdraw it within a week, telling them it was an error. I do not want to use their services, because they suck. It should have gone to ABSA. Then I do the same thing to them and so on, before I move it offshore. I have heard that bankmanagers fly to wherever you live to beg you not to move the money.

I was thinking of buying a Lambo, but I don't think it is a practical car in South Africa. They can only be serviced in Johannesburg as far as I know and I don't want to live there. Also at my age my reflexes are not what they used to be, so there is a good chance of me wrapping it around the first lamppost.

Gee, I am too darn practical!!

[tec0]

If I had a few billion I would buy A good amount of shareholdings in VW and force them to bring back the VW City Golf and add a few extra’s to “classically update it” make it safe and flood the world with them. Secondly I would buy a nice piece of private land in Australia and build myself a nice home with a proper piece of road to drive my little mk1 GTI around and spend some quality time with the family.

I would then focus my money on developing new fuel technologies. And invest a good amount of money into schools, technology and art especially writing. I would love to go to Iceland for a few months take in the sights and sounds.

I would love to see an Iron Maiden Show live with proper VIP tickets. It has always been a dream of mine to see them live. I would also love to go to Russia as I am fascinated with their history maybe invest some money there to promote them a bit better.

Lastly I would buy a little Golf GTI “mk1” and restore it from the ground up but really just take my time with it, make it perfect.

Also I will bring back long play records

[apprepcen]

If I had a few billion I would buy A good amount of shareholdings in VW and force them to bring back the VW City Golf and add a few extra’s to “classically update it” make it safe and flood the world with them. Secondly I would buy a nice piece of private land in Australia and build myself a nice home with a proper piece of road to drive my little mk1 GTI around and spend some quality time with the family.

I remember the first GTI. A collegue bought one brand new. All I could afford was an Escort 1600 Sport.

I would then focus my money on developing new fuel technologies. And invest a good amount of money into schools, technology and art especially writing.

Aus and energy research. I think you and this guy might become best buddies then.

You might also find this interesting.

I would also love to go to Russia as I am fascinated with their history maybe invest some money there to promote them a bit better.

Did you see what the price of real estate in Moscow is? A 75m2 flat in the vicinity of the Kremlin and the Red Square goes for almost $1 million.

I have after many years figured out the reason for the Cold War. The USA wanted to bring all those gorgeous Russian ladies to the West but Russia showed them the middle finger.

Also I will bring back long play records

Don't forget the turntables OK.

[basati]

Spend it wisely and share with others that are needy.

[wynn]

I was thinking of buying a Lambo, but I don't think it is a practical car in South Africa.

Buy the lambo then do a 'high rider 4X4 conversion' for our roads.

[Phil Cooper]

I would pay off all my debts.

As far as it would go ...... :-)

[lawbinded]

I would bring back 8 track tapes

[tec0]

8 tracks were "indestructible" and I will never understand why they were replaced… But these CD’s are the worst invention ever.

[Dave A]

At the risk of derailing the general thrust of this thread...

But these CD's are the worst invention ever.

Say what?

I thought CD's were a great invention. What have you got against CD's?

[ChrisToulson]

Hi

I get excited just thinking about having that much money. I would pay off all my debts, build a big enough comfortable house in a good neighborhood, buy a couple of reliable luxurious cars, spoil some family members and friends a little and then invest a lot of the money in property. Hopefully there'll still be quite a lot of money to survive on left

[tec0]

At the risk of derailing the general thrust of this thread...

Say what?

I thought CD's were a great invention. What have you got against CD's?

Well most people don’t know this but “most” CD players only operate at 2bit sound and they only store sounds that is audible to the human ear. Fact is if you are a fan of classical music “and I am” then the shortcomings of a CD becomes very clear.

Because the sound ranges that couldn’t be picked up by the human ear was dropped to save space you get this hallow fabrication of sound. The violin sound’s dead there is no “vibration”. Long-play records, recorded every sound and vibration and it was for that reason why they couldn’t fit much music on a long play.

Now 8 tracks had actual quadraphonic capability and in a word sounded brilliant the music was living the vibration of each sound perfectly recorded same as the long play. It didn’t really matter if you could “hear” these vibration because any long play fan would tell you “YES YOU MISS IT” the same is true with 8 tracks there sound quality was actually brilliant “if you had the right equipment” and the same was true with Long-plays.

CD’s is this little shiny disk low value fabrication to save money and it lacks that organic analogue that is represented by a continuously variable physical quantity rather than a digital decoder with only 2bit capability…

It simply gives that little extra…

[AndyD]

CD’s is this little shiny disk low value fabrication to save money and it lacks that organic analogue that is represented by a continuously variable physical quantity rather than a digital decoder with only 2bit capability…

It simply gives that little extra…

Geez, you sound like you've been hanging around the hydrogenaudio forums. I agree that the audio reproduction of a CD is inferior to vinyl but I haven't been able to tell the difference for the last decade due to loss of hearing range :-( I also can't distinguish between 320kbs mp3's and lossless flac recordings either.

[tec0]

Geez, you sound like you've been hanging around the hydrogenaudio forums. I agree that the audio reproduction of a CD is inferior to vinyl but I haven't been able to tell the difference for the last decade due to loss of hearing range :-( I also can't distinguish between 320kbs mp3's and lossless flac recordings either.

The truth is with digital sound is the fact that you will never get a perfect signal in digital now analogue you get that perfect signal and people actually thought it was “noise” at some point but soon learned that if you filter to much out you are left with “less” audible sound AKA CD’s…

The truth is this, most CD’s rely on the decoders and if the decoder is of low quality then you can have the biggest speaker’s system in the world along with the best amp, the actual information that is being sent to be amplified sounds like crap.

In truth 320kb is not that wonderful for mp3’s please try 192kbs and you will find that some sounds are actually sharper. That said, if the original CD sound track didn’t have a lot of info to start with then it doesn’t matter…

That said I am no expert, all I know is my violin recording on LP sounds a lot better than the one on CD…