I would look up two of my old high school teachers and give them briefcases of cash. "Thanks for teaching me how to write". "Thanks for teaching me calculus".

I would go climb Mount Fuji.

I would get a $3000 gold plated physical exam with lots of extras.

I would buy an apartment closer to my favorite running place.

I would buy an expensive server (that sits in the closet) and an expensive laptop. Both of them would be silent.

I would buy Richard Stallman some free beer.

http://bnlrule2.freehomepages.com/iihamd.html

I remember seeing the Barenaked Ladies at an outdoor concert on the UBC campus when they were riding their first wave of popularity, a bunch of young guys from the suburbs having a lot of fun making music. They'd become a household name in Canada virtually overnight when the City of Toronto banned them from performing because their name was "unacceptable". If I Had a Million Dollars was their first single and features a refreshing sense of playfulness rarely seen in the music biz. The goofing around is reminiscent of the Monkees recording of Gonna Buy Me a Dog.

I remember that song by the Bare Naked Ladies. It struck me that they were really creative with the idea, where most pop bands would be schmaltzy or obvious.

I look at money this way: before there was money, there was time. Once I have enough money (whatever "enough" is), then I have to figure out what I want to do with the remaining time in my life.

I know I'd buy enough hardware for a dedicated server to host my webpage though, and I'd host all my friends web pages too because they're good people, and I host some random pages just because I can. whee!

1.) invest the majority in a CD with the best intrest I can find
2.) invest in Lindows.com
3.) build a small house on a lake in a city
4.) with my dream computer network installed
5.) buy a boat
6.) open a small shop that sells computer stuff, and hire a staff to run it most of the time (I'll do the fun stuff like installing cards and doing repairs)
7.) spend most of my time writting GNU GPL'd software (most of it music software)
8.) Get multipule masters and PhD's since I'd have nothing else to worry about.... and need something to keep me busy.
9.) teach computer scince at the highschool level (since there aren't enough people doing it yet... and it will become increasingly more important to do so.)
10.) Run my own web server and host a Graphical MUD or some other cool game server.

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Originally posted by quantumfluff:
Sailboat. Around 35'. Large enough to live aboard but small enough to single-hand. Sail around the world. If there is enough $ left, retire to the Carribean, otherwise go back to work.

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ooops there goes my million dollars!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If I had $1000000
I'd build a tree fort in our yard
If I had $1000000
You could help, it wouldn't be that hard
If I had $1000000
Maybe we could put a refrigerator in there
Wouldn't that be fabulous

If I had $1000000
(If I had $1000000)
I'd buy you a fur coat
(but not a real fur coat that's cruel)
If I had $1000000
(If I had $1000000)
I'd buy you an exotic pet
(Like a llama or an emu)
If I had $1000000
(if I had $1000000)
I'd buy you John Merrick's remains
(All them crazy elephant bones)
If I had $1000000 I'd buy your love.

If I had $1000000
We wouldn't have to walk to the store
If I had $1000000
We'd take a limousine 'cause it costs more.
If I had $1000000
We wouldn't have to eat Kraft Dinner
But we would. We'd actually make the treefort from the
first chorus out of it. Mmm.

If I had $1000000
(If I had $1000000)
I'd buy you a green dress
(but not a real green dress, that's cruel)
If I had $1000000
(If I had $1000000)
I'd buy you some art
(a Picasso or a Garfunkel)
If I had $1000000
(If I had $1000000)
I'd buy you a monkey
(haven't you always wanted a monkey?)

If I had $1000000, If I had $1000000
If I had $1000000, If I had $1000000
I'd be rich.

Next...pay bills. Pay off everything we owe to everyone, everywhere.

Then I would set up some funding for Electric Minds, to keep it alive and expand it.

Buying a house would be on the list, but I'd have to wait until Pamela got back from Turkey for that.

I don't really want a new car; I've got a (fairly) new car already, and so does Pamela. As for additional computer stuff, I don't think I'd wind up spending a lot...you'd be surprised how much cheap hardware you can get these days, if you know where to look.

Finally, I think I would agree with some of the other people here:

If I had a million dollars (If I had a million dollars),
If I had a million dollars (If I had a million dollars),
If I had a million dooo-ooolll-llars...I'd be rich!

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Probably get really excited and starting singing this...

http://bnlrule2.freehomepages.com/iihamd.html

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I'd like to see that!

I'd pay off my only debt (those blasted student loans that NEVER go away), pay the mortgage on my best friend's place and buy the suite next to his so he can blast out the wall and turn a truly awesome home into a truly spectacular one, pay the mortgage on my mom's house and pay off her credit cards, buy my way into Canada, and get the degrees I'm really interested in so that I can work towards making other people's lives better.

A million dollars wouldn't pay off my school region's debt
If it were a million dollars before tax it would be even less.... a billion dollars would probably be a better suggestion for the topic.

but, I suppose anyway, I'd give some of it (250,000 or so)to gene therapy research in various fields, such as arthritis, xeno-transplantation, etc.(by ways of stocks and bonds of course ), then all of my other selfish endevours....

1) Buy a nice sailboat, not a big one, just something to sail in the ponds here, I've sailed in other's 420's and I LOVE them, so there's that...
2) Buy some nice skis, and invest some of the money in a ski condo, on the slope, probably from returns of the stocks/bonds
3) Put a large portion of it into a savings account which is of course fdic (just a bit cautious in today's world....)
4) Macs. A lot of them, and anything I can think of. Then I'd send bushels of it off to quality shareware developers, and become a super-angel through nitro/snaggy's eyes (donate a lot to them...)
5) Is there someoen I can give money to to help fight microsoft?
6) Start a NPO which goes traveling around showing governments how much easier, safer, and cheaper it is to not use microsoft products, then help fund the transition (actually, if linux were to be ran, i could just run it on the current machines, it would just be a huge task, but w/e)
7) Give a sum of money to the VHO(Vineyard Housing Office), a local npo. Here on martha's vineyard, we have a huge housing crisis, thanks to all of the tourists. I volunteered for them last summer, and I know that things get done there. They in turn organize between HOTM IAHF and DCRHA.

8) Try to get promoted in my summer job so I get payed more than minimum wage teaching little ppl how to sail
9) Get a job as a ski instructor (again), with my new skis, and new condo, at stratton
10) Live off of the seasonal jobs, volunteer for local angencies in between, and draw from the savings when needed

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Originally posted by ilovemydualg4:
I hate to sound greedy, but in today's world, a million dollars isn't quite that much. The land near me here that we bought 42 years ago for 50,000 dollars is now worth 2.3 million, and it's only 6 acres.

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It's enough for some people. My mom's mortgage wouldn't put a dent in a million dollars. She just doesn't make much money as a short order cook, so it'll take her forever to pay it off. But at least the house is hers.

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A million dollars wouldn't pay off my school region's debt
If it were a million dollars before tax it would be even less.... a billion dollars would probably be a better suggestion for the topic.

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2. help my fiancee move her extended family into a big nice house in Canada where all of us can stay as one big happy family.

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A million bucks, hmmm.  A million (even US$ compared to $CDN) isn't all that much.  You can't even start a decent-sized company for that much; it'll barely do for seed capital.  If you want really nice digs or privacy (like your own island) or a jet airplane to get places fast... a million won't get you there.

A million will let you live comfortably for a long time, though.  Invest in a house in a good place and you can watch your equity go up.  $100,000US will buy you a very nice 40-odd foot ocean-going boat (maybe 50 foot depending on age and appointments), and you can probably live on it for a couple decades sailing around if you watch your expenditures.

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[QUOTE]Originally posted by mephisto:
[b]2. help my fiancee move her extended family into a big nice house in Canada where all of us can stay as one big happy family.

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thanks for reminding me, Tau. How nice off you! (and by the way to answer that post you posted a long long time ago, it wasn't me who suggested marriage, it was her.) You see i wasn't there (at my wedding) or anything so i wouldn't know now, would I? i mean i was stoned outta my mind when the whole thing happened so i wouldn't remember anything. thanks for reminding me.
its one of those scripts i have that does auto completes pretty much everything for me or tries to think ahead as too what i'm going to type, being too lazy. some things still haven't been updated and i'm too lazy to do it.
so, why so interested?

*mephisto - smiles that annoying knowing smile off his. then throws his head back and laughs his ass off.

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Get a bigger telly.

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Forgot, i need a light shade for my bedroom too, i might just splash out on that any way.

I found this mp3 file that some of you might like:-
"This is a parody of "Bare Naked Ladies - One Week" about Microsoft Windows."

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Originally posted by snupy:
Barenaked Ladies rule!!!!!

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got that right

both the band and the other type of barenaked ladies

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I found this mp3 file that some of you might like:-
"This is a parody of "Bare Naked Ladies - One Week" about Microsoft Windows."

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got that right

both the band and the other type of barenaked ladies

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hahahah nice sig too

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Originally posted by biogeek:
and, if i were feeling really charitable, pay of my exboyfriend's debts anonymously. he's worked really hard all his life and even though things got bad with us, he deserves a break financially. and I know that he wouldn't accept money if it were non-anonymously given.

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Originally posted by ilovemydualg4:
I hate to sound greedy, but in today's world, a million dollars isn't quite that much. The land near me here that we bought 42 years ago for 50,000 dollars is now worth 2.3 million, and it's only 6 acres.

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In the world of 1960, $50,000 was a lot of money. A new house cost $16,500 back then. Source:

http://www.1960sflashback.com/1960/Economy.asp

Your land is up from $50k to $2300k in 42 years, which works out to a growth rate of 9.6% a year. In contrast, the Dow-Jones Industrial Average is up about 6.7% over the same period. OTOH, the Dow-Jones pays dividents on top of that, whereas the land has property tax applied to it every year, but you can also rent the land out.

And the price of American gasoline has gone up only 3.9% a year during the past 42 years.