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swollenlymphnodes · Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 7:30 pm Post subject: News / Current Events

Hows this for news.

Buffett donates $37bn to charity

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5115920.stm

which is nice and all, but the problem raising my eyebrow is it's going to Bill Gates foundation. what the hell?

can Mr. Buffet spare just a million dollars or two for me?
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GrinfilledCelt · Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 8:02 pm Post subject:

Must be nice. I wonder if Gates spends his charity money intelligently to really improve things or if he just throws it in the sinkhole like other charities.
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Hungry Mongoose · Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 6:15 am Post subject:

Despite the hate Bill Gates gets from computer users around the word, he's a smart businessman. I imagine he has a better idea of what to do with the money than most people.
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jjjynx · Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 6:28 am Post subject:

Indeed, but the point that it's for charity means he might make the more out of it than supposed to...let's just pray nothing stupid happens, especailly from the media.

swollenlymphnodes · Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 8:15 am Post subject:

See that's the deal. Gates is a very smart business man. You can do stuff with 37 billion. How's about investing it in some money market account with the notion that it's 'pending' before he decides where to use it. And maybe after a year or so, he slowly trickles the original capital to various charities, meanwhile making ridiculous earnings off of it. Like I said, it raises my eyebrow.

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IronPoke · Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 2:07 am Post subject:

37 billion is like an imaginary number to me. i regard it as i do half a cent.

swollenlymphnodes · Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 8:52 pm Post subject:

Now here's a great way to earn some money. Now all those dreams of being a lucrative assasin or bouty hunter can come true. Imagine that, putting down maybe $25,000 for weapons. $10,000 for a kick-ass phone and laptop. Another $20,000 for travel arrangements. Maybe $200,000 for a buff AMG G55 Benz and a Ferrari. And you'll still make out. How cool would that be? Blue_PDT_01_04

$10m reward to find Iraq killers

Russia is offering a $10m (£5.4m) reward for information leading to the capture of the militants who killed four Russian diplomats in Iraq.

A group linked to al-Qaeda released a video on Monday showing two of the captives being killed.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered special services to "find and destroy" the killers of the hostages, who were abducted in early June.

The reward offer has been widely publicised on Arab television channels.

'Time and effort'

"In return for information leading to a result, Russia's National Anti-terrorist Committee will pay a reward of $10m," said Nikolai Patrushe, head of Russia's security service, in televised comments.

He promised earlier this week to carry out Mr Putin's order "however much time and effort it requires", Russia's Interfax news agency reported.

A Russian official said the country had received offers of help on the issue from "many overseas partners".

The Russian embassy employees were abducted when gunmen attacked their vehicle in the west Baghdad neighbourhood of Mansur on 3 June.

A fifth Russian citizen was killed during the kidnapping.

The video posted on the internet on Monday by the militant group, the Mujahideen Shura Council, showed one of the captives being beheaded and another being shot. The body of a third man was also shown.

Russia confirmed all the deaths the following day.

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BOUNTIES FOR WANTED MEN
$25m - Offered by US for information on Osama Bin Laden (at large)
$25m - Offered by US for information on militant leader in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (now dead)
$25m - Offered by US for information on Saddam Hussein (now on trial)
£10m - Offered by Russia for information on Chechen militant Shamil Basayev (at large)
$5m - Offered by US for information on former Bosnian Serb leaders Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic (at large)
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GrinfilledCelt · Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 4:09 pm Post subject:

Crap! It's snowing again! Blue_PDT_01_13

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My current event is that my friends are coming home from Iraq tomorrow! Blue_PDT_01_03

GrinfilledCelt · Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 6:09 pm Post subject:

Good question, Jet. It wouldn't go to the troops that caught him since that is their job. If anyone got him it would have been someone who tipped them off that Saddam was there. If there was such a person and they paid the bounty, they wouldn't make the informer's name known or he wouldn't live long enough to cash the check.

That's great, Lost! Party! Party! Party! Blue_PDT_01_09

IronPoke · Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 3:24 pm Post subject:

If anyone can find these bounties, I'd put my money on librarians. Those spooks can find anything if you give them a search engine and a couple of key words.

Congratulations on seeing your friends again, Lost. How many of them went over there?
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LostInWonderland · Otaku Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 395 Location: Denver, CO

Two that are like my brothers, and two that are friends by proxy. We're all sitting in my house playing video games now. Oh, and I have a nice hat (I'm Sgt Hildebrand, bitches).

IronPoke · Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 7:07 pm Post subject:

Cool. Like a beret?
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