Useless Conversation

[Trippy]

I don't even want to hear about it, because it's not ever coming to bumfuck, NY.

I live just about dead center in the tech capital of the world and it's not here either

[Murgos]

You live in Bangalore?

[Yegolev]

I thought it was Hyderabad.

[Righ]

Everyone hates flying. I have some compassion for parents that can't control their children's meltdowns, but that's just being a dick.

Despite hundreds of thousands of miles of flying as a child, I never lost my childhood fascination with flight. Even into my jaded middle age, and even sitting in the shittiest seat in coach on an aircraft full of delayed, annoyed and frankly smelly tourists, I still love flying. However, as Signe mentions, I can easily sleep through the boring cruise part of the flight. Probably even if somebody's spoiled raging bitch children are screaming. I would still want to chib the parents.

[Lucas]

Yesterday, here in Italy, after a seven months iatus, a single person hit the jackpot of our most famous lottery, "Superenalotto" (guess six numbers that will come out of the System) : he/she won 147.807.299,08  Euros (second highest lottery in the world 'til yesterday, I think).

Total ticket investment of the aforementioned, unknown person? Two euros. Ticket was purchased in a 2,000 souls small town in center Italy, called Bagnone.

...The fuck.
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So, seriously and not so seriously, what would you do if you won that amount of money, beside going straight to the Creator?

[schild]

So, seriously and not so seriously, what would you do if you won that amount of money, beside going straight to the Creator?

Start a gaming company that would not spend $100M on an MMOG.

Also, I'd buy a fucking island. Or a house on an awesome island.

Or convert a decommissioned bunker into a gaming utopia.

[Lucas]

Or convert a decommissioned bunker into a gaming utopia.

Now that's 

[schild]

Yea, I've always held close to my heart the idea of opening something ridiculous like a bunker or something that was just apartment upon apartment for gamers that all had top of the line PCs, with theaters for consoles and such. A sort of vacation site for gamers.

A bunker is my top choice though.

[Signe]

I'd move to Monaco with my husband and cats.  The rest of my somewhat minuscule family can visit during the annual Formula One race.  I don't think it would occur to me to do anything with games but I suppose I could lend Schild the money to create a gaming utopia.  And then take bets on how long it takes to become a dystopia! 

[Merusk]

Yesterday, here in Italy, after a seven months iatus, a single person hit the jackpot of our most famous lottery, "Superenalotto" (guess six numbers that will come out of the System) : he/she won 147.807.299,08  Euros (second highest lottery in the world 'til yesterday, I think).

Total ticket investment of the aforementioned, unknown person? Two euros. Ticket was purchased in a 2,000 souls small town in center Italy, called Bagnone.

...The fuck.

That's fairly typical for lotteries. Small town/ poor folks are the ones always buying tickets because it's seen as an escape and their sole way out of their shitty life.  The single ticket winner is the rare part.  We just had one in the states as well last wednesay.  $250,000,000.00 ($174,510,324 EUR)  PowerBall with a single ticket for the big jackpot sold in bumfuck South Carolina. That's one rich redneck.

[schild]

I'd move to Monaco with my husband and cats.  The rest of my somewhat minuscule family can visit during the annual Formula One race.  I don't think it would occur to me to do anything with games but I suppose I could lend Schild the money to create a gaming utopia.  And then take bets on how long it takes to become a dystopia!

My own little utopia really doesn't need other people. But it will have housekeepers, lots of housekeepers.

[Signe]

Non-people type housekeepers?

[Yegolev]

My mental image is surprisingly like the Stanford Prison Experiment for some reason.

[Sky]

I would just buy a nice house someplace secluded, and the surrounding mountains to maintain the view. A few toys, but not much. A couple cars and a kitted-out music studio. Then stash the rest offshore and live off the interest.

Definitely do a couple tours of Europe for the old lady, maybe buy a summer house in Ireland for her.

[Righ]

If all your income (aside from interest) is from creative endeavours such as writing music, poetry or prose, you can just live tax free in Ireland. For now.

[IainC]

If all your income (aside from interest) is from creative endeavours such as writing music, poetry or prose, you can just live tax free in Ireland. For now.

This is true and it's because the Irish government wants Bono to live there.

True story.

[Brogarn]

This is true and it's because the Irish government wants Bono to live there.

True story.

That's like ex-girlfriend needy. "If I just show you how much I love you, you'll come back!"

Assuming you're not kidding of course. Monday morning have a tendency to mess with my sarcasm detector.

[Bunk]

Despite how much it sounds like it, he's not kidding. Though I thought I had heard the story as U2 were threatening to move away if they changed the tax laws - which were under proposal to be changed primarily just so they could tax U2.

[Nebu]

I wonder if they consider scientific research as a creative endeavor.  If so, I'm moving.

[Cyrrex]

You could become a Creationist, and then it would by the very definition.

[Brogarn]

You could become a Creationist, and then it would by the very definition.

No, he's good as a scientist. Plenty of religious types in Ireland and they have a tendency to think that science is "creative".

[Signe]

Scientist?  Really?  I always thought that it was fine art, as in painting or sculpture, books and musical compositions.  Where did you get the info on science? 

[Righ]

You could become a Creationist, and then it would by the very definition.

No, he's good as a scientist. Plenty of religious types in Ireland and they have a tendency to think that science is "creative".

Unlikely. He would have to show that he was earning his money only from scientific publications and that they were of cultural importance.

http://www.citizensinformation.ie/categories/money-and-tax/tax/income-tax/exemption_from_income_tax_for_artists

[Brogarn]

Apparently my sarcasm to text translator failed.

[Endie]

Apparently my sarcasm to text translator failed.

No, it worked.  His receiver was on the blink.

[Signe]

That's because I missed the "reigious" and just asked him about it and he probably didn't look.  Sorry about that.  I blame my eye doctor who is also my plastic surgeon.

[Yegolev]

wat

[Cyrrex]

So you could get breast implants in your eyes?

[Yegolev]

I'm thinking of writing an angry letter to someone working on Perl 6 and tell them to do a bit of enhancement to the perl debugger, perhaps bringing it up to mid-nineties standards.

[IainC]

I'm thinking of writing an angry letter to someone working on Perl 6 and tell them to do a bit of enhancement to the perl debugger, perhaps bringing it up to mid-nineties standards.

Threaten to rebugger them.

[Yegolev]

Those Perl 6 fuckers would probably like that.

[Yegolev]

I think I'm going to KFC.

[Nebu]

Is that a cheese & bacon sandwich with chicken instead of bread?  

I am both afraid and in awe.

[Yegolev]

Two pieces of bacon, swiss and pepperjack, and "the Colonel's sauce".  1200 Calories.

I'm somewhat afraid of the Colonel's sauce.

[Cyrrex]

Pepperjack cheese - roughly 50 calories
Swiss cheese - roughly 57 calories
Two strips of bacon - roughly 100 calories
two pieces fried chicken breast - roughly 600

You're missing 400 calories.  You should be REALLY afraid of the sauce, it appears.