OT: The $300 Million "A"
#17
The same thing on a less disgusting scale from the oddly named Wally builder:
http://www.wally.com/jumpch.asp?idCh...r=0&attivo=2-7
#19
Burning Brakes
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#21
And imagine the mileage points he gets when he swipes the AMEX Black at the pump for a $500K "filler 'er up" ... he wouldn't need a boat, he can fly ... : ) ... ironically, I imagine he does fly and the boat has to make it around port to port with just the crew.
If it costs this dope $20M (let alone the cost of idle capital) a year, surely he can at least write a $10M "chump change" check for New Orleans schools or something? Hopefully he does something with his money other than this nonsense.
#22
I have to admit, if you're going to work on anything less than a cup race yacht, that would be a pretty cool deckhand job ...
And imagine the mileage points he gets when he swipes the AMEX Black at the pump for a $500K "filler 'er up" ... he wouldn't need a boat, he can fly ... : ) ... ironically, I imagine he does fly and the boat has to make it around port to port with just the crew.
If it costs this dope $20M (let alone the cost of idle capital) a year, surely he can at least write a $10M "chump change" check for New Orleans schools or something? Hopefully he does something with his money other than this nonsense.
And imagine the mileage points he gets when he swipes the AMEX Black at the pump for a $500K "filler 'er up" ... he wouldn't need a boat, he can fly ... : ) ... ironically, I imagine he does fly and the boat has to make it around port to port with just the crew.
If it costs this dope $20M (let alone the cost of idle capital) a year, surely he can at least write a $10M "chump change" check for New Orleans schools or something? Hopefully he does something with his money other than this nonsense.
Hopefully he gives money to good causes. I think that would be the best part about being super rich; being in the position to give money away to help better the world. For all his faults, I do appreciate Bill Gates saying that billionaires should give away their wealth to worthy causes while still alive.
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#26
Three Wheelin'
According to marinetraffic.com they were up in San Francisco last week.
#27
I'd continue this topic in the "OT" of Rennlist, but it's a madhouse zoo of incontinent apes throwing faeces at each other.
I am not imagining that I bring any new news to other Rennlisters. I live in California. Here, the budget is in chaos and has been for a decade or so ... that we know about ... maybe it's been worse for far longer, but well hidden in plain sight like a Ponzi scheme relying upon the tech bubble or the housing bubble to sustain the impossible and suspend disbelief in the incredible while waiting for the inevitable. In recent years, the government has sold fixed assets to pay recurring costs and increased spending while begging the Federal government for more money ... at the same time as increasing taxes while cutting funding for hospitals, schools, fire fighters and sheriffs ... at the same time as finding budget for speed cameras and CHP lasers and tazers ... there's no question where their priorities lie. I don't see how we're meant to participate in this race where all the drivers are government sponsored crash test dummies and we're front seat passengers with the "airbag disabled" light blinking.
#28
Drifting
...394 foot yacht...Canyon56
http://www.superyachttimes.com/yachts/details/77
#29
Oh, oh, that's 139' less than Roman Abramovitch's "Eclipse".
http://www.superyachttimes.com/yachts/details/77
http://www.superyachttimes.com/yachts/details/77
#30
Why don't these bozos just buy cruise liners or old British Royalty ships? Didn't someone buy the QE2? It's just absurd. At least the Google billionaire boys saw some reason and bought an existing 747 (or whatever) rather than commissioning one of the luxo jet companies to build them a brand new multi-gazillion dollar status symbol that burns a 100 barrels of jet fuel so they can "commute" coast to coast.
(the company that bought the boat added the ugly enclosed top deck)