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Cindy Hamilton[_2_] Cindy Hamilton[_2_] is offline
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On Sunday, January 10, 2016 at 10:34:30 AM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2016-01-10 10:15 AM, Nancy Young wrote:
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> > We're talking scary money now. Whoever wins that, if they can't
> > keep their identity a secret, it could get ugly for them. $1.3B.
> > Everyone is going to want a piece of that.

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> It is not just the old friends and relatives who will be looking for
> gifts. Charity fundraisers will be pounding on your door.


They would pound in vain. I suppose the liability of electrifying my
front door would be too great...

> People will
> be hounding you to invest in money making schemes. There will be people
> out there looking for ways to make you part with your money one way or
> another. You will need to hire a security service.


With a terabuck, it'd be eminently feasible. What do you think
Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, and all of these other billionaires do:

<http://www.forbes.com/billionaires/list/#version:static>

Honestly, I'd love to have nothing more to worry about than
hiring people to find tax dodges and to keep skeezy fundraisers away
from me, and bribing the local government (wherever I end up moving)
to let me put up a big ol' fence that violates local zoning regs.

Cindy Hamilton