On Tuesday, January 12, 2016 at 12:40:06 PM UTC-6, tert in seattle wrote:
> Dave Smith wrote:
> > On 2016-01-12 7:45 AM, wrote:
> > shower curtain. LOL
> >>
> >> I read if you win it now and take the cash option yuu only get 868
> >> million and that's before taxes.
> >>
> >
> > Oh gee, wouldn't it be horrible to win only $868 million and get to keep
> > only a half billion. Forget about that 10 car garage with an elevator
> > to hold a dozen Feraris.
>
> or that career as a conceptual artist
>
> actually, with all that money, I think I would buy Usenet and turn it
> into a for-profit business

You would fail, because 1. Usenet is not for sale and 2. people like the WWW a lot better, generally speaking.

John Kuthe...