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Title: Elon Musk...
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 15 April 2022, 15:37:56
....has offered £43 billion to buy twitter. :o :o :o

How fuc*king rich is he. ;)

Put simply, 43 billion is equal to 43,000 piles of money each of which contain £1,000,000.

Title: Re: Elon Musk...
Post by: ronnyd on 15 April 2022, 16:09:16
....has offered £43 billion to buy twitter. :o :o :o

How fuc*king rich is he. ;)

Put simply, 43 billion is equal to 43,000 piles of money each of which contain £1,000,000.


Is that the English or American version?
Title: Re: Elon Musk...
Post by: STEMO on 15 April 2022, 16:13:48
That's $ not £, but still eye watering. He is like a kid in a sweet shop and I think the SEC may have to rein him in.
Title: Re: Elon Musk...
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 15 April 2022, 16:53:07
....has offered £43 billion to buy twitter. :o :o :o

How fuc*king rich is he. ;)

Put simply, 43 billion is equal to 43,000 piles of money each of which contain £1,000,000.


Is that the English or American version?

I equate 1000 million equal to one billion. I think that is correct but I could be wrong. Either way Mr Musk is richer than both of us put together. ;D
Title: Re: Elon Musk...
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 15 April 2022, 16:58:50
A quick google say he is worth 276.3 billion in 2022, so I suppose 43 billion is loose change.

So more than a quarter of a trillion. :o :o :o
Title: Re: Elon Musk...
Post by: STEMO on 15 April 2022, 17:20:33
....has offered £43 billion to buy twitter. :o :o :o

How fuc*king rich is he. ;)

Put simply, 43 billion is equal to 43,000 piles of money each of which contain £1,000,000.


Is that the English or American version?

I equate 1000 million equal to one billion. I think that is correct but I could be wrong. Either way Mr Musk is richer than both of us put together. ;D
1000 million was always the American billion, the UK billion was one million million, but we use the former now.
Title: Re: Elon Musk...
Post by: ronnyd on 15 April 2022, 17:24:24
....has offered £43 billion to buy twitter. :o :o :o

How fuc*king rich is he. ;)

Put simply, 43 billion is equal to 43,000 piles of money each of which contain £1,000,000.


Is that the English or American version?

I equate 1000 million equal to one billion. I think that is correct but I could be wrong. Either way Mr Musk is richer than both of us put together. ;D
But, you have a vast estate in Lincolnshiresausageland. I, on the other hand, have a postage stamp one in sunny, (today anyway) Suffolk.
Title: Re: Elon Musk...
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 15 April 2022, 17:29:15
....has offered £43 billion to buy twitter. :o :o :o

How fuc*king rich is he. ;)

Put simply, 43 billion is equal to 43,000 piles of money each of which contain £1,000,000.


Is that the English or American version?

I equate 1000 million equal to one billion. I think that is correct but I could be wrong. Either way Mr Musk is richer than both of us put together. ;D
But, you have a vast estate in Lincolnshiresausageland. I, on the other hand, have a postage stamp one in sunny, (today anyway) Suffolk.

I'm pretty sure that Musky is still richer than me......although I would need to check. ;D
Title: Re: Elon Musk...
Post by: Mr Skrunts on 15 April 2022, 17:45:02
Set to become the richest man on earth if he's not allready

But why does he want twitter?
Title: Re: Elon Musk...
Post by: Mr Skrunts on 15 April 2022, 17:46:24
    Elon Musk, the co-founder and CEO of Tesla, is the richest person in the world with a net worth of $273 billion.
    Behind Musk is the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, with an estimated net worth of $188 billion.
Title: Re: Elon Musk...
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 15 April 2022, 18:05:17
Set to become the richest man on earth if he's not allready

But why does he want twitter?
To reset it's unrelenting bias.

He is already the largest individual shareholder, having bought 10% last week in response to an ongoing spat with twitter... I believe they deleted something he posted.

He has suggested buying it to shut it down in order to defend free speech. It would be a positive thing if he follows through. Not to mention the tax write off...
Title: Re: Elon Musk...
Post by: Andy B on 15 April 2022, 18:10:44
.....
1000 million was always the American billion, the UK billion was one million million, but we use the former now.

What Steve says ....  :y
Title: Re: Elon Musk...
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 15 April 2022, 18:20:52
.....
1000 million was always the American billion, the UK billion was one million million, but we use the former now.

What Steve says ....  :y

I was correct then. :y

The third time since 1987. :)
Title: Re: Elon Musk...
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 16 April 2022, 13:55:47
Looks like he won't get to own 100%.
Title: Re: Elon Musk...
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 21 April 2022, 17:03:58
He is now offering $46.5 billion, so it appears he has found another $3.5 billion down the back of the sofa.
Title: Re: Elon Musk...
Post by: TheBoy on 21 April 2022, 18:43:04
    Elon Musk, the co-founder and CEO of Tesla, is the richest person in the world with a net worth of $273 billion.
    Behind Musk is the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, with an estimated net worth of $188 billion.
Thats because BBezos had to give a shitload to his ex....


....and is probably better at hiding it for tax reasons ;D
Title: Re: Elon Musk...
Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 21 April 2022, 20:59:35
    Elon Musk, the co-founder and CEO of Tesla, is the richest person in the world with a net worth of $273 billion.
    Behind Musk is the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, with an estimated net worth of $188 billion.
Thats because BBezos had to give a shitload to his ex....


....and is probably better at hiding it for tax reasons ;D

..... and she's busy giving it all away!  :)

Although I'm sure she'll keep enough to keep the heating on!  :D
Title: Re: Elon Musk...
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 22 April 2022, 17:21:29
273 million seems a lot to me.

273 billion I can't get my head around. :)
Title: Re: Elon Musk...
Post by: Mr Skrunts on 22 April 2022, 20:21:41
273 million seems a lot to me.

273 billion I can't get my head around. :)

Imagine how much interest he make PER SECOND every day.
Title: Re: Elon Musk...
Post by: Mr Skrunts on 22 April 2022, 20:27:03
 271,000,000,000.00       1.50%       4,065,000,000.00
            
 4,065,000,000.00               365       11,136,986.30
            
 11,136,986.30               24       464,041.10
            
 464,041.10                       60       7,734.02
            
 7,734.02                              60       128.90


All before taxes etc, $128.90 per second ::) and thats at 1.5% interest rate
 :y
Title: Re: Elon Musk...
Post by: STEMO on 22 April 2022, 20:30:01
Except, of course, he doesn't actually have much of his wealth in cash, sitting in a building society account  ;D ;D

He wouldn't get out of bed for 1.5%
Title: Re: Elon Musk...
Post by: Mr Skrunts on 22 April 2022, 20:33:32
Except, of course, he doesn't actually have much of his wealth in cash, sitting in a building society account  ;D ;D

He wouldn't get out of bed for 1.5%

True

But the numbers are still staggering
Title: Re: Elon Musk...
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 23 April 2022, 12:58:43
Except, of course, he doesn't actually have much of his wealth in cash, sitting in a building society account  ;D ;D

He wouldn't get out of bed for 1.5%

You might have more available cash than  Musky.....perhaps. :)
Title: Re: Elon Musk...
Post by: STEMO on 25 April 2022, 22:22:16
It seems he has succeeded in his takeover. Says he wants to make Twitter a true vehicle for free speech. I wonder if Trump will be allowed back into the fold? I guess he has to be, or Musk's 'free speech' declaration would be dead in the water.
Interesting times......not that I'll get to see any of it  ::)
Title: Re: Elon Musk...
Post by: TheBoy on 26 April 2022, 11:55:18
a true vehicle for free speech.
From what I can gather, idiotter is already free speech for leftie and tree huggers.

So, I guess he wants to allow the more centre right majority to be able to have some free speech.  Or far right ;D
Title: Re: Elon Musk...
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 26 April 2022, 13:44:42
a true vehicle for free speech.
From what I can gather, idiotter is already free speech for leftie and tree huggers.

So, I guess he wants to allow the more centre right majority to be able to have some free speech.  Or far right ;D


I hear that people can be banned from twitter for saying 'hateful bigoted things' ......such as "only a woman has a vagina" 8)

Lets hope Musky brings some sanity back.
Title: Re: Elon Musk...
Post by: Raeturbo on 26 April 2022, 15:55:57
Yes I think that’s right, let’s hope so