At last count, Bill Gates had an estimated net worth of $42 billion dollars
($42,000,000,000.000). He has earned since his birth an average of $32.31
per heartbeat, and this is escalating. He recently donated $200 million to
place computers in libraries across the country. This is 1/210 of his
wealth.

Here are some other things he could do:

* Pay NBA MVP Michael Jordan's salary for 1,394 years.
* Give every man, woman and child on the face of the Earth $7.46.
* Pay every California Lottery prize for the next 34 years.
* Fund 158 Mars Pathfinder missions.
* Fund the US Department of Education for 19 years.
* Pay tuition for the residents of Seattle and Tacoma to go to the
University of Washington for four years.
* Fund the US presence in the Persian Gulf for 11 months.
* Fund the US peacekeeping forces in Bosnia for 157 years.
* Buy 233,346,297 copies of Microsoft Windows 95.
* Buy 1,680,000,000 copies of his own book, buy more with his royalties
from those sales, continuing the cycle and easily the best selling
author of all time.
* Make Hanson the most successful musicians of all time by buying
3,529,411,765 copies of "Middle of Nowhere."
* If he wanted to challenge George Lucas (worth only $2 billion), he
could make 227 sequels to "Waterworld," or 35,000 sequels to "Sling
Blade."
* At the median donation for spending a night in the White House, he
could stay in the Lincoln Bedroom for 46,300 years.
* If he wanted to go on a killing spree in Los Angeles County, at the
rate that Simpson was charged, he could kill 3,360 people and pay all
his attorney fees and punitive damages.
* At the rate of 1/2 ounce per $27 million, he could pay Mike Tyson to
eat 1/5 of Evander Holyfield.
* He could fly from Seattle to Paris and back on Air France 45,258,621
times.
* If he wanted to go to a local baseball game, he could buy Seattle
Mariners season tickets, all of them, for 411 years, and with his
spare change could buy the team and the Kingdome.
* At Denny's, he could buy a "Grand Slam Slugger Breakfast" for
9,150,326,797 people.
* If he couldn't get service, he could buy every man, woman and child in
China a Big Mac Extra Value Meal, as long as no one "Super Sizes."
* If they preferred, he could buy 17 billion packages of Top Ramen
noodles.
* He must like coffee, and could buy over 6 billion pounds of French
roast at his local Starbuck's.
* Speaking of a cup of coffee, he could support one of those Sally
Struther's foreign kids for 113,341,969 years.

Perhaps what he need to spend money on most is a new pair of glasses and
some hair conditioner.
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