It won't take quite that long.

"The guitar solos that finish the song were added in originally to give Van Zant a chance to rest, as the band was playing several sets per night at clubs at the time."

It's no Green Grass and High Tides, but it'll do.

Agreed: The top-10 list is a bit of a grueling watch if you're not in film class.

Easier to start with the villains and heroes list.

I'm in my 40's with a good deal of my friends in their 30's and some in their 20's.

I spend a great deal of time championing old, must-watch movies. I especially enjoy the AFI lists published in 2007:
http://www.afi.com/100years/mo...

The heroes and villains list makes for a much better sell than the fairly dry top-10 list of AFI films. There's no denying how good Citizen Kane and The Godfather are, but somewhere after Casablanca and Raging Bull, while you've spent 11 hours watching some of the finest cinema ever made, you could use a little lighter fare.

1 CITIZEN KANE 1941
2 THE GODFATHER 1972
3 CASABLANCA 1942
4 RAGING BULL 1980
5 SINGIN' IN THE RAIN 1952
6 GONE WITH THE WIND 1939
7 LAWRENCE OF ARABIA 1962
8 SCHINDLER'S LIST 1993
9 VERTIGO 1958
10 THE WIZARD OF OZ 1939

The villains list... :)

http://www.afi.com/100Years/ha...

Dr. Hannibal Lecter (in THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS)
Norman Bates (in PSYCHO)
Darth Vader (in THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK)
The Wicked Witch of the West (in THE WIZARD OF OZ)
Nurse Ratched (in ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST)
Mr. Potter (in IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE)
Alex Forrest (in FATAL ATTRACTION)
Phyllis Dietrichson (in DOUBLE INDEMNITY)
Regan MacNeil (in THE EXORCIST)
The Queen (in SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS)
Now we're talking!

Odd, in a thread about Star Trek.

The major characters were always limited superheroes. In TOS, nobody could out-engineer Scotty, out-crafty Kirk, outwit or overpower Spock, and McCoy would always arrive with the cure at the last moment. In TNG, it was more of the same. Super-diplomat JLP would come out on top, and why have a Vulcan when you can have a super-Vulcan++ android, even stronger with better logic? You're never going to lose in battle, ship-to-ship or hand-to-hand with a Klingon at the ready!

We like seeing heroic characters swoop to the rescue: You're all clear kid; now lets blow this thing and go home, anyone?

I was going to be all, "Oh yeah, it's gonna take.."

...but you were dead on :)

http://www.wolframalpha.com/in...

You have to steal a little from it...

Reboot or not, there's characters and "checkpoints" along the old continuum that you need to hit. It's like rebooting Spider Man but not having him face his greatest and most formidable villains. Of course Spidey faces a revamped Oswald. Of course Kirk fights revamped Khan.

I'm pretty sure he can.

2.5 billion minus 70 million is 2.43 billion.
Assuming a 0% return on his existing 2.43 billion, he can only buy mansions like this every year until he turns 70.
Assuming a 1% return on his existing 2.43 billion, he can only buy mansions like this every year until he turns 80.
If he can get 2%, he can keep it up until he's 100.

Notch's 70M goes to the current owner of the house. That guy, or someone before him, spent 70M building or rebuilding that house, and that money went to contractors...it's contractors all the way down.

It's vastly better than, say, buying art.

Citizens! I have good news, and I have bad news: The bad news is that 10% of you will be beaten to death. The good news is that 90% of you get to beat someone to death.

On a serious note, "decimate" doesn't bother me nearly as much as say, "terrific," "peruse," or "begs the question."

On a less serious note, the people I'm playing Destiny with are getting fairly sick of me yelling "FEWER!" at the voice-over every time we kill Valus Ta'auric.

Get off my lawn.

The 3% of his fortune that he spent on a house does seem like terrible money management.

Wait, what?!?

The same argument got posted with Gates built his mega-mansion. People complained about it being a waste.

Apparently skilled tradesmen who build houses don't need jobs. Building things is, arguably, one of the better things you could do with money.

And what about the other 90%?