If I recall correctly, there were several thousand accounts created on the first day of user registration. With deference towards your UID, the difference between 100 and 1000 was like an hour.
What? There's a market for that?
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Being the shrewd businessman that he is, Bill Gates has just invested a significant amount of money in one of the few products that people consume during both good times and bad: alcohol. Actually Femsa, the Mexican brewery in which Gates now owns a $392 million stake through his Cascade Investment LLC fund, does a lot more than just brew booze: according to Reuters, it's also the world's second-largest Coke bottler as well as operator of Oxxo, Latin America's largest convenience store chain. When asked how he felt about Gates moving in on his home turf, fellow billionaire Carlos Slim reportedly shrugged off the threat, boasting that "not only am I a wealthier man than Mr. Gates, but he couldn't even make it through half a Power Hour with his nueva cerveza"Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Receiving a million dollars tax free will make you feel better than being flat broke and having a stomach ache. -- Dolph Sharp, "I'm O.K., You're Not So Hot"
