The World's Billionaires

After 13 years on top, Bill Gates has been bumped from the number 1 spot. He has been replaced by Warren Buffett as the richest man on the planet. Bill now has to settle for merely 3rd place. Must be hard only being the 3rd richest person on the plantet eh??

More info on the Warren Buffet overthrowing Gates here : http://www.forbes.com/2008/03/05/buffett-worlds-richest-cx_mm_0229buffetrichest.html

List of the The World's Billionaires by Rank here: http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/10/billionaires08_The-Worlds-Billionaires_Rank.html

RICH BASTARDS!!!! :thefinger_red:

time for us to plan a noobsters roadtrip to a couple of these rich bastards houses.

i dont know him, but i hate him already!

I thought we only gained our (New Zealand) first Billionaire last year and he's now kicking Donald trumps ass. Graeme Hart (at No.201 on the list) has a couple of Billion more than Trump.

Although he has a couple of Billion $$ at 743 in the list, I noticed there's one poor sod who's stuck with an unfortunate family name i.e. Anurag Dikshit

Developmental engineer turned online gambling mogul owns 32% of Internet casino outfit PartyGaming. Earned degree in computer science and engineering from Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi. First jobs at CMC, Websci, AT&T. Company founder, American Ruth Parasol (see), launched Starluck Casino on the Internet in 1997. Dikshit (pronounced Dix-it) joined a year later at age 25; wrote company's betting software, which enables gamblers around the world to play one another in poker. Problem: majority of customers live in America, where online gambling is illegal. Solution: don't operate on U.S. soil; servers, employees based in Gibraltar, India, England, the Caribbean. Took public on London Stock Exchange in last June. Today manages company's operations. Source: Forbes. com
Note: With that much money, I would have changed my name.

Dikshit (pronounced Dix-it)

It doesn't matter HOW much you have, I will never pronounce it that way.

Unless you pay me.

They talk about the richest, coz if they did about poorest....just imagine the list ! :yikesmofo: