Comments on: Microsoft to purchase Australia http://www.slashnot.com/articles/134/ Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:48:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Troy http://www.slashnot.com/articles/134/#comment-9562 Troy Sun, 08 Dec 2002 22:07:33 +0000 #comment-9562 <p><p>Subject:Re: Something fishy</p><p>Just noticed in my previous post that the dollar signs went AWOL. Net worth was around two trillion in Australian dollars, which is about one point three trillion dollars US!</p></p>

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Just noticed in my previous post that the dollar signs went AWOL. Net worth was around two trillion in Australian dollars, which is about one point three trillion dollars US!

]]> By: Troy http://www.slashnot.com/articles/134/#comment-9561 Troy Sun, 08 Dec 2002 22:05:22 +0000 #comment-9561 <p><p>Subject:Re: Something fishy</p><p>Know this is an old story, but anyway, at risk of dimming the comedic content... Australia's national stats agency recently valued Australian assets (not sure how comprehensive it was, I don't know if it included resources or even housing) was something like A$2 or A$3 trillion. Which is about $1.3-$1.7 trillion in $US. <br /></p> <p><br /> Not that much, to be sure, but still a bit more than MS could buy (at least now the dot com era is over anyway).</p></p>

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Know this is an old story, but anyway, at risk of dimming the comedic content… Australia's national stats agency recently valued Australian assets (not sure how comprehensive it was, I don't know if it included resources or even housing) was something like A$2 or A$3 trillion. Which is about $1.3-$1.7 trillion in $US.


Not that much, to be sure, but still a bit more than MS could buy (at least now the dot com era is over anyway).

]]> By: Squid http://www.slashnot.com/articles/134/#comment-9522 Squid Sun, 27 Oct 2002 01:03:25 +0000 #comment-9522 <p><p>Subject:Re: Something fishy</p><p>OK, I lied, I didn't try that hard. :)</p></p>

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OK, I lied, I didn't try that hard. :)

]]> By: Matthew http://www.slashnot.com/articles/134/#comment-9519 Matthew Sat, 26 Oct 2002 18:00:21 +0000 #comment-9519 <p><p>Subject:Re: Something fishy</p><p>Um, how much was the reasonable price?</p></p>

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Um, how much was the reasonable price?

]]> By: Squid http://www.slashnot.com/articles/134/#comment-9517 Squid Fri, 25 Oct 2002 03:52:13 +0000 #comment-9517 <p><p>Subject:Re: Something fishy</p><p>Here at Slashnot we're never willing to let the truth stand in the way of a good story. <br /></p> <p><br /> I actually tried to calculate a reasonable price, but Microsoft didn't have enough money, so they got a really good deal. It was on sale.</p></p>

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Here at Slashnot we're never willing to let the truth stand in the way of a good story.


I actually tried to calculate a reasonable price, but Microsoft didn't have enough money, so they got a really good deal. It was on sale.

]]> By: eBay Bride http://www.slashnot.com/articles/134/#comment-9516 eBay Bride Thu, 24 Oct 2002 19:04:40 +0000 #comment-9516 <p><p>Subject:Something fishy</p><p> <br /> I don't know much about buying countries, but isn't $ 8.5 billion a bit cheap for Australia? I heard somewhere that the Gadsden Purchase, whereby the US acquired 45,500 square miles of sand dunes, cost $ 10 million. In today's dollars that would be about $ 150 million. Australia is 70 times as large as the Gadsden land, which makes the price per acre comparable, but Australia actually includes fresh water and forests on the eastern side, and some of the guys are kind of cute.</p></p>

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I don't know much about buying countries, but isn't $ 8.5 billion a bit cheap for Australia? I heard somewhere that the Gadsden Purchase, whereby the US acquired 45,500 square miles of sand dunes, cost $ 10 million. In today's dollars that would be about $ 150 million. Australia is 70 times as large as the Gadsden land, which makes the price per acre comparable, but Australia actually includes fresh water and forests on the eastern side, and some of the guys are kind of cute.

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