If you need to borrow some money, we suggest asking Diddy. Forbes Magazine just released their latest list of the wealthiest hip-hop stars and Diddy claimed the Number One slot with a net worth of $475 million. Yes, you read that right, Diddy is reportedly worth almost half a billion dollars.
How did Forbes determine this? Well, Diddy has stake in Bad Boy Records and Sean John clothing as well as a portion of Ciroc Vodka. Jay-Z is right behind him with a net worth of $450 million; Hova sold his stake in Rocawear clothing in 2007 for $204 million and three years ago he signed a ten-year $150 million deal with Live Nation. Oh, and Jay also owns part of the New Jersey Nets and a line of nightclubs.
Since the first iPod, Apple’s been on a roll getting consumers hooked onto their products. The latest was the release of iPad 2 last Wednesday. No doubt this will be lapped up by Apple’s eager legions! A square foot of an Apple store generates $5,980 in annual revenue, that’s how profitable they are! Investors love Apple, consumers love Apple! Apple’s in a very envious position!
So I thought I’ll try out a different experiment. What if, instead of buying Apple products, one invested the equivalent price in Apple shares?
If you had bought Apple shares instead of the original iPod when it was released in October of 2001, you would be sitting on a return on investment of $16,073.78 on your original $399! That’s a return of 3928.52%.
In August of 2004, Apple released the gorgeous all-in-one iMac G5 for $1299. Instead, had you invested this amount on Apple shares, your shares would be worth $27,013.41 today! A return of 1979.56%!
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Surely, I’d thought, science can defend the obvious, that slaughterhouse carnage is wrong in a way that harvesting a field of lettuces or, say, mowing the lawn is not. But instead, it began to seem that formulating a truly rational rationale for not eating animals, at least while consuming all sorts of other organisms, was difficult, maybe even impossible.
The differences that do seem to matter are things like the fact that plants don’t have nerves or brains. They cannot, we therefore conclude, feel pain. In other words, the differences that matter are those that prove that plants do not suffer as we do. Here the lack of a face on plants becomes important, too, faces being requisite to humans as proof not only that one is dealing with an actual individual being, but that it is an individual capable of suffering.
Kelly Gneiting, a 400-pound sumo wrestler, set a Guinness World Record as the heaviest man to complete a marathon, after finishing on Sunday in 9 hours 48 minutes 52 seconds.
Gneiting weighed 396.2 pounds after the marathon, smashing the past world record of 275 pounds and beating his 2008 marathon time of 11:52:11.”I’d like to see the Kenyan improve his marathon time by two hours,” he joked.
Gneiting jogged the first eight miles and walked the final 18, saying afterward that he lost track of where he was after mile 10 because he felt delirious.
