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I figure I'll get to Mars, claim blogging rights to the planet, and then just wait for the colonization to reap me cagillions of dollars in blogging fees.

You think that's foolish?  Well, here's one 'visionary' who bought up gob-loads of cable rights dirt cheap in Mexico years ago before anyone could even imagine the usefulness of cable technology:

interviewer: A few days ago, (Howard) Stern said that you had made billions by buying rights to every cable line under the Atlantic Ocean. He couldn't believe your business savvy. Is it true?

Dick Clark: No, Howard had it wrong. I do have some television concessions in Mexico, and if they blossom, wow, I'll be something wealthy. It's really booming there, all areas of communication. But every cable line? No.

'some' but not 'every' ??

Las Americas Broadband plans to build and operate a fiber-optic network for providing high-speed Internet, telephony, data and multi-channel cable TV services. Company chairman Dick Clark (known by generations for his American Bandstand show) controls 61% of Las Americas Broadband.

All I can say, if you want to make it big, is that you got to get to where you're going before they put up the signs giving directions!

Now how the hell do I get to the NASA launchpad?