Larry Ellison Buys His Own Hawaiian Island

First time accepted submitter nrozema writes "Oracle co-founder and billionaire Larry Ellison is buying the Hawaiian island of Lana'i, the sixth-largest island in the U.S. archipelago. Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie confirmed in a written statement that the current landowner filed a transfer application with the state's Public Utilities commission Wednesday to sell its 98 percent share of the 141-square-mile island to Ellison."

Never thought....

[Bloody Bastard]

....tsunamis could be a good thing.

Uh-oh.

[RevWaldo]

Larry Ellison also owns a MIG fighter jet. This cannot be good.

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Re:Uh-oh.

[Anonymous Coward]

Does he own a fluffy white cat and a Nehru jacket?

he's like Dr. No

[circletimessquare]

With these billionaires also starting their own private space programs too, all we need is a suave british agent and a hot local chick going to raid the compound threatening megalomaniacal schemes

"do you expect me to talk?"

"no mr. bond, I expect no SQL to this movie, I expect you to join that table with this collate, and then drop"

Re:Never thought....

[dintech]

98 percent share

It's a shame the Google Trial [slashdot.org] didn't pay out. He could have bought the last 2%...

Re:Units

[Anonymous Coward]

the 141-square-mile island

I can't comprehend that size. Could we have the area in asteroid passing distances? Earth radiuses works too.

I beleive that the scientific unit for area is football field.

What a flake Ellison is

[arcite]

Buying a bare, windswept, island that has long ago been converted into a Pineapple plantation? The place is probably invested with rats. ...or soaked in pesticides. Seems like a waste of money to me. There isn't even a sandy beach.

Re:What a flake Ellison is

[h4rr4r]

I think Ellison is used to investing with rats, just his kind of folks.

That was mean, rats are actually no where near as bad as this asshole.

Next year: Oracle secedes

[AbominousSalad]

Next year's follow-up story - Oracle secedes, and couches itself as fully as possible in its total reality distortion field.

Then it sues Greece for having had oracles 2000 years ago.

My fellow Hawaiians!

[bitt3n]

"Good news! I have just sold one of our islands for half the proceeds from Oracle's upcoming multi-billion-dollar lawsuit against Google! Even if they get only half what they're asking, we will make a killing. I promise a hula hoop around every midriff!"

Re:Never thought....

[Rogerborg]

Not "people",subjects. Probably experimental subjects; fetch the frikkin' lasers.

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Re:so what?

[mjr167]

So... shooting trespassers is ok if we eat them afterwards?

He's going to plant coffee

[rs79]

So he can finally make money off Java.

Re:Real plan

[Dcnjoe60]

If all of the landowners in an area vote to secede, they can secede.

Then again there was that whole Civil War thing, which suggests that not everyone agrees about that principle.

Now wait. Everybody knows the US Civil War had to do with vampires. There's even a new documentary coming out in theaters about it.

Re:Never thought....

[tnk1]

Bond: Do you expect me to talk, Ellison?

Ellison: Hahahaha! No Mr. Bond, I expect you to *buy*.