Single person who had the most influence on our lives in the last 50 years ?
 

My personal vote goes too Howard Huges.

Lots of big people came and went during his life, but he stayed on top from almost day 1 !

He invented /designed :

1. The half-cub bra
2. Hollywood as we know it (Hells Angels was the first million dollar film. It cost 3.8 million. He lost 1.2 mill total @ box office)
3. Made aviation what it is today (planes flying over the weather, aerodinamics, jets etc etc),
4. Lots of improvements with hellicopters
5. Made most satellites that are arround the planet right now
6. Made satellite TV avaliable. DirectTV was something he started.
7. TONS of medials advancements
8. Owned half of las vegas after the gangsters started making it corporate. He was probably a big time frontman for the organized crime...

etc etc etc

There was 3 big power in the USA... The organized crime, the CIA and Howard.

They were all tied. He was in the plot to assisinate Fidel Castro (he hired organized crime people to do it actually).

He was also directly involved in the Nixon watergate (his employe was the chairman of the Democratic National Committee)

you just saw the aviator ? ;)

Mark Cuban.

I invented Howard Hues.

Watched it probably 5 times ... most of the stuff I talk about in this thread isn't even in the movie... He was into sooooooo much stuff it's incredible.

bill gates ;)

ray .

You think creating broadcast.com has changed everybody's life ? lol

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

This made me spit my beer on my keyboard... fucker
(don't worry if you don't get it ... or just go ask pipecrew)

Harry Truman.

kak_azn.

henry kissinger

If we can stretch that "last 50 years" to 78 - I'd go with Philo Farnsworth.

I don't think Howard Hughes was single... but he might as well have been.

Das internet.

Oppenheimer

AL GORE!

:winkwink:

He's had tons of partners... hey, he invented the bra as we know it

Hitler...

Last 5 years? Osama Bin Laden.

and bush.

i would definitely have to say George Bush

Actually you're damn right about this one... this was at the very early of the 50 but that still counts

How did your life change on the daily ? what changed since he's in office ?

Then why did you list him as your "Single person who had the most influence..."? :upsidedow

I guess because I'm french canadian and my english sucks ;)

Yeah, Bill Gates was the first person I thought of.

Martin Luther King/ Elvis Presley

Who is Howard Huges? Sounds like a porno name.

err hughes ;) not not mr hefner ;) thought he could have invented the half cup bras too ;)

The thong song. :)

My partners. Without each other, we'd probably all be broke.

billy gates

Bush - managed to fuck up what the Americans spent centuries building

bin laden

and martha lol

Ronald McDonald

He created a lifestyle that has fucked up too many people. Nothing else matters if you don't have your health.

Rasmus Lerdorf :)

rgr !
bill gates for president !

I think it's pretty funny how most people don't realize that all Bill Gates did was took advantage of people's stupidity and made fortunes. I guess some of you could be proud of him for that. :disgust

nobody asked who we were proud of...

Bill Gates for sure

Tim Berners-Lee who developed the concept of the World Wide Web in 1989 and wrote the code for the first web browser.

The Net has shifted the paradigm for communications on the entire planet.

http://www.samogden.com/images/tim%2...%20gallery.jpg

Two thumbs up for Timmy :thumbsup :thumbsup

He has been dead for 60 years, but I agree.

Roman Abramovich

bill gates . .. .


2. Hollywood as we know it (Hells Angels was the first million dollar film. It cost 3.8 million. He lost 1.2 mill total @ box office)

** lucus invented the 'action figure' for movies'

5. Made most satellites that are arround the planet right now

---- arthur c clack invented the comunication satilite

nect on the list . . . tada!!!! osama bin ladin

Bill Gates.

He is the richest man in the world, and also perhaps the most powerful. That's just obvious.

But, if you look at the way he allegedly built and abused his monopoly, by bundling products and stifling competition --he might also be the biggest white collar criminal ever.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Sam Walton

Oh, yeah! I love you, Tim!