http://www.metafilter.com/tags/tycoon Posts tagged with 'tycoon' at MetaFilter. Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:17:51 -0800 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:17:51 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/76126/%3F%3F%3F%3F%E1%3F%3F Moscow is home to the largest <a href="http://www.forbes.com/2008/04/30/billionaires-london-moscow-biz-billies-cz_cv_0430billiecities.html">number of billionaires</a> and in Russia, there are <a href=" http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/10/billionaires08_The-Worlds-Billionaires_CountryOfCitizen_17.html">nearly 100</a> billionaires. Due to recent <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/business/worldbusiness/31ruble.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin">economic developments</a> and the <a href="http://www.iht.com/bin/printfriendly.php?id=17283331">drop in oil prices,</a> the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/10/top-russian-oligarchs-who_n_125481.html?view=print">oligarchs,</a> who rose to prominence <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_oligarch#Russia">under Gorbachev,</a> have lost a combined total of <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7699778.stm">$200 billion.</a> Help is <a href="http://www.reuters.com/articlePrint?articleId=USTRE49T6GN20081030">here.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.76126 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:17:51 -0800 bailout billionaires moscow oil oligarchy russia tycoon gman http://www.metafilter.com/56450/Empire%2DBuilding%2Din%2Dthe%2DGolden%2DAge%2Dof%2DRailroads <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Meier" title="Sid Meier on Wikipedia">Sid Meier</a>'s 1990 DOS game <a href="http://www.mobygames.com/game/sid-meiers-railroad-tycoon" title="Description of the game at Mobygames">Railroad Tycoon</a> has been <a href="http://www.fileshack.com/file.x/9853/Railroad+Tycoon+-+Free+Game" title="14.29 MB download from Fileshack">released as a free download</a>. There's no need to worry if you don't actually have a vintage DOS machine available, as it's packaged with an Windows installer that includes the full game, PDF manual, and <a href="http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/information.php?page=0">DOSBox emulator</a>. <small>[<a href="http://www.retrothing.com/2006/11/free_version_of.html" title="via retrothing">via</a>]</small> tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.56450 Wed, 22 Nov 2006 04:25:41 -0800 dos freeware railroad retrogaming sidmeier tycoon Rhomboid