So three winning tickets were sold, apparently.
News of the weird:
Fox News To Viewers: Key To Winning Jackpot Is Buying As Many Lottery Tickets As You Can Afford
News of the weird:
Fox News To Viewers: Key To Winning Jackpot Is Buying As Many Lottery Tickets As You Can Afford
My feelings about such lotteries is that they are worth taking a very modest single ticket gamble on them. Buying one ticket gives you the greatest increase in the probability of winning, and if you don't want the money there are many billions of people who would like it, so you could give it away.
Without a ticket the chance of winning is infinity:1
With a ticket reduces it to several million:1
Any further tickets are a waste of money with this in mind.
In Britain a lot of money goes to good causes, which is a good thing, but not such a good thing as it would be if the lottery was run on a non-profit basis, as was proposed by Richard Branson the last time it was up for grabs.
Also, any normal Jackpot should be limited to £1,000,000 the rest being distributed proportionately to the rest of the number matches. Roll over Jackpots could perhaps accumulate at £1,000,000 until a maximum of £10,000,000 is reached.
Without a ticket the chance of winning is infinity:1
With a ticket reduces it to several million:1
Any further tickets are a waste of money with this in mind.
In Britain a lot of money goes to good causes, which is a good thing, but not such a good thing as it would be if the lottery was run on a non-profit basis, as was proposed by Richard Branson the last time it was up for grabs.
Also, any normal Jackpot should be limited to £1,000,000 the rest being distributed proportionately to the rest of the number matches. Roll over Jackpots could perhaps accumulate at £1,000,000 until a maximum of £10,000,000 is reached.
Buying two tickets doubles your odds to win. But it also increases your loss for expenditure. Based on the return statistic you lose more money with every ticket you buy until you're buying so many you probably don't need the money.
That's why I've said the same thing, one ticket has a value of 1, and anything after that within reason has an infinitesimally small value.
Also, I like my analogy.
Buying a ticket gets you on the beach, buying a second is like selecting another grain of sand.
Problem is, the odds are so bad against you, that for all practical purposes the beach has no place for you.
It is your money - waste it as you will. Just saying...
So what ready made speaker and amp would you buy cost no object (you won and need tranquility Inside your new house as all the poor walking dead men outside want to eat your money !) ?
I'm happy not to have winn (but I didn't take the plane to play like some did to watch the last Star-War in France: a bad scenario: 100% of the winner play and glide!) : because I really don't know ! Stereophile doesn't review the most expensive like Westlake or silver japoneese Kondo amp ! A Tesla battery to amp the hifi as well 😉
I'm happy not to have winn (but I didn't take the plane to play like some did to watch the last Star-War in France: a bad scenario: 100% of the winner play and glide!) : because I really don't know ! Stereophile doesn't review the most expensive like Westlake or silver japoneese Kondo amp ! A Tesla battery to amp the hifi as well 😉
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So now the results are in, shall we turn this into never ending vamp on
"If I had a Billion dollars, I know what I would do" ?
My first net 5M would go the current "crowd sourcing" campaign for my favourite radio station -KPLU, Seattle/Tacoma, then maybe a new pair of jeans, maybe even not from Mark's Work Wearhouse?
"If I had a Billion dollars, I know what I would do" ?
My first net 5M would go the current "crowd sourcing" campaign for my favourite radio station -KPLU, Seattle/Tacoma, then maybe a new pair of jeans, maybe even not from Mark's Work Wearhouse?
When I was a little kid, my dad let me clean lathes, mills, surface grinders, column drills, sawing machines, etc.
Non-ferrous had to be kept separated, for the used value.
When the job was all done, my dad drove me over to a nearby metal recycling, left the $/lb negotiating with the owner to me.
My 1st swept copper and brass treasure in a cardboard box delivered a return of 5 bucks, I must have been 7 or 8 years old at the time.
A 2nd round of Hard bargaining bought me an old and large steel money box without a key for 2 buck 50. Real tough guy to do business with.
A decade and a bit later, he received a 7+ figure buy-out, the city wanted his turf to build a bunch of 20-story high apartment buildings. On top of the stack of cash, he got a freebee lot elsewhere to relocate his business to.
Which he did, all new, and he put a big old English steam/coal locomotive right in front of it. He had bought a pair of them, the 8826 he lended out for free, it was used on a rail track for years.
To the left of his new building, he put an old MiG 23 fighter plane he'd bought on the cheap.
Decades after my 1st business clash with the odd guy, I could still just drop by if I needed a couple of feet of new non-ferrous/ferrous.
He cut them to size for me himself, but the billing and payment he left to one of his secretaries.
By that time, his sons were taking care of day to day business.
I've never seen the tough wheeler and dealer in other than cheap pants, affordable shoes and a duster, 5'8'' tall, give or take tens of millions of dollars.
Just saying
( Van Raak Staal Van Raak Metaalrecycling | Metaalafval en oud ijzer inleveren https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS_8800)
Non-ferrous had to be kept separated, for the used value.
When the job was all done, my dad drove me over to a nearby metal recycling, left the $/lb negotiating with the owner to me.
My 1st swept copper and brass treasure in a cardboard box delivered a return of 5 bucks, I must have been 7 or 8 years old at the time.
A 2nd round of Hard bargaining bought me an old and large steel money box without a key for 2 buck 50. Real tough guy to do business with.
A decade and a bit later, he received a 7+ figure buy-out, the city wanted his turf to build a bunch of 20-story high apartment buildings. On top of the stack of cash, he got a freebee lot elsewhere to relocate his business to.
Which he did, all new, and he put a big old English steam/coal locomotive right in front of it. He had bought a pair of them, the 8826 he lended out for free, it was used on a rail track for years.
To the left of his new building, he put an old MiG 23 fighter plane he'd bought on the cheap.
Decades after my 1st business clash with the odd guy, I could still just drop by if I needed a couple of feet of new non-ferrous/ferrous.
He cut them to size for me himself, but the billing and payment he left to one of his secretaries.
By that time, his sons were taking care of day to day business.
I've never seen the tough wheeler and dealer in other than cheap pants, affordable shoes and a duster, 5'8'' tall, give or take tens of millions of dollars.
Just saying
( Van Raak Staal Van Raak Metaalrecycling | Metaalafval en oud ijzer inleveren https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS_8800)
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