need ... to ... unsee ... this .... thread ... odds .... too ... low ....

Fred99:

 

Geektastic:

 

Buy bad art that costs too much and burn it to save generations yet to come...?

 

 

 

 

That's far too kind IMO.

 

Buy good art and burn it, burn it really well, post selfies of burning ceremony, wear a tee-shirt with existentialist message, become an artist.  Thank the lotto losers for losing.

 

Jackson Pollock = toast!

mattwnz: I hope no one wins, and it is broken down into 44 prizes of 1 million. It is an obscene amount of money IMO to have as a draw. Obviously they are appealing to people's greed to sell tickets, but people have almost no chance of winning the big one based on the stats

I bet every single winner of past 1st division Power ball's thought they didn't have a any statistical chance in hell of winning 'the big one either when they bought their ticket...

That is, until they checked their winning ticket... 

mattwnz:

Fred99:

 

It's not an obscene amount of money at all.

 

 

 

I thought we got over that "money is the root of all evil" stuff back in the '80s. Greed is good.  I see goodness everywhere these days.

 

Try telling that to some of the people who have won big amounts, and lost it all, as well as all their friends and family. It brings out the worst in people. The fact is people have more chance of being struck by lightning.

According to this 'statistical theory (about being struck by lighting) many (if not most) of the 1st division powerball winners have actually been struck by lighting then??? 

KrazyKid:

 

frankv:

 

So I did the math... a $12 ticket gives you 1 in 1.5M chance of getting a share of the $44M.

 

 

Actually its a little worse than that.

 

The chance to win powerball Div 1 is about 1 in 38 million
The chance to win powerball Div 2 is about 1 in 6.4 million

 

 

 

So assuming it is going to go off in Div 1 or Div 2  you chance of winning a share of the jackpot is somewhere past 1 in 6.4 million.

 

It's like tossing a coin 22 times in a row and getting heads each time.
Or calling the correct top 4 cards on a shuffled deck of cards.

 

Seems easy to me

 

 

 

Except that this time it has to be won - and you can't win it if you don't want a ticket.

First plane to Hawaii

15 acres in Riverhead

Batch on Waiheke

Audi RS6

Pre-order Commodore GTS-R

Find a business to buy, or lots of rentals.

dickytim:

 

Find a business to buy, or lots of rentals.

 

Why? Is $44M not enough?

frankv:

 

dickytim:

 

Find a business to buy, or lots of rentals.

 

 

Why? Is $44M not enough?

 

 

 

Got to keep busy. eventually 44 million will run out, it may not be this generation it may be the next, I would want my child and their child/children to be set up.

MaxLV:

mattwnz: I hope no one wins, and it is broken down into 44 prizes of 1 million. It is an obscene amount of money IMO to have as a draw. Obviously they are appealing to people's greed to sell tickets, but people have almost no chance of winning the big one based on the stats

 

 

 

I bet every single winner of past 1st division Power ball's thought they didn't have a any statistical chance in hell of winning 'the big one either when they bought their ticket...

That is, until they checked their winning ticket... 

Paul1977:

 

I know the chances if winning are infinitesimally, but I've bought a ticket anyway.

 

Who's buying a ticket, and what would you do if you won the full $44 million?

 

I'm gonna buy a ticket. 

Not sure what I'd do, buy a fun business where you meet heaps of people and answer to noone. 

Reminds me of the TV show from back in the 80's, about the lottery reps whose job was to go around to the winners house and announce they'd won millions and millions. It was quite fun, the show would setup the family circumstances usually rooted in some financial difficulties and these guys would turn up to their house and tell them they won. Just watching peoples reactions even though acted was 'nice'. 

[edit] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPGw0-VkmB4 

However, I'm against lotto in general. It is a tax on poor people. 

Casino works as a great reaper.  My sister's blown a fortune, it's been a disease.  There's little sympathy of course, it's "personal responsibility" entirely, not the casino's fault. Except of course it actually isn't, there's a flaw in that logic as if it was just that - something over which we'd have full control of what we were doing - then there'd be no point limiting casino licenses at all as the casinos themselves aren't the problem, just some people don't exercise personal responsibility. Should be open slather as gambling is good, there should be casinos on every high street, one for every oyster bar and pawnbroking shop.

Somewhat perfectly for the casino, all systems designed to identify and "protect" problem gamblers kick in once the casino has taken all their money.  A gambler without any money left is definitely a problem.  I very much doubt that their "core revenue" is from happy people who like to enjoy themselves by having an occasional affordable "fling".  Of course they'll know this, but use every trick in the book to sort out the vulnerable, hook them, then bleed them dry. 

I hate the places - and resent the fact that they try to "normalise" their very evil industry by becoming part of "convention centres" or "entertainment venues".  

I'd buy a bookshop and change my name to Bernard Black. Spend the rest of my days terrorizing customers in an entertaining fashion.

BlueShift:

 

I'd buy a bookshop and change my name to Bernard Black. Spend the rest of my days terrorizing customers in an entertaining fashion.

 

Who needs a bookshop just to terrorise customers ?

And you'll need to hire a Manny, and entertain a neurotic woman...

SepticSceptic:

 

BlueShift:

 

I'd buy a bookshop and change my name to Bernard Black. Spend the rest of my days terrorizing customers in an entertaining fashion.

 

 

Who needs a bookshop just to terrorise customers ?

 

And you'll need to hire a Manny, and entertain a neurotic woman...

 

Are you applying? And for which position?

BlueShift:

 

SepticSceptic:

 

BlueShift:

 

I'd buy a bookshop and change my name to Bernard Black. Spend the rest of my days terrorizing customers in an entertaining fashion.

 

 

Who needs a bookshop just to terrorise customers ?

 

And you'll need to hire a Manny, and entertain a neurotic woman...

 

 

Are you applying? And for which position?

 

Already entertain a neurotic woman < furtively looks around for SWMBO > .... you may have to look elsewhere