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Powerball Winner - The Rich just got Richer!

 
Nexus-9  (OP)

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Re: Powerball Winner - The Rich just got Richer!
It's a drawing.

Random.

It's not based on merit.
 Quoting: Bluebird


If you beLIEve the lottery is random and all just based on luck you are an ignorant soul.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 3064678


Care to explain? This should be interesting.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 22478672


Well, with probability and statistics one is admitting they don't know the definite answer and can only give an estimated guess by making odds.

The absence of definitively knowing before the outcome is, ergo, some amount of ignorance.
"Fiery the Angels rose, & as they rose deep thunder roll'd
Around their shores: indignant burning with the fires of Orc" - William Blake, America a Prophecy
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"Tempus est optimus iudex" - "Time is the best judge"

"The very word "'secrecy'" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings." - John F. Kennedy, New York City, April 27, 1961
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Re: Powerball Winner - The Rich just got Richer!
It's a drawing.

Random.

It's not based on merit.
 Quoting: Bluebird


If you beLIEve the lottery is random and all just based on luck you are an ignorant soul.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 3064678


Care to explain? This should be interesting.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 22478672


Well, with probability and statistics one is admitting they don't know the definite answer and can only give an estimated guess by making odds.

The absence of definitively knowing before the outcome is, ergo, some amount of ignorance.
 Quoting: Nexus-9


I think it is called "gambling".
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11/29/2012 02:01 PM
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That amount of money is usually more of a curse in your life than a blessing.
 Quoting: TheSeventhGate




Very true, very true indeed......like I told my wife and kids last night at the dinner table, if we one the chances of continuing our almost 20 year marriage would be iffy at best after the winnings set in.
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Way to make your wife and kids feel secure buddy.
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11/29/2012 02:02 PM
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Re: Powerball Winner - The Rich just got Richer!
A parolee won a 75000 scratch off here the other day.
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11/29/2012 02:03 PM
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That settles it, God hates the poor.
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God hates the poor hahah

There is no fking God. hahah
This world is pure evil.
We were created as sheep by something but not a all powerful caring God. haha
You meet God tell him to stop by I am dying to tell him he is a piece of shit hypocrite. 5agoodevildrevil
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11/29/2012 02:06 PM
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A parolee won a 75000 scratch off here the other day.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 24227883


Epic opportunity for hookers and cocaine!
He's either a career criminal or a Democrat politician, but I repeat myself!

banana
Tell me what this tastes like...
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11/29/2012 02:06 PM
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Re: Powerball Winner - The Rich just got Richer!
I have two powerballs, but I can't find on the chart of winnings if I have won anything.
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Yeah Fountain Hills is one of the wealthier area's of Phoenix, just behind Paradise Valley and some parts of Scottsdale. The houses there are mostly 1 million+ but there are lesser priced ones. It's a small mountain community, but extremely nice houses and golf courses.
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That settles it, God hates the poor.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 28630333


Actually, maybe he hates the Middle-class.

Do you suppose God is a Republican?
"Fiery the Angels rose, & as they rose deep thunder roll'd
Around their shores: indignant burning with the fires of Orc" - William Blake, America a Prophecy
(...also misquoted in Blade Runner by Roy Batty)

"Tempus est optimus iudex" - "Time is the best judge"

"The very word "'secrecy'" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings." - John F. Kennedy, New York City, April 27, 1961
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That amount of money is usually more of a curse in your life than a blessing.
 Quoting: TheSeventhGate




Very true, very true indeed......like I told my wife and kids last night at the dinner table, if we one the chances of continuing our almost 20 year marriage would be iffy at best after the winnings set in.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25495440


Way to make your wife and kids feel secure buddy.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 5542489


I'm gonna tell my wife that next time we play.

I'll say I can barely stand you guys now, if I'm rich I'll replace you with a bunch of whores and be on my way.

I can't imagine really believing no money issues would create grief somehow.
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That amount of money is usually more of a curse in your life than a blessing.
 Quoting: TheSeventhGate


No one rally owns anything very longs. We are all caretakers of other people's shit and when we pass on, someone else plays with our shit till they pass on.

In the end, the world's governments own eveything and we just lease it in the form of taxes. All property returns back to them after it is taxed over and over and over.

I have an antique store that is chaulk full of other people's shit.

It's all property that sheep lust over and die trying to pay off then when they croak, their decendants pawn it for pennies and it ends up in my store to get taxes some more.

The material world is nothing more than a temporary distraction from the spiritual world. A scam.

Very few people on Earth today will ever leave anything of real substance behind. Even the kids they leave behind are turning out to be just more junk.
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People are stupid for buying into it. The chance of winning are smaller than being mauled by a giraffe

It's a tax on gullibility.
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That amount of money is usually more of a curse in your life than a blessing.
 Quoting: TheSeventhGate


No one rally owns anything very longs. We are all caretakers of other people's shit and when we pass on, someone else plays with our shit till they pass on.

In the end, the world's governments own eveything and we just lease it in the form of taxes. All property returns back to them after it is taxed over and over and over.

I have an antique store that is chaulk full of other people's shit.

It's all property that sheep lust over and die trying to pay off then when they croak, their decendants pawn it for pennies and it ends up in my store to get taxes some more.

The material world is nothing more than a temporary distraction from the spiritual world. A scam.

Very few people on Earth today will ever leave anything of real substance behind. Even the kids they leave behind are turning out to be just more junk.

 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25915094


Words of real wisdom!
hf
"Fiery the Angels rose, & as they rose deep thunder roll'd
Around their shores: indignant burning with the fires of Orc" - William Blake, America a Prophecy
(...also misquoted in Blade Runner by Roy Batty)

"Tempus est optimus iudex" - "Time is the best judge"

"The very word "'secrecy'" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings." - John F. Kennedy, New York City, April 27, 1961
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Re: Powerball Winner - The Rich just got Richer!
That amount of money is usually more of a curse in your life than a blessing.
 Quoting: TheSeventhGate


Only if you're a dumbass.

I agree, it usually fucks up trailer-trash-type winners, but I bet there are plenty of big lottery winners that sat down and planned what they would do with the loot, carried through on the plan and live quite happily.
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People are stupid for buying into it. The chance of winning are smaller than being mauled by a giraffe

It's a tax on gullibility.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 23557583


Someone is going to win. It could be you if you fork over 2 dollars.
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People are stupid for buying into it. The chance of winning are smaller than being mauled by a giraffe

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... while drowning in the Sahara desert!
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11/29/2012 02:21 PM
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Re: Powerball Winner - The Rich just got Richer!
It's a drawing.

Random.

It's not based on merit.
 Quoting: Bluebird


If you beLIEve the lottery is random and all just based on luck you are an ignorant soul.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 3064678


Care to explain? This should be interesting.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 22478672


No one wins the jackpot. the "winners" you see are paid a little chunk of money to say they won. This makes you think you have a chance at winning, and you will continue to buy more tickets in vain.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 16445976


I know 1 Person that won the lottery back in the early 90s and another person that won the little lotto about 5 years ago. It was my husbands bets friends brother, he worked at a company for 20 years at a chemical plant..1 month after winning he was diagnosed with cancer, he died 6 months later, his wife died the following year on the same day her husband died..TRUE STORY!!
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It's a drawing.

Random.

It's not based on merit.
 Quoting: Bluebird


lottery is easier to fix than an election, much easier.
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Just money laundering.
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Within the surreal depths of "reality" lies the truth.
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Re: Powerball Winner - The Rich just got Richer!
The lottery pays out 35% of all of the money that they take in. (Figures from my state. Illinois. Correct me if the national lotteries pay out more.) That means for every $1 that you put into the lottery, you have a expected payout based on probability of 35 cents. I won't play slot machines because they take 6 cents. This makes the lottery the worst investment, (If you can call it that.) that you can make. I will only buy one ticket when the lottery rolls over many times and goes over $100 million. The payout becomes better at that time. I went into a liquor store a few weeks ago and saw a woman buying $20 in scratch off tickets. Then she bought a half pint of jack. She should have bought no lottery tickets and bought a quart of jack. The lottery is a tax on the poor or stupid.
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11/29/2012 02:26 PM
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Re: Powerball Winner - The Rich just got Richer!
fountain hills has middle class and poor people just like anywhere else. And lots of old folks. Just sayin.
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The lottery pays out 35% of all of the money that they take in. (Figures from my state. Illinois. Correct me if the national lotteries pay out more.) That means for every $1 that you put into the lottery, you have a expected payout based on probability of 35 cents. I won't play slot machines because they take 6 cents. This makes the lottery the worst investment, (If you can call it that.) that you can make. I will only buy one ticket when the lottery rolls over many times and goes over $100 million. The payout becomes better at that time. I went into a liquor store a few weeks ago and saw a woman buying $20 in scratch off tickets. Then she bought a half pint of jack. She should have bought no lottery tickets and bought a quart of jack. The lottery is a tax on the poor or stupid.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 3799039


a tax you have to pay. You don't have to play the lottery. If a person spends all thier money on scratch offs and booze, it is thier right to do so. Being a free country and all.
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Bless both of those people and may they be generous when they see need. Money is just a tool, like fire... use it wisely and well.
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The other winner is from Kansas City. Probably a NFL player who bought 1000 tickets... rofl
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or a Chiefs fan hf
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fountain hills has middle class and poor people just like anywhere else. And lots of old folks. Just sayin.
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Very true.
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The other winner is from Kansas City. Probably a NFL player who bought 1000 tickets... rofl
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I dont think NFL players in Kansas City can afford a thousand tickets!!!!!
They suck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: Powerball Winner - The Rich just got Richer!
there should be at least 10 jackpot winners. they can't let all that money go to one person
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there should be at least 10 jackpot winners. they can't let all that money go to one person
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Why not? Everyone has an equal chance to win.
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News here in Missouri said it was sold in Joplin Missouri.
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Lottery is rigged. Probably an illuminati member living in AZ that needed a payoff or something.





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