Powerball Up To $750M Again...

[High_Plains_Drifter]

... anybody else dumb enough to play like me?

Drawing is Wednesday night.

[LongTermGuy]

... anybody else dumb enough to play like me?

Drawing is Wednesday night.


I dont look at it as "dumb"...*I play for the "chance"...(Power-ball) ... I also play "lucky for life"


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[High_Plains_Drifter]

I dont look at it as "dumb"...*I play for the "chance"...(Power-ball) ... I also play "lucky for life"


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https://media1.tenor.com/images/a51a896d14aacfc66e155271d40be729/tenor.gif?itemid=5026828
I figure $2 for a chance to win SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS is worth it, even given the outrageous chances of winning. Every single person playing probably figures, hell, I'll never win, and then they're the one that wins. The odds suck, but they're the same odds for everyone. I usually play $10, five lines.

[SassyLady]

I'll spend $20 tomorrow.

[darin]

Maybe I send ya a couple bucks and see if we can pool $ for insignificant increase in chance? :)

[Kathianne]

I bought my one ticket, yesterday. ;) That is enough. I can think about 'what I'd do...' until Wednesday or when I get around to checking the numbers. Lots of fun for $2.

[High_Plains_Drifter]

I'll spend $20 tomorrow.
I have to do some running around tomorrow. I'll probably pop for another $10 on it myself. $20 ain't gonna break the bank.

[jimnyc]

Didn't even know about the jackpot getting this high until reading this thread. I'll definitely drop a $20, knowing it's a waste, so that I can have a day or so thinking about how I'm gonna spend it all. :laugh:

[LongTermGuy]

Didn't even know about the jackpot getting this high until reading this thread. I'll definitely drop a $20, knowing it's a waste, so that I can have a day or so thinking about how I'm gonna spend it all. :laugh:



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`We can think of 3 major problems with buying 292,201,338 lottery tickets with every combination of Powerball numbers`
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/buying-every-powerball-ticket-2016-1

[Elessar]

Oh, what the hell. I will chance 20 bucks!

[LongTermGuy]

Oh, what the hell. I will chance 20 bucks!


....as you Probably know...20 bucks is 10 tickets...I usually spend 6 bucks (3 tickets)....If its meant to be (out-come) ..its meant to be....The odds against winning are huge...no need to spend a lot...Had a friend who spent hundreds of dollars on tickets....In the end...he got depressed and stopped playing the Lotto....:laugh:

[High_Plains_Drifter]

Drawing is tonight, and I fully expect to MAYBE hit ONE NUMBER out of 5 lines, $10, that way I'm not disappointed.

But IF I won, I can tell you RIGHT NOW, I'd start a NEW twitter, a NEW facebook, a NEW youtube... and make it KNOWN that I was a CONSERVATIVE, and CONSERVATIVE content would no longer be BANNED. I'd give these leftist sons a bitches a run for their damn money. The internet is RIPE for that. Why someone hasn't done that yet is BEYOND ME.

Hell President Trump is a billionaire. He has 59.4 MILLION followers on twitter. Imagine if HE started a new twitter. He could really make them hurt because he'd take so many people with him, and with that kind of name recognition and following, he could probably put twitter out of business with all the people that would quit using twitter. WHY he DOESN'T is a mystery. I would.

[LongTermGuy]

I bought 2 tickets....:cool:

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[jimnyc]

Drawing is tonight, and I fully expect to MAYBE hit ONE NUMBER out of 5 lines, $10, that way I'm not disappointed.

But IF I won, I can tell you RIGHT NOW, I'd start a NEW twitter, a NEW facebook, a NEW youtube... and make it KNOWN that I was a CONSERVATIVE, and CONSERVATIVE content would no longer be BANNED. I'd give these leftist sons a bitches a run for their damn money. The internet is RIPE for that. Why someone hasn't done that yet is BEYOND ME.

Hell President Trump is a billionaire. He has 59.4 MILLION followers on twitter. Imagine if HE started a new twitter. He could really make them hurt because he'd take so many people with him, and with that kind of name recognition and following, he could probably put twitter out of business with all the people that would quit using twitter. WHY he DOESN'T is a mystery. I would.

I don't think an individual would do the trick, although I agree he sure as hell has an audience that is huge, and might be able to get many to try something else out. But I don't think something like "trumpbook" would work, for example...

But a right leaning facebook of sorts? One that of course is open to everyone and anyone - but the right will be guaranteed top dog voice - if not a voice at the very least! And while liberals will be allowed on-board, they wouldn't as they would see it as a violent website! LOL

But I had thought of this already, with all of the Facebook, Twitter & Instagram crap all being ran by the left and the right being censored in so many ways. So a right leaning social media site. And I think just one is sufficient. Allow images and at least 140-280 characters per post, and you have the same as all 3 anyway.

Facebook is popular as it already has the masses, and that's hard to beat, and why conservatives are there to begin with and deal with the censorship. But I believe if someone developed a similar platform, a social media type platform, that allows for the same - friends, relatives, searches, images allowed, politics allowed.... And then did a huge push upon start - and even if Trump made just ONE twitter post about it... the word could get around awfully quick. And the more that join, the more that would feel comfortable joining after them, and so on and so on.

But still not happening. Not for awhile anyway.

....

Man, I spent about $122 million of my winnings already!! :beer:

[High_Plains_Drifter]

I don't think an individual would do the trick, although I agree he sure as hell has an audience that is huge, and might be able to get many to try something else out. But I don't think something like "trumpbook" would work, for example...

But a right leaning facebook of sorts? One that of course is open to everyone and anyone - but the right will be guaranteed top dog voice - if not a voice at the very least! And while liberals will be allowed on-board, they wouldn't as they would see it as a violent website! LOL

But I had thought of this already, with all of the Facebook, Twitter & Instagram crap all being ran by the left and the right being censored in so many ways. So a right leaning social media site. And I think just one is sufficient. Allow images and at least 140-280 characters per post, and you have the same as all 3 anyway.

Facebook is popular as it already has the masses, and that's hard to beat, and why conservatives are there to begin with and deal with the censorship. But I believe if someone developed a similar platform, a social media type platform, that allows for the same - friends, relatives, searches, images allowed, politics allowed.... And then did a huge push upon start - and even if Trump made just ONE twitter post about it... the word could get around awfully quick. And the more that join, the more that would feel comfortable joining after them, and so on and so on.

But still not happening. Not for awhile anyway.

....

Man, I spent about $122 million of my winnings already!! :beer:
In your best estimation @jimnyc (http://www.debatepolicy.com/member.php?u=1), what would you guess it would take to start a new twitter, or even facebook? I can't imagine the web design would cost all THAT much. The roll out advertising would take the most money, millions. You would HAVE to have a national ad campaign. But I think it could be done, and I'm serious as a heart attack. If I won, that's what I'd do. In fact, I'd call President Trump and see if I could get a meeting with him about where to PUT all that money, and then talk to him about starting a new twitter, or facebook, and then give him a couple hundred thousand for his 2020 campaign... :cool:

[jimnyc]

In your best estimation @jimnyc (http://www.debatepolicy.com/member.php?u=1), what would you guess it would take to start a new twitter, or even facebook? I can't imagine the web design would cost all THAT much. The roll out advertising would take the most money, millions. You would HAVE to have a national ad campaign. But I think it could be done, and I'm serious as a heart attack. If I won, that's what I'd do. In fact, I'd call President Trump and see if I could get a meeting with him about where to PUT all that money, and then talk to him about starting a new twitter, or facebook, and then give him a couple hundred thousand for his 2020 campaign... :cool:

A basic cheap knockoff of either would be cheap - but not sustainable once you start getting "real" traffic like that coming. You would need some seriously well designed software, monstrous server space and bandwidth allotment. And keeping something like that up and running and operational - both software programming and hardware - would require several FT positions to handle it - obviously by professional server bastards - and some overpriced but great programmers!

Off the top of my head? I would imagine a game plan of using like $10 million on day one to get things started. And that's just getting software written and operational, and building a core server system around it. And for quite some time, it's gonna be eating cash like little fat kid eating candy on halloween! It would likely take quite a many million more and lots of ups and downs before something like that could even break even and start to make money. Would definitely need some heavy heavy interested players to make something like that work. Someone with some serious $$$$ to get started, who knows how to build a team around all I just mentioned, massive advertising campaigns.

But imagine like 10-20 big heavy hitter conservatives backing up such a plan? And then staying with it all the way up until completion and users rocking and rolling in? It would work in some ways.

Still never see it happening. :(

[High_Plains_Drifter]

A basic cheap knockoff of either would be cheap - but not sustainable once you start getting "real" traffic like that coming. You would need some seriously well designed software, monstrous server space and bandwidth allotment. And keeping something like that up and running and operational - both software programming and hardware - would require several FT positions to handle it - obviously by professional server bastards - and some overpriced but great programmers!

Off the top of my head? I would imagine a game plan of using like $10 million on day one to get things started. And that's just getting software written and operational, and building a core server system around it. And for quite some time, it's gonna be eating cash like little fat kid eating candy on halloween! It would likely take quite a many million more and lots of ups and downs before something like that could even break even and start to make money. Would definitely need some heavy heavy interested players to make something like that work. Someone with some serious $$$$ to get started, who knows how to build a team around all I just mentioned, massive advertising campaigns.

But imagine like 10-20 big heavy hitter conservatives backing up such a plan? And then staying with it all the way up until completion and users rocking and rolling in? It would work in some ways.

Still never see it happening. :(
Well, whoever wins the Powerball, if anyone tonight, and takes the one time cash payout, they're going to pocket $465 MILLION dollars. I'd say that would sustain any effort to start a new twitter by any means, and if you were smart and went about finding heavy hitter investors, which I bet you could, I think it would be doable. Twitter would instantly lose millions of people if you got the president to switch over, and if it turned into a free fall where twitter couldn't pay THEIR bills, then you win. Honestly, if president Trump alone said he was going to start tweeting, or whatever you'd call it on a new website, he was switching over to a new website, hell man, there would be an instant EXODUS from twitter to that new website, and the momentum alone would pull millions more for any other reason than simple curiosity.

I'm an eternal optimist, bro... :laugh:
@jimnyc (http://www.debatepolicy.com/member.php?u=1)

[High_Plains_Drifter]

Just FYI... I'll be making small signature loans at 0.5% interest to friends after I win tonight... :laugh:

[darin]

winning ticket sold in Wisconsin :)

[High_Plains_Drifter]

Sure the hell wasn't me... http://www.sherv.net/cm/emoticons/swearing/fuck-smiley-emoticon.gif (http://www.sherv.net/)

[LongTermGuy]

Thoughts from a real winner of a "Mega-Millions" lotto...(Interesting video)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tne02ExNDrw