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- GinsuGuy585, on 03/19/2008, -5/+72#6: people that play the lottery have cow hands.
(see pic) - nahsrocketeer75, on 03/19/2008, -1/+59I'm fine with state lotteries, but what drives me absolutely crazy is the hypocrisy of states like my own -- Massachusetts -- that have huge lottery operations and yet prohibit casino gambling.
- jeimus, on 03/19/2008, -1/+496. It really slows down the line at the bodega when people play 20 tickets at a time and all you want is to get a six-pack and get out
- dasdef, on 03/19/2008, -3/+36why would they use that persons hands for the stock photo of a person holding a ticket???
- DangerCollie, on 03/19/2008, -0/+26I hope this doesn't sound preachy, sometimes it's fun to buy a ticket and dream. But some people spend $10-$20 dollars a week. Take that $40/month and invest it....doesn't have to be stocks. Open a Prosper account and loan it out to people. But even stocks on a long enough time horizon....you'd be rich in 20 years. Keep out of any kind of debt and keep making even modest investments and you'll be living the dream.
- zdiddy85, on 03/19/2008, -0/+21That's the 6th thing you didn't know about the lottery!
- inactive, on 03/19/2008, -2/+21The government can sell you a lotto ticket, but you're not allowed to play poker for real money in the privacy of your own home. Clinton/Obama/McCain for Head Nanny '08!
- linuxrocks2007, on 03/19/2008, -6/+20This is a good article, but what does this have to do with Playable Web Games?
- jaxter2010, on 06/17/2009, -0/+13No, what pisses me off is that Devaul (spelling?) wants to legalize casinos in massachusetts, but make it a felony to play poker online.
- loganhid, on 03/19/2008, -3/+16how do you know i don't know these
- Narcism, on 03/19/2008, -8/+20Expecting to win the lottery is no stupider then voting and expecting to make a difference...
- inactive, on 03/19/2008, -0/+9Well, because online poker takes money out of state. That's their thinking, at least.
- inactive, on 03/19/2008, -3/+11Yeah...no one has EVER told that story before and pretended it really happened to a friend of theirs.
- lohphat, on 03/19/2008, -2/+10Vitiligo for the win.
- computrius, on 03/19/2008, -1/+9You cant make less than minimum wage, and its not like you see any of the profits when business is good. When some jack#*@ looks at me and says "I PAY YOUR SALARY!!", I just take a penny out of my till and say "ok, I'll give your share back to you".
- KRNpro, on 03/19/2008, -0/+7Casino gambling profits mostly go to the casino owner. All lottery profits go to the state. Its all about the money =/
- iJump, on 03/19/2008, -1/+8You're doing it wrong!
- Wilson, on 03/19/2008, -1/+8I hear you. Unfortunately I work at a convenience store and have to serve many people like that a shift while people in line get fed up and leave :/
- fxu1989, on 03/19/2008, -0/+6Every time I play the lotto, I dream of what would I do if I win.
It never hurts to dream big .... sigh.... one of these days, I'll win. - PocketWatch, on 03/19/2008, -0/+64 8 15 16 23 42
...works every time. - jamesov89, on 03/19/2008, -0/+6I know that is a rick roll . . .
- inactive, on 03/19/2008, -0/+6I was referring to playing poker online.....but I appreciate the name calling nonetheless!
- AdamWest2122, on 03/19/2008, -1/+7I tend to play cash 4 once per week with a box24 (24 chances to win each game). $200 jackpot, it may not seem like a lot but it is a months worth of groceries, or three months of telephone, so that is nice. I'm bad with math but figure with initial odds of 1:400, played four times a month, that gives a 1% chance to win $200, at the cost of $4 or a couple cheeseburgers I didn't need anyway. Sure it is still a long shot, but so is grinding for blues in WoW xD.
- inactive, on 03/19/2008, -0/+5Serves him right. Playing the lottery regularly is dumb enough. Playing it and not checking the numbers is the most idiotic thing people do. Even if you don't win the jackpot, why not check? I played a few weeks ago, and ended up getting 3 numbers plus the MEga Ball. $150. While that sucks considering I beat 13,000 to 1 odds and got just $150, it was still $150 that I did not have before. Had I been one of those people who buys tickets and only checks if they hear that a local person won the jackpot, I would never have known.
- Charlotte_Web, on 03/19/2008, -5/+10State lottery == surtax on stupidity
- mCanada, on 03/19/2008, -1/+6All of you obviously don't know ***** about getting rich. First off you write a series of B rate sci-fi pulp novels. Secondly start claiming that those said novels constitute a "religion of sorts". B) Buy a moderately sized boat and claim that you are the captain of the said boat. C) Find people to sail the seas with you and build up your newly found religion. D) Claim non profit status E) profit.
- kylere, on 03/19/2008, -0/+5The economy in Michigan, and specifically in Flint is so rotten that the only way I will ever be able to pay off my house faster than it is losing value is to win the lottery. I stand a significantly higher chance of winning the lottery than I do of finding someone dumb enough to buy it for what I owe. House has lost 1/3 of appraisal value AFTER adding a new roof in the last 4 years, and the taxable value has increased 23% Wooo!
- emjaymj, on 03/19/2008, -0/+4Actually, I don't know what the system is like everywhere, but here convenience stores receive NO money from lottery ticket sales. Stores sell them anyways because it's an effective way of getting people into your store.
- inactive, on 03/19/2008, -0/+4Put the 4 bucks in a piggy-bank each week. At the end of one year, I'll guarantee you a $200 jackpot which you can use to whatever end you like.
- OnlyGirlOnDigg, on 03/19/2008, -0/+4Using the same image over several times is not impressive.
- spudnic, on 03/19/2008, -0/+3There is one strategy that works in getting you a bigger jackpot if you win, don't pick lots of numbers under 31.
Lots of people use birth dates as their numbers, so if you win with lots of numbers under 31 your share will be smaller. (This is in lotteries with more than one winner.)
Doesn't make you any more likely to win though of course. - Dantetheinferno, on 03/19/2008, -1/+48 6 7 5 30 9
... Works every time - jololli, on 03/19/2008, -0/+3Who the hell carries over $500,000 on them??!?!
- WhiskeyLemur, on 06/30/2009, -0/+3My initial reaction was "wrong kind of gaming" -.-
- Br0wn, on 03/19/2008, -0/+2wow people really have a problem with the Vitiligo. I wonder how the react to people who are full in that color.
- MrQuoz, on 03/22/2008, -0/+2Great idea!
- dsmx, on 03/19/2008, -0/+2It's not hypocrisy if we do it....
- Dantetheinferno, on 03/19/2008, -1/+3Oooh. Can i have another copy pasta too? [And i wondered where bingobongony went...]
- Dantetheinferno, on 03/19/2008, -1/+34chan and digg are merging together, like two icebergs smashing into each other....
- emjaymj, on 03/19/2008, -0/+2Right, apparently "smart" people don't know what a surtax is.
- Aiwanei, on 03/19/2008, -0/+2That would have been humorous if they were talking about say... Alaska since Ted Stevens is from there. But Deval Patrick is no idiot when it comes to the internet.
- anarchyinthekr, on 03/19/2008, -0/+2Flint is depressing :(
- danc4498, on 03/19/2008, -0/+2Ugh, number 5 says of the biggest lotto winner in history, "But the dough seemed to carry more curses than the Hope Diamond." Then the first example of how it was a curse was he was robbed at a strip club for $500K. Sorry, you weren't cursed with money, you were cursed with ***** up chromosomes!
- andrewpmk, on 03/19/2008, -0/+1Why not just sell shares in some random penny stock? At least the odds of getting a jackpot are in your favour.
- zoziw, on 03/19/2008, -0/+1I used to work with a guy who made north of $500k a year and every week I would see him down at the newspaper kiosk buying lottery tickets.
- Crazychipmunk, on 03/24/2008, -0/+1Wheres the ????!
- sbgunn, on 03/19/2008, -0/+1Your point is dead on with one caveat: consider gambling an entertainment expense. I personally am not a gambler, but if someone wants to spend $60 playing blackjack while I spend $60 buying a video game, fine by me. Of course, lotteries don't seem to provide as much entertainment as casino gambling.
- WhiskeyLemur, on 06/30/2009, -0/+1....and who wants to distract the bodyguards while I "persuade" him to part from it?
- VladislavIII, on 03/19/2008, -0/+1"Winston had nothing to do with the running of the Lottery, which was managed by the Ministry of Plenty, but he was aware (indeed everyone in the party was aware) that the prizes were largely imaginary. Only small sums were actually paid out, the winners of the big prizes being non-existent persons."
- MrQuoz, on 03/22/2008, -0/+1He has a better chance of walking out of the liquor store and getting struck by lightning.
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