[moneymaker]

Considering the cash payout is 428M you will not come out ahead even if no taxes, hence the house always wins. Just bought 5 tickets for the Ronald McDonald house raffle. Guess I’m just in a gambling mood. Haven’t won anything valued over $600 in the past 43 years so I guess I’m due.

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yeah 1 of those 3 is my birth year, I would probably not have picked it though. I always play quick pick,because I believe the odds are the same. Some day I will have a dream and I’ll play those numbers, hasn’t happened yet.

[moneymaker]

If China doesn’t open their markets tomorrow it will be like in the movie “it’s a wonderful life” when they were trying to stay solvent until closing time. I suspect tomorrow the jobs numbers will be good but the story will be China’s Yuan/Dollar ratio. I wanted to get back into the market today but I think I’ll wait.

[moneymaker]

“livinincali” the power number is from 1-26 so can’t use that logical way to pick that number,jackpot is now $700M that’s 428,400,000 cash. Seems to me that most people take the cash payout, do you think that is because they don’t have faith that the lottery will be around for 30 years? Did they invest in CDO’s or MBS’s? Anyone seen “The Big Short”? It was good but I don’t know that I would give it an 8.1 like IMDB people did.

[moneymaker]

Yes the media always wants to hype everything, toronados, rain,market swings,whatever. But tomorrow will non the less be very interesting in China with no breakers. By the way I just got 5 Powerball tickets so I’m looking forward to Saturdays hype as well. The Shanghai opens at 5:30pm our time tonight I think.

[moneymaker]

Yes that is true flu. The worst part about the whole lottery thing is the taxes. In Europe there is no tax on the lottery. When you think about it,it really is a double tax because when you buy the ticket half of the money goes into a pot that replaces what would have been tax money for government programs. By the way the jackpot is now $675 Million! To calculate the odds it is (69!/64!5! times 26) a combination not a permutation.

[moneymaker]

$500 Million now. I’m going to give everyone in my family $14,000 if I win the “big one”.

[moneymaker]

True,depending on number of tickets sold. Just found out the Powerball gives option for 29 year payout. So I would probably take that to insure future ability to be a philanthropist with a write off.

[moneymaker]

Yeah if the powerball was a slot machine in Vegas I probably would walk right by it and not play. By the way flu the second grand prize in the McDonalds raffle is a 2016 BMW M6 convertible which goes from 0-60 in 4.2 seconds. They are also giving away a 2016 tesla model S.

[moneymaker]

Good Job flu!
After my payment tomorrow I will have a majority equity position in my house (according to Zillow), and I should sign up for earthquake insurance. Probably the state sponsored one I suppose, anybody have suggestions?

Also just thought I’d put this out there, there is a site called nixle that will connect you to emergency alerts via text or voice alerts, just signed up to it.

[moneymaker]

I’d say the biggest factor is thermal design which I’m sure is lacking in all of the “hoverboards”, without proper cooling no battery is going to perform well. That is why Tesla liquid cools theirs.

[moneymaker]

Does the battery explode while riding or when left charging longer than it is supposed to? Directions say to unplug it when fully charged.

[moneymaker]

Some friction can be a good thing. Without friction some sort of track is required, think train track. I’ve already fallen off one of those hover boards and it was not fun. If it wasn’t for back to the future I’m sure they would be called something else like mini segway.

[moneymaker]

Carbon dioxide is good for plants, lots of plants are why we have oil underground today. Don’t know if GW is true or not but I personally would welcome warmer oceans and higher sea levels.

[moneymaker]

According to the bible you can charge interest to foreigners but not your brothers.

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