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Message 1887646 - Posted: 3 Sep 2017, 4:40:51 UTC - in response to Message 1887643.  

Well, my Powerball ticket for tonight was a bust, so I guess I'll have to plan on going to work on Tuesday........

Meowsigh.

Hopefully one of these days your ticket will win.

Homeless kitties all over the country would rejoice.....LOL.
Not likely. But, the odds if you buy a ticket are still better than if you do not play.

True, the last time I played, I played in a pool, no one there won either.

I only played after the bills and such were paid, and only $2.00, though not on powerball then.

Though if I had a time machine, I could send someone the winning numbers, but no one knows how to do that.

Dreaming is fun and free.

Right now I'm waiting for My rent bill, as the meters were read back around the 18th, but then so is everyone else in the park, misery loves company.
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Message 1887657 - Posted: 3 Sep 2017, 8:40:32 UTC

All powerballs are fake. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRljuZzGVzc When you want to throw away money,throw it at me.
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Message 1887658 - Posted: 3 Sep 2017, 8:50:39 UTC - in response to Message 1887657.  

All powerballs are fake. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRljuZzGVzc When you want to throw away money,throw it at me.

I don't even buy a ticket every week. No false visions of becoming rich quick here...........LOL.
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Message 1887691 - Posted: 3 Sep 2017, 13:43:29 UTC - in response to Message 1887657.  

All powerballs are fake. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRljuZzGVzc When you want to throw away money,throw it at me.
Hmm, since our lottery started in Nov '94 I've had quite a few nice wins :-) In fact the proof was occasionally posted on these boards. For an annual spend of £156 (£3 per week) it would take xxxx years without a win to start showing a loss :-)
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Message 1887695 - Posted: 3 Sep 2017, 14:01:30 UTC

The only way to guarantee winning at a lottery is to be the organiser.
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Message 1887716 - Posted: 3 Sep 2017, 15:31:21 UTC - in response to Message 1887695.  

The only way to guarantee winning at a lottery is to be the organiser.

Or the computer programmer.
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Message 1887722 - Posted: 3 Sep 2017, 15:58:28 UTC - in response to Message 1887716.  

The only way to guarantee winning at a lottery is to be the organiser.

Or the computer programmer.

Well, in the case of the Powerball game, the winning numbers are picked by randomly drawn balls. So computer programming skills or hacking would not help ya.
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Message 1887733 - Posted: 3 Sep 2017, 16:18:22 UTC - in response to Message 1887722.  

The only way to guarantee winning at a lottery is to be the organiser.

Or the computer programmer.

Well, in the case of the Powerball game, the winning numbers are picked by randomly drawn balls. So computer programming skills or hacking would not help ya.
Ah but all my winning numbers were picked randomly by computer :-)
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Message 1887734 - Posted: 3 Sep 2017, 16:19:49 UTC - in response to Message 1887733.  

The only way to guarantee winning at a lottery is to be the organiser.

Or the computer programmer.

Well, in the case of the Powerball game, the winning numbers are picked by randomly drawn balls. So computer programming skills or hacking would not help ya.
Ah but all my winning numbers were picked randomly by computer :-)

But that is a moot point when the end result is determined by random chance.
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Message 1887738 - Posted: 3 Sep 2017, 16:36:01 UTC - in response to Message 1887734.  

True, but when using a "fixed" set of numbers, it's not truly random.
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Message 1887742 - Posted: 3 Sep 2017, 16:43:28 UTC - in response to Message 1887733.  

The only way to guarantee winning at a lottery is to be the organiser.

Or the computer programmer.

Well, in the case of the Powerball game, the winning numbers are picked by randomly drawn balls. So computer programming skills or hacking would not help ya.
Ah but all my winning numbers were picked randomly by computer :-)

Well, if you report that the draws look random but they are not ...
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Message 1887809 - Posted: 4 Sep 2017, 0:44:59 UTC

I won eight dollars once.




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Message 1887813 - Posted: 4 Sep 2017, 0:58:49 UTC

The Grand "Canon" is still at Penn base, still shootin...

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Message 1887815 - Posted: 4 Sep 2017, 1:10:13 UTC

Speaking of lottery.
http://www.ozy.com/flashback/the-grand-comedy-of-chinas-biggest-bank-heist/65062
Winning the lottery may not be such good luck after all. That’s what happened to Ren Xiaofeng when he bought tickets with borrowed money, winning enough to pay it all back. You can guess what happens next, right? Going for that winning ticket proved addictive and, unfortunately for Ren, the “borrowed” money came from a bank vault that he was responsible for keeping safe.
So begins the tale of China’s biggest-ever bank heist.
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Message 1888189 - Posted: 6 Sep 2017, 20:19:01 UTC

Well now I need a new tire, there goes $48.00 delivered, mounting and balancing $16.00 extra or $64.00 total.

If I needed a rim, like this one, that would run $48.60 delivered, I'd be in a real pickle then, and since I have not gotten My rent bill, yet, and I have not bought all My food for the month, so I might be in a pickle now, I just don't know yet.

I've got a friend here who can set Me up with a temp tire and rim, so no worries there, I just have to wait until He gets home.


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Message 1888193 - Posted: 6 Sep 2017, 20:37:48 UTC

"£$%^&U*I)_+ Vic - not at all nice.
I hope you are OK (apart from impending damage to your finances that is)
The rim should be OK - I've had far worse blow-outs than that and the rim has been unscathed because the remnants of the tyre has ended up between the rim and the road surface.
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Message 1888198 - Posted: 6 Sep 2017, 20:51:32 UTC - in response to Message 1888193.  

"£$%^&U*I)_+ Vic - not at all nice.
I hope you are OK (apart from impending damage to your finances that is)
The rim should be OK - I've had far worse blow-outs than that and the rim has been unscathed because the remnants of the tyre has ended up between the rim and the road surface.

Thanks Rob, yeah I'm alright, I just need to find out the rent, so I can see about replacing the tire and make sure none of the other 3 are bad or even under inflated, as to the cause, that I don't know, I could have hit a nail or something, but that does not matter now.
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Message 1888200 - Posted: 6 Sep 2017, 21:00:15 UTC

Now I know the rent, so I get to order the tire, and I even have enough for a rim, if I needed to buy one or felt like doing so. My projection for the rent was $15.90 higher than reality, the rent bill is $435.46. And I just heard thunder, later.
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Message 1888201 - Posted: 6 Sep 2017, 21:09:54 UTC

Tire is bought, estimated delivery Monday Sept 11th.
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Message 1888219 - Posted: 6 Sep 2017, 22:43:03 UTC

Looks pretty low miles. Did you check to see if you had any warranty?
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