scary math
 

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[QUOTE= "someone in the comments"]Oh man. I'm losing about 1/3 of my life being asleep...1/4 of it at work...1/18 being stuck in traffic...1/36 going to the bathroom...now the damn TV is killing me.[/QUOTE]

by my math all you have to do to ensure death without doing anything else except TV is watch 6 hours a day.

sign me up for her class !
 

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just joking about the class I've got a lot smarter people on this forum.

justice ?
 

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SM88, you go...you need the class....it's not a question of having smarter tickets.

But, I've heard assertions that the lotteries aren't fair...there was a recent case in PA where people bought a lot of lottery tickets and proved it...so they began clamping down on mass lottery ticket sales.

If you assume that Texas won't spend a texas-sized salary on two or three Stanford PHds in statistics (especially if they are "Aggies" instead), then there are going to be "holes" in the game, especially if the winning scratch-off tickets aren't actually inserted "at random" since someone is worried about two of them showing up together.

The odds of two huge winnings lottery tickets showing up at the same store are pretty small. I claim there's some serious cleverness involved...maybe reading serial numbers off of winning tickets, for example.

The difficulty of securing the chain of events that leads to a winning scratch-off ticket is non-trivial. This is why employees of all kinds of organisations involved in sweepstakes aren't allowed to win, nor are their relatives.

Here's the problem: There's a computer-controlled printing press that makes the tickets. Somehow, it has to be told, on occasion, and more or less at random, to make winning tickets. Someone has to design that rule, someone else who understands it has to program it. And likely, someone takes the output from the press and verifies it, remember, there's $$ involved. All of these three people can have a very good idea of when the winning ticket was printed. The ticket probably has a date code on it, maybe even a serial number, so it can be checked for forgery when it is turned in.

Now if we don't trust any of the three people setting up the press, we can have someone else bring a jump drive to the press to tell it what to do. But we have the same problem, since now the contents of that jump drive are worth $100 million on occasion, and someone still has to program the computer and operate it.

All this argues for secrecy in the process, and secrecy is a known recipe for cryptographic disaster.

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It's law, but it's anything but justice...notice how the truth suffers in this process...now that the hatchet is buried, the quest for the truth will die. We don't get to find out how badly the police behaved themselves, nor do we get to apply the new DNA science to find out if these men in fact did the deed.

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really reminds me of a aardvark if I remember correct.[/QUOTE]
You don't let those things go before the vetrenarian(GAH, I can't spell that to save my life) has a chance to see it. Looks like a rat and a kangaroo had a love child.

The really crazy thing is that it was found by smokers. What moron smokes in this day and age? Are they going to do some blood-letting after work to get rid of their coughs?

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Cool, find about a thousand more of these fuel sources and we could reverse global warming. And I'm not being sarcastic, every little bit helps.

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That occurred here in Arkansas. My mom cried and my dad swore at the prosecutor's continued accusations. Very emotional for both of them.

18 + only ?
 

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