o, its pilot was crap. What happens now?

They sue the widow, of course.

I've made a habit of skipping every rating that is the maximum and every rating that is the minimum of the allowed scope. Somewhere in the 2-to-4-star gamut is the truth of the matter.

This post should be moderated +3, Insightful.

Apple is offering crazy money to get folks to jump the other way, but not having anywhere near that kind of success.

Which is probably why the story "leaked", so that they know they're serious.

"...the FDA is trapped in a co-dependent relationship with the pharmaceutical *and food* industry."

That's for sure. The whole "Eat lots of grains and avoid fat" nonsense killed more people than did faulty pharmaceuticals.

I cashed out, paid my Dad back his $20 and kept the remainder. Never played again... have no desire to.

You're fortunate you don't have whatever it is that gives people a thrill from gambling. For those people, the worst thing that could happen is to win the first time. It ruins lives. I've seen it.

if they sell 245 million tickets, an average of 1.4 people will win.) And you have to split the winnings with them. So in fact your expected return is NEVER positive.

If one just *has* to play the lottery, play only numbers above 31. That will avoid all the birthday numbers, so the chances of splitting go down. There, that's my only lottery strategy. For free!

Oh yeah, and don't make a special trip to play. Adding in the risk of that trip ruins everything. OK, that's two strategies. Still free!

"I can easily afford to spend a few dollars on a Powerball ticket. Time to head to the convenience store and do just that."

I'm guessing the chances of getting hit by a bus on the way to get that ticket are greater than the chances of winning. Did he factor that in?

It makes you wounder why we pay attention to any study. Seems like most studies usually have contradictory results and then are summarily reversed years later.

Typically the early studies are observational. They find a correlation. Scientifically that should be a starting point, but instead people jump to a conclusion.

I could see people starting to mine Bitcoin as well as other shitcoins a whole lot in Greece should this come into effect.

Typically the way it's done is to still run the meter, but up to a certain threshold it's very cheap (or free in this case). It works well. Where I live, many people's electric bill is just a few dollars per month, while mine is a bit more than $100 because I run an air conditioner and several computers.

Except most retirees take more out of SS than they ever paid in...

Over a lifetime interest is earned and the absolute value of the money decreases. If you didn't get "more" out than you put in it would be terrible thing.

That's three things.
You should come in again.

*Nobody* expects to have a heart attack and need to use a defibrillator!