I'm curious... how would YOU build one then? Real question.

Actually, for this one case, without a custom form altogether you'll be in a world of pain. The current solution we're working through invloves field_collection set to unlimited cardinality which hosts the date field with repeat. Damn thing will not submit, though (and you have to adjust the form elements parent's array or else the js messes up too). Oh well... perhaps in an update or two... but we opted for creating our own form handling for all of this to avoid it all.

There is a caveat though. It's not possible to have multiple different repeats of an event. So something like every thursday at 7 and every friday at 8 is not possible without at least going though entity collection (which complicates things). Also, the event entry interface is quite lacking... haven't found a way get a full stack without at least doing the entry form through a custom module.

Just follow standard practices. Readable fonts, good contrast, proper sizing and use of negative space. It's pretty much a formula. Get that right, then go creative (improvements). It's easier to improve a proper foundation.

It's almost always a mistake to hand over the same admin interface you get in drupal to your clients. We solve this by building one for them. A couple of views here and there (with bulk ops), and panels with rules for fine tuning and you can almost always create a simple enough admin interface for them. Alternatively, you can write up a small module just for that purpuse to have full control of it. Use Beans in stead of raw blocks, use Entityforms instead of Webforms so that you can easily setup prebuilt UI facing forms and Organic Groups is almost often good enough to fine tune permissions across multiple roles. Use Nodequeue for things like slideshow management. I find that with Drupal, if you don't have a final idea in mind before you begin, it'll almost always be clunky, but conversly, with a solid plan, it's a trivial matter of knowing your modules.

Don't really have a point, friend. Mental masturbation, perhaps? In this case you are letters on a screen, that's all I percieve on my end of the deal. The illusion, therefore, is a necessity -- but I'm aware of the nature of this illusion. You are wrong in that I would percieve *you* to have no mind, just that the fermentation itself (my window to you) doesn't. It would be unwise not to make the distinction. Your conclusion would be a false dichtomy.

What you maintain is what your mind attached itself to, and we are all really having discussions with ourselves here.

Take the world map, paint all the regions in it where there is conflict, now start removing the paint where the conflict is directly or indirectly related to Islam. You will find that the world without Islam is very peaceful. A religion of peace it is most certainly NOT. Notwithstanding, your delusions.

That this is all an illusion fermented by the various minds involved?

What I see, plain as day, is the lack of discipline, the lack of respect for discipline, and the lack of value western society places on discipline as a personal virtue. Because of this we collectively tend to behave like monkeys rather than human, and have the collective potential of monkeys for the most part.

It's definitely not psychological. According to my anecdotal evidence.

... Aaaaaand... I was wrong.

And of course no ticket diminishes the chance of any other ticket are you arguing with voices in your head or something?

Hmm perhaps I am... :)

I'm about 12 years removed from the class where I first encountered this. I'm a bit rusty on the formulations of permutations and combinations. As I'm typing this, I see my own confusion. For some deranged reason I applied a formulation that describes playing the game anew 50 times, rather than 50 tickets for one game. Kind of laughing at myself now. Cheers.

It's not a liniar relationship. Why don't you roll a few dice and see? For one, the winning combination is picked from one set, with indifferent order. Which means you can't have a repeated number, and they can come in any combination. You can pick exactly 50 different combination on the cards. However, you can choose the same number on different cards, this means that out of the 50 different combinations, you may or may not have overlaps on the digits themselves. That's just one case where it will not line up. Secondly, the individual ticket's chances DO NOT GO UP, individually each ticket has the same chance, but NO TICKET DIMINISHES THE CHANCE OF ANY OTHER TICKET, again, this is because of overlapping possible conbinations. This situation gets even more complicated when you start to concider that you can have 3 tickets, and each one covering only 2 of the winning numbers, but on their own, are not winners (I picked 6 total just for illustrative purposes). This isn't even getting into the math itself. In short, nope, sorry, it ain't how it works, even if you don't believe me.

Replying to myself... all yous forgot how to google. http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=554420. Still don't believe me, do the actual math. Why in the world would think this relationship is liniar is beyond me.