[Osirisis]

So who's going to be the first to go purchase a bunch of these babies for some heavy RC5?

I'll go rob a few banks to help out

[jbcool]

Originally posted by Osirisis:
<STRONG>So who's going to be the first to go purchase a bunch of these babies for some heavy RC5?

I'll go rob a few banks to help out </STRONG>

Not me.
Don't rob banks. Your odds of getting away with it are very small.
Get a law degree instead. What was that song where the lyric goes something like you can steal more with a briefcase than you can with a gun?

Oh to have the money to buy all the toys, wouldn't it be great.
Naw, we would just want more toys.

[jarling]

No, dont get a law degree. 1) theres no market right now, and 2) having just finished my first year yesterday, not much fun. No, not so much.

Maybe you can beg the winner of the RC5 challenge.

[Shaktai]

Step 1: Win lottery
Step 2: Buy big 6 bedroom house
Step 3: fill up 5 bedrooms, 1 for each project with rack mounts
Step 4: Sit back and watch everyone choke on your dust.

Step 5: return to reality, drink a cold one and hope your iBook keeps working.

[The Placid Casual]

I have a law degree as well...I can testify that it is NOT a guarantee of instant wealth!

By the time I graduated Law School I was £9,000 in debt!! And if I had wanted to become a Solictor or Barrister I would have had to add to that another £6000 of fees alone, and then work for a maximum wage of £12,000 a year for 2 years as a trainee!!

After spending 3 years learning about various forms of Estoppal, the rule against creating trusts in perpituity, and European Constitutional law (and the judgements of Lord Denning, UK lawyers will know what I mean!) etc etc I decided that for the moment, the law is not for me...so I set up my own company. It really is *much* more lucrative...

My sister is a Solictor and does well for herself, but for the work you have to put in, in the UK at least, the monetary returns are not that great...

Juust my 2p,

Marc

[Tigerabbit]

Sounds like a plan to me, Shaktai. Powerball is up to $61M and break-even is at $80M for it; a couple of more drawings with misses and it'll be worth playing.

Road trip to Kansas next week! (maybe)

[jbcool]

Originally posted by Tigerabbit:
<STRONG>Sounds like a plan to me, Shaktai. Powerball is up to $61M and break-even is at $80M for it; a couple of more drawings with misses and it'll be worth playing.

Road trip to Kansas next week! (maybe)</STRONG>

Well enjoy the short drive up. Nothing much to see when you get here.
Just flat land. Make sure you don't run into any bad weather on the trip up. It seems that most of the bad weather has been between Norman and Wichita so far. No need for a repeat of what you guys down there went through a few years ago. I couldn't believe all the damage the first time I drove down after the big storm.

[Tigerabbit]

Originally posted by jbcool:
<STRONG>Well enjoy the short drive up. Nothing much to see when you get here.

It seems that most of the bad weather has been between Norman and Wichita so far. No need for a repeat of what you guys down there went through a few years ago. I couldn't believe all the damage the first time I drove down after the big storm.</STRONG>

The Coastal/Hardee's on the Kansas Turnpike at about Mile 11 is the nearest place to buy Powerball tickets to here. I'm not sure if I'll buy them there or if I'll venture over to Arkansas City.

I'm still amazed that more people didn't die in the May 3, 1999 tornado. When I saw the damage in Moore and Del City the next morning, I thought surely over 100 would have died.

[jbcool]

Originally posted by Tigerabbit:
<STRONG>

The Coastal/Hardee's on the Kansas Turnpike at about Mile 11 is the nearest place to buy Powerball tickets to here. I'm not sure if I'll buy them there or if I'll venture over to Arkansas City.

I'm still amazed that more people didn't die in the May 3, 1999 tornado. When I saw the damage in Moore and Del City the next morning, I thought surely over 100 would have died.</STRONG>

I would say that all that money and research that has been done by the team down there in Oklahoma really paid off that day. We are even seeing the benifits here in Kansas with all the Doppler radars that have been put into place and all the new software that has been written. It is giving much better coverage of what is going on inside of the cells and giving people enough time to react. Guess there is a purpose for computers other than boat anchors or end tables.

[mikkyo]

Heh, you have a better chance of being struck by lightning or killed in a tornado than you do at winning powerball.

Now if you got 7 people together who invested $1M each and bought up half the tickets like those Irish folks did, you could get some good odds.

Save your gas and ticket money over the next year and buy some RAM or something useful instead.

[chris v]

Originally posted by Tigerabbit:
<STRONG>Sounds like a plan to me, Shaktai. Powerball is up to $61M and break-even is at $80M for it; a couple of more drawings with misses and it'll be worth playing.

Road trip to Kansas next week! (maybe)</STRONG>

Lets see... 61M minus taxes, leaves say 35M, build a nice house, buy a few cars, have a big Hawaii vacation with 75 of my "closest friends," put 10M in a high interest money market account, that leaves (hmm.. carry the one..) about 5 Million to spend on servers. So if they cost $2500.00 or so, that's +/- 2000 servers. Should about do it...

CV

[Tigerabbit]

Originally posted by mikkyo:
<STRONG>Heh, you have a better chance of being struck by lightning or killed in a tornado than you do at winning powerball.

Now if you got 7 people together who invested $1M each and bought up half the tickets like those Irish folks did, you could get some good odds.

Save your gas and ticket money over the next year and buy some RAM or something useful instead.</STRONG>

Winning the Powerball is 80,089,127 to 1 against. I only buy when the jackpot is in excess of $80M, which is rarely so I don't spend very much on either.

The Irish Sweepstakes had a limited number of tickets to sell, so buying up a large pool of tickets was feasible. Theoretically, an infinite number of Powerball tickets can be sold.

Most of my machines are already maxed out on RAM. I need more new machines.

BTW, no one won tonight, so the expected jackpot for Saturday is $70M. One or two more misses put it over $80M.

Mmmm, 2000 dual gigs in one room. Damn, I'll need to get a bigger house with a mad mother of an air conditioner.

[ 05-09-2002: Message edited by: Tigerabbit ]

[jbcool]

Originally posted by mikkyo:
<STRONG>Heh, you have a better chance of being struck by lightning or killed in a tornado than you do at winning powerball.

</STRONG>

I wondered why I was standing outside this evening watching the clouds trying to start rotate while the lightning was flashing all around.
If I only would have had a lottery ticket in my pocket, darn.

I sort of figured it would happen more like this. I get the winning ticket go to turn it in and the car breaks down, get hit by another car, then get struck by lightning, and drown in a flash flood.

So I don't buy tickets just to be on the safe side.

[Tigerabbit]

Originally posted by jbcool:
<STRONG>I wondered why I was standing outside this evening watching the clouds trying to start rotate while the lightning was flashing all around.
If I only would have had a lottery ticket in my pocket, darn.</STRONG>

Nah! That just shows you're a local.

How do you tell native Okies from imports? The natives are the ones with camcorders driving TOWARD the funnel.

Anyways, five days to rack mount announcement, we hope.