The result, any particular format is pretty much homogeneous across their span of coverage. Stations begin to lack individuality (outside of their personalities and callsign sweeper).
Sorry, but even radio personalities are not necessarily local. It's cheaper to manage one group and send the feed to many affiliates, than to manage one group in each. The exception is a major city, but there exist many more stations outside those markets than within them.
That means that the guaranteed individuality of each station reduces to their callsign sweeper.
Of course, while the station ID is necessarily unique the station name may not be: how many K-Rock or Jack-FM stations are there? You could easily splice in the callsign letters within a generic sweeper for stations that share the same name.
So basically, the guaranteed individuality of each station reduces to their callsign ID itself. Great!
Games usually start out easy and get harder as they progress, right? What about starting you out as an uber-warlock who can destroy everything, but with some strange illness that makes you weaker and weaker as the game goes on. At the end, you finish as a feeble level-1 equivalent who needs to use some wit to get by.
This described most of the undead campaign from "WarCraft3: The Frozen Throne". I say 'most of' because (1) some of the campaign does not involve the afflicted character and (2) the afflicted character slowly regains his powers during the final battle.
The beauty is, if you solve any NPC problem you solve them all, by definition. So, Mr. Smarty Pants, if your Sudoku solver is good enough to solve any grid in polynomial time, please show the rest of us, as you've just cracked every encryption scheme invented to date.
Don't I know it. The problems usually boil down to either delivery missions or kill missions. So yeah, once you figure that out then you've got them all figured out. I've never heard of a Sudoku trainer, though.
I'm guessing you've never made the distinction between the words 'athletics' and 'sport'.
For example: Target rifle shooting may not be athletic, but I can definitely see the sport in it. Doing laps around an outdoor track strictly for exercise may be athletic, but there's no sport in it.
Apply competition to any voluntary activity and it can become a sport. The competition can even be against yourself or time, and not necessarily against another person.
Make it involuntary, and that competition may lose it's 'sport' status. Professional athletics games can sometimes be viewed in this way where the participants may have no love for the game and only perform their tasks for a paycheck - to that person the activity is no longer a sport but a job.
Sport has everything to do with the motivation and nothing to do with the activity.
That's funny. In the U.S. it's almost exactly the opposite. First, the lottery says "Jackpot prize $15 million" when it is actually $7 million, because they give you the option of taking the $7 million and putting it a fund which pays out 30 annual payments of half a million each. Then the tax comes on top of that. Counting only the federal income taxes and inflated advertising, that means that a jackpot advertised as $15 million comes out to a lump sum of about $4.6 million.
On the jackpot issue: When the lottery says, "Jackpot prize $15 million" they are saying "Jackpot prize $15 million". In other words, the $15 million is what is available for reward which gets divided among all winners, so that the payouts would look like this: $12mil to all top winners, $2mil to all 2nd tier, $0.5mil to all 3rd tier, $0.25mil to all 4th tier, etc. The payout structure is not this rigid, but the point is that the "Jackpot" is the total available winnings. To be clear on this, that $12mil is divided between all top winners and not $12mil to each. You mention the annuity payment scheme - in some states there is an option of being awarded in one payment, with a smaller payout.
On the tax issue: There are a few taxes that are involved in Lottery winnings: (1) Federal income, (2) Federal income, (3) State income.
Federal income - the IRS usually takes 25%-28% from any check over $5000. It's 30% on any win over $600 if you don't have a SS#. This is from the Energy Policy Act of 1992, section 1942 - but don't ask me why gambling is covered by an Energy Policy Act.
Federal income - your overall income was altered by the winnings. This probably put you in a higher tax bracket. That's right - slightly more taxes.
State income - most states have income taxes (the same idea as point #2). And even if you live in one of the 7 states that lacks income tax, the lottery-issuing state may not be the one you reside in (hint: the issuing state taxes your winning). Then again, some states (like NJ) don't tax these winnings (at least for NJ residents).
Since there are a few tax variables, it's easier for the lottery agency to say, "You won the money, you deal with the taxes applicable to you." That's why the situation is backwards.
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That means that the guaranteed individuality of each station reduces to their callsign sweeper.
Of course, while the station ID is necessarily unique the station name may not be: how many K-Rock or Jack-FM stations are there? You could easily splice in the callsign letters within a generic sweeper for stations that share the same name.
So basically, the guaranteed individuality of each station reduces to their callsign ID itself. Great!
This described most of the undead campaign from "WarCraft3: The Frozen Throne". I say 'most of' because (1) some of the campaign does not involve the afflicted character and (2) the afflicted character slowly regains his powers during the final battle.
We're talking about MMOGs, right?
I'm guessing you've never made the distinction between the words 'athletics' and 'sport'.
For example:
Target rifle shooting may not be athletic, but I can definitely see the sport in it.
Doing laps around an outdoor track strictly for exercise may be athletic, but there's no sport in it.
Apply competition to any voluntary activity and it can become a sport. The competition can even be against yourself or time, and not necessarily against another person.
Make it involuntary, and that competition may lose it's 'sport' status. Professional athletics games can sometimes be viewed in this way where the participants may have no love for the game and only perform their tasks for a paycheck - to that person the activity is no longer a sport but a job.
Sport has everything to do with the motivation and nothing to do with the activity.
When the lottery says, "Jackpot prize $15 million" they are saying "Jackpot prize $15 million". In other words, the $15 million is what is available for reward which gets divided among all winners, so that the payouts would look like this: $12mil to all top winners, $2mil to all 2nd tier, $0.5mil to all 3rd tier, $0.25mil to all 4th tier, etc. The payout structure is not this rigid, but the point is that the "Jackpot" is the total available winnings. To be clear on this, that $12mil is divided between all top winners and not $12mil to each.
You mention the annuity payment scheme - in some states there is an option of being awarded in one payment, with a smaller payout.
On the tax issue:
There are a few taxes that are involved in Lottery winnings: (1) Federal income, (2) Federal income, (3) State income.
- Federal income - the IRS usually takes 25%-28% from any check over $5000. It's 30% on any win over $600 if you don't have a SS#. This is from the Energy Policy Act of 1992, section 1942 - but don't ask me why gambling is covered by an Energy Policy Act.
- Federal income - your overall income was altered by the winnings. This probably put you in a higher tax bracket. That's right - slightly more taxes.
- State income - most states have income taxes (the same idea as point #2). And even if you live in one of the 7 states that lacks income tax, the lottery-issuing state may not be the one you reside in (hint: the issuing state taxes your winning). Then again, some states (like NJ) don't tax these winnings (at least for NJ residents).
Since there are a few tax variables, it's easier for the lottery agency to say, "You won the money, you deal with the taxes applicable to you." That's why the situation is backwards.