No, I think he should have been stripped of all assets and placed on welfare, with a court order preventing him from ever holding a job paying more than minimum wage and that any gifts to him would have to be surrendered to compensate his victims. He should also have been forced to live in section 8 housing the rest of this life. The same should have been done with all assets his wife and his children that he had working the scam with him. This would have cost the taxpayer far less than his prison stay and at least some of his victims could have been compensated. It would also be a far more fitting punishment.
I personally would not do rip off the lottery, but I am not ever going to be rich. I also am not naive enough to believe that the truly rich got that way by creating wealth when we have clear evidence that for a significant fraction this is not the case.
Because the unscrupulous folks are really the ones running the lottery. Don't believe that it pays for schools BS either, in most states it goes into the general fund.
Not when you can just give them smartphones with the software to do the job installed on them. You can even setup the application to stop working if you do not get paid.
Which is why I suggested having lots of people doing it for you. Then you might be able to make enough for the proper campaign contributions. Maybe not though.
Couldn't you just buy them in bulk and return them like the article says? Then you can use a machine to scan and select winners and losers. Then just return the losers and cash in your winners.
This is slashdot, we don't RTFA. You don't even have the excuse of being new here.
I was only familiar with the PA system, which seems to do a lookup of some sort because if the phone line or other connection the lottery terminal uses is not connected it cannot validate winning tickets.
Wow, you are naive. The name Bernie Madoff mean anything to you? And don't act like that finally caught up to him, he protected everyone else and will probably be released in 10 years when he is sick and old. Maybe High Frequency trading rings a bell? Perhaps you have heard of the tricks Microsoft used to gain and keep a desktop monopoly?
No no, you examine the whole roll, write down which ones you want and have the person behind the counter by them for you as they come up. You pay him 10% of the take and you probably more than doubled his income.
A week is not old for slashdot, I can see you are new here so we can let it slide this once. In the future you should probably also not read the articles.
If we estimate 220 working days a year this means he makes more than 132,000 a year. Seems like either he makes quite a bit or he needs to think bigger. Get 10 people all doing this and have him take 50% of the profits.
You can pick and choose lotter tickets all you like, if you are working at a place that sells them. Just exam each new ticket as it comes up and buy any winning one that is available. You could even pay off an employee to do this with you.
That does a lookup to a db in most cases. The UPC only gives them a number to check the DB for, not any information about status of the ticket. All of this seems worthless unless you can return tickets you have not scratched off or if they will sell them out of order, both are things most lottery ticket sellers will not do.
So that you too can experience broken parts? To me this is them doing the least they could, the right thing would be a refund since you can't use any boards right now and a new board when they are available. This makes the CPU you bought from them worthless, so just offering a replacement in 2 months is nuts.
You will need to make some sort of citations for such an outrageous claim. As someone who tends to go back and forth between the two I have never seen said issues happen more to one than the other. With the exception of intel p4 boards, which burned up northbridges like crazy, but those boards also had bad caps and I imagine that was the real cause.
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Wrong Apple Steve. That one is just an ad man.
Why Drug free? Seems like controlling what you can ingest is big government talk.
it is not reasonable and as a public employer it is indeed different. They are a government, with that comes special powers and special limitations.
Their business laptops suck ass. Getting them to support them is even worse.
No, I think he should have been stripped of all assets and placed on welfare, with a court order preventing him from ever holding a job paying more than minimum wage and that any gifts to him would have to be surrendered to compensate his victims. He should also have been forced to live in section 8 housing the rest of this life. The same should have been done with all assets his wife and his children that he had working the scam with him. This would have cost the taxpayer far less than his prison stay and at least some of his victims could have been compensated. It would also be a far more fitting punishment.
I personally would not do rip off the lottery, but I am not ever going to be rich. I also am not naive enough to believe that the truly rich got that way by creating wealth when we have clear evidence that for a significant fraction this is not the case.
Because the unscrupulous folks are really the ones running the lottery. Don't believe that it pays for schools BS either, in most states it goes into the general fund.
Not when you can just give them smartphones with the software to do the job installed on them. You can even setup the application to stop working if you do not get paid.
Which is why I suggested having lots of people doing it for you. Then you might be able to make enough for the proper campaign contributions. Maybe not though.
Couldn't you just buy them in bulk and return them like the article says? Then you can use a machine to scan and select winners and losers. Then just return the losers and cash in your winners.
This is slashdot, we don't RTFA. You don't even have the excuse of being new here.
I was only familiar with the PA system, which seems to do a lookup of some sort because if the phone line or other connection the lottery terminal uses is not connected it cannot validate winning tickets.
Wow, you are naive. The name Bernie Madoff mean anything to you? And don't act like that finally caught up to him, he protected everyone else and will probably be released in 10 years when he is sick and old. Maybe High Frequency trading rings a bell? Perhaps you have heard of the tricks Microsoft used to gain and keep a desktop monopoly?
No no, you examine the whole roll, write down which ones you want and have the person behind the counter by them for you as they come up. You pay him 10% of the take and you probably more than doubled his income.
A week is not old for slashdot, I can see you are new here so we can let it slide this once. In the future you should probably also not read the articles.
If we estimate 220 working days a year this means he makes more than 132,000 a year. Seems like either he makes quite a bit or he needs to think bigger. Get 10 people all doing this and have him take 50% of the profits.
You can pick and choose lotter tickets all you like, if you are working at a place that sells them. Just exam each new ticket as it comes up and buy any winning one that is available. You could even pay off an employee to do this with you.
That does a lookup to a db in most cases. The UPC only gives them a number to check the DB for, not any information about status of the ticket. All of this seems worthless unless you can return tickets you have not scratched off or if they will sell them out of order, both are things most lottery ticket sellers will not do.
Please do explain how I fit my two boot drives(RAID0) and my RAID5 array on just two sata ports
So that you too can experience broken parts?
To me this is them doing the least they could, the right thing would be a refund since you can't use any boards right now and a new board when they are available. This makes the CPU you bought from them worthless, so just offering a replacement in 2 months is nuts.
Intel is coming out with yet another socket so soon?
Holy hell, no wonder I don't buy them that often.
You will need to make some sort of citations for such an outrageous claim. As someone who tends to go back and forth between the two I have never seen said issues happen more to one than the other. With the exception of intel p4 boards, which burned up northbridges like crazy, but those boards also had bad caps and I imagine that was the real cause.
It used to be a highly regarded publication, now it is just one more News Corp garbage echo chamber rag.
Please show me this left or liberal media bias. All media in the USA seems to be center right(MSNBC, CNN) to far right (Fox News).
Left bias?
Are you fucking kidding? They have a center right pro corporate bias.
Well then it is good that this is not the case. That hardware is generic stuff, it could easily do WebM.
Bullshit, h264 is a huge risk. There could well be other unknown patents out there for it. The MPEG-LA does not indemnify you at all.