$100 million to win a $150 million jackpot, but that jackpot is paid out over 10 years, which is pretty normal for lotteries with large payouts.
By normal you mean that's how it works where you live? Because it sure isn't the case everywhere. In the UK All prizes are paid as a lump sum and are tax-free. I don't really need to guess where you're from, do I?
I'm all for subtlety in humour, Bill. But you really need to add something (such as a throw away line at the end, perhaps in the form of a really exaggerated statement) to make it a bit more obvious that your joking.
Otherwise people might take your post at face value.
Lots of people play based on birthdays, so it's best to avoid numbers 31 and down - and especially the ones <= 12. As you say, any set of numbers is as likely as any other - but the payout's less likely to be shared.
Not really. If the counterweight really is exactly the same weight as the Bentley + elevator, then the energy to lower the empty elevator (i.e., lift the counterweight) would be the same as it would be to lift the Bentley
All the tinking's been left to me as usual.
You just need something to counter the counterweight. Now what needs to go down in an apartment building that we could make use of? Trash, bathwater and of course, poo.
I think you forgot to mention the European Continent where people speak underdeveloped languages like French and German
And I think you forgot to read the part where duggi wrote "or Google already has something for them(Language packs)". What's more he never said any languages were underdeveloped, just that in certain areas the market is.
It's exactly cancelled out by all the heat emitted by computers as they transmit warez, pr0n, and especially linux distributions, hither and thither. Isn't that obvious?
Cue a hundred posts along the lines of "speed limits are designed with the average driver in mind - this guy is an exceptionally good driver". Just like we all are.
Someone must have patented a method for getting atoms to rearrange into clusters (hereinafter referred to as molecules) of a desired composition with test tubes and bunsen burners and stuff...
Well if the price is so prohibitive that nobody pays it, and instead everyone chooses to either live with the status quo or invest in developing an alternative, they'd get nothing.
That's assuming it's really a worthwhile patent for a genuine invention, not a wish list item or a codification of common knowledge. And sadly that's by no means a given these days.
While history has an influence most African countries have had self rule for quite some time. You might as well blame Julius Caesar for world war one - the difference is only one of degree.
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Can print plz chizburgr?
I'm all for subtlety in humour, Bill. But you really need to add something (such as a throw away line at the end, perhaps in the form of a really exaggerated statement) to make it a bit more obvious that your joking.
Otherwise people might take your post at face value.
Lots of people play based on birthdays, so it's best to avoid numbers 31 and down - and especially the ones <= 12. As you say, any set of numbers is as likely as any other - but the payout's less likely to be shared.
There isn't enough for it to be bad.
No significance tests. No confidence intervals. Lame.
It's exactly cancelled out by all the heat emitted by computers as they transmit warez, pr0n, and especially linux distributions, hither and thither. Isn't that obvious?
If you want to test for a logarithmic relationship then you can transform the data accordingly - take the antilog of one of the variables.
You lost me with that bit about abstracting the process of abstraction.
So is symbolic thinking an automatic gearbox, or is it more like traction control?
Cue a hundred posts along the lines of "speed limits are designed with the average driver in mind - this guy is an exceptionally good driver". Just like we all are.
Actually it's acceptable to to use the posessive with a gerund, though it doesn't form a complete sentence.
For example, 'His winning the scholarship meant he could give up the job at burg-u-like'.
Huh? Are you saying that they filter out the crap here?
Yes, and I'm sure someone posted the same joke the last time this story came up.
Most people don't bother reading either.
Someone must have patented a method for getting atoms to rearrange into clusters (hereinafter referred to as molecules) of a desired composition with test tubes and bunsen burners and stuff...
2) Don't tell them. <=== clever bit!
3) ????
4) Profit!!!!!
Are they flashing out of sequence?
Nice comment. I particularly liked the wikisource link, I always wanted to know what gitmo looks like. From the inside.
Well if the price is so prohibitive that nobody pays it, and instead everyone chooses to either live with the status quo or invest in developing an alternative, they'd get nothing.
That's assuming it's really a worthwhile patent for a genuine invention, not a wish list item or a codification of common knowledge. And sadly that's by no means a given these days.
While history has an influence most African countries have had self rule for quite some time. You might as well blame Julius Caesar for world war one - the difference is only one of degree.