My plan for my life once I get money

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Disbelievers be damned. Once I win the lottery, I'm gonna ask for the cash option, perhaps invest in a few likeable stocks. Then put the rest of the money where I will have easy access to it. Buy a good car with cash and I am gonna be traveling and driving around the entire country solo...ALL BECAUSE I EFFIN FEEL LIKE IT!

Where will I go? Well I will be like a bird and go south during the winter and north during the summer. I may go to Australia for a whole winter if that were possible but I will stick with going to Texas, Disney World, California during the winter months. Summertime I will drive up to New England. I've always wanted to walk and tour the quaintest and prettiest old fashion New England coastal town that can exist (anyone know of any) and then I will drive up to Canada, travel all over that country, eat at every Tim Horton's imaginable, and then I will dog sled my way around Alaska.

This is what I wanna do before I die anyway, though I suppose I gotta make room for one pilgrimage to my mother country of South Korea. It's the only country I apparently have ever been in but I was a toddler at the time so I have little memory of it.

In the meantime I am left to rot in complete misery in Indiana. But hey if I am that desperate I could just sign up for a bunch of credit cards and just run off anyway. I swear this summer has been so boring and meaningless that I am this close to driving off and actually accomplishing this.

you forgot the part where you slip me a few mil'

Maybe you could do a tour of the US by hitchhiking and visiting lots of WP members. Or just camping under the stars. Or buying a VW van. Sounds good to me.

Chances of getting Cancer 1 in 2. Chances of being selected on the Price is Right 1 in 36. In getting audited by the IRS, 1 in 175. In being born with 11 fingers or toes, 1 in 500. In getting injured and dying within the next year , 1 in 1,820. In winning an academy award, 1 in 11,500. In becoming a pro-athelete, 1 in 22,000. Chances of dating a super model, 1 in 88,000. Chances of dying in a Airplane accident, 1 in 354, 319. Being struck by lighting, 1 in 700,000. Of winning the California 1,000$ scratch off loto, 1 in 960,000. Chances of being a billionaire, 1 in 7,000,000, Becoming president of the US, 1 in 10,000,000.. getting to the point, the chances of you winning a million dollars from the mega millions lottery jackpot is now .... 1 in 135, 145, 920. Or as I'd say, impossible !. I view the lottery as a tax on dumb people.

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Most of this is incorrect. Most obviously, you're assuming people only play the lottery once, and don't take multiple tickets at a time and/or play hundreds or thousands of times over many years, which improves the odds (while reducing the relative payoff, of course). Secondly, things like becoming an athlete do not randomly happen to people; the people who become athletes are a subset of the people who try to become athletes, not a subset of the whole population. For most people the odds of becoming an athlete are exactly zero, not small-but-significant, because they do not try to become athletes. Among people who try to become athletes, the odds of their succeeding are much higher as a consequence than simply dividing the number of athletes into the population suggests. Same goes for half the things on that list.

I don't know .. the graph looked pretty legit to me. I think people play the lotto for so many years , so consistently that they somehow feel they're obliged to win it eventually, like theirs actually an optimistic hope when in reality it's virtually impossible if you understand the statistical chances.

Are you sure you can't find a better use for all that money?



*cough*

Id buy an island somewhere and create the micronation of AS forumites.

You can't win if you don't play....I don't worry about that stuff.