Posted on 02/02/2014 10:52:21 AM PST by 1rudeboy
I'm guessing 1rudeboy and his pals in the bar were on the lookout for those, too...
You wouldn’t lose that bet.
Fleming was the better host, and although the original game was a cheapskate game by comparison, the Final Jeopardy! rule was better: you got to keep the money you made. The all-or-nothing rule was just Merv’s way of screwing the second and third placers out of their winnings.
Krups makes coffee makers. Krupp made munitions. :)
I completely agree. It was better when you got to keep whatever money you ended up with.
haha !!
Sounds like you were blessed.
Innovators are rare and that’s why bureaucracies with their licensing, permitting and control schemes, which really amount to de facto control of your business, cause so much harm.
Innovators create massive shifts in wealth and this opportunity is followed up by early adopters who often tweak and improve the original innovation, sometimes making it much more palatable to the masses which can be slow to adopt innovations.
This is why nearly all regulation is counterproductive. Mavens, people with a near mania about a certain product/idea/thing, become go-to experts for people. Everyone knows a “car guy” or a “computer guy” who advises them. The Internet is doing this even more broadly. The free market works and I don’t know why more people don’t accept that.
Jeopardy will probably work to alter the rules if this causes a real shift in viewership, though. Jeopardy exists to sell commercial time, not reward brilliant players.
Yah, that's the first thing I thought: Jeopardy might eliminate the Daily Double, if this technique becomes the dominant strategy.
Have you read/listened to this?
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2014/01/nina_munk_on_po.html
It’s great and why we need to eliminate foreign aid and local welfare.
jeopardy ping
Thanks 1rudeboy.
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