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Powerball winner: $590 million ticket bought in Florida
The Miami Herald ^ | May 19, 2013 | Barbara Rodriguez

Posted on 05/19/2013 10:04:22 AM PDT by 4Runner

DES MOINES, Iowa -- It's all about the odds, and one lone ticket in Florida has beaten them all by matching each of the numbers drawn for the highest Powerball jackpot in history at an estimated $590.5 million, lottery officials said Sunday.

The single winner was sold at a supermarket in Zephyrhills, Fla., according to Florida Lottery executive Cindy O'Connell. She told The Associated Press by telephone that more details would be released later.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/05/19/3405191/590m-plus-powerball-1-winning.html#storylink=cpy

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: gambling; lottery; powerball
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To: 4Runner

Nope not me...I didn’t win:-)

Let’s see how quick the winner goes broke


41 posted on 05/19/2013 1:20:50 PM PDT by SeminoleCounty (GOP - Greenlighting Obama's Programs)
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To: GeronL

No...but for people to win at the stock market...some have to lose. Not everybody wins. The stock market is gambling with better odds.


42 posted on 05/19/2013 1:25:47 PM PDT by SeminoleCounty (GOP - Greenlighting Obama's Programs)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Are the ticket purchases mandatory? Tax-driven “entitlement” programs are re-distributive, and if I decide not to play along, eventually men with guns are going to show up to visit me. I’ve yet to hear about this with regards to the lottery, yet you and a few others call a purely voluntary game “redistribution.” It’s very odd.


43 posted on 05/19/2013 1:29:14 PM PDT by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: 1rudeboy

Definition of a mentality/bottom feeder: Someone who truly believes they are entitled to—and worth—vast unheard sums of money on an immense scale without so much as having expended one ounce of effort, time, experience, education, self discipline, intelligence, heartache, disappointment, fear, danger, repeated frustration, or risk in the endeavor. And our truly demented society preaches that we can—all of us—accomplish this feat just by buying a lottery ticket. Americans as a whole are the most ignorant people on the face of the earth and you all wonder why we are so hated? It’s citizens of other countries who laugh and shake their heads at who this country’s eligible voters elected TWICE IN A ROW as president. I mean ONCE could be a stupid mistake right? But TWICE??????? Yah, “stupid” doesn’t even BEGIN to cut it.


44 posted on 05/19/2013 1:40:14 PM PDT by 4Runner
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To: onyx

There’s “wealth” and then—there’s “redistribution”. Don’t confuse the two in your pwetty liddle head! One is earned and created through immense EFFORT and SACRIFICE. The other is LEGISLATED by LIBERALS and con artists and gambling interests. The lottery is a redistributionist tax on every one who buys a ticket and works for a living. The “winner” is the sole welfare recipient. Capisce?


45 posted on 05/19/2013 1:48:02 PM PDT by 4Runner
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To: 4Runner

A lottery ticket-buyer feels “entitled” to nothing, and he or she pays money for the chance. I get that lotteries, in general, are a “tax on the stupid.” Question becomes, why do you want to take my ability to buy a lottery ticket away?


46 posted on 05/19/2013 1:51:40 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

Lotteries are voluntary taxation. The gov runs these because they get a rake off the top and then off the winner. But it is voluntary taxation.


47 posted on 05/19/2013 1:54:55 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: 4Runner

It’s all about the odds, and one lone ticket
= = = = = = = = = = = = = =
I ‘love’ it when the newsreaders gasp “OH the odds are 75 million to 1 of you winning this prize”.

The ODDS are (dependent on game set up) 75 million to 1 whether it be a $2 or 2 billion dollar jackpot.

The PROBABILITY changes the higher it gets.

Then again when the POLS have convinced the masses that if you propose to raise someone’s budget from 4 trillion to 7 trillion and it gets ‘cut back’ to 6.5 trillion, the POLS and ‘interested parties’ will claim their budget was CUT .5 trillion from last year....

Think Sequestration BS.....


48 posted on 05/19/2013 2:10:17 PM PDT by xrmusn (6/98 --Inside every 'older' man there is a 'younger' man wondering "WTF happened")
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To: SeminoleCounty

The appeal of something like Powerball isn’t like the addiction of gambling. It’s the fantasy of telling the boss to shove it, of rewarding those who have helped you, of status in a culture that increasingly respects nothing but money, etc.


49 posted on 05/19/2013 2:22:48 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: 4Runner

Speculating in land, stocks, or anything else is gambling- the speculator is betting that they can sell for a higher price than they bought it for. The insurance “industry” is based on gambling- the insurance companies and their clients are essentially wagering on the probability of illness and accidents.

“The kind of serious societal power and influence that $590 million represents should NOT be available to any Tom Dick or Jane or Jose walking into a 7-eleven just based on chance. The destructive consequences of someone with no knowledge or ability or education or intelligence or self-discipline or managerial skill handling such enormous economic power is incalculable.”

So, only some Harvard or Yale-trained elites should have access to this much money? So, only the upper crust has any wisdom or any business having such enormous sums? We have 535 ‘elites’ and a jackass in the White House who mismanage trillions year in and year out for decades. We have banksters and other suit-clad crooks all over Wall Street who cook the books on their corporations, recieve handouts swindled from the government, and jump out with their golden parachutes after their schemes leave bankruptcy in their wake. And you maintain that someone chosen at random from the populace cannot handle money as well as some ‘elite’?

Piss be upon you. If the speculator has the right to gamble to get a profit, if the insurance man gambles that nothing bad will happen to a client, then anyone who buys a lottery ticket has a right to whatever the prize may be, great or small.


50 posted on 05/19/2013 3:05:40 PM PDT by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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To: 4Runner

This is without a doubt one of the craziest threads I have read on FR that didn’t deal with EVILLL smokers.

Here’s a novel idea...you don’t like the lottery..don’t buy a ticket.

But the high handed criticism of people who engage in a legal activity is almost amusing..if it weren’t so sad on a site such as this.


51 posted on 05/19/2013 4:17:01 PM PDT by berdie
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To: panaxanax

“...I stopped playing Powerball & other Lotto games after visiting this site:...”

http://justwebware.com/powerball/powerball.html

Wow!! That site was almost like paying your taxes quarterly for the first time where you have no idea how much you pay till you actually have to write a check. That site shows you how bad the odds are really stacked against ya for anything above a few dollars.....but the fantasy continues in millions of minds...LOL


52 posted on 05/19/2013 5:09:18 PM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: jjotto
The appeal of something like Powerball isn’t like the addiction of gambling. It’s the fantasy of telling the boss to shove it, of rewarding those who have helped you, of status in a culture that increasingly respects nothing but money, etc.

Exactly. A $2 ticket allows you to dream for a few days of what life would be like with no financial worries until the next drawing is held and the vast majority of us are left holding a worthless piece of paper. And then another $2 lets us dream again for a few more days!

Of course, some are addicted. Undoubtedly there were many who woke up this morning with the sad realization that they spent way too much money on lottery tickets last week and now they're a little concerned about how they're going to pay the bills.

53 posted on 05/19/2013 6:05:38 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: lgjhn23

I put it on “max” speed and went to town to run some errands. When I got back I had hit one $40,000 ticket. This was 2 tickets per week for 8,000+ years!

Just for fun, choose your lucky numbers and let it run overnight. I’ll do the same and we can compare our winnings tomorrow morning.

Have fun...talk to you in the a.m......panax


54 posted on 05/19/2013 6:13:43 PM PDT by panaxanax
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To: SeminoleCounty

People who sell when the stock goes down are choosing it, they want to sell and can’t complain. They decided the stock was not as desirable as the money.


55 posted on 05/19/2013 9:38:36 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: 4Runner

Yeah, I know what you mean. I didn’t have a winning Ticket either.

LOL

However, my Wife and I did win $5,500 on a Megabucks Slot Machine back in 1990 at the Las Vegas Mirage. Dropped in $3 and ding - ding - ding.

Haven’t won a dime since...


56 posted on 05/19/2013 9:45:32 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (America has a two Party system, the Tea Party and the Communist Party.)
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To: lgjhn23

I played all night and did win a 2 million dollar ticket.

However, the simulator showed that I would have had to play 2 tickets per week (2,681,197 games) for 25,781 years!


57 posted on 05/20/2013 4:34:46 AM PDT by panaxanax
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To: panaxanax

I let it run most of the night until I left for work this morning.
Highest I could do was a couple of $10K wins.
I played for 3400 Years, spent $707,269, won $73,876 and lost $633,392.


58 posted on 05/20/2013 4:45:07 AM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: GeronL
The lump sum is half the 30-year payment after taxes, who keeps that other half?

As best I understand it, "that other half" doesn't exist. The 30 year payout is the result of investing the lump sum in an annuity. The lump sum is the lump sum. The 30 year payout is the lump sum plus proceeds of investment.

As best I understand it.

I could be FOS ...

59 posted on 05/20/2013 4:57:05 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: lgjhn23

Playing the lottery doesn’t look like much of a winning proposition, huh?

Think I’ll save my money and invest in ammo (if I can find any).


60 posted on 05/20/2013 5:15:41 AM PDT by panaxanax
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