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Are there any advantages to NOT being anonymous?Reply
I can't see any advantage congruent with publicizing a jackpot win. And good arguments can be made for either side of this issue too. But against my own personal preference for privacy, I'd have to go with the outing of winners. And that's simply because I don't fully trust the present or future muckety-mucks enough to refrain from the temptation to capitalize on what seems to me to be an easy avenue for potential corruption. And if I can imagine it, you can bet somebody else has alr
Dec 6, 2013, 6:51 am - rdgrnr - Lottery Discussion Forum

Illinois Never Wins Powerball-Why?Reply
I actually feel kinda bad about putting the curse on them in the first place, dallas. It was so silly on my part as I look back now at the circumstances. It was during another one of their governor's corruption trials. It was Rod Blago Blagojevich. I just got so darn tired of seeing him on tv with that goofy hairdo hanging in his face that I just flipped out one night and put a curse on the whole dam state that said they would never win Powerball again. I guess it was really uncal
Mar 24, 2013, 10:54 pm - rdgrnr - Lottery Discussion Forum

Would you feel obligated??Reply
35% of a lottery prize would go to taxes here in TX. (25% up front and 10% at the end of the year) Taxes go to 43.4% next year on that kind of money... Our Federal Government spends the vast majority of it's budget on the welfare system, which will end up killing our nation if we don't fix all the loopholes and weed out the corruption. (It don't make sense how an able bodied person can get foodstamps and section 8 housing, when they are fully capable of working.) I would help p
Nov 27, 2012, 2:00 pm - Kumo - Lottery Discussion Forum

Indiana lottery to outsource some operationsReply
Let's think about this in a business sense. WHY would any business do a service for the government if they didn't get good or great return in profits? And WHY wouldn't the Lottery Commission would give away profits to a private concern? They are thinking about doing the same in Pennsylvania and I think it stinks!! With the corruption of big business in the news each and every day why would any Government turn over a program that would be so easy to have some greedy b**tards rob the citi
Jul 13, 2012, 10:49 am - JezzVim - Lottery News

How many people are not sure how much they spend on the lottery?Reply
A very large bankroll won't get you a statical advantage. The comps vary rarely, or for very few, intelegent rich people, outweigh the games your playing. Some progressive slots could offer an advantage, but it's quite a hastle finding the odds, which would help you determine any potential, but rare, advantage and it's variance. Anyway, it'd require a giant bankroll, but is not cheating. I would not cheat at casino games, because that's the theft. But if I happen to be good enoug
Jun 3, 2012, 5:48 pm - Boney526 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Feds seize gambling site Bodog, indict founderReply
I agree with you 100% and then some. WHAT about the Savings and Loan, the mortgage flip/flop, the illegal signing of the foreclosure papers with John Doe's and all the other corruption in government? WHO is going to jail for that? WE the People suffer because the Government decides who goes to jail, but they are exempt? The elected officials are ''allowed'' insider trading, its against the law but no one stops the people we send to office to serve the public interests from doing it and their
Mar 1, 2012, 10:53 pm - JezzVim - Lottery News

How much Power do we have hereReply
Oh ok, Arkansas, I know where that's at. That's where Slick Willy , Hillary and grovel come from. AR is kinda new to this yet and you've already had some charges of corruption being tossed around. You could wield a lot of power if you could get everybody to work together but you know how that goes. All you can do is keep the pressure on them. Write letters, make phone calls, notify your Attorney General and call your Congressmen etc. Write letters to the newspapers and let everybody
Sep 14, 2011, 11:58 pm - rdgrnr - Lottery Discussion Forum

rouletteReply
It's in the genes! It's such a shame that the world doesn't seem to be able to function without crime and corruption. I've been to foreign government offices where you had to pay a bribe if you expected to finish your business there in any reasonable period of time. Although there are places in the world where you can leave an expensive bicycle or camera unattended and in full view, and return hours later to find it undisturbed, across the board, there really are a lot of thieves in the world
Feb 10, 2011, 12:16 am - jimmy4164 - Gaming Forum

NYS lotto scratch off dirtly little secrets that they do not want you to know about. READ THISReply
I think you should go to the newspapers if you have some documentation. (A letter admitting it perhaps) This is big news. And let me add one more question. Who is in charge of destroying the tickets and is it supervised and/or filmed? What are the chances that one or a number of employees got the opportunity to scratch some or all of those tickets and cash them in? You might have just scratched the surface of some major corruption. No wonder they warned their retailers when there was
Oct 28, 2010, 12:52 pm - rdgrnr - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Should Lottery Commissions Be Obligated To Maintain Your Anonymity?
Does the lottery have the right or duty to maintain anyone's anonymity? This is a tough one, balancing considerations of safety and privacy against transparency and the people's right to know. I would like to remain anonymous as much as anyone if I won the big one but how could we let the lottery have the authority to say somebody won and we're not telling you who? If that wouldn't open the door to corruption by lottery officials I don't know what would. As much as we dislike the idea
Dec 4, 2009, 5:40 pm - rdgrnr - Lottery Discussion Forum