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As you guys may already know the Powerball has hit an all time record of an estimated 900 million dollars. The cash value is far less than that, and even lower depending on where you live and the way you claim your winnings.
If your numbers are the one picked in the 1:292mil odds drawing, what would you do with your new windfall?
Definitely be the shop of my dreams after they revive me for a start. Where WE go from here is up to YOU!!!
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every member gets 50 bucks….lol
PROTOOLNUT wrote:
What the heck is power ball? Is it some kind of sport where a guy launches a ball from a canon, hits a guy in the head and ruins the new years holiday? 0.0
Yes that one is where the James Cann character is the only survivor at the end. Or a state game of chance that is currently worth 900 million. And by the time the numbers are drawn tonight will be worth over a billion with a B.
man guys who ever wins this WOW!! If they’re smart they will invest in TIA! 😉 everybody in the crew would get a kapex from me :}
Get a really nice but smaller house, but I want a ginormous pole barn/workshop filled with all the tools you could ever dream about from metal working to woodworking.
I’ll move to the moon
Jimbo
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I’d buy a Snap On tool box and with the left over money I’d buy a pack of gum.
BMack37, that’s just about right. But it would have to be a cheap pack of gum lol.BMack37 wrote:
I’d buy a Snap On tool box and with the left over money I’d buy a pack of gum.
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No dreams but I went in with a bunch of our NHSP mechanics and got a ticket……..hmmmmmm…..farm……land……horses…..family taken care of……..Festool…….Sawstop Cabinet saw……20″ planer…….big shop……..retirement three years sooner………
Good luck brother. Enjoy early retirement.chrisk wrote:
No dreams but I went in with a bunch of our NHSP mechanics and got a ticket……..hmmmmmm…..farm……land……horses…..family taken care of……..Festool…….Sawstop Cabinet saw……20″ planer…….big shop……..retirement three years sooner………
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I’d hire comp56 to build me red stuff 😛
I would go everywhere in a chariot with a driver.
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Hmmm… House for my mom and dad. I’d build one big ass shop with the latest and greatest to play in all day. At least one of each Festool product and probably two of each with anything red that says fuel. And of course the TIA crew will get set up with some awesome member giveaways for a long long time!
Ballast Key 15 million then after that it is anybody’s guess and I guess a helicopter or boat to get to it
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And the numbers are out:
“The winning numbers for the Powerball drawing are: 16-19-32-34-57, with the Powerball number, 13.
By the time the numbers were picked Saturday night, the final lottery sum rose to $949.8 million, according to The Associated Press.
If no one scores a perfect match this round, lottery officials expect the jackpot value to break $1.3 billion by next Wednesday’s drawing.”
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No winner
Jimbo
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I would send Eric and Dan to counseling. 🙂
That might just be enough to buy all the tools in Dan’s garage, with enough left over for some Taco Bell for lunch.
ok wait, so if they can sell all these tickets and a computer can tell them instantly there was no winner, can this same computer generate a no winning combination and spit it out too…..just sayin………..look at the money they are making……….I’m having a lottery every week too…….
i collect money and no winner easy peasy…
comp56 wrote:
ok wait, so if they can sell all these tickets and a computer can tell them instantly there was no winner, can this same computer generate a no winning combination and spit it out too…..just sayin………..look at the money they are making……….I’m having a lottery every week too…….
i collect money and no winner easy peasy…
How much is a ticket to your lottery comp? I’m in!
The numbers are not generated by computer, they are numbered balls in an automated machine, mixed up and drawn at random.
The drawing is balls in a mechanical system still. The IT guru’s still haven’t figured out to have a true random number generator they all end up having some kind of bias. All the power ball has is a database of the numbers and the terminal that sold the ticket. It’s so someone can’t print a fake ticket. They also have a barcode with information on the ticket its probably time and terminal also. When smart phones first came out I wanted to do an app that scanned for winning lotto numbers.
Jasonc wrote:
The drawing is balls in a mechanical system still. The IT guru’s still haven’t figured out to have a true random number generator they all end up having some kind of bias. All the power ball has is a database of the numbers and the terminal that sold the ticket. It’s so someone can’t print a fake ticket. They also have a barcode with information on the ticket its probably time and terminal also. When smart phones first came out I wanted to do an app that scanned for winning lotto numbers.
There was actually a lottery scam in the 1980s where they messed with the balls to make some weigh less than others, it was organized by the host of the lottery show!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Pennsylvania_Lottery_scandal
regopit wrote:
Ballast Key 15 million then after that it is anybody’s guess and I guess a helicopter or boat to get to it
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I live in Key Largo, we’d just about be neighbors, lol.
Just outside of the Conch Republic
PROTOOLNUT wrote:
Is that in Cocomo, where you get there fast but you take it slow? 😉
Nah, this place is real. 😛
I would be more of the time to move in the middle of the woods somewhere, maybe Canada with my closest neighbor 20 miles away.
Jimbo
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And here we go…
” The winning Powerball numbers were drawn Wednesday night: 8, 27, 34, 4, 19 and the Powerball of 10.”
http://abcnews.go.com/US/powerball-lottery-drawing-record-15b-jackpot-tonight/story?id=36275166
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I won… Oh wait that’s my prison barcode
Jimbo
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Shucks!
I didn’t win
wow 3 people’s lives are going to change either for the better or worse today…….side note: being a Canadian it is ok to buy power ball tickets it’s ok to be Canadian and win the power ball lottery but here is the kicker, if a Canadian buys a ticket returns to Canada the border crossing deems bringing back the winning ticket smuggling……what a loop hole…..
https://twitter.com/BoschToolsNA/status/687393009017597952PROTOOLNUT wrote:
Well when you get a wife, your barcode belongs to her, so if she catches you cheating, your ass is grass when she sends out the robotic attack dog.
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