Tom Wilson wrote: > Here in America, many states have what they call a Lotto. What > happens is you go to a local convenience store and purchase a Lotto > ticket for a US $1 a ticket. They usually have 6 numbers on them > from 1 to 40 or so. Then once a week they draw numbers out of a > contraption that has a bunch of numbered ping pong balls in it and > you hope that the six you picked (or had randomly generated) on your > ticket are the same six that pop up out of the ball machine. Is so > you win the jackpot of generally some tens to hundreds of millions of > dollars. > > Most people don't win. Thus you have to pretty lucky if you do.
In some places this is called the "Optimist's Tax". Tom :-}) Thomas A. Condon Plain Text Emails Don't Pass Viruses! _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
