<div dir="ltr">My current plan for this fantasy outcome is:<br><br>1) Buy a house or perhaps two.  Be the snowbird in style<br><br>2) Buy a lot of fancy computers of my own.  Not that I do that well at keeping the modest collection I already own busy doing things of some putative worth<br><br>3) Fully fund my current startup idea<br><br>4) Fund several "vanity" companies that I don't know will ever operate in the black but are all doing things I care about.    One for instance would have as it purpose proving the full power of Lisp over all other languages.  :)<br><br>5) Funds to many causes including a) Machine phase nanotechnology; b) AGIT; c) space colonization; d) more varieties of government (and no government) and the space for them to operate; e) life-extension/longevity/as close to immortality as we can get<br><br>6) start a fully rational, highly futurist sociopolitical/religious movement or at least disseminate ideas on how and why to do such a thing.  <br><br>That should keep me busy to and beyond when practical deathlessness kicks in. :)</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 5:44 PM John Grigg <<a href="mailto:possiblepaths2050@gmail.com" target="_blank">possiblepaths2050@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(56,56,56);font-family:"Libre Baskerville",Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">The three big discussion points for lotteries seem to be, what would you do with the money if you won, what are the odds of winning, and are lotteries a bad thing?  </p><p style="margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(56,56,56);font-family:"Libre Baskerville",Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">Personally, I would like to think that I could enjoy life more than I do now, if I won the l.6 plus billion lottery.  I have two huge zeppelins built!  And with one, I would take it from city to city, where science fiction and fantasy conventions would be held on board my aircraft!  The second zeppelin would be loaned to the Doctors without Borders nonprofit organization, to aid them in their work with the poor and sick.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#383838" face="Libre Baskerville, Georgia, Times, Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><a href="https://www.thebalanceeveryday.com/lottery-tips-from-powerball-winners-4129586" target="_blank">https://www.thebalanceeveryday.com/lottery-tips-from-powerball-winners-4129586</a></span></font><br></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(56,56,56);font-family:"Libre Baskerville",Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">I realize many people have allowed lotto wins to ruin them, and there are countless stories about this phenomena.  </p><p style="margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#383838" face="Libre Baskerville, Georgia, Times, Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/lottery-jackpot-winners-lost-big/story?id=36313525" target="_blank">https://abcnews.go.com/US/lottery-jackpot-winners-lost-big/story?id=36313525</a></span></font><br></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(56,56,56);font-family:"Libre Baskerville",Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">I have a friend who likes to say, regarding the odds of winning, "I am just giving the universe a chance to be extremely nice to me, if it so chooses!"  Lol   </p><p style="margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#383838" face="Libre Baskerville, Georgia, Times, Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><a href="https://www.bankrate.com/personal-finance/why-you-shouldnt-buy-lottery-tickets/" target="_blank">https://www.bankrate.com/personal-finance/why-you-shouldnt-buy-lottery-tickets/</a></span></font><br></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(56,56,56);font-family:"Libre Baskerville",Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">The funds for lotteries seem to go towards worthy beneficiaries, like the arts.  But certainly, gambling addiction can be a problem for some.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(56,56,56);font-family:"Libre Baskerville",Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">Anyway, let me know what you think...  :  )  </p><p style="margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(56,56,56);font-family:"Libre Baskerville",Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">"In the middle of the 20th century, when lotteries first started in the U.S., they were sold to states as a way to <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2013/12/18/everybody-wins-lotteries-like-mega-millions-benefit-taxpayers-seniors-schools-more/#4da07fb63dc9" style="color:rgb(85,117,133);outline:none;white-space:pre-wrap" target="_blank">benefit the American public</a>. That suggests that bigger and bigger jackpots should mean more tax dollars to spend on public services like education. But that isn’t happening. So what’s really going on?</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(56,56,56);font-family:"Libre Baskerville",Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">First, let’s look at how lottery jackpots got so big. This particular jackpot started at $40 million in July, and week after week, no one drew the winning numbers, but the tickets keep getting bought.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(56,56,56);font-family:"Libre Baskerville",Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">You too have the chance to win the biggest Mega Millions jackpot ever with the simple purchase of a $2 ticket. However, your chances are pretty slim. With a 1 in 300 million chance of picking the matching numbers, you are three times more likely to be <a href="http://moneyminiblog.com/interesting/things-more-likely-happen-winning-lottery/" style="color:rgb(85,117,133);outline:none;white-space:pre-wrap" target="_blank">killed by a vending machine</a>. An easier way to really wrap your head around your chances: It’s like flipping a coin and getting heads 30 times in a row."</p><div><br></div><div><font size="4"><a href="https://theconversation.com/the-mega-millions-jackpot-is-now-more-than-1-billion-where-does-all-that-lottery-profit-really-go-105279" target="_blank">https://theconversation.com/the-mega-millions-jackpot-is-now-more-than-1-billion-where-does-all-that-lottery-profit-really-go-105279</a></font><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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