Powerball reaches $1.3 billion Discussion Thread

[Gun Manufacturers]

I'd pay off all my debts, buy a huge piece of land, a shit-ton of gun and ammo, plus a few other toys and never work again. Even living off principle.

I'd keep working if only to keep myself busy. The school district would sure as fuck be able to afford teaching kids RIGHT tho...

Would you stay at your current place of employment, or would you start doing EXACTLY what you want to do (assuming you don't already)?

[Jersey Republic]

Proof that time travel doesn't exist

[Luna Amore]

Proof that time travel doesn't exist

Or it does exist and the Time Traveler is biding his time.

[Grinning Dragon]

I found this a very interesting read I just won the Lottery, what now

[The Great state of Atlantis]

One word: disappear.

A longer explanation? My wife and I would buy a small house, somewhere in the middle of nowhere on the Thai countryside, where nobody would know who I am and what I used to do. We would grow our vegetables, our fruit and my wife would grow her flowers. My kids would get their motorbikes to go to school and if we would have any surplus, we'd either sell it somewhere or just give it to the neighbours or our families. Other than that: nothing. The sun would rise and the sun would set and that would be all there would be to it. No internet anymore, not nothing. Completely off the grid.

Edit: I'd continue to make my own wine from fermented Pineapples, Coconuts, Dragonfruits and all the rest of the exotic and delicious types the country has to offer.

[Godular]

I'd keep working if only to keep myself busy. The school district would sure as fuck be able to afford teaching kids RIGHT tho...

Would you stay at your current place of employment, or would you start doing EXACTLY what you want to do (assuming you don't already)?

Both, actually. I teach for a living, write for fun... though at the moment the teaching thing is preventing me from doing the writing thing if only because they keep wanting us to make increasingly detailed lesson plans and I'm more the kind of guy who knows what he's aiming to get done going in, keeps tabs of how the students are doing, and makes changes as such things are needed. I can keep a lot of shit in my head, but trying to parse story background and lesson information gives me a headache somethin' awful.

I'd totally hire somebody to write my lesson plans... maybe for the whole department. Get better lab equipment and resources, yadda yadda, and teach pretty much the way I do now.

Much better funded clubs too.

[Big Jim P]

I'd pay off all my debts, buy a huge piece of land, a shit-ton of gun and ammo, plus a few other toys and never work again. Even living off principle.

I'd keep working if only to keep myself busy. The school district would sure as fuck be able to afford teaching kids RIGHT tho...

I would work and keep myself busy: work at hitting targets out to 3000+ meters.

[Godular]

I'd keep working if only to keep myself busy. The school district would sure as fuck be able to afford teaching kids RIGHT tho...

I would work and keep myself busy: work at hitting targets out to 3000+ meters.

Shit dude, with that money you could turn the entire area into a live-fire exercise zone with mobile targets and everything.

[Big Jim P]

I would work and keep myself busy: work at hitting targets out to 3000+ meters.

Shit dude, with that money you could turn the entire area into a live-fire exercise zone with mobile targets and everything.

Why do you think I want a huge piece of land? I ain't no farmer.

[Valrifell]

Pour all the money into investing a proper military for myself and invade some nation or another and begin global conquest.

[Godular]

Shit dude, with that money you could turn the entire area into a live-fire exercise zone with mobile targets and everything.

Why do you think I want a huge piece of land? I ain't no farmer.

I'd still live in my trailer. I'd have one hella kick-ass computer though. Something that might be able to play Crysis on max settings without a hiccup!

Might need a bigger trailer for that, come to think of it.

[Chestaan]

Your accountant would most likely tell you that taking the annuity is smarter.

I'm curious if high inflation would affect their recommendation.

Yeah it probably would. They could always run a Net Present Value calculation, where inflation would be included in the real interest rate.

[Rusozak]

Wait, it's national? Good. At least if I won I wouldn't have to celebrate by staring at the IOU paper the Illinois lottery gave me for money they don't have.

[Grinning Dragon]

I just wouldn't want to deal the deluge of mail and sorting it by keep/throw. Guess the kids will have their work cut out for them.

Oh, you have kids? Problem solved.

Or they end up causing more problems by incorrectly sorting mail, as they get distracted by the dumbest of things.

[Councilmembers]

1.3 billion dollars is a lot of money.

I'd give one million each to family members (thereby not exceeding 50 million), stash away 200 million for future political runs for office (ensuring I would not have to be funded by lobbyists and other special interest groups in order to win), and give the rest away to charitable endevours.

[Gonorf]

I'd buy an isolated island somewhere and move my mom and my GF there.

[Torisakia]

I wanted to buy a ticket to try my luck, but my Nazi of a state government banned gambling. So I just have to watch from the sidelines.

If I could buy one and won, I'd buy NS. Actually, I'd just buy Max Barry and make him my sexslave.

[Grinning Dragon]

I wanted to buy a ticket to try my luck, but my Nazi of a state government banned gambling. So I just have to watch from the sidelines.

If I could buy one and won, I'd buy NS. Actually, I'd just buy Max Barry and make him my sexslave.

What state is that? Also if it isn't much of a drive there is always the drive across state lines to buy one.

[Lancaster of Wessex]

I as a Canadian plan to win and then claim all the taxes deducted back, and converting it to Canadian dollars (not including said tax deductions), it'd be about CAN$1.8 billion.

I'd definitely have to change my name, move, and get an unlisted cell number. Hire a lawyer, and someone to handle all donation and charity requests, even from family, otherwise, bye bye sanity.

I'd invest some, spend some, and try and donate an enormous portion of it.

As much of a blessing as it'd be, it'd undoubtedly cause many problems as well.

[Torisakia]

I wanted to buy a ticket to try my luck, but my Nazi of a state government banned gambling. So I just have to watch from the sidelines.

If I could buy one and won, I'd buy NS. Actually, I'd just buy Max Barry and make him my sexslave.

What state is that? Also if it isn't much of a drive there is always the drive across state lines to buy one.

Alabama. And if I could drive, I would go to another state to buy a ticket.

[Val Halla]

I would probably a lot of shoes

[The Great Devourer of All]

Proof that time travel doesn't exist

Or it does exist and the Time Traveler is biding his time.

Or it does exist and someone won last time, but the time traveler went back and assassinated them before they could get their ticket.

Now, they're waiting for it to hit 1.5 bil or more...

[Big Jim P]

I'd keep working if only to keep myself busy. The school district would sure as fuck be able to afford teaching kids RIGHT tho...

Would you stay at your current place of employment, or would you start doing EXACTLY what you want to do (assuming you don't already)?

I would quit as soon as the lotto check cleared my bank.

[Farnhamia]

Would you stay at your current place of employment, or would you start doing EXACTLY what you want to do (assuming you don't already)?

I would quit as soon as the lotto check cleared my bank.

And it would be SO. MUCH. FUN.

[Arcturus Novus]

Man, this really makes me wish I could legally buy lottery tickets.