Man Pays $31,000 for Atari 2600 Game

by **Hot Trout** » Sun Jun 13, 2010 8:30 pm

Thanks guys, Im crossing everything I have now in hope. Looking forward to blowing 1M on drugs, wine, women, fast cars and sadly more old computers. I'd pimp up a Commodore MAX just to prove how fly I was.

by **Guest** » Mon Jun 14, 2010 5:08 am

Whats to stop someone who wins the lottery from taking 1 mil of their winnings and buying at ton of another lottery tickets and winning that...? Wonder if theres restrictions on that or not

by **crustyasp46** » Mon Jun 14, 2010 2:04 pm

In Canada you can win as many times as you try by buying a ticket, all tax free, there were a couple of guys in Quebec who actually made a pretty good living off of the smaller lotteries that we have, and the tax man tried to collect taxes on their winnings saying that gambling was their profession, the courts here said profession or not as long as their winnings were legitimate lottery winnings no tax had to be paid, and all levels of government had agreed on the no tax on winnings.

Sorry Ht no big winning this time around, But Max is $50 m again with I think around 40 extra chances @ $1M. :cry:

by **Hot Trout** » Mon Jun 14, 2010 2:32 pm

I'll not give up the day job yet. Fingers crossed. What part of Canada do you live in?

by **crustyasp46** » Tue Jun 15, 2010 12:42 am

Central Ontario , about 80 min north of Toronto, ( if you keep to the speed limit) Just a few K's north of a small city called Orillia. Boasted as the home town of Gordon Lightfoot. The city is divided by two lakes, Simcoe and Couchiching. It is definitely Gods' country.

by **Hot Trout** » Tue Jun 15, 2010 9:20 am

I have family living in Hepworth, near Sauble beach (Lake Huron). I stayed with them as a child and loved it, beautful and still 'free living' part of the world.

by **crustyasp46** » Tue Jun 15, 2010 3:36 pm

Sauble Beach is approx. 2 hour drive from here, I have not ever visited anywhere in Canada that I did not find anything intriguing or something to enjoy. It is beautiful wherever you go. :!:

by **JAHGoVeg** » Mon Jul 05, 2010 9:20 pm

We should rename this topic how much we'd give HT if we won the lottery. :p

by **Hot Trout** » Mon Jul 05, 2010 11:03 pm

Im not greedy, 500k should buy us a dedicated 10node cluster in Googleplex. We will have 2000 KB/s connections for everyone. A maximum of 25,000 concurrent user connections and a mirror in every country just to make all local access fast.

That should use up most of the cash