edstraker123

Brian Eno tells it like it is :

Yes that's exactly what I assumed the reason was but it was enough to make me stop playing. It would be better if they had a max no. of tickets in any draw but I appreciate they are running a business so just need to sell as many tickets as possible and these big players are their lifeblood. I guess they will stick with the current model unless too many people get fed up with it or wrongly think something dodgy is going on.

Or the self employed not declaring their full income.

I don't think Putin is sitting in his evil lair, white cat on lap planning on taking out my local shopping centre despite that being what the media would have us believe.

Absolutely - Russia are responsible for the ones with the most criminal intent. Intererestingly the VC flagged Russia in a recent talk urging staff to take cybersecurity seriously, but neglected to mention China who aren't far behind (presumably as we are partnered with a Chinese institution and need more of their students to keep us afloat).

I work in an IT department at a University and there are active teams of hackers of many nationalities trying to cause disruption.chaos and expense.

He normally just threatens pensioners and the mentally ill.

I like being alive to be able to revisit it

But surely it would all go nuclear before it ever got to that point.

And put a few more knobs on it 😁

Will there be an America after Trump ?

I think that's the stark reality, the choice is to make concessions and end the war, continue it in its current format until Ukraine runs out of soldiers and more civilian lives are lost or for Europe to intervene and take us closer to WW3. All terrible options but I like the one with the fewest deaths.

I wondered how good the setup would be given they are primarily a computer retailer. Glad you found it o.k.

I was interested to see if the usual suspects were still winning more than a year after I stopped playing so I just checked the recent draw results and they are. If anybody is interested look out for Clarke Abernethy and Robert Parfitt and see how often they win. I'm not suggesting anything illegitimate is happening at all but would love to understand why these guys are so lucky. I'm sure there is a perfectly reasonable explanation.

Wow - just looked that up - seems I may have been one of the lucky ones.