Originally Posted by
JamesBond007
Lottery is a tax on the poor. Poor hillbillies from Alabama don't have a good enough math education to feel it in their bones that playing the lottery is mentally retarded. There was only 1 or 2 occassions where you could beat the lottery system mathematically because the state messed up and it was not in your state and only people such as math whiz kids from MIT figured it out and got rich in the process.
Don't feel bad because the same kind of thing can be said of people who play the slot machines without hacking it's pseudo-random number generator or random number generator or reverse engineering the machine etc...