[jacques_chester]

> This particular scheme pays out most of the money to a select few, though, which defeats the point.

Does it? To me the only point of a lottery is for the operator to make a predictable profit; that predictability is why governments like them so much.

Who wins the jackpot is pretty close to irrelevant.

[derleth]

Wait for the political fallout when the people funding the jackpots realize all their money is going to out-of-staters and they have no chance of winning anything, ever.

(Yes, I'm pretty sure that's how this will be reported in local media.)

[mhb]

The Boston Globe isn't local?

[derleth]

Good question. When I say 'local', I mean the Deming Headlight and the Havre Daily News. You know, all the papers nobody outside a hundred mile radius of the town cares about. The Boston Globe is up there with the LA Times and the Washington Post and so on and so forth, in the national, if not global, ranks.