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Offline Clark Kent

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"The Odds"
« on: September 19, 2014, 11:19:08 AM »

                                                    The Odds?
 
      These are the odds !!

The odds of winning the Florida lottery are 1 in 22,957,480.
 
The odds of winning the Powerball is 1 in 175,223,510.
 
The odds of winning Mega Millions is 1 in 258,890,850.
 
The odds of a disk drive failing in any given month are roughly one in 36. The odds of two different drives failing in the same month are roughly one in 36 squared, or 1 in about 1,300. The odds of three drives failing in the same month is 36 cubed or 1 in 46,656.
 
The odds of seven different drives failing in the same month (like what happened at the IRS when they received a letter asking about emails targeting conservative and pro-Israeli groups) is 37 to the 7th power = 1 in 78,664,164,096. (that's over 78 Billion)
 
In other words, the odds are greater that you will win the Florida Lottery 342 times than having those seven IRS hard drives crash in the same month.
 
Now, if you believe our Federal Government isn't corrupt to the core, you definitely need to get a grip on reality!
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Offline wahrsuul

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Re: "The Odds"
« Reply #1 on: September 19, 2014, 01:11:56 PM »
They say "pwer Corrupts".

I think it more appropriate to say "Power attracts the corruptable".
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Re: "The Odds"
« Reply #2 on: September 20, 2014, 05:35:30 AM »
So the point is.....have your IRS auditor buy a lottery ticket for you? ? ? ?? ? ? ?
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Re: "The Odds"
« Reply #3 on: September 20, 2014, 05:46:29 AM »
The odds of anything being done about it...astronomical.
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Re: "The Odds"
« Reply #4 on: September 20, 2014, 08:27:49 AM »
Quote from: Cholla on September 20, 2014, 05:46:29 AM
The odds of anything being done about it...astronomical.
Only slightly higher than the odds of CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC reporting on it.


Oh, and the emails are STORED ON THE SERVERS NOT ON THE INDIVIDUAL COMPUTERS!!!!  :banghead:
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Re: "The Odds"
« Reply #5 on: September 20, 2014, 08:58:29 AM »
Shhhh....that's the dirty little secret they don't want you to know!
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« Reply #6 on: September 20, 2014, 01:25:49 PM »
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Re: "The Odds"
« Reply #7 on: September 20, 2014, 01:59:39 PM »
Isn't it odd this surfaces after a year? Plenty of time to fabricate things...
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Re: "The Odds"
« Reply #8 on: September 20, 2014, 03:16:12 PM »
Quote from: Outback_Jon on September 20, 2014, 08:27:49 AM
Only slightly higher than the odds of CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC reporting on it.


Oh, and the emails are STORED ON THE SERVERS NOT ON THE INDIVIDUAL COMPUTERS!!!!  :banghead:

And they're usually backed up on storage devices or appliances...
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Re: "The Odds"
« Reply #9 on: September 20, 2014, 07:00:02 PM »
Quote from: Cuda on September 20, 2014, 01:25:49 PM
Like always your FACTS are screwed up , http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2014/04/23/3429722/irs-records-tea-party/

So The Center for American Progress is the epitome of truth and justice,Cuda?
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Re: "The Odds"
« Reply #10 on: September 22, 2014, 05:01:19 AM »
If the IRS wants my emails they are going to get them otherwise I go to jail. It doesn't work the other way. I trust the Feds and the Federal Govt from the White House all the way down about as far as I can throw a car.
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Re: "The Odds"
« Reply #11 on: September 22, 2014, 05:28:55 AM »
Quote from: cmoore on September 22, 2014, 05:01:19 AM
If the IRS wants my emails they are going to get them otherwise I go to jail. It doesn't work the other way. I trust the Feds and the Federal Govt from the White House all the way down about as far as I can throw a car.

If the IRS wants your emails you won't know about it.
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