$540 MILLION: Mega Millions buying frenzy sparks another jackpot increase

The more they raise the 'estimated value' the more people talk and the more attention it gets... resulting in more sales... why put 500 million out there if u can sell x amount of tix at 476.. and then x amount more once ppl see 1/2billion... all marketing

DON'T shoot the messenger....

I Just read this on another website I frequent.....I personally think it's bunk but hey we are talking about $$$$$$ so I suppose anything is possible.  They have security to prevent this from happening right??

"THE LOTTERY IS RIGGED

You may have heard that you are more likely to be hit on the head by a meteorite than to win the lottery. This is certainly so. Assuming that the game is honest, the odds are roughly one in several hundred million. Even with these odds, lottery commissions are not satisfied. The lottery is rigged.

The giant multi-state and individual state lotteries are more fixed than pro wrestling. The jackpots go up and up, with no winners. People get lottery fever. Millions nationwide are willing to wait in a line just like the ones for bread in the former Soviet Union for the pipe dream of striking it rich. The rigging works like this: super computers keep track of each combination sold, and then the ping-pong balls are weighted to assure that a losing combination comes up. On rare occasions, all possible combinations are sold, and they must let someone win. Only then is the game honest.

Why? The lottery, which is a state-run version of the Mafia's numbers racket, is a great money grab scam, as long as it brings in more than it pays out. In the past, lotteries were abolished because they lost money.

The worst part of this is whom it hurts. The poor and desperate are the most common victims of lottery fever. Children go hungry and senior citizens go without their medication because of it. People prone to gambling addiction also blow huge sums.

We spoke with an employee at a state lottery agency. We can not reveal his name or even which state, as some of the same gangsters who ran the numbers racket now run the lottery, and they would kill him.

“Yes, I personally am involved in it. Lottery ping-pong balls have a small valve, like a basketball or soccer ball, only it’s very tiny, and nearly invisible. We use a hypodermic needle to inject heavier-than-air gasses such as radon into the balls we don’t want to come up. At first, we tried helium in the ones we did want to rise, but they jumped up so quickly that it was obvious. Lotteries are raking in much more than if the games were honest, and people don’t know they have literally no chance!”

“If you think about it logically, you certainly don’t play anyway. You are betting that you can predict which six of 45 or more balls are going to come out of the hopper. In some games, the order even matters! It’s a sucker’s bet, and that’s when it’s honest! Most drawings are rigged, making the odds zero in infinity! The lottery is not only a tax on people who don’t understand math; it is an unfair and unjust tax. Didn’t we have the American Revolution over taxes like that?”

You read it here first."

Why doesn't the jackpot analysis show the full annuity payments for each year like PB does on USAMEGA?

I haven't seen any lines at the stores where I live!

You do realize that this conversation around this jackpot has been going on for over a week correct? Most have talked about taking care of family and loved ones and for people like me it's a given so it doesn't make me less of a person if I don't broadcast it over lottery post - lol. I like the angle we're focused on now as we're pooling as it were very helpful tips on money management that will assist any one of us who in time may win a jackpot. Managing the windfall well is paarmount to helping yourself, family, friends and charities in a more constructive way.

Why doesn't the jackpot analysis show the full annuity payments for each year like PB does on USAMEGA?

Yeah, gotta love these southern state family values! 

I almost peed a little while reading that... Such an amazing translation!!! the inner city did a great job learning you ;-) Lmao

What point were trying to make in your post?I almost stopped reading after the first so called( fragmented) sentence.I think some of you guys skipped English lit class.

Wonder why they keep changing the estimated value? The headquarter know right away any winning tickets in each prizes and the total amount of tickets purchased in every states. Yet the jackpot is "estimated" and change frequently. Not that I complain about the increase value, however why don't they get it right instead of keep guessing.