You mean that your postal service sells your address information to third-party vendors?

Impressive, yes, but doesn’t everyone in the USA already have a 20% off coupon for Bed Bath and Beyond?

Are you really “scoring” anything you wouldn’t get if you waited?

it’s web based and there are tools to access the boards across multiple platforms. You can have public and private boards.

Only 78% of what Dr. Oz tries to sell on his show are not backed with evidence? I expected that percentage to be higher...

I’m all for freedom of speech, but this sort of thing ought to be illegal. How is this any different than selling patent medicine?

Coming in 2018 to iOS and Android devices, Ghostbusters World is an augmented reality game in which players catch specters, ghosts and the odd free floating, full torso, vaporous apparition. It sounds like Pokemon Go, only every monster is ghost type and there’s no Team Valor. Perfect. Here’s the official website.

The conditions are published, usually on the ticket itself. If you can’t abide with those conditions you shouldn’t buy the ticket.

I won $4 on the powerball last week. I ended up investing my winnings at a local sandwich shop. Mmmm, delicious lottery winnings.

Not as easy a process as you think. Courts at least want to know the reason why you’re changing your name. “Because I want to” is insufficient. The courts don’t want people using the system to avoid legal process.

I joke with coworkers that I never check my tickets AT work. Cause if I win, I am immediately out of there. Patient abandonment? Here’s my license, take it.

Five years is too long for a measure meant to stop fraud. I think a year to give you a head start on decisions like moving and who you really want to help would be enough time while making fraudsters still relatively easy to track down and prosecute to get money back. (After five years they could already be citizens…

All good advice! To about the smallest audience imaginable.

The odds of winning the big one are so poor you don’t really need a serious plan on what to do with the winnings unless, and until you win. So, the only part of this article you really need is get a trust and estates lawyer.

Well, I do. Or rather, I want to keep advancing in my vocation, since it’s something I love.

hah once you tell your mom, cat’s out of the bag. everyone in the mom network will know, then all their kids will know, then you get ambushed at your high school reunion and held for ransom.

Best advice? Don’t buy a ticket. The science is not conclusive, but there is a lot of correlative evidence that people who don’t buy tickets don’t have to worry about winning the lottery and the subsequent after-effects.

I would hate to have to give up my mobile phone number.

Could there be a middle ground between openness and protection? Like a person doesn’t have to reveal themselves upon claiming, but after five years their name will be published? You’d probably still have people hounding you, but the fervor surrounding the win would die down by then.