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Nodaisho:

--- Quote from: Linds on 07 Apr 2008, 10:44 ---And we can get massive amounts of snow in winter! ... Skip that last bit. Can this be the "summer home" then?

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Wait. We can get lots of snow? Where?

And sometimes it gets a mite hot in the summer, up past 100F, that would be about 38C. It is nicer up higher though, and Red Feather is apparently up near 8k feet elevation.

KickThatBathProf:

--- Quote from: valley_parade on 07 Apr 2008, 10:08 ---Was it better than mine? I wrote an essay about how Eric Cantona may be the biggest badass on the face of the planet.

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Perhaps if you had written it about Aron Ralston, it would be the best essay ever

onewheelwizzard:
Guys it says "Void where prohibited."  Does anyone else have a sneaking suspicion that there might be something somewhere in some code of law that makes it a huge scam?

If not, I really hope this turns into an awesome book.

Trollstormur:
Also, with the way houses are selling now, a $200,000 house wouldn't go for half that. you'd have a tax burden that you could live in, though.

also, only 2,000 people have to enter for whomever is running this to make good on their investment, plus a shitlload of free essays for whatever reason.

pilsner:
What troll said.

Let's see, sub $200,000 house, $100 per entry, if they don't get at least 2000 entries they promise to return the money, hmmm....

But if they get 10,000 entires, why! that's over $800,000 profit!   Incidentally, assuming equal chance among all participants and 2000 participants, you would be spending $100 for a 1/2000 chance to get less than $200,000 which works out to an average of less than $100.  So on average you would almost be breaking even -- which isn't bad for a lottery.  However that's the optimal scenario.  Far more likely is one of the following:

-- there will not be 2000 applicants, so you hope you get your money returned.
-- there will be more than 2000 applicants, so your average return will be less than your investment.
-- there will be collusion with one of the supposed applicants, and you will have wasted $100.

In other words, this doesn't need to be a scam based on a reference to "void where prohibited", since even if the contest operates as advertised, the sellers only stand to make money.

Incidentally, I'll give a 1% chance of winning $1000 to anyone who sends me $11 by paypal and a picture of a smiley face.  Void where prohibited.

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