Mega Millions hits $1 billion jackpot — the largest Mega Millions prize ever — for Friday night's drawing
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Today's tech news highlights-The latest bizarre Simpsons meme is about downloading songs on Limewire,Mega Millions hits $1 billion jackpot — the largest Mega Millions prize ever — for Friday night's drawing,and also many more about mega millions and stay connected.
Mega Millions hits $1 billion jackpot — the largest Mega Millions prize ever — for Friday night's drawing
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Today's tech news highlights-The latest bizarre Simpsons meme is about downloading songs on Limewire,Mega Millions hits $1 billion jackpot — the largest Mega Millions prize ever — for Friday night's drawing,and also many more about mega millions and stay connected.
And the six lucky numbers that could change your life forever are:
65-53-23-15-70, and the Megaball: 7
The jackpot in the Mega Millions soared Friday to a record-setting $1 billion, the largest Mega Millions prize ever, for the drawing tonight at 11 p.m. EDT. So far, there is no word on whether anyone won. Mega Millions officials say it may take an hour or two to determine if there is a winner.
The jackpot would be the second-largest lottery prize in U.S. lottery history, with incredibly low odds of winning: Namely, one in 302.5 million.
In the U.S., the only larger jackpot for any game was the Jan. 13, 2016 Powerball of $1,586,400,000 split three ways in California, Tennessee and Melbourne Beach, Florida.
The prize has grown so large because no one has hit the jackpot since July 24, when a group in California won $543 million.
And if there are no takers Friday night, you will get a shot at an even bigger pot on Tuesday night —$1.6 billion — tying the largest U.S. lottery prize.
Or you could go down market and play Powerball on Saturday night, for a mere $470 million.
If you live in Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, North Carolina or North Dakota, you can buy a Mega Millions ticket online if you have registered with the lotteries of those states, according to the Mega Millions website. If you live in New Hampshire, New York, or Virginia, you can purchase a subscription for Mega Millions online.
Otherwise, head over to your local convenience store or supermarket to pick your lucky numbers in person.
The Mega Millions jackpot is displayed as a customer leaves the Corner Market, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018, in Lyndhurst, Ohio. Most people don’t expect to win, experts say, and instead think the $2 ticket is a small price to dream and be part of a wishful conversation with co-workers or family.
As the jackpot mushrooms, says Jane L. Risen, a professor of behavioral science at the University of Chicago, “it creates this sense of community. It creates this sense of camaraderie. I also think that it creates a potential sense of regret to not be the one playing.”
The ever-ballooning jackpot brought a revolving door of hopefuls to NYC Smoke Shop, a small convenience store just north of Times Square in New York City.
Sandwiched between a diner and a Raman noodle restaurant, dozens of locals and tourists lined up at the register with cash-in-hand. Many of them already knew what they’d do with the winnings.
“I’d move back home and use the money to help my community,” said Patrick Pierre, a 30-year-old restaurant worker from Haiti who rode his scooter to the convenience store.
“I grew up in very humble beginnings, but it’d be nice to finally be able to afford a nice house and maybe a car.”
“I grew up in very humble beginnings, but it’d be nice to finally be able to afford a nice house and maybe a car.”
Kara Lewis and Samantha Fields work for an advertising agency in Times Square. Their office of about 12 people pooled together funds, over $120 total, to put toward lottery tickets. They plan to split the winnings evenly, Fields said.
“We’re thinking about where we would want to really live if money were no object,” said Lewis. “Probably Fiji or somewhere very fancy and tropical like that . . . When we win, I think it’s safe to say we’ll all quit the next day.”
“I don’t care about the odds. You just have to have faith,” said Tamara Green, a technology specialist from Brooklyn who said she buys lottery tickets often.
“I’ve won money before. Well, not like a billion dollars, but still. I think you just have to just say to yourself, ‘I’m going to win.’ If it doesn’t work, just try again next time.”
“I’ve won money before. Well, not like a billion dollars, but still. I think you just have to just say to yourself, ‘I’m going to win.’ If it doesn’t work, just try again next time.”
The latest bizarre Simpsons meme is about downloading songs on Limewire
The glory days of The Simpsons, which recently began its 30th season, have been over for multiple decades. But that hasn’t stopped the show from inspiring some viral memes in recent years that wrap its mid-90s humor in the contemporary, often bizarre visual language of modern internet humor.
While the most famous remains the endless iterations on the now-famous 1996 ”Steamed Hams” dinner scene, the latest Simpsons meme might be the strangest yet. It revolves around two very retro concepts: The Simpsons (back when it was good), and using the now-defunct, mid-aughts peer-to-peer filesharing service Limewire.
In this spirit of many of the best memes, the Simpsons / Limewire combo is not only non-sequitur but oddly specific, focusing on the malware-inflected files that often posed as MP3s on the service, particularly those claiming to be the song “Numb” by Linkin Park.
It’s a potent, nostalgic triumvirate for social media users of a certain age, a highly specific Venn diagram of the comedy, technology, and music that many of them found edgy or important at the time — only to watch them decline into mediocrity or irrelevance as they grew older and the world moved on. This specialized intersection makes it all the more potent for those who recognize all the pieces of the puzzle and say, “yes!” There’s something of a secret password element to this, a shibboleth that not only marks users of a certain age and experience but unites them.
For example, if you aren’t familiar with the subject matter and comedic cadence of a sixth season episode where the Simpson family travels to Australia — as well as the frustrations of trying to illegally download music without riddling your computer with viruses in 2005 — the following image will make little to no sense. If you do, well, you’re welcome.
It’s the memetic equivalent of “only [insert generation] kids will remember this!” And for those who do, there’s a very particular pleasure in feeling seen, in feeling known, in feeling for a fleeting moment that the experiences and joys of your youth have not passed forever beyond the veil of irrelevance. In 2018, sometimes this means photoshopping a giant lime on to the face Homer Simpson.
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