McDonalds Monopoly vs. Powerball vs. Nature
Well I don't know about you all but when it is Monopoly season at McDonalds I get kind of excited. I always figured there could be a chance at winning some cash! Well I think I was mistaken...
| Game | Payout | Odds | $/Odds |
| Monopoly | $1,000,000 | 1 in 542,034,000 | 0.00184490 |
| Monopoly | $50,000 | 1 in 640,586,000 | 0.00007805 |
| Monopoly | $25,000 | 1 in 320,293,000 | 0.00007805 |
| Monopoly | $10,000 | 1 in 427,058,000 | 0.00002342 |
| Monopoly | $5,000 | 1 in 256,235,000 | 0.00001951 |
| Powerball | Jackpot (Minimum $10,000,000) | 1 in 195,249,054 | 0.05121664 |
| Powerball | $200,000 | 1 in 5,138,133 | 0.03892464 |
Well that is interesting - who would have guessed you have better odds playing the lottery. Infract you are about 2.7 times more likely to win the Powerball jackpot than to win the $1M at McDonalds. Gee looks like if you are interested in cash your better stop eating those Big Macs and head across the street to 7-11 for a Powerball ticket.
But then again if you want to put that statistic to to the test the probability of being in a plane crash is 1 in 11,000,000. Oh and the chances of dying in a car crash are around 1 in 5,000. So lets see 17.7 times more likely to be in a plane crash than win the Powerball Jackpot and 39,049.8 times more likely to die in an automobile accident than win the Powerball Jackpot. Well I know what your saying now - I don't ride planes or cars - well if you want a nature perspective the probability of being struck by lighting is 1 in 280,000 which is 697.3 times more likly than the Powerball Jackpot and if you compare that to Monopoly ($1M) you are 1,935.8 times morre likly to get fried.
So in conclusion - Good Luck
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What is a Browser?
I had no idea that there are tons of people in the world who don't even know what a web browser is. However, in a "highly-scientific (read: not scientific at all) survey" of a Google employee's friends people spent way more time on the internet but many less knew what browser they used. Here is the original blog.
Not stopping there, this employee made an actually really cool webpage, whatbrowser.org, that not only tells you what a browser is but tells you what browser you use, how to customize it and gives links to download new ones. While I'm sure that many of the readers here at Cleverpork Central will think that this is useless, this is another amazing idea that Google has pushed to fruition. Sure Chrome is prominent on the site, but the fact that they don't use it to say "Download Chrome" but instead use it to talk about what browsers are and how to work with them, when people use browsers more than cars, is amazing. There are reasons I think Google is one of the greatest companies on this planet at this time.
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