mistermack

The gamblers think he WILL run, going by the odds quoted. But if he doesn't, then the democratic favourite after him is Kamala Harris, at 14 to 1 odds. But the odds on the next best democrat will shorten enormously, if Biden decides not to run. So if you are Joe Biden, you are in a position to make a lot of money, if you know for a fact right now that you are not going to run. If I was Biden, I would be watching the polls, or hoping for a miracle. If neither change in his favour, I don't think he'll stand. So I think it's likely that Harris WILL be the democrat candidate when election time comes round, if nothing much changes. (except the betting odds) Which would make her a very worthwhile bet right now, at 14 to 1, or +1400 .

You could also look at it from another view point, and work out how much energy was used in making the battery, and that gives a more real total of energy used.

They know the betting odds. Bookies don't need to be experts on each market that they create a book for. The inherent knowledge, if any, lies with the gamblers. They use whatever knowledge they have to weigh up the odds, and their betting volume decides the bookies' odds. I'm no expert, but I believe it can be done, but you need a wide spread to make it pay. The betting tax in this country, and the poor overall odds given by bookies, to ensure a profit, make it difficult but not impossible to cover one bet with another. This page takes the mystery out of US/UK differences : https://www.onlinegambling.com/sports/odds-calculator/

That's what all bookmakers do. I said "by the people who know the odds" . Nobody knows who will win.

Depends on who generated them, which you don’t share. Who are “the people” referenced? Or what the numbers mean. None of those are odds as I’ve seen them presented. I did give the source link earlier. But it's UK format, ie 2 to 1, 11 to 4 etc. There are 25 major betting companies giving their best odds. The bolded boxes are the best odds overall. https://www.oddschecker.com/politics/us-politics/us-presidential-election-2024/winner?selectionName=donald-trump Here is what I believe is a US style page of odds. https://bookies.com/news/presidential-election-odds-daily-tracker I'm assuming that +275 means you win 275 cents per dollar bet, I don't know if that includes your original stake. In the UK if you win at 2 to 1, you get £3 back for a £1 stake. I'm guessing that +275 means that you get 375 cents back, for a dollar stake ?? In the UK, that would be the equivalent of an 11/4 bet. I get nothing out of fantasy these days. When I was a kid, I found The Hobbit a good read, and tried to read The Lord of The Rings, but found those books hard going and a bit repetitive. I read the first, got halfway through The Two Towers, but it was hard work and i abandoned it, in spite of others going on about how great it was. Nowadsys, fantasy leaves me stone cold. ( unless it's got some steamy sexy bits in it as below) I think that you get more critical as you get older. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x-ATlpqo1M

No. My path started out with intense religious indoctrination. I didn't choose that. I eventually chose to reject it, and I got a lot of family grief over that. Very few people kick off the religious ties, but some do. The point is, how many people WOULD choose a religion, if they were not indoctrinated as children? That's what a free choice would look like. And which religion would they choose, if they decided to adopt one? The choice would be wide open. But no, people almost always adopt the religion that was forced on them as a child. More proof that religion is anything but voluntary.

This is a non-argument. There's nothing wrong with conjuring up an imaginary friend. Without it, nobody would be able to masturbate. And it might even make dying a little bit less stressful. What's wrong with religion, is that it's not voluntary. It's imposed on little children as a true story, which truly is child abuse. By all means, adopt an imaginary friend for yourself, when you are old enough to think for yourself, if you really want to. But don't abuse the minds of little children, when they have no defence against such rubbish.

I didn't mention a ray tracer. The teacher said that : That's asking a lot, as I said.

I can't, but I would comment that they are asking a hell of a lot. If you were sucessful in what they are asking, who would own the copyright or patent, because it sounds like it would be worth some money.

Both are fake news.

I don't think it works quite as simply as that. Batteries will degrade over five years, even if you are not drawing a current. So some of the 30 mah will have been used, but a substantial amount will have just seeped away due to aging.

You may be the only one I think that would probably go for 99% in the UK.

https://www.oddschecker.com/politics/us-politics/us-presidential-election-2024/winner?selectionName=donald-trump Generally the odds reflect the money that is being bet, but I'm sure there is some research involved too. Although these are UK betting companies, you would think that they reflect the US odds, because otherwise it's wide open for punters to make a bet here, and cover it there, ensuring a profit either way.

Interesting odds. They don't give Joe Biden much hope. But Ron DeSantis is roughly the same bet as Trump. I've never heard of him !

Life is like a box of chocolates. It doesn’t last long if you’re fat.

Yeh, right.

Took a while to learn that slavery was not cricket. Or that blacks could drink the same water as whites.

I tried to steal some spaghetti from an Italian restaurant kitchen today, but the owner was watching, and I couldn't get pasta.

Because the USA, a country built on stolen lands, on the backs of slavery, never stops lecturing the world, if they act a bit differently to them. Cuba committed the crime of taking it's country back under it's own control, away from the US mafia. The US has always considered Cuba as it's own property, and just like Putin, they tried invading to take it back when they lost control, and when that failed, conducted a vicious economic war for seventy years. The US like Russia invaded Afghanistan, after all the condemnation of Russia for doing so. They invaded Iraq under false pretences twice. They tried to take over Vietnam, to impose their own puppet government on it, and tried to win hearts and minds by blowing them to bits, and burning them with phosporus bombs and napalm. With the US, it's always been, don't do as we do, do as we say. OR ELSE !! But of course, the American kids are brought up on a diet of "pioneer" history, not murder, theft and slavery. And Hollywood was built on the same lie.

What'dya mean Clint??? That's how the West was won !!

You're either playing dumb, or you're forgetting your own posts. In your precious sermon on the mount, Matthew quotes Jesus as saying you should turn the other cheek when you are attacked. How would you advise the Ukrainians to follow that christian nugget of wisdom?

I wonder if you could use a version of this as energy storage? Site the pumps where there is a good record of onshore winds, and where there is a good sized mountain range inland. So the vapour you create gets forced upwards by the mountain, and is forced to fall as rain. You can then build a series of dams, and store the water for hydro-electric generation. So in a desert spot, you would be creating fresh water, and harvesting electrical energy all in one go. So the potential would be there for the system to power itself.

I have already mentioned some. But try telling the Ukrainians to turn the other cheek. Let's see how many negs you get for that.

And don't forget you are weightless until the day you're born. And with your memories of being in the womb, it might be mixed up with that. With my flying dream it's definitely of me getting lighter and lighter, until I can float and glide around. It's not really of any kind of powered flying mechanism.

I've had the flying dream many times as a kid, not so often as an adult. It starts of with me bounding along, and with each bound I go higher, and descend more slowly, so that eventually I stay airborne. I then seem to have the power to gently propel myself along and steer. I'm more interested in the view, than the fact that I'm now flying, but it's a fantastic feeling. I can see everything down below in incredible detail, full of vivid colour and moving people and cars. Waking up is a real disappointment. I don't think those dreams are all that rare.