08-20-2006, 12:51 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-20-2006, 01:00 AM by goodkarmaco.)
Hi Zach,
Thanks for the quick help earllier.
Anyway how they are able to shut down gambling is the fact that most gambling occurs with payment in the form of credit cards. So our gov. has initiated contact with all the major credit card companies and told them to reject any payments from U.S gamblers within the Untied States. That will deal a death blow to many sites as the U.S money is in some cases most of the revenue they receive.
They called it wire fraud as the transaction is taking place over the internet and will go after a person by seizing your bank account and you will find you need to hire legal help, but all your funds are seized and you will not have any way to defend yourself.
So many are jumping ship as they are afraid. But in my opinion people will find a way around it as they love to gamble.
I also ask this, is it really gambling if playing such games as poker etc is all about knowledge and how to read people and your poker hand. I think it is no different than playing tennis for money. It is skill based. Pulling a one arm bandit might be gambling, but poker is not.
Then too in my opinion I think the gov. is just like any hypocrite. One thing I like is a level playing field. But no it is not. The government (the States) all have gambling and spend your tax dollars advertising to gamble, how?
The State spends your tax dollars for ads on tv, billboards, and magazines to the tune of millions a month. But you and I cannot do so.
Also by selling lottery tickets, each State rakes in millions every week from folks like single mothers who need money for groceries and they spend that money on buying a bunch of lottery tickets.
So all the propaganda they spew out about gambling is so they can control it. If they did not ever have any kind of lottery then I would listen to them. The way it is is now, is like a parent saying to their kids, don't ever let me catch you smoking,.. "Joey hand me my smokes".
Another thing I am wondering is why as Americans are we saying it is O.K. for the tribes to have poker and gambling, but if you or I am a business person we cannot do that. I can understand that they have a right to so much timber, so much salmon etc.. but when we came here a couple hundred years ago I do not remember reading that the american indians had casinios or sat around and pulled one arm bandits..
Roderick
Thanks for the quick help earllier.
Anyway how they are able to shut down gambling is the fact that most gambling occurs with payment in the form of credit cards. So our gov. has initiated contact with all the major credit card companies and told them to reject any payments from U.S gamblers within the Untied States. That will deal a death blow to many sites as the U.S money is in some cases most of the revenue they receive.
They called it wire fraud as the transaction is taking place over the internet and will go after a person by seizing your bank account and you will find you need to hire legal help, but all your funds are seized and you will not have any way to defend yourself.
So many are jumping ship as they are afraid. But in my opinion people will find a way around it as they love to gamble.
I also ask this, is it really gambling if playing such games as poker etc is all about knowledge and how to read people and your poker hand. I think it is no different than playing tennis for money. It is skill based. Pulling a one arm bandit might be gambling, but poker is not.
Then too in my opinion I think the gov. is just like any hypocrite. One thing I like is a level playing field. But no it is not. The government (the States) all have gambling and spend your tax dollars advertising to gamble, how?
The State spends your tax dollars for ads on tv, billboards, and magazines to the tune of millions a month. But you and I cannot do so.
Also by selling lottery tickets, each State rakes in millions every week from folks like single mothers who need money for groceries and they spend that money on buying a bunch of lottery tickets.
So all the propaganda they spew out about gambling is so they can control it. If they did not ever have any kind of lottery then I would listen to them. The way it is is now, is like a parent saying to their kids, don't ever let me catch you smoking,.. "Joey hand me my smokes".
Another thing I am wondering is why as Americans are we saying it is O.K. for the tribes to have poker and gambling, but if you or I am a business person we cannot do that. I can understand that they have a right to so much timber, so much salmon etc.. but when we came here a couple hundred years ago I do not remember reading that the american indians had casinios or sat around and pulled one arm bandits..
Roderick