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WA Law: 5 Years in Prison for Gambling Online
tpoker writes "Online gambling has been an ongoing legal issue for the federal government, but Washington State has recently decided to take matters into their own hands. The Seattle PI reports, 'Beginning next month [June 7th], Washington residents who play poker or make other types of wagers on the Internet will be committing a Class C felony, equivalent under the law to possessing child pornography, threatening the governor or torturing an animal. Although the head of the state Gambling Commission says it is unlikely that individual online gamblers will be targeted for arrest, the new law carries stiff penalties: as much as five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.'"
Place your bets....That this is because of some church crap that has nothing to do with the government.
> This is getting way past rediculous.
Yeah, it's getting greeniculous. At this rate, it'll be blueiculous.
Done with slashdot, done with nerds, getting a life.
What the fuck are you talking about????
can you even read?
I'd reply indepth, but since you can't read, I'd be wasting my time.
You're either a troll or a total fucking moron.
Either way, you're a total tool.
Besides all the religeous stuff, there is a very logical reason to discourage some of that weird stuff: public health, and ultimately our economy.
Not that the laws work all that well of course, but it's something.
Look at the HIV rate in the USA. Now look at the HIV rate among gay males. Wow! Look at prostitutes. Wow! Gee, it actually does matter what you do in the bedroom. With HIV as evidence, it seems that fans of certain activities are less faithful than other people.
Clearly we aren't going to make everybody stay celibate or marry as a pair of virgins who stay faithful until death. The closer we get the better, at least as far as public health is concerned.
Throughout sub-Saharan Africa, economies are collapsing. One of the major factors (along with war, other diseases, etc.) is HIV. The young adults are dying. Dying people don't work.
Got a better way? BTW, condoms sometimes break.
I think the UK did things right. Rather than making gay sex illegal, they made it illegal to encourage someone to get into that sort of thing.