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U.S. Arrests Online Gambling Company Chairman
imaginaryelf writes "Reuters reports that U.S. authorities have arrested Peter Dicks, the chairman of U.K. based online sports betting company Sportingbet Plc, while he was passing through Dallas. Just two months ago, the CEO of another U.K. based online sports betting company, BetOnSports, was arrested on U.S. soil as well. They are both charged with violating the 1961 Federal Wire Act, which can be broadly interpreted as declaring all forms of online gambling illegal in the U.S. Is online gambling the Alcohol Prohibition of the 21st century?"
Pretty sums up how I feel about the gambling industry.
Now my $1000 bet that Peter Dicks would be arrested doesn't look quite so foolish...call my bookie!
I'll form my OWN solar system! With blackjack! And hookers!
I would say cigarette smoking is much closer to alcohol prohibition. I just hope that once they ban smoking in bars I can open up a speakeasy where we'll drink and smoke and gamble online to our heart's content....
>organised gambling isn't nearly as widespread and deeply rooted in Western culture as consuming alcohol is.
You wanna bet?
Ok, so he's liberal dick instead of a conservative dick?
Wouldn't be the first time Dallas screwed over Kennedy...
I'll form my OWN solar system! With blackjack! And hookers!
Take a look at your so-called friend, Britain!
It's a simple matter of complex programming.
Kennedy in Dallas. It's enough to make your head explode, isn't it?
Check out my foes list to see who is so retarded that they can't use the signature line!!!
Are americans SO moron...
Oh, the humor.
If you're going to call someone a moron, please use proper grammar, or you'll wind up looking like a moron yourself.
and refuse to trade with them too - consider the enron three http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5204030.stm - these three bankers are soley responisble for enron's demise. Praise be no american caused enron to fail.
Now you know what I've been going through!
I don't know if the FBI has these things I've done on the internet in the nineties on record desperatly waiting for me to fly over. I always have these nightmares where I set foot on American soil and have all these FBI guys grinning at me when I finally feel confident enough that the things I've done went unnoticed or uncared about, and shipping me off in a weird CIA prison in my own country in Europe and am forced into gay sex and afterwards some journalist saving me by sending pictures of that around the world.
Don't get me wrong, I don't fear Americans as they're really easily outsmarted (i'm pretending to know English!) and I can handle weird laws and customs, heck even torture, but I'm simply waaay too homophobic...
I think we can keep recursing like this until someone returns 1
I need that like I need a hole in my head... *ducks*
--- This
> L
You are sitting in an airplane seat, in the coach section of an airliner. The airliner is descending.
> I
You are carrying:
>READ TICKET
I don't see any ticket here.
>READ TICKET STUB
The ticket stub is for an intercontinental flight from Great Britain to Mexico, with a stopover in Dallas.
>DALLAS?
I don't know how to dallas.
>DOES THIS PLANE HAVE A STOPOVER IN DALLAS?
I don't see any plane here.
>LEAVE PLANE
Your seatbelt holds you in the seat, preventing you from standing up.
>OPEN SEATBELT
You cannot open that.
>UNFASTEN SEATBELT
Unfastened.
>LEAVE PLANE
You need to stand up first.
>STAND UP
You are now standing. The passenger sitting next to you looks agitated.
>LEAVE PLANE
The exit doors are locked, as the plane is still in flight.
>FUCK
I don't know how to fuck.
The plane is about to land in Dallas. You are likely to be arrested by a grue.
>ARE THEY GOING TO ARREST ME?
I don't see any they here.
>EXIT
You cannot exit now.
Your sword is glowing faintly.
>QUIT
You cannot quit now.
Your sword is glowing faintly.
FATMOUSE + YOU = FATMOUSE
What? Too soon?
Proof by very large bribes. QED.
I wish we could choose which country we pay taxes to. Wait, we can! I think its time to leave the US for a country run LESS by the church, how about Vatican City?
"Why doesn't the U.S. instead go after the people that *were* under it's jurisdiction? Like, oh... I don't know... the gamblers?"
'Cuz this guy has all their money.
Eloi are stupid, throw morlocks at them!
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I once shot a man in Reno 'cause they cancelled Firefly.