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Delaware To Permit In-state Online Gambling
schwit1 writes "Delaware became the first state to enter the realm of legal online casino gambling Thursday with the governor's approval of legislation that allows for full-service betting websites offering slots play and games like roulette, poker and blackjack. Federal law limits online gambling to players within the state's borders, which will be verified using geolocation software. The state hopes to launch online gambling in 2013 and intends to make betting available on a variety of digital devices including smart phones and tablets."
Even ignoring the obvious statistical problems with gambling, why would anyone play slots, roulette, or even blackjack and poker online? How can you be sure the game is honest?
Proverbs 21:19
I wonder if the ISPs with a physical presence in Delaware had a hand in this?
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"Federal law limits online gambling to players within the state's borders, which will be verified using geolocation software."
Apparently these people have never heard of an in-state proxy server. The people trying to limit this scheme to within-state activities are as dumb as the people paying the "stupid tax" to play the games.
Just wait until they figure out how much they could make by taxing legalized pot.
"The ferrets, they're every where I tell you!"
To start, I don't live in Delaware.
However, I live near Syracuse, NY, and my phone's IP registers in Boston, MA.
neurology, the less I like legalized gambling.
People like to think there is some sort of choice involved, but for a great many people it's an illusion of choice.
If you have high dopemine levels, you're brain is more likely to come up with reasons, or a compulsion to gamble.
This is why I am now against online gambling in the home, and gambling in places people must go to needs. Grocery stores etc.
Here is an example:
http://www.radiolab.org/2009/jun/15/seeking-patterns/
Some of the details aren't 100% accurate, but close enough for the average person.
You look at someone that is gambling there life away an think it's just a bad decision they can control may not be correct.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
So... anybody know the penalty for receiving proceeds from winnings across state lines? This will work with personal information submitted to the casino, including perhaps a routing/transit number, a credit card to buy credits, and other information which leads back to... your home address.
You could commit address fraud of course. Some student with 500 people "living" in his 1-bed dorm room will probably learn the hard way that it's a serious thing.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Well, there's that for a lesson on gambling:
You may... or may not win^H^H^Hget caught... your move.
Since the U.S. Supreme Court keeps giving corporations similar rights as people,
The Supreme Court didn't give anyone anything. They simply ruled that the people that make up a corporation still have the rights that they were born with, especially for a corporation that was formed for the express purpose of exercising one of those rights.
Also, when the corporation committed a crime, the CEO would go to prison.
Some of them have. Bernie Madoff and Kenneth Lay, to name two. I'm sure you could find more if you cared. Yes, pretty easy. Google "CEO prison".
That's just a sample from the first page of google results.
But, of course, you probably meant to say "if anyone working for the corporation committed a crime, the CEO would go to prison." Where did you get the idea that someone who works for a corporation makes the corporation liable for his actions? Well, board members and officers, yes. A shipping supervisor who dumps trash instead of sending it to through the proper disposal channels? Hardly.
The people who make up a corporation are still people, and they still have rights. Even in the USA.
"It's extremely pretentious and arrogant to try to 'protect' another adult from something you think could harm them."
It's called 'society'. Different places have different rules, but pretty well everywhere in the world groups of humans have agreed social rules that override individual choice because as a group, the people have decided where the boundaries lie. Cross the boundaries, and the rest of the people, or some representatives, will pull you back, or even forbid you to cross the boundaries in the first place.
In some places it's injecting heroin, other places drinking alcohol, or firing guns without a licence, or driving a motor vehicle without proving you can pass a test the other people have agreed upon. But most places have these rules agreed by the wider society. Partly to protect people from themselves, and partly to prevent them harming others.
Part of being human is being sensitive enough to realise screwing up other people's lives for your own pleasure is not a good thing, that we are social animals, and to win other people's goodwill for the time when we need their help, we shouldn't ignore their concerns.
Communal groups of humans try to minimise the damage individuals who don't have that sensitivity by restricting them from going too crazy.
There are a few places in the world where there are no boundaries on individuals doing what ever they want, but not many.