Incorrect, I'm personally aware of a case in Nevada where a programming error resulted in a $100,000 slot payout instead of what it should've been, $250. It took some time but eventually the Nevada Gaming Commission unanimously ruled that the casino must pay. Bob Nersesian was the attorney and he specializes in such cases.
All three of those examples are machine malfunctions. Human error is not a machine malfunction. A programming blunder is a human error, not a machine malfunction.
A programming error is NOT a malfunction. The machine worked exactly as it was rogrammed to. That is by definition not a malfunction.
P.S. I work in the industry and NO casino would get away with this. If a video poker machine or Keno game was programmed incorrectly the gaming commission would force a payout. Sure the casino can take the machine offline and prevent future plays but existing winners would eventually be paid.
I am not aware of any fine print on lottery tickets excluding wins based on "programming error". The programming defines the game and any error is not the fault of the player.
Your bit about taxpayers paying for this is false as well since the winning are paid from lottery revenues. The lottery exists as a way to fleece (double-dip) taxpayers in the first place. It would cost taxpayers much more if people stopped playing the lottery because the state can arbitrarily rescind winnings.
Which brings another point: most people cash out winning tickets immediately. How will they claw back the money already paid?
Disagree. If they played by the rules all those tickets should be valid. They weren't exploiting anything and the wins weren't a result of a malfunction (a programming error is not a malfunction, the game worked as implemented). If this had happened in a casino the state gaming commission would force them to pay all winners.
Fact: Various parts of the dossier have been proven to be true.
The only thing that has been "verified" is Carter Page visiting Moscow - on a trip that was very public when it happened. Visiting Russia is not a crime - or even unusual.
That's it. After a full year the FBI can only verify that one thing that was never in dispute in the first place. If you could take your partisan blinders off for just a minute the entire thing stinks to high heaven. It was a setup job from the start. They hoped Trump would fire Mueller thus giving grounds for a spurious impeachment. He didn't and now they are stuck. Nothing there leads to Trump at all.
Capitalism works until it's not allowed to work. We don't have a free market in the US, ESPECIALLY in health care. Let the free market work and many of the problems will solve themselves. Sure, there will always be some who will be left behind, but far fewer than everyone being poor under socialism. Utopia does not exist.
Single-payer would bankrupt the country. There will never be enough of anything to satisfy demand completely.
The solution is to relax regulations, not increase them. Remove the artificial limits placed on the number of doctors by the AMA, relax the burdens on licensing, etc. Cap malpractice payouts through tort reform.
No, the people comparing it to the Tulip Panic have read history. The same people who predicted the collapse of the housing bubble years before it happened. But by all means ignore history and put all of your savings in bitcoin.
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Incorrect, I'm personally aware of a case in Nevada where a programming error resulted in a $100,000 slot payout instead of what it should've been, $250. It took some time but eventually the Nevada Gaming Commission unanimously ruled that the casino must pay. Bob Nersesian was the attorney and he specializes in such cases.
All three of those examples are machine malfunctions. Human error is not a machine malfunction. A programming blunder is a human error, not a machine malfunction.
Programming errors do not invalidate a win since it is human error and not an equipment malfunction.
Have personal insults ever helped you win an argument?
A programming error is NOT a malfunction. The machine worked exactly as it was rogrammed to. That is by definition not a malfunction.
P.S. I work in the industry and NO casino would get away with this. If a video poker machine or Keno game was programmed incorrectly the gaming commission would force a payout. Sure the casino can take the machine offline and prevent future plays but existing winners would eventually be paid.
I imagine ALL the winning tickets would have been cashed in at the point of sale. Why leave the store with a winning ticket instead of cash?
I am not aware of any fine print on lottery tickets excluding wins based on "programming error". The programming defines the game and any error is not the fault of the player.
Your bit about taxpayers paying for this is false as well since the winning are paid from lottery revenues. The lottery exists as a way to fleece (double-dip) taxpayers in the first place. It would cost taxpayers much more if people stopped playing the lottery because the state can arbitrarily rescind winnings.
Which brings another point: most people cash out winning tickets immediately. How will they claw back the money already paid?
Disagree. If they played by the rules all those tickets should be valid. They weren't exploiting anything and the wins weren't a result of a malfunction (a programming error is not a malfunction, the game worked as implemented). If this had happened in a casino the state gaming commission would force them to pay all winners.
Fact: Various parts of the dossier have been proven to be true.
The only thing that has been "verified" is Carter Page visiting Moscow - on a trip that was very public when it happened. Visiting Russia is not a crime - or even unusual.
That's it. After a full year the FBI can only verify that one thing that was never in dispute in the first place. If you could take your partisan blinders off for just a minute the entire thing stinks to high heaven. It was a setup job from the start. They hoped Trump would fire Mueller thus giving grounds for a spurious impeachment. He didn't and now they are stuck. Nothing there leads to Trump at all.
That is common with penny-stocks as people sell at the end of the year to lock in their tax losses.
The legislature enacts laws, unelected bureaucracies enforce them (not the other way around).
I support Net Neutrality but the FCC was the wrong place to enact those rules.
Remember when they had incontrovertible proof that Saddam had WMD's and we had to go to war to stop him? Yeah, those were fun times.
I hope you seek help for the paranoid delusions.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or really believe. That's how silly The Russians! narrative has become.
I refuse to care for people? Who are you caring for? Why do you feel entitled to have other people support you?
Capitalism works until it's not allowed to work. We don't have a free market in the US, ESPECIALLY in health care. Let the free market work and many of the problems will solve themselves. Sure, there will always be some who will be left behind, but far fewer than everyone being poor under socialism. Utopia does not exist.
And the rest of us absorb those costs. That's another reason why prices are out of control.
Spain has MASSIVE economic problems. That happens when you borrow more than you can repay in order to redistribute it in the name of socialism.
Why did California scrap their proposed single-payer plan a few months ago? Because it would have bankrupted the state. California!
Probably less. When was the last time anyone heard of an American starving to death? Our poorest of the poor have an obesity problem.
Single-payer would bankrupt the country. There will never be enough of anything to satisfy demand completely.
The solution is to relax regulations, not increase them. Remove the artificial limits placed on the number of doctors by the AMA, relax the burdens on licensing, etc. Cap malpractice payouts through tort reform.
Because that's how manufactured narratives work.
The first "programming" jobs were more akin to sewing with core rope memory.
No, the people comparing it to the Tulip Panic have read history. The same people who predicted the collapse of the housing bubble years before it happened. But by all means ignore history and put all of your savings in bitcoin.
Yes, that's always been one of many fatal flaws with the bitcoin pyramid scheme, errr, blockchain.