The banned gamblers just need to start a website where they sell memberships, and provide their recommendations for bets. Subscribers then win in their stead, and pass some of their winnings on to the banned gamblers as subscription fees.
Isn't that how DeNiro's character in "Casino" ended up? I remember seeing a Saturday morning program with a half dozen such characters giving their throw-away recommendations to get subscribers.
PS: Gambling advice on a Saturday morning, but no cartoons? What the hell happened to Bugs Bunny, people?
This is a strange usage of 'Wise Guys' - generally I've seen that refer to folks who are mobbed up and I can see valid concerns that such individuals might try to muscle the outcome through either bribery or intimidation of the athletes/referees involved.
Say it with me, people: "Black Sox!" Arnold Rothstein thanks you.
Betting IS on a parimutuel basis when there is enough time to establish a line from betting. Weekly college games have too short a horizon, so the bookies have to make a guess as to a good line, and try to lay off to someone elsewhere when the hometown effect is too big. Not necessarily in Vegas for Division I schools, but there are too many other games with too small a following. How do the British handle weird one-time bets like whether an upcoming royal wedding is going to blow up before the ceremony, or if the first Moon landing would beat the 1970 deadline?
This is a cab, not a bus. Actually, until driver-less is really a thing, a jitney service with all the money going to the ride-sharing company, rather than the drivers.
Self-driving cars promise safer roads, less traffic and increased mobility. Some autonomous vehicle proponents also maintain they will save time and money.
Yeah, and they made all sorts of promises of heroin solving the morphine and laudanum problem, too. And opiods are non-addictive, too.
The wars that supposedly brought China to its knees were called the *Opium* Wars, partially because heroin hadn't been invented, yet (and probably not morphine, but I'd have to look up too much).
Cocaine IS legal in certain uses, such as eye surgery, just not for general uses, let alone recreational use.
That was opium, far less addictive than morphine, let alone heroin, that you are thinking of.
BTW, back to the topic, cocaine is legal for medical uses; it used to be the anesthetic of choice for eye surgery. Legalizing it for "headaches" or similar minor ills (let alone recreational uses) will bring back all the problems that were noted in 1890s to 1900s.
There is a difference between "first name" and "given name" for Hungarian names.
And just to make things more complex, some reverse their names to make it "easier" for Western coworkers and correspondents. Mainland Chinese use the surname first pattern, but Taiwanese Chinese often use the Western pattern, just to make it hard for those of us who try to understand their differences.
When I was a sysadmin, we set up aliases of first_name "." surname for everybody, and gave people a two week window to request in ID *other* than first initial , last name (i.e., "jsmith" for John Smith) if there wasn't a namespace collision (or too long a name, Slavic and Greek surnames can be annoyingly long:-). Surprisingly, the only ones who commonly wanted their firstname as their ID were unmarried or soon-to-divorce women; men sometimes asked to omit their first initial, though.
Worked until there were multiple me's on the Internet. I was in the whois database at the end of the era when people still used their real names, and I got emails for someone else with my name every 8 months or so, and supposedly my surname is about the 2800th most popular one in the US.
Even at AT&T, when I worked there, the only way to disambiguate common names was that the org chart was built into the internal directory pages, so if you knew where or in what division your John Smith worked, or who his boss or boss's boss was, you could look it up (obviously, thereafter it goes in your email client as a not-so-common alias, to save a five minute journey).
WRT smartphones, that was Steve Jobs, and Steve Jobs only.
Um, Steve Jobs did not invent the smart phone. The iPhone was better integrated than any of the earlier "smart" phones, and worked more smoothly, but it was NOT the first. Someone else made all sorts of mistakes, first, and Apple learned from them what not to do and what had to be done much better.
When I was in school, the field was 1/4 female or more. Since then, women have decided that CS/IT is a male preserve more than being chased out. No idea why, but it is probably related to more people going in from high school or college than earlier, where some working stiffs just had to pick it up and then got really interested. Once, supposedly, secretaries could just pick it up. Now, you have to decide before college, spend years at it, all with people like us. Might explain it (or just a great excuse).
I don't know about that figure. There are a lot of Amish or Mennonite farmers using draft horses, and there are as many horses, today in the USA, as there were in 1900. A lot of non-Anabaptist farmers with draft horses for sport, as well, at least in PA.
Oxen are SOL, though. The only oxen used, other than in historical parks, are steers being fattened for the table. Tasty for us, at least.
Of course, 5% or more of the US populace is still employed in agriculture, so tractors didn't end 99% of the jobs.
That sort of depends. When I was going to college, every engineering major that I knew wanted their degree as a stepping stone to an MBA and management. Autistic, no, sociopaths, maybe.
We support bombing Shiite Yemeni, and when Sunni Yemeni get hit that is the unfortunate effects of war. If Iran had not paid the Shiites to try to take over Yemen, it would still warrant its Roman name of Arabica Felix (I think that is how they spelled it -- Happy Arabia, not Arabian Cat).
Most Citgo stations are privately owned, by Americans or legal American residents. Venezuela sold the vast majority years ago, probably in anticipating something like this order or its predecessors. Where they get their gas, now, I do not know, but it shouldn't be hard to find some from US refineries.
Any still owned by Venezuela would have been shut down during President Obama's term, by his executive orders.
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The banned gamblers just need to start a website where they sell memberships, and provide their recommendations for bets. Subscribers then win in their stead, and pass some of their winnings on to the banned gamblers as subscription fees.
Isn't that how DeNiro's character in "Casino" ended up? I remember seeing a Saturday morning program with a half dozen such characters giving their throw-away recommendations to get subscribers.
PS: Gambling advice on a Saturday morning, but no cartoons? What the hell happened to Bugs Bunny, people?
This is a strange usage of 'Wise Guys' - generally I've seen that refer to folks who are mobbed up and I can see valid concerns that such individuals might try to muscle the outcome through either bribery or intimidation of the athletes/referees involved.
Say it with me, people: "Black Sox!" Arnold Rothstein thanks you.
Betting IS on a parimutuel basis when there is enough time to establish a line from betting. Weekly college games have too short a horizon, so the bookies have to make a guess as to a good line, and try to lay off to someone elsewhere when the hometown effect is too big. Not necessarily in Vegas for Division I schools, but there are too many other games with too small a following. How do the British handle weird one-time bets like whether an upcoming royal wedding is going to blow up before the ceremony, or if the first Moon landing would beat the 1970 deadline?
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This is a cab, not a bus. Actually, until driver-less is really a thing, a jitney service with all the money going to the ride-sharing company, rather than the drivers.
Self-driving cars promise safer roads, less traffic and increased mobility. Some autonomous vehicle proponents also maintain they will save time and money.
Yeah, and they made all sorts of promises of heroin solving the morphine and laudanum problem, too. And opiods are non-addictive, too.
Remember that you wrote it here, first, and watch the strip next year.
But that does sound like something that PHB might at least daydream of doing.
And you didn't read, either.
The wars that supposedly brought China to its knees were called the *Opium* Wars, partially because heroin hadn't been invented, yet (and probably not morphine, but I'd have to look up too much).
Cocaine IS legal in certain uses, such as eye surgery, just not for general uses, let alone recreational use.
That was opium, far less addictive than morphine, let alone heroin, that you are thinking of.
BTW, back to the topic, cocaine is legal for medical uses; it used to be the anesthetic of choice for eye surgery. Legalizing it for "headaches" or similar minor ills (let alone recreational uses) will bring back all the problems that were noted in 1890s to 1900s.
Fusion is 20 years out.... still
Well, it was thirty years out in the 1960s, so this is either progress or greater self-delusion.
There is a difference between "first name" and "given name" for Hungarian names.
And just to make things more complex, some reverse their names to make it "easier" for Western coworkers and correspondents. Mainland Chinese use the surname first pattern, but Taiwanese Chinese often use the Western pattern, just to make it hard for those of us who try to understand their differences.
When I was a sysadmin, we set up aliases of first_name "." surname for everybody, and gave people a two week window to request in ID *other* than first initial , last name (i.e., "jsmith" for John Smith) if there wasn't a namespace collision (or too long a name, Slavic and Greek surnames can be annoyingly long :-). Surprisingly, the only ones who commonly wanted their firstname as their ID were unmarried or soon-to-divorce women; men sometimes asked to omit their first initial, though.
Our company was not in Silicon Valley, though.
Worked until there were multiple me's on the Internet. I was in the whois database at the end of the era when people still used their real names, and I got emails for someone else with my name every 8 months or so, and supposedly my surname is about the 2800th most popular one in the US.
Even at AT&T, when I worked there, the only way to disambiguate common names was that the org chart was built into the internal directory pages, so if you knew where or in what division your John Smith worked, or who his boss or boss's boss was, you could look it up (obviously, thereafter it goes in your email client as a not-so-common alias, to save a five minute journey).
Where is this better country? Name it, or it isn't, and at best you are writing it because they hold your family.
Thus fraud has clearly occurred, because people who are not customers of centurylink were billed for centurylink services.
But was the fraud by CenturyLink the holding company, or by all the subsidiary companies claiming to be their parent?
Clearly, some corporate lawyer, somewhere, may be earning his keep. The damned bastard.
WRT smartphones, that was Steve Jobs, and Steve Jobs only.
Um, Steve Jobs did not invent the smart phone. The iPhone was better integrated than any of the earlier "smart" phones, and worked more smoothly, but it was NOT the first. Someone else made all sorts of mistakes, first, and Apple learned from them what not to do and what had to be done much better.
But how will people be able to post their drunken party pictures for the world to marvel over, if Facebook is gone?
BTW, MySpace still exists. The last that I read about it, it was THE go-to site for following bands.
The problem is that male romance novelists use a female-sounding name, just as George Sand and James Tiptree used male names.
When I was in school, the field was 1/4 female or more. Since then, women have decided that CS/IT is a male preserve more than being chased out. No idea why, but it is probably related to more people going in from high school or college than earlier, where some working stiffs just had to pick it up and then got really interested. Once, supposedly, secretaries could just pick it up. Now, you have to decide before college, spend years at it, all with people like us. Might explain it (or just a great excuse).
I don't know about that figure. There are a lot of Amish or Mennonite farmers using draft horses, and there are as many horses, today in the USA, as there were in 1900. A lot of non-Anabaptist farmers with draft horses for sport, as well, at least in PA.
Oxen are SOL, though. The only oxen used, other than in historical parks, are steers being fattened for the table. Tasty for us, at least.
Of course, 5% or more of the US populace is still employed in agriculture, so tractors didn't end 99% of the jobs.
That sort of depends. When I was going to college, every engineering major that I knew wanted their degree as a stepping stone to an MBA and management. Autistic, no, sociopaths, maybe.
Given how they have expanded the definition of "autistic" they might already BE.
Ask Adolf or Benny the Moose how that worked out for them.
Or ask any Indians, either Hindu or Islamic, how Partition worked out.
We support bombing Shiite Yemeni, and when Sunni Yemeni get hit that is the unfortunate effects of war. If Iran had not paid the Shiites to try to take over Yemen, it would still warrant its Roman name of Arabica Felix (I think that is how they spelled it -- Happy Arabia, not Arabian Cat).
Most Citgo stations are privately owned, by Americans or legal American residents. Venezuela sold the vast majority years ago, probably in anticipating something like this order or its predecessors. Where they get their gas, now, I do not know, but it shouldn't be hard to find some from US refineries.
Any still owned by Venezuela would have been shut down during President Obama's term, by his executive orders.
Sorry, nothing to see here.