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   bill, 5 Apr 2004 @ 7:51am

   
   

   Remember kids, gambling is bad...

   ...unless it's the state sponsored lotto. Anyone who would trust a website hosted god-knows-where to not tweak the odds gets what they deserve.

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   Gregory Kennedy, 5 Apr 2004 @ 8:13am

   
   

   Free Trade?

   I actualy read that members of the WTO are suing the US because of this. It seems that in the WTO gambling is a legal business and many countries have it as a primary source of revenue. The US is violating WTO rules by going after these companies.
   
   Ironic that the US likes free trade when it means selling Coke or Marlboro in the middle east, but we are against it if it means gambling has to become legal in our country.

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   ZPTquick, 5 Apr 2004 @ 8:35am

   
   

   Travel Agencies?

   I see ads in the travel agency for trips to Monte Carlo and Vegas advertising the casinos all the time. What's the diff? Gambling is illegal here in Texas, but there are billboards all along the highway advertising casinos in Shreveport. It's OK for me to drive/fly to a casino, and OK for them to entice me to do so; but it's not OK for me to play java blackjack in Costa Rica from my home here in Dallas, and thus those offshore places can't advertise for my dollars?
   
   Is it OK for me to drive to Vegas and play online from my hotel room?

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   Mike (profile), 5 Apr 2004 @ 9:00am

   
   

   Re: Free Trade?

   Details on the WTO decision:
   
   http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20040324/1149244.shtml
   
   

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