Re: Online Casino Ripoffs / Re: 7-29_b8_EXTRA_Internet.html

[dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)]

nobody@REPLAY.COM (Anonymous) writes:

>   Youngsters on the list might not remember how private individuals
> involved in gambling used to be denigrated by the government as "the
> scum of the earth"--as "criminals" and "mobsters" and "evil."
>   Now that the government has hijacked the gambling industry, only
> those not paying the government their share of the "vigorish" are
> scum-sucking criminals.

Of course the reason the "illegal" numbers rackets are so popular still
is that they offer much better odds of winning than the state lottery.
Unable to compete in the marketplace, the gubmint outlaws the
competition. Same way the gubmint wants to outlaw better crypto
than what the NSA has to offer.

ObPICSshit: I heard on the radio of a decision yesteday by (I think) NYS
Supremes: NYS is NOT violating its constitution's free speech blurb by
banning beer with politically incorrect _labels.

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