Posted on 11/03/2006 5:26:44 AM PST by kerrywearsbotox
The U.K.'s cultural secretary Tessa Jowell is this week calling for an "international agreement" on the regulation of online gaming, as leading industrialized powers seek a way around the draconian law against online gaming signed by U.S. President Bush earlier this month.
Jowell is on Tuesday leading an international summit at Royal Ascot, the famed horse racing track, in the English countryside, near Berkshire, frequented by royals and the global glitterati, and founded in 1711, as delegates from 30 countries meet this week on international gaming standards, as well as methods for protecting players and keeping the industry well-regulated. Secretary Jowell said international online gambling companies would be "welcome" to operate in Britain. According to Brussels-based lawyer, Herbert Smith, of the firm Craig Pouncey, the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 was passed in "complete disregard" of U.S. obligations under international law.
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These guys beat the New York Times by two days.
http://www.nytimes.com/iht/2006/11/02/technology/IHT-02gamble.html
Compare and contrast the popularity of gambling and drug abuse.
Either we are equal or we are not. Good people should be armed where they will, with wits and guns.
What the heck does that mean?
The definition goes on for about six column inches and five main entries in my Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, edition of '61. The first and usually the most common is '...pronoun...the person, thing or idea indicated, mentioned, or understood from the situation...' Tagline...
Either we are equal or we are not. Good people should be armed where they will, with wits and guns. NRA KMA
There is a very simple method of getting around the Bush administration effort to outlaw online gambling. You simply apply for a British credit card, and use it to pay for your gambling...which the various betting parlors in Europe still operate with no efforts by the EU to halt them. This is what the dedicated guys in the US are going to do. And you simply pay your British credit card online...via your local bank. The FBI and attorney general could go and request via European courts your credit card information...but after a year or two in efforts to get just one guy's records...they will simply go back home and worry about the next right-wing worry wart that comes along to make voters hot for them.
Nope - they'll prosecute you for money laundering - a more severe offense than online gambling.
I am amused at how some are trying to drive a wedge between right-wing and conservative. I wonder where the actualities represented by the epithets would fall on a continuum that includes other political epithets.
I am a conservative and don't gamble and recognize the negatives of gambling. I am a right-winger, far to the right of the GOP and NRA.
Either we are equal or we are not. Good people should be armed where they will, with wits and guns.
We have to protect OFFICIALLY sanctioned online gaming: NYSE.
(/sarcasm off)
ok just kidding!
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