ridiculous

http://www.pokerplayersalliance.org/alerts/Port_Security.pdf

10/5/2006 4:57:27 AM

are you a fucking retard??


http://www.brentroad.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=436075

http://brentroad.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=436989

10/5/2006 6:35:19 AM

To be fair, I think this thread could legitimately exist here in the soap box. But only if this n00b knew anything about how to make a soap box thread.

Seriously, you know that thread about how to make a post on TWW? We need one for threads in the Soap Box.

10/5/2006 7:09:17 AM

Here is the text from the pdf (for those that hate pdf as much as I do)

Quote :

"Washington, DC (September 30, 2006) – In a Congressional back room deal, opponents of Internet gambling have added language to port security legislation that would prohibit online wagering. The port security bill with the Internet gambling prohibition language included was approved by the U.S House and Senate late on Friday evening and will be sent to the President to be signed into law. “This last minute deal reeks of political gamesmanship. The American people should be outraged that Congress has hi-jacked a vital security bill with a poker prohibition that nearly three fourths of the country opposes,” said Michael Bolcerek, president of the Poker Players Alliance, a grassroots advocacy organization of more than 110,000 poker enthusiasts. “Allowing this bill to become law, would run contrary to public opinion and would damage an already fractured relationship between government and the electorate. The millions of Americans who enjoy playing this great game will have the last voice in this debate come Election Day.” Bolcerek pointed to research which shows that 74 percent of Americans oppose federal attempts to ban Internet poker. http://www.pokerplayersalliance.org/press_releases/pr040406.html “Congress has an opportunity to regulate and tax online poker leading to potentially billions of dollars in annual revenue for the federal government and the states,” said Bolcerek. “If the goal of Congress is to protect people from the possible dangers of gambling, a prohibition is the worst way of achieving it. All it will do is push poker underground, essentially creating online speakeasies, which will provide no protection for youths, no services for the problem gambler and leave only the most unscrupulous operators in the game.”"

EDIT: True to form. I had to manually kill the acrobat crap (30+ MB) out of memory with the task manager even after I "closed" the program.

[Edited on October 5, 2006 at 7:59 AM. Reason : -]

10/5/2006 7:57:26 AM

From that press release

Quote :

"At a roundtable panel discussion today, The Poker Players Alliance, a grassroots organization of more than 20,000 American poker players, renewed its objection to online gambling prohibition,"

And in the pdf

Quote :

"Poker Players Alliance, a grassroots advocacy organization of more than 110,000 poker enthusiasts. "

You really think they have 5 "enthusiasts" for each "player"?

lol

[Edited on October 5, 2006 at 8:10 AM. Reason : .]

10/5/2006 8:09:54 AM

Quote :

"At a roundtable panel discussion today, The Poker Players Alliance, a grassroots organization of more than 20,000 American poker players, renewed its objection to online gambling prohibition,"

Ha. They need to get together every once and a while to have a round table panel discussion to make sure they all agree that online gambling prohibition is still bad.

I'm waiting on the outcome of one of these Poker Player Alliance roundtable panel discussions to be, "Yeah, we probably should just quit because gambling is bad."

[Edited on October 5, 2006 at 8:30 AM. Reason : -]

10/5/2006 8:28:26 AM

Quote :

"The American people should be outraged that Congress has hi-jacked a vital security bill with a poker prohibition"

Come on, this is nothing new.

10/5/2006 8:36:50 AM

The cynic in me says, "Of course they're going to ban on-line poker. Afterall, it takes away money from 'acceptable' (read taxable) gambling."

10/5/2006 10:10:57 AM

Quote :

"True to form. I had to manually kill the acrobat crap (30+ MB) out of memory with the task manager even after I "closed" the program."

Switch to Foxit PDF Reader
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php

It loads in seconds and never has any of the problems with memory leaks and such.

10/5/2006 10:21:20 AM