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zanzibar

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Re: Unlawful Internet Gambling
« Reply #15 on: October 03, 2006, 04:42:10 am »
Orwellia BS, exactly!  Why make laws designed to prevent people from hurting themselves or exploiting people who are sick?

Wrong, wrong, wrong.  I do NOT need to justify how I spend MY money as long as it is not harming anyone else.


I don't see how our statements contradict.
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Re: Unlawful Internet Gambling
« Reply #16 on: October 03, 2006, 05:20:34 am »
Orwellia BS, exactly!  Why make laws designed to prevent people from hurting themselves or exploiting people who are sick?

Wrong, wrong, wrong.  I do NOT need to justify how I spend MY money as long as it is not harming anyone else.


I don't see how our statements contradict.

Thank you.  Now I can clarify.

First, my first two paragraphs:


No.  Wrong, wrong, wrong.  I do NOT need to justify how I spend MY money as long as it is not harming anyone else.  Is my playing poker online affecting you in any way, zanzibar?  No?  Then why do I need to justify it?

I said why I disagree with it, because poker is helping put me through college and allowing me to not get a job so I can focus on studying.  I can play poker on MY schedule, not by what my boss tells me to do.

EDIT: I'm aware some things might not be cohesive, I'm writing this very fast.

Was referring to the latter half of the quote (the part you didn't put in your quote).  About why I disagree with it (which I directly referenced).

And this last paragraph:

Laws designed to prevent people from hurting themselves are complete bull.  That goes as far as drugs, etc. but I can at least understand why those are illegal even if I disagree with it.  Playing poker online, however, just seems like they're going out of their way to control.  They're not going to get any POSITIVE press out of it like the "War on Drugs" or whatever, so I just don't see the purpose.

Was more of a general statement about laws to prevent people from hurting themselves.  I wasn't agreeing or disagreeing with you, as I don't know if you were being sarcastic or not.  It seems to me like you were serious because of the "taking advantage of" part of your post.  If so, I completely 100% disagree with you on the first part and completely 100% agree with you on the second part, and I don't see why you talk about them like they're the same thing

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Re: Unlawful Internet Gambling
« Reply #17 on: October 03, 2006, 06:01:29 am »
When I buy things online, I don't pay tax.  The government doesn't like that. For years, they have tried to pass laws about that as well.  The same goes for online gambling.  They couldn't tax you on your earnings, so they did the next best thing, made it illegal.  And this type of thinking is at every level of governemnt, not just federal.

Similar to a small child that has a toy, but is told to share it with thier brother/sister, but since they don't want to share, they smash the toy.  "If I can't have it, no one else will either."
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If a peson is not happy with the laws that thier elected officals have made, then it is their duty as a citizen of their country to educate themselves on the officials that voted for and against such laws that were made that they agreed with and disagreed with, and then on November 7th (voting day in the USA) they will make thier voice heard by voting for either new officals to replace the ones currently in office or, if they liked the laws passed, they will vote to keep the officals in office right now, there for another term.

The real problem is not the elected officals, but the people that put them in office to begin with.  If the majority of people would educate themselves about the people they voted for rather than voting for what thier minister or preist or parents or friends or voting down party lines, etc etc etc tells them what they should vote for, then things would be much different from what they are now.  But that's a perfect society, one we don't live in.  So we deal with the one we have now, and try to change it the best we can.

I take it you will be at the voting office come next month then.

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Re: Unlawful Internet Gambling
« Reply #18 on: October 03, 2006, 04:15:46 pm »
I saw this on the news in England yesterday. I was like :o

How can they ban online poker? People can spend thier money on whatever they want.

Why dont they just do anything useful for a change.