Casinos - dead and gone w/ new policy?

Yeah but they said only real world things of value are affected not lucky chair prizes... actually I consider lucky chair a form a freebie.

Elinah

SL costs me ca 22.5$ per month. As a poker player I was able to earn that and the "land" I own and I was able to buy some stuff that was produced in SL.
Do you really think Poker is a game of luck?

I am sure many others will also leave SL.
It will be interesting to see what will happen to land prices, the SL-World Stock Exchange listings and the whole SL-economy. Many SL-jobs, investments were lost yesterday. Congratulations!
What would happen to Las Vegas if the gaming industry would be abolished?

If it is your desire to live in an armish paradiese, fine. But I will leave SL at the end of the quartal I have paid for. There are alternatives to SL. It is too expencive anyways.

You think you can ban online poker?
Other online Pokersites still run their sites from outside the US legislation. Someone who wants to play online poker has just to open a foreign (e.g. swiss) bank account. Everthing is just some mouseclicks away. Halloohoo this is the 21st century!

I am glad that I am an european.
Since your retarded chistian fundamentalist are in power, the whole world laughs about you. OK some poor bastards in Iraque maybe not. I dont care.

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Get back to me when you can own a pistol easily or when you can deny the holocaust happened and not face criminal charges for doing so or you don't have to pay a tax for every television in your house. Then we can compare notes.

I am glad you are European too. Laugh at us, we really don't give a shit. Europe is nothing but a dying relic anyway. It is a damn shame we wasted all those tax dollars keeping the Russians out of your country for all those years.

Oh Chris, I respect your point of view usually even though I vehemently disagree but that was just plain low and childish. You're better than that.

On behalf of a multitude of European friends of mine, stuff it.

It is very simple, the Euros didn't mind us being the big dog when we were keeping their soft asses free from the commies, but now they want to throw stones. They can't show a little gratitude, to hell with them. I sweated and froze on a flight line for them, but they don't seem to give a shit.

It's no more "very simple" than it's "very simple" that Americans are wingnut, ignorant savage fascists.

Don't add to the problem.

FOlks the whole point of all this is not gambling its money. Even the legislations that has caused the hoopla was about money.

SImple fact LL cannot afford to lose the means by which we all pay them for thier services.

Answer gambling is gone. Its a done deal. No amount of arguing is going to change it.

Wingnut, nah, I was a wing wiper. Ignorant, nope. Savage, I will agree with that. Fascist that was a Euro invention.

We are all that until you need us to come save your hineys, and then its cry, cry,cry come help us allmighty United States of America please.

All of Europe is indebted to us. I am very dissapointed at you lack of gratitude

And I thought I could derail a thread, you guys are pro's!

Hey, they are the ones who started in with the America bashing.

Strange i still see many casinos around SL. I wonder if LLABS is taking them out one by one of giving warning to the owners to pull out. WHO knows........ I know xplorders makers are tell their buyers to pull them off their land, since the the change of laws on sl.

I was following this thread yesterday and am amused by the political turn it has taken since then. So I thought I'd add my two cents to several of the statements made.

First, the difference between a "subject of the Queen" and a "free citizen" is a largely semantic one nowadays. The British and Dutch in reality have about as much personal freedom as do Americans. All have a great many rights, and all have sometimes unnecessary restrictions.

The situation in the US is the product of the changes in all three branches of government. The Bush Administration is the unfortunate marriage of neoconservatism (basically old-fashioned imperialism renamed) and the Evangelical political movement. Congress is overly influenced by lobbyists, and key industries are allowed to write legislation in their best interest (pharmaceutical companies, telecoms, and Hollywood are the most noxious examples). And you have a Supreme Court whose deck is currently stacked to the right.

The war in Iraq is the unhappy consequence of neoconservatism. Ostensibly the US went to war to liberate an oppressed people. But there are many oppressed countries; Zimbabwe and China immediately come to mind. Why doesn't the US invade those countries? In the case of the later, it would be an honest WWIII, and for the former, the sad answer is that they do not produce oil.

But getting back on topic, if LL kowtows to every national law where Second LIfe is downloaded, it will be the death of SL. A solution might be if SL goes from the centralized LL controlled entity it is now to a decentralized system, along the lines of IRC. LL would maintain the code and perhaps continue to be the source of Linden Dollars. However I don't see them being willing to give up that control.

Perhaps though, the open source community will eventually come up with such software, rendering SL superfluous.

Because Zimbabwe and China don't have dangerous, fanatical bomb hugging citizens blowing up twin towers and in the process killing thousands of innocent people.

You sound smart enough to have known the answer to that question, but yet you chose to ignore the obvious.

A perfect example of a differing ideolgical perspective.

You can oppress your people all you want. When you come to our nation and start blowing up things dont cry when we retaliate. Don't tell us how to defend ourselves under such circumstances. The fact that you would chose to tuck your tail between your legs under such circustances is your problem, not ours.

Yes of course, first world war 1917-1918 and second world war 1941-1945 oh and you decoded the engima machine too.

I'm very disappointed at your "We saved the world" attitude. Grow up.

... the clear voice of reason... I do hope you are in the US... it'll restore my faith in it.

Just wanted to be post #615 on this thread. It's my lucky number.

Jesus the Middle East dweller, what has become of this thread? "The Euros"... "The Americans"... people, wherever they may live, are just that: people. I know lots of Americans, and they come in all sorts and flavors, just like the folks I'm surrounded by here in Europe

As for governments: no political system is infallible. Every country has a few flaws and got something right... in case of the USA: the right to bear arms, the right to defend yourself (hit a burglar over the head in Germany and the burglar can sue you) and more freedom of speech than in most other democracies (certainly more than in Germany). Western Europe: gay marriage, legal prostitution and non-restrictive laws on soft drugs (at least in Holland, Germany and... uhm). We can all learn a few things from each other, I guess.

Unlucky, close but no cigar. I get to keep the Sarah Nerd posters.

You edited that you bugger I'm still keeping the posters!

Dammit. No hand party for me tonight.

$100L to the last person to post before the lock.....

that is a form of gambling and may be ilegal!