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09.30.06

The Moral Equivalent Of Online Poker

posted by Absinthe | 12:17 AM

Things I learned this week:

1) It’s okay to torture people and hold them indefinitely without recourse to the courts.

2) It’s not okay to play online poker.

I normally make some attempts at eloquence in this space, but I think this time I’m going to cut to the chase: What the fucking fuck?

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14 Responses to “The Moral Equivalent Of Online Poker”

1. justpokernews.com | The online source for poker news,poker tips,poker strategy,texas holdem Says:
   October 2, 2006 at 6:53 PM

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2. Tales from the West Side Says:
   October 4, 2006 at 9:18 PM

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   October 2, 2006 at 7:47 PM

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   October 2, 2006 at 7:08 PM

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5. Poker Articles Says:
   October 2, 2006 at 2:35 PM

   slowly but steadily taking away more and more of our freedoms and liberties. The way this prohibition was passed, and the effect it will have on millions of Americans, is a perfect example of how out of control our current one party rule has become. Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments [IMG]

6. Bloody P Says:
   September 30, 2006 at 7:06 AM

   Yep, it’s a world gone fucking mad, yo.

7. Wolverine Fan Says:
   September 30, 2006 at 1:55 PM

   Puritanical arses wanting to tell me how to live my life and spend my money all the while taking my taxes and using them for things I don’t believe in. This great country is on a road to ruin.

   Don’t gamble online but view all the porn you want.

8. Alan Says:
   October 1, 2006 at 1:17 AM

   The only logical conclusion I can come up with is that people who play online poker will be tortured and held indefinitely without recourse to the courts.

   Because player poker online is akin to money laundering and that means you might helping to fund a terrorist and are therefore a terrorist yourself.

   I’d laugh if it weren’t so scary.

9. Scott Says:
   October 2, 2006 at 6:24 AM

   Oh, it’s so incredibly stupid. I can play in a casino. I can legally go to OTB and lose all my money gambling on horse races. I can spend the grocery money on lottery tickets. I can go gamble to my hearts content at Jai Alai in the state of Florida. I can trade stocks, options, futures etc. But, playing poker online I can’t do. What actually will this law do? Is it going to be enforceable? Aren’t most of these websites located outside the US?

10. wil Says:
    October 2, 2006 at 11:50 AM

    Why do you hate America?

11. Virtual Dave » Torture == good; online poker == bad. Says:
    October 2, 2006 at 12:40 PM

    [...] Absinthetics says it best: Things I learned this week: [...]

12. riverbend Says:
    October 2, 2006 at 5:18 PM

    “Oh, it’s so incredibly stupid. I can play in a casino. I can legally go to OTB and lose all my money gambling on horse races. I can spend the grocery money on lottery tickets. I can go gamble to my hearts content at Jai Alai in the state of Florida. I can trade stocks, options, futures etc”

    AND don’t forget….. you can also go to the bar, get shitfaced, go home and beat up your wife and kids. No biggie so long as you beat her hard enough to shut her up.

13. Ian Says:
    October 3, 2006 at 9:51 AM

    “Aren’t most of these websites located outside the US? ”
    Yeah, there are quite a few in the UK, but we signed an unreciprocated agreement to a kind of fast-track extradition to counter global terrorism. It’s been used mostly for white collar crime and now will be used for for the evil global Poker menace.

14. Poker Cats Says:
    June 16, 2008 at 2:15 PM

    Sometimes you have to ask yourself if waterboarding is preferrable to repeated 1-outer suckouts on the river.

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