60 Minutes tonight

#1 11-20-2005, 04:17 PM

I guess this is where this goes. Just saw a commercial that 60 Minutes tonight is doing something on internet gambling tonight. I'm sure it will partly or all be on poker.

slipoker · #2 11-20-2005, 04:53 PM

And I bet they have at least one story of somebody who lost their home, car, and probably children, in the name of online poker.

#3 11-20-2005, 05:50 PM

Here's some more on the story tonight. I'll be watching, too.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/...n1052420.shtml

(erm, spoiler alert?)

gobboboy · #4 11-20-2005, 06:04 PM

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“We calculated that, were America to have regulated the industry in 2004, the American states would have earned $1.2 billion in tax,”

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Yeah, the government REALLY FREAKING EARNED that money.

#5 11-20-2005, 07:45 PM

There's a thread about it in the Stock Market Forum. Speculation as to how the program will possibly generate action in certain stock.

#6 11-20-2005, 07:46 PM

and we all know the state needs another $1.2 billion to blow on whatever some idiotic bureaucrat wants.

RatFink · #7 11-20-2005, 07:55 PM

Another fine example of lobbying masquerading as journalism.

#8 11-20-2005, 08:34 PM

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Another fine example of lobbying masquerading as journalism.

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Or, simply, "do-gooders" doin' good. They always know what's best for all of us, don't they?

Gotta take care of all the numb nuts 'cause they can't be trusted to think for themselves. Well, some of 'em can't.

#9 11-20-2005, 08:59 PM

I hate 60 Minutes.

#10 11-20-2005, 09:03 PM

god this [censored] senator is full of [censored], and actually the poker guy is almost as bad, suggesting we need it to be regulated and taxed. i'll stick with the black market.