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In this issue:
1. What's New at Casinomeister
2. This Week's Humor
3. Forum Highlights
4. Gone Gambling's casino account giveaway
5. PORN AND GAMBLING "BEDMATES" ?An unfortunate association from GoBet
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POLITICS EXPLAINED IN TERMS OF COWS...
THE "TWO COW" EXPLANATION OF WHAT MAKES: ...
A SOCIALIST:
You have two cows.
The government takes one and
gives it to your neighbor.
AN AMERICAN REPUBLICAN:
You have two cows.
Your neighbor has none.
So what?
AN AMERICAN DEMOCRAT:
You have two cows.
Your neighbor has none. You feel guilty for being
successful. You vote people into office who tax your cows,
forcing you to sell one to raise money to pay the tax.
The people you voted for then take the tax money and
buy a cow and give it to your neighbor. You feel righteous.
A CHRISTIAN DEMOCRAT:
You have two cows.
You keep one and
give one to your neighbor.
A COMMUNIST:
You have two cows.
The government seizes both
and provides you with milk.
A FASCIST:
You have two cows.
The government seizes both and sells you the milk.
You join the underground and start a campaign of sabotage.
DEMOCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE:
You have two cows.
The government taxes you to the point you have to
sell both to support a man in a foreign country who has only one cow,
which was a gift from your government.
CAPITALISM, AMERICAN STYLE:
You have two cows.
You sell one, buy a bull, and build a herd of cows.
BUREAUCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE:
You have two cows.
The government takes them both, shoots one, milks
the other, pays you for the milk, then pours the milk
down the drain.
AN AMERICAN CORPORATION:
You have two cows.
You sell one, and force the other to produce the
milk of four cows.
You are surprised when the cow drops dead.
A FRENCH CORPORATION:
You have two cows.
You go on strike
because you want three cows.
A JAPANESE CORPORATION:
You have two cows.
You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of
an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk.
You then create clever cow cartoon images called Cowkimon and
market them World-Wide.
A GERMAN CORPORATION:
You have two cows.
You reengineer them so they live for 100 years,
eat once a month, and milk themselves.
A BRITISH CORPORATION:
You have two cows.
They are mad.
They die.
Pass the shepherd's pie, please.
AN ITALIAN CORPORATION:
You have two cows,
but you don't know where they are. You break for lunch.
A RUSSIAN CORPORATION:
You have two cows.
You count them and learn you have five cows. You
count them again and learn you have 42 cows.
You count them again and learn you have 12 cows.
You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka.
A SWISS CORPORATION:
You have 5000 cows, none of which
belong to you. You charge others for storing them.
A BRAZILIAN CORPORATION:
You have two cows.
You enter into a partnership with an American corporation.
Soon you have 1000 cows and the American corporation
declares bankruptcy.
AN INDIAN CORPORATION:
You have two cows.
You worship both of them.
A CHINESE CORPORATION:
You have two cows.
You have 300 people milking them. You claim full
employment, high bovine productivity, and arrest
the newsman who reported on them
AN ISRAELI CORPORATION:
There are these two Jewish cows, right?
They open a milk factory, an ice cream store, and
then sell the movie rights. They send their calves to Harvard
to become doctors. So, who needs people?
AN ARKANSAS CORPORATION:
You have two cows.
That one on the left is kinda cute...
ha ha ha, thanks sis!
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Casinomeister's Forum: Online Players Association: Unified
Gaming Robot Claims
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By jetset (jetset) on Wednesday, December 05, 2001 - 10:46
pm:
Greg, the issues you raise from the portal aspect are
valid.
The presence of Gambling.com on the (OPA's) NOT RECOMMENDED list
probably dates back to the superheated days of the infamous
Golden Palace scandal when harsh words were exchanged with
the owner, but it is true that the GG section of that
operation does not hesitate to fearlessly single out baddies
even when they are advertisers. It is also true as you
point out that other respected sites are (ill-advisedly)
advertising GP and it is therefore perhaps less than fair to
single out gambling.com alone.
The IGC - well there were a lot of infuriated players around
at the time of the GP dispute (and later Tropika too)and IGC
unfortunately went into silent and apparently uncaring mode
which did not sit well. However it has to be recognized
that they are doing a difficult and specialized job in the
lobbying area that will ultimately (we hope) benefit
everyone in the industry.
Mary made one point which I would like to re-emphasize:
"Your business partners and you will just have to keep
dialog going. Many sites that treat gamblers badly also
treat affiliates, advertisers, and business partners badly,
and they will become self-evident in time."
I hope that does not bite you, but if it does your partners
may feel a little different about the "only one complaint"
approach.
I don't believe the OPA can afford the luxury of such an
approach - if a member (casino or player) has a beef the
Association has to investigate it, and that is done very
transparently as is evident from the progress of complaints
on the OPA public board. I believe that the offenders are
given every opportunity to defend themselves and redress the
complaint/s. It is only after that process that the player
cautionaries and NOT RECOMMENDED lists start.
My honest personal perception is that the OPA is gaining in
credibility and will continue to do so - that's a good thing
for all the members and for that matter for the industry
too.
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5. PORN AND GAMBLING "BEDMATES" ?An unfortunate association from GoBet
It may be big money, and there may even be some synergy at the lower
levels of Got2bet but does the industry really want to be associated
with pornography? Well at least one casino marketer would seem to think
so regardless of the human degradation which porno so frequently portrays.
Tyler Van Buren, a director of Go Bet wrote a pretty self-serving "op ed" article
which was published as a press release this week. In it he uses the recent
involvement of Boss Media with a porn star sponsored casino called Jennascasino to bring porn and internet gambling together and has
this to say:
"With the news of Jenna's Casino, Go Bet International www.gobet.net is betting
that it can marry two vices of the Internet. Go Bet is not alone in thinking that these
two vices make perfect bedmates. Internet gambling and adult websites are here to stay."
This is just the sort of "bedmate" which the anti-internet gambling legislators
in the US would like to use as another reason for banning rather than regulating
Got2bet, so in our view this is a short term approach to making bucks
which does not serve the best interests of the business.
GoBet is a casino consulting and marketing company owned by an outfit called
Resurgam Enterprises Limited. It may be coincidence or an attempt at humor that
their domain admin contact is one "Bond, James" GoBet consults to around 18
online casinos and according to their website they work with respectable names
in the industry such as Cryptologic, World Gaming and Boss Media. Even at one
or two removes it is surprising that those Big Four companies would want to be
associated with Mr. Tyler's comments.