16 Aralık 2012 Pazar

A city revenue source dries up

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The North Carolina Supreme Court has upheld the law that bans video internet sweepstakes  — what used to be video poker until the state outlawed video poker and the heartless fucktards who think steeling from people is a legitimate business changed the software so that the games were no longer poker but "sweepstakes ". Good for the judges. (Opinion here.)

These games are horribly misrepresented to the people upon whom they prey. Nobody plays them for "entertainment," as the industry claimed. People play them because they think they might win a lot of money when all that happens is they end up losing money. Of course, the odds are never revealed, even though, as the industry admits, the outcomes are predetermined before you even sit down to play.

If this was any other kind of consumer product, it would be banned as fraudulent and the operators jailed as thieves.

Some discussion had occurred with Greensboro City Council about possibly using licensing fees from the operations of these machines to help solve the perplexing funding problem of a proposed downtown performing arts center. Obviously, that's not going to happen now, making the financial picture for the PAC even murkier.

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