I still don't understand FReepers' support of online gambling. If you want to throw your money away, go to a "legal" establishment that's regulated.
I've suspected that online gambling rackets are run by spam gangs and other kinds of gangs, including those who support crime including terrorism. I do not doubt the onlinegambling/terrorism connection one bit. See http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1711933/posts?page=34#33 for a discussion of that "connection."
"I still don't understand FReepers' support of online gambling. If you want to throw your money away, go to a "legal" establishment that's regulated."
If I want to legally bet on a football game, I would have to fly to Vegas or drive 3 hours to Atlantic City. Why can't I go on-line and bet with a LEGAL British Book?
"I still don't understand FReepers' support of online gambling"
Do you understand support of people being able to spend their own money, in their own houses, on whatever they like.
"I've suspected that online gambling rackets are run by spam gangs and other kinds of gangs, including those who support crime including terrorism"
What tosh. 'Scam gangs' don't generally submit themselves to regulation by the London Stock Exchange, like the biggest online poker room, for instance. Many poker rooms are run by reputable businesses of many years standing (lots of British bookmakers, for instance, with thousands of shops between them and decades of business).
"I do not doubt the onlinegambling/terrorism connection one bit. See http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1711933/posts?page=34#33 for a discussion of that "connection.""
That doesn't give any details at all of an actual 'connection. All it says is that there is a 'vulnerability'. That may be an argument for better regulation, but not prohibition. Airports are vulnerable to terrorism. Do you advocate the prohibition of air travel?