The Peon

Yes there is a rule. I live near Atlantic City and they clearly state card counters are NOT allowed. They can do whatever they want and all you can have is an opinion on the matter. There rules stand because they invested money in a business. There business, there rules, it's not cheating. You should have a reasonable expectation of what you are getting into when you enter a casino. You know what you are getting into. They however, do NOT know who you are and what your reasons for being there are. Thus they make rules ahead of time on who they want in THERE business. You (speaking in general) are the gullible naive person to blow your money on gambling. Me personally, I have not spent a single penny in my entire life on gambling in any form. Not even the lottery. It doesn't matter. The same old argument as before, its there establishment built and run by there money, and thus it's there rules PERIOD. It's not up to you who can enter a private business. It's up to them. Regardless, as mentioned before, card counters teach themselves how to do it. I doubt very few people have a natural ability to count cards well, and I doubt even further anyone who can do it naturally would enter a casino naive to there abilitys. Fine. I gave you my opinion many times allready. Yes the rules should be allowed. Why? Because its there money, there property, there employees, there... etc... etc etc etc. You are the customer, you adhere to there rules. You enter a restaurant and ask for extra pickels and the waitress tells you they dont add extra pickles, you dont get extra pickles. Same for any business. They decide how to run it. Edit: I have to go to lunch and do some actual work here ( I am at my job) so I will check back in a bit to respond.

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It's not your choice. Casinos are a private business, and if they want to call it cheating it's cheating. Here check this out: cheat ( P ) v. cheat·ed, cheat·ing, cheats v. tr. 1. To deceive by trickery; swindle 2. To deprive by trickery; defraud v. intr. 2. To violate rules deliberately, as in a game: was accused of cheating at cards. Certain expectations are placed on anyone who enters a casino to gamble. Expectations that one has submitted to the normal rules of chance and to be on the same level playing field as everyone else. This is due to the natural laws of probobility. The casinos know that if there games are played as they are supposed to, they may have to dish out some money once in a while but overall they will make money. When a card counter enters a casino, he is clearly a cheat because of definition 1 and 2, because I am sure he did not enter the casino so naive of his abilitys that he didn't know he would leave almost guarenteed more money than he entered. Secondly, casinos set rules because the establishment belongs to them. Once a rule is set (ie: NO card counters allowed), and one violates those house rules, they are cheats by definition of "2. To violate rules deliberately, as in a game: was accused of cheating at cards." And im pretty sure we can all say card counters are pretty deliberate.

My brother was working right outside NYC in the NJ area at the time, and when the trade centers fell he felt a tremble in the ground as they collapsed. I am interested to know the richter scale number the collapse caused.

The silver bullet?

I would go back to the moment of the big bang and watch the opening moments in all its glory (if I could somehow have my own outside observer booth). Or maybe I would see if I was directly descended from any famous politicians or generals in history.

A casino can make any rules it wants because it's a private business. And if the government for some reason forced casinos to allow card counters to be able to play, if I was the casino owner I would merely remove the games in question. Casinos exist to make money, not give it out.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060404/sc_afp/spaceastronomyoffbeat_060404000657

A> BS' date=' Iran still has plenty of allies. Maybe "everybody" is everybody in your closed little universe but I am looking at the full picture. B> The US is always ready to war monger. We are like Romans. C> I place a 6 month max to Irans effort to stop the US from invading it, although I would guess it would take a lot less time based on the fact of the general rebellious nature of the Iranian youth. Because Al-Qaeda doesnt have any yet? I will counter your question with why didnt the US use WMD's since they clearly have them? Why use jetliners instead of a dirty bomb, or some sort of chemical or biological weapon? I would place a 25$ bet that a nuke detonated in NYC would have given the whole war on terror thing a much longer shelf life than the jets did... Call me stupid again... I highly dislike ad-hominems... Last piece of advice to all: Ignore Crims and let him either ban himself or get bored and leave.

Thanks for the info Martin, I have just been updated and fully enlightened to some viewpoints I was not aware of! Sorry for the kudos spam post but I couldnt resist.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/04/05/supernova.blast.ap/index.html This in perticular was always my personal speculation: "It shows that planet formation is really ubiquitous in the universe. It's a very robust process and can happen in all sorts of unexpected environments," said lead researcher Deepto Chakrabarty, an astrophysicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."

Ummm the poll asks if you believe that a coverup existed, not if you believed the government was behind the attacks. Just what are you trying to prove with that poll? It merely shows that the majority of the pollers think the government covered up things about 9-11. Reread the wording sheesh. And if it was a government conspiracy, why havn't they detonated a dirty bomb and blamed it on Iranian terrorists? Since you like strawmen ill throw some of my own out. Oh let me guess, all the mass media frenzy about Iran is all made up by the Bush administration? No wait, even better, the US is SECRETELY supplying Iran with Nuclear weapons so they can blame it on Iran after they nuke LA or NYC? This sort of conspiracy garbage is pandered to the weak minded and uber paranoid. Can't you for once consider the fact that perhaps some cultures hate the US so much they would actually attack it? Do you think everyone just cowers in fear of the US? What better organization to launch an attack on the US than one which knows no borders and owes no allegiance other than to an imaginary friend? Bleh this makes me so upset I had to log in at my job to post. Now im gonna get in trouble.

Color denotes temperature. White stars are very hot and are usually young. Red stars are the coolest, and can generally be much older.

Why fix something that isn't broke

DOh! Delete thread sorry.

Is it possible to gene splice lets say, a grizzly bears muscle strength and power into human muscles? What about a fleas leaping ability? Will this one day happen?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,189909,00.html Guess its time to create new laws? What does this all mean?