The Looming Battle Over Online Gambling
Kadin2048 writes “According to an recent Ars Technica article, the US is headed on a ‘collision course’ with the WTO over off-shore Internet gambling, if a bill currently in the House of Representatives passes. The ‘Internet Gambling Prohibition Act,’ (PDF) which updates the ‘Wire Act’ to prohibit Internet gambling regardless of whether the servers are located in the US or outside of it, is in
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Do you know that:
- In 1891, Sittman and Pitt of Brooklyn began to manufacture the first nationally known poker card machines. The machines maintained their enormous popularity until just before World War I.
- 1926: Las Vegas gets a regular air service. Western Air Express flies between Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. The airfield later becomes the site for the famous Sahara and Hilton hotels.
1931: Gambling is legalized in Nevada on March 19. Construction begins on the long awaited Hoover Dam. - French mathematicians Pierre de Fermat and Blaise Pascal explored the mathematics of gambling, leading to the formulation of Pascal's theory of probability in 1654.
- In 1980, the American Psychological Association included pathological gambling in their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition (DSM-III).
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