Comments on: Internet Dragnet http://www.ohiomm.com/blogs/bok/2006/07/internet-dragnet/ Chip Bok Editorial Cartoons Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:47:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: mencken http://www.ohiomm.com/blogs/bok/2006/07/internet-dragnet/#comment-844 mencken Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:54:22 +0000 http://www.ohiomm.com/blogs/bok/?p=206#comment-844 Sam, Yes that was a clip and paste, but I think that since I write volumes without clipping and pasteing, that gives me the right to do so here and there to back up a point. Whatever. Do what want. Sam, Yes that was a clip and paste, but I think that since I write

volumes without clipping and pasteing, that gives me the right

to do so here and there to back up a point. Whatever. Do what

want.

]]> By: mencken http://www.ohiomm.com/blogs/bok/2006/07/internet-dragnet/#comment-843 mencken Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:51:59 +0000 http://www.ohiomm.com/blogs/bok/?p=206#comment-843 Larry, for the record I think it's a waste of time to outlaw gambling, just as it would be to outlaw most drugs or alcohol or cigarettes. We tried Prohibition before and that was a disaster. People will find a way. That doesn't mean I don't think it has a negative impact on society. Where my brother used to work, every Monday morning the bookies would come in and march 2-3 of his employees down to the ATM to collect. Sports and gambling have a symbiotic relationship, otherwise who would watch UTEP play New Mexico State? Few would unless they had a $50 bill on the outcome. I think part of the issue is the ready access to cash that a credit card affords. It's far too easy to enter your number and ring up a $1000 credit with these online poker games. If credit card companies were responsible, they'd block the transaction, but the odds of that happening are about 100-1. Larry, for the record I think it's a waste of time to outlaw gambling, just as it would be to outlaw most drugs or alcohol or cigarettes. We tried Prohibition before and that was a disaster. People will find a way. That doesn't mean I don't think it has a negative impact on society. Where my brother used to

work, every Monday morning the bookies would come in and march 2-3 of his employees down to the ATM to collect.

Sports and gambling have a symbiotic relationship, otherwise who would watch UTEP play New Mexico State? Few would unless they had a $50 bill on the outcome.

I think part of the issue is the ready access to cash that a credit

card affords. It's far too easy to enter your number and ring up a $1000 credit with these online poker games. If credit card companies were responsible, they'd block the transaction, but the odds of that happening are about 100-1.

]]> By: larry d. http://www.ohiomm.com/blogs/bok/2006/07/internet-dragnet/#comment-842 larry d. Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:32:11 +0000 http://www.ohiomm.com/blogs/bok/?p=206#comment-842 It's odd to me how gambling's become considered such a harmless hobby. It wasn't too long ago that gambling was illegal everywhere but Atlantic City and Las Vegas, once known as "Sin City." These days, the government objects to gambling only when taxes aren't being paid, and most states even sponsor gambling through lotteries that amount to a tax on the poor. Now we've got a conservative editorial cartoonist and our most liberal blog commentator both implying that internet gambling is a basic freedom. I guess I missed the memo somewhere along the line. It's odd to me how gambling's become considered such a harmless hobby. It wasn't too long ago that gambling was illegal everywhere but Atlantic City and Las Vegas, once known as "Sin City."

These days, the government objects to gambling only when taxes aren't being paid, and most states even sponsor gambling through lotteries that amount to a tax on the poor.

Now we've got a conservative editorial cartoonist and our most liberal blog commentator both implying that internet gambling is a basic freedom.

I guess I missed the memo somewhere along the line.

]]> By: Sam http://www.ohiomm.com/blogs/bok/2006/07/internet-dragnet/#comment-841 Sam Tue, 25 Jul 2006 06:45:01 +0000 http://www.ohiomm.com/blogs/bok/?p=206#comment-841 Is this a copy and paste???? "The air marshals, whose identities are being concealed, told 7NEWS that they're required to submit at least one report a month. If they don't, there's no raise, no bonus, no awards and no special assignments." Is this a copy and paste????

"The air marshals, whose identities are being concealed, told 7NEWS that they're required to submit at least one report a month. If they don't, there's no raise, no bonus, no awards and no special assignments."

]]> By: mencken http://www.ohiomm.com/blogs/bok/2006/07/internet-dragnet/#comment-840 mencken Mon, 24 Jul 2006 22:11:09 +0000 http://www.ohiomm.com/blogs/bok/?p=206#comment-840 It gets worse. The ABC affiliate in Denver is reporting that people are being placed on watch lists by federal air marshals for taking pictures of planes - to meet quotas. "The air marshals, whose identities are being concealed, told 7NEWS that they're required to submit at least one report a month. If they don't, there's no raise, no bonus, no awards and no special assignments." Sounds like this is modeled after the Cuyahoga Falls Police Department's ticketing policy. It gets worse. The ABC affiliate in Denver is reporting that people are being placed on watch lists by federal air marshals for taking pictures of planes – to meet quotas.

"The air marshals, whose identities are being concealed, told 7NEWS that they're required to submit at least one report a month. If they don't, there's no raise, no bonus, no awards and no special assignments."

Sounds like this is modeled after the Cuyahoga Falls Police Department's ticketing policy.

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