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**Msrwbdas** · 11-17-2006, 08:27 AM

The enforcement provision is a logical bill to pass, assuming you're going to stick with what you had before. This doesn't make things any worse; it simply fails to help anything.

Oh, and I do think the author of this piece had a little too much crack cocaine before sitting down to write it.

Anyone want to tell me the odds of Antigua going to a trade war with the US? Erm, right. 0. Because the US is the global leader or at least in the top 2 or 3 in pretty much everything Antigua cares about trading for, especially tourists; while Antigua is ... um, they make something we want, right? Oh yeah, tourism. Eh, who cares...

You have to have something the other side wants in a trade war ... otherwise the US will simply ban travel to or from Antigua, and be done with it. Who cares about software piracy, that happens in much larger countries already ...

Though I'd think we need to either ban or not ban gambling over the internet. That I agree with

Although I think some of the issues that the WTO/Antigua raise are due to our Federal system - ie, the Federal Government doesn't really have the power to ban gambling inside of a state, only state-to-state things. Hence Nevada. I'm not an expert on the Wire act, but I think the Wire act essentially prohibits interstate gambling while not discussing intrastate gambling... not that internet gambling qualifies, but if a state permits a gambling site to have a base in its borders, that state's residents would then be permitted to use it...

11-17-2006, 08:27 AM	#6
Msrwbdas Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 386 Senior Member	The enforcement provision is a logical bill to pass, assuming you're going to stick with what you had before. This doesn't make things any worse; it simply fails to help anything. Oh, and I do think the author of this piece had a little too much crack cocaine before sitting down to write it. Anyone want to tell me the odds of Antigua going to a trade war with the US? Erm, right. 0. Because the US is the global leader or at least in the top 2 or 3 in pretty much everything Antigua cares about trading for, especially tourists; while Antigua is ... um, they make something we want, right? Oh yeah, tourism. Eh, who cares... You have to have something the other side wants in a trade war ... otherwise the US will simply ban travel to or from Antigua, and be done with it. Who cares about software piracy, that happens in much larger countries already ... Though I'd think we need to either ban or not ban gambling over the internet. That I agree with Although I think some of the issues that the WTO/Antigua raise are due to our Federal system - ie, the Federal Government doesn't really have the power to ban gambling inside of a state, only state-to-state things. Hence Nevada. I'm not an expert on the Wire act, but I think the Wire act essentially prohibits interstate gambling while not discussing intrastate gambling... not that internet gambling qualifies, but if a state permits a gambling site to have a base in its borders, that state's residents would then be permitted to use it...
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