Tiny Antigua takes on the US of A and the W.T.O.!

[SUBMAN1]

Now the question becomes - which way will Goliath fall? I love these kinds of stories!

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/23/business/worldbusiness/23gamble.html?_r=1&pagewanted=1&ei=5087&em&en=45639b242bae8fd2&ex=1188014400&oref=slogin

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[Steel_Tomb]

...so the USA actually gets something right (by prohibiting gambling)...and they get shot down in flames for it. Whats the world coming to? So people can waste their lives away on pointless games online, while hundreds of thousands of people world wide are living in conditions me and you couldn't even think about...crazy :damn:

[SUBMAN1]

...so the USA actually gets something right (by prohibiting gambling)...and they get shot down in flames for it. Whats the world coming to? So people can waste their lives away on pointless games online, while hundreds of thousands of people world wide are living in conditions me and you couldn't even think about...crazy :damn:

Not quite I don't think since the US of A made this decision based on the fact that they would not be collecting tax revenue on off-shore gambling! Not because it wasn't good for the people, which is how it should have been ruled on. Now they are eating their decision with a cherry pie! :p

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[bradclark1]

Sounds like a lawyer figured out a way to become a billionaire. Whats one third of three and a half billion dollars. Thats the going rate I believe.

[SUBMAN1]

Sounds like a lawyer figured out a way to become a billionaire. Whats one third of three and a half billion dollars. Thats the going rate I believe.

Maybe, but I'm also not a fan of the W.T.O. without public input, and the US Gov only caring about its tax money is also not making me a fan in this case either, so I am voting for our little tiny nation to come out on top on this one.

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[bookworm_020]

Maybe they should have bet on black!

[Letum]

According to the W.T.O., America can not allow some forms of online gambling (lottery, betting etc), but ban other forms of online gambling (casino) at the expense of other W.T.O. nations.

This is not the first time America has broken an international law they have signed up to. They have no respect at all for the outside world and break their own word on a whim.