>>>http://news.techeye.net/security/florida-bans-computers
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>>>hahahaha. A while back when I lived in Ft. Lauderdale I thought it might be a good idea to open an internet cafe. I figured with all the tourists it might be a good business venture. I even went as far as to scout out a location and started to draw up a business plan. As it turns out I never did it (thankfully, after seeing this dumbass law pass) because I needed a partner to help me run the business and none of my friends were interested.
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>>We're from the government, and we're here to help!
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>>I think next we should have them write legislation to get rid of guns, alcohol and drugs and then I think it is time to crack down on sodomy, obesity and specifically outlaw marriage outside the species (since we know that is the next stop on the slippery slope)
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>>As everyone knows, controlling our lives is the proper function of government and the more the better. Bring it on!
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>Yeah and where the hell is the immigration plan for extraterrestrial creatures?
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>I wonder what these 1,000+ "internet cafe's" were like. Were they like the one I wanted to open? Just some desktops, printers, maybe sell some snakes & baked goods?
>One issue they have here in Hawaii (no gambling here not even lotto) is with all these arcades that have popped up. In these you go play "arcade games" that let you enter "sweepstakes". In other words is a skirt-around-the-law way to open gambling operations. The cops here been running around shutting them down and taking their machines - but it's all going to backfire because technically they're within the law. Yes they found a loophole, but none-the-less it's a loophole. What will happen here is all these places will sue, and win, and get their machines back + a bunch of tax payer dollars from lawsuits. I guess simply fixing the broken law eludes the lawmakers here.
> But from the sounds of the article these were not the type of operations they were targeting - sounds like they went after ones like I wanted to open. If that is the case then geeze that is pretty stupid. Did they yank all the computers out of the public libraries too? hahahaha

Ohio just closed all the Internet Casinos too. (though they wrote the law a little tighter I think)

http://www.ibtimes.com/why-did-ohio-just-ban-internet-cafes-1281087

Since our extensive public libary system offers really good high speed internet access, there really wasn't much doubt these were basically unregulated casinos. What's the harm? Any casino or state lottery or whatever is a tax on people who flunked probability and statistics in school, but the unregulated stuff like the cafes were scams of a whole different magnitude. I knew a couple tech guys that consulted for the sherrif's dept that closed down a couple and there was no doubt a couple were money laundering operations first and foremost and operated with the integrity of paycheck cashing load centers at best.