Victor, I don't think these internet cafe's are what you and I use to call internet cafe's. They basically are casino's like the horse racing ones in Florida and just working around the wording of the law. And they are all packed. I am thrilled they are closed down.

I wish they would also close them down in North Carolina - where the law makers basically lied to the people when they allowed the lotery here a few years ago. In NC they are called "business centers and internet cafe's" and again they are packed. So, they can have a copy machine and call themselves a business center, but their business is a casino.



>>>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