On Wednesday, October 10, 2012, Bruce Johnson wrote: > At least poker is a game of skill as well as chance. > > If I sit down at the table with Phil Ivey or Daniel Negraneau at least I > know they're there; they'll still cream me, because they're expert players > and I'm not, but I made that choice fully informed. > > This is playing against people who aren't even at the table, who peek at > the deck before it's dealt, then bet against me. > > This is part and parcel of the same mindset of those who spoke of their > clients as 'muppets' to be ripped off: > > < > http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/mar/14/goldman-sachs-director-quits-morally-bankrupt > > > > Thugs, not different from any other form of gangsters. > > > i was thinking not in terms of sitting down and playing poker with persons but that the ad was for machine poker ... and was it in the general realm of " if it sounds too good it probably isn't"
i don't have any experience with computer poker but it does strike me that it would not necessarily be to hard too con people into playing a "fixed " game .... bait lure and switch I think that is what I find so disturbing about current political discourse both what I am seeing from the States and here ... it seems that machinery behind the rhetoric is creating that same pipe filling algorithm that was described in the article Most of the noise seems redundant and or beyond belief ... for instance the Big Bird thing ... the key message in that 'zinger' wasn't that policy is - to fire an imaginary eduction tool though that's bad enough ... it is that he said [ i paraphrase] ... I don't want to keep borrowing from china to pay for things we don't need ... I haven't seen or heard one piece commentary on that concept meanwhile Big Bird has gone viral ... ironic really http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/sesame-street-toy-made-in-chinese-sweatshop-by-teenage-workers-152885995.html nor does it seem that any one is addressing this http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/us-fiscal-cliff-would-rattle-world-imf/story-fn3dxix6-1226492066682 > On Oct 9, 2012, at 2:27 PM, mex sara wrote: > > > the funny of the article about the market trading jamming is the add for > > > > $10,000 Poker Tournament > > Play Free Poker. Win Real Cash. No credit cards. No entry fees. > > > > > > at the bottom of the article > > > > > > > > On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Bruce Johnson > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> <http://www.cnbc.com/id/49333454> > >> > >> This is where Rmoney and pals < > http://www.politicalruminations.com/images/gop2012/wall-streets-mitt-romney-bain-capital.jpg> > want us to put our retirement money. > >> > >> Shades of < > http://cdn3.tekgoblinmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/ogrimmardead.jpg?ab4777> > .... > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Bruce Johnson > >> University of Arizona > >> College of Pharmacy > >> Information Technology Group > >> > >> Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs > >> > >> > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "StrataList-OT" group. > >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > >> For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en. > >> > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "StrataList-OT" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en. > > > > -- > Bruce Johnson > University of Arizona > College of Pharmacy > Information Technology Group > > Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "StrataList-OT" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en.
