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I wonder if he realizes that beating the person with the OTHER end of the pickaxe would have been much more effective.

Betting straight up has a house edge too, and you have to put too much at risk to win a substantial amount. I put $100 on Mansion a while back, and every week cashed it out back to $100. I cashed out a total of $355 over 3 weeks, and I only hit 3 parlays.I only put $50 at risk every week, and if I hit all 3 parlays that I bet, it would be a $600 win. I only have to hit one $10 parlay every 2 weeks to do better than breaking even.I was just screwing around with that wad of money that I made off of the Pittsburgh - Miami promotion, and ended up winning some more. I'll bet my way, and you're

I don't think you want my advice...I, too, have been on a downturn. The only bet I have been paid on in the last 3 weeks was a 4 team parlay where I won 3 and pushed 1. I have still yet to win a single NFL parlay, and the only NFL bet that I have won was the $1000 Mansion promotion. I'm still up $400 from sports betting AFTER the the promotion (so $1400 overall), so I can't complain too much, but the NFL sucks as far as betting goes.

Well, I went to make my football parlays for the weekend today and got a weird error message on Mansion. Talked to the online support guy and he directed me to a press release announcing that the Mansion Casino and Sportsbook are now closed to US customers. Strangely, the Poker Room and Sports Exchange are still open. I don't seen how Poker and Sports Exchange bets would be legal under the new law where Casino and Sportsbook bets would not be (seeing as how the new law doesn't distinguish between types of gaming...just that US banks cannot fund 'online gaming sites').Anyway, since I had ope

They're calling it the American Governmental Stupidity Tax.

I'll put in a vote for my boys, the Titans. First, we drafted an option QB that will have extreme difficulty running against NFL defense and has a mediocre, at best, arm. Then, we traded away our starting quarterback, and picked up a has-been off of the waiver wire. Then, we cut the only QB on the team that was worth half a shit, Billy Volek. We haven't had a decent RB since Eddie George left, and now because of discipline, health, and other reasons, we are now starting another freshman, LenDale White.If that wasn't bad enough, we also let out best receiver, Derek Mason, leave to join the

Wrasslin's fake!

Well, let's see....Total deposits into Poker sites: $350Current Bankroll: ~$2100Total Cashouts: $1200Amt. won from online blackjack: ~$1100Amt. won from online sportsbetting: $1415So, that leaves $3200 - $350 - $1100 - $1415 = $335 as my amount won from poker...and I have won more than that from poker bonuses, so that means that I am a losing player.

Well, shit.If Neteller follows suit, then our loopholes are pretty much shut down completely.

Yeah, with the Americans gone, you can finish 9th out of 9 instead of 9th out of 87.

This is pretty much all that is seen from the outside world, which it is hard for fraternities to shake that stigma...but this is far from all that is involved with being a member of a fraternity. In fact, my chapter had 4 brothers resign because they joined with the above sentiment in mind, and when it didn't turn out to be like that, they couldn't handle it. You may have had some friends in fraternities that had to undergo that type of thing in order to be initiated, but I can tell you right now that I would not be in a fraternity if I had been hazed. I would not have tolerated it and I wo

Well, I'm glad I could be a part of your life.To Wang, I don't really care if you believe me or not, but I never went through any sort of hazing rituals. I don't feel any sort of prestige or honor from having been in a fraternity, but I definitely feel as if I am personally a better person from having joined one (not better than anybody else, but better than I would have been had I not joined my fraternity). I'm glad that you say you can look at fraternities objectively, but I have to say that your comments do not reflect that.

I'm in a fraternity, and I have seen this prank done, but they had nothing to do with each other. We screwed with each other in our dorm more than upper class fraternity members screwed with the freshmen. Turning everything in the room upside down is one of the oldest, and least damaging, tricks in the book. Just be glad they didn't caulk your door and fill your room with water, or some other liquid.Also, you wouldn't call your country a cunt, so don't call your fraternity a frat. Wang, you have the typical viewpoint of fraternities among people who were never in one. All you know about f

"Boy, when she dives, she really hits the water"--Random announcer during the 2002 Olympics"He sure knows how to golf a ball"--I forget, but it was an announcer during a major golf championship

Nah, I don't want to ignore it. Hitler was one of the single greatest propagandists of the 20th Century. Using his own description of anything that happened during the time period of the Third Reich as proof of any point other than his propaganda skills is ridiculous. If you look at the [non-military and non-genocidal] actions of his government, then you will realize that they were Socialist.

That may be true in general, but specifically, the Nazis called themselves Socialists and they were Socialists.

Uh, the Third Reich WAS socialist. In fact, a number of good things came out of that regime...most notably, the Autobahn intrastate system. Hitler and Germany could have a world powerhouse to equal or exceed the United States if it hadn't been for the whole invasion of other countries and mass genocide of the Jews.Anyway, there isn't anybody running for public office in America on a outwardly Socialist ticket. That being said, the more time that the Democrats and Republicans spend in power, the more Socialistic our society becomes. They continue to start new programs that supposedly help t

Ball hair? We need a strike here!

Nazi = National Socialist Worker's Party

The M3 is a measure of all monetary assets, reserves, or agreements in the US. The Fed stopped releasing this data a few months ago, but they recently started it up again. Notice anything? How about in this one....

Hey, about 99.9% of the US voted Socialist last election...we still try to hide it by calling it a representational Democracy, or Republic, if you will.

Wow...I wish I had time at work today to keep up with this thread...so many fun topics have been missed.#1 - Deregulation would have never been a problem had regulation never occured in the first place. The airlines are a perfect example. A few airlines were given privileged access to routes and competition was completely stifled. Consequently, the big airlines continued to grow and prosper because they didn't have competition to keep them in check. They built business models based on the regulated industry. Then came deregulation. Roughly half of the airlines that existed under regulati

To all of those arguing that the private sector cannot be trusted with powers that are currently held by the government:In a truly free market, the consumer gets to vote with their money. Without the FDA, some pharmaceutical companies will release potentially harmful drugs. However, the moment that this is discovered, that company will never be trusted again, consumers will stop buying their products, and they will go out of business. This simple fact will make it profitable for said companies to put practices in place to assure their stockholders and customers that new drugs have been prov

I am often asked if anarchy has ever existed in our world, to which I answer: almost all of your daily behavior is an anarchistic expression. How you deal with your neighbors, coworkers, fellow customers in shopping malls or grocery stores, is often determined by subtle processes of negotiation and cooperation. Social pressures, unrelated to statutory enactments, influence our behavior on crowded freeways or grocery checkout lines. If we dealt with our colleagues at work in the same coercive and threatening manner by which the state insists on dealing with us, our employment would be immediate

I wasn't saying that we should go in and kill them to put them out of their misery. These people were living in an extremely flood prone aread. They cannot afford a one-way bus ticket to 30 miles in any direction. They were most likely living off of welfare, or just living on the street in the first place. Even if we were able to save each and every one of these people, what exactly are we going to do with them once they are out of harms way?I sincerely believe that the hospital, nursing home, and jail situations were handled poorly. The people responsible for taking care of those people