Date sent: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 06:45:23 -0500 From: Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]>
> How do lotteries and casinos work in Canada? Gaming is regulated by the provinces. In most, gaming licences are granted but dependent upon a certain proportion of the money going to charity. > Do lottery agents and > casinos make you sign a self-exclusion agreement before playing? Note the word "voluntary." Note the phrase "self-exclusion." This was a program intended to address problem gamblers. You could (voluntarily) sign a self- exclusion agreement, which meant that you couldn't collect any winnings. Thus, no incentive to gamble, so most people wouldn't. (No, I don't know how it is policed.) Obviously, these guys signed the agreement as problem gamblers, but then started to think they could "game" the system. > And this week, B.C. Supreme Court Justice John Savage ruled there were > sufficient grounds to certify a class-action for winners denied > because they were in the self-exclusion program. I suppose there must be some legal reason why the suit was OKed, but it seems stupid. They agreed not to collect: they didn't collect. ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Just about every computer on the market today runs UNIX, except the Mac (and nobody cares about it). - Bill Joy, 6/21/85 victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm http://www.infosecbc.org/links http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ http://twitter.com/rslade _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
