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David Williams - 30 Nov 2008 20:36 GMT

-> Williams you're going weird.

So what else is new?

-> We had a lot of good times in Vegas and so have many
-> of our friends. I certainly understand your contempt for
-> muslimes, given the complicity they had in the attacks
-> in Bombay, especially murdering Dr. Moss, but please,
-> be sane and DO NOT compare that to Vegas.

What you and your friends found pleasurable would undoubtedly be
infernal hell to devout Muslims. Sending them to Vegas would be an apt
curse.

However, I have to say that I have lived next door to a Muslim family
for more than 20 years, and am happy to have them as neighbours. They
are friendly and as reasonable as any theists can be. Not all Muslims
are tarred with the brush of fanaticism. We should remember that.

dow

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David Williams - 01 Dec 2008 03:06 GMT

-> > Vegas? is definately for upscale adults that know nothing of probability
-> > and statistics, and flock to flashing lights, waste, and 40 year old
-> > fantasies.
-> > Informed or intelligent? I think not.

On the other hand, I know someone who is convinced that the slot
machines are rigged so that the simple laws of probability do not
always apply. She says they are set so they will allow a new player to
win for a short time, until he gets fixated by the machine. Then the
thing switches to a different mode, and the player loses. So the trick
is to play each machine for only a few minutes, then switch to another
one. This, she says, will let you win, at least most of the time.

I suppose it's not entirely impossible....

dow

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David Williams - 02 Dec 2008 03:07 GMT

-> Always possible, but then there's the question of proof.
-> Have any numbers been recorded?

Not that I know of. I'd be more inclined to believe her theory about
slot machines if she were rich. She isn't, so she can't have been
winning much.

I think it's just a rationalization of gambling, a fictional
justification that makes throwing money into the machines seem like a
reasonable activity, when it really isn't.

dow

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