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Comment Re:When is Pokerstars and fulltilt going to be leg (Score 1) 52

Disclaimer: I don't recommend Poker for everyone. If you don't treat Poker just right, it can destroy your life even in ways unrelated to your finances. Poker has so many dangers that I can't put it in words. If you start on freerolls and don't put up much of your own money by playing at the smallest stakes then you can work your way up. Just never get a big head on yourself that you're better than you are and start using a lot of money to supplement your bankroll or go out to borrow money to play, etc. There's so many dangers that I don't recommend it for everyone. There's a lot of ways you can treat poker as gambling instead of the skill based game that it is.

I just felt I needed to say a disclaimer because Poker does destroy some irresponsible people's lives even though to me the game is more fun than playing Chess. Computers will play a mean game of NL Texas Holdem pretty soon, but until then, its one of the best games of strategy you can play that a computer isn't superior.

Comment When is Pokerstars and fulltilt going to be legal? (Score -1) 52

I turned $1.20 into $1000.00 on Pokerstars. I wanted to see if I could turn $1000.00 into a million, but they closed the site

Also I found a way to absolutely CRUSH Rush poker. My sessions would have me winning money constantly even if I was losing races and getting bad beat. I turned like 15$ into 80$ in like just a few days of casual play. Of course Black Friday hit. The thing that makes me sad is that people probably got better over the last few years and my style wouldn't dominate as bad.

Poker is the one game where you can put the odds in your favor, but you gotta be really good and play a lot. I probably have played 5-10 thousand hours of poker in my life and I'm constantly getting my money in good. I haven't used any of my own money on poker sites since 2007. I just miss the big sites where you could get in a game without waiting for a long time.

Comment I had a dream of a hoverbike once (Score 1) 186

In my dream, I had the idea that there was an electromagnetic tape that the bike drove over. The thing worked like a hover bullet train. The tape recycled around the bike like a tank tread. The idea may or may not work because it is very complicated for the maglev trains to work in a static state of the rails. For a bike to cycle tape/film around to produce lift would be yet another feat of engineering. So while it was just a dream, I don't think it is totally theoretically impossible.

Comment We could definitely use alternatives to paypal (Score 1) 76

Paypal is basically a monopoly in online payment systems. A few competitors could do the people good. I didn't expect Amazon to poke into it. I always thought a company with virtual goods like Facebook.com or Blizzard would go,"Hey, we'll let sites outside us deal in our virtual goods."

Comment Counter-hacking (Score 1) 153

I find counter-hacking is much more difficult and fulfilling than hacking. I like playing a fair video game and cheaters hacked up Starcraft. So I became engaged in the fun and quite secretive realm of counter hacking. You see games like League of Legends running tribunals. If you can out the hackers and ban them or restrict them before the community hacks "because everyone else is hacking", you can keep your game fair without cheaters.

The past few years, I've been trying to figure out how to make multiple P2P servers that act like normal servers, but one hacker on one server wouldn't ruin the game play. Its tough thinking up the concept of redundant servers, since they can offset sometimes. I think it is doable though.

Comment So much bad is going on now (Score 2) 114

If Comcast gets to legally extort and shake down sites for profit, the bad is going to worse. I hear they should be classified as a type 2 common carrier. We know Comcast bought off FCC officials back with Meridth Atwell Baker. A lot of people are looking at this Blake Wheeler guy doing whatever Comcast wants even though the public is rallying against him, and going,"Man, the system really isn't in it for the people like they should be. I didn't know corruption was established that they can be this transparent and get away with it." For a while a lot of people would go,"It isn't such a big deal that the politicians can be bought out by wealthy individuals and corporations since corporations need to service us." But they're finding out now that if corporations go unchecked by the government, they can do damages far worse than the old telephone companies which actually had some check against them. But where does this go when our politicians and public servants go to the highest bidder? Do we go the road of Mexico where their politicans are not only bought out by druglords, but they live under the veil of fear? Or what? It is interesting that not even all the money that are buying out politicians even comes from the USA. Foreign wealthy entities should not have the ability to have their say in American Politics. When your government says it is sold to the highest bidder, corruption can bring down any empire.

I love the USA. I love our education system. I love the people you get to meet and make friends with. I just wish we didn't have legalized bribery of politicians.

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