Kentucky Judge Upholds State's Gambling-Domain Grab 272
JohnHegarty writes "A Kentucky judge has upheld that state's seizure of some of the world's most popular online casino domain names, ruling they constitute a 'gambling device' that is subject to Kentucky's anti-gambling laws." Wasn't it surreal enough on the first round?
DNS (Score:5, Funny)
So is it time to update the DNS servers to ignore Kentucky?
Re:DNS (Score:5, Funny)
Both Domains? or do you want to change the core routers to just ignore their state's entire /24 subnet?
Re:Follow the Money... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Not entirely accurate (Score:5, Funny)
the judge should have thrown the case out because it's a piece of shit (or whatever the legal term is).
I believe the legal term is P.O.S.
Gambling is illegal here in alabama (Score:5, Funny)
So I think alabama should sieze these domains from those bastards in kentucky.
Apologies to the Simpsons (Score:5, Funny)
Grandpa: I'll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I acknowledge Kentucky!
Re:Ground troops and the state's ability to enforc (Score:5, Funny)
The ultimate weapon for the state in this case is that state can legally declare all gambling debts unenforcable.
The state declaring it won't make it so. Gambling debts will still be enforced by large men in very nice suits, who carry heavy objects and know a great deal about the anatomy of the human knee.
Re:kentucky (Score:5, Funny)
Indiana House Bill #246
The most famous -- and only known â" case of a state legislature in the US attempting to create by law a new value for pi was that of Indiana in 1897; it has become legendary, and the basis of myth and hoax. Although it has come to represent the occasional ignorance of innumerate legislators, it was not so obviously a bad idea at the time.
The bill was introduced to the house by legislator Mr. Record, but it was reported that "Mr. Record knows nothing of the bill with the exception that he introduced it by request of Dr. Edwin Goodwin of Posey County, who is the author of the demonstration."[3] The bill began in the Committee on Canals (aka the Committee on Swamp Lands), whose chairman tried unsuccessfully to send it to the Committee on Education.
Redefining the value of pi seems not to have been its principal goal, but a side effect. In fact, the bill seems to have offered four different, new values for pi. Rather, the bill was aimed at benefiting its author, who claimed to have patented a new method for "squaring the circle", which he proposed to let the state of Indiana use free of charge if they would pass his bill! Its opening statement is clear:
A bill for an act introducing a new mathematical truth and offered as a contribution to education to be used only by the State of Indiana free of cost by paying any royalties whatever on the same, provided it is accepted and adopted by the official action of the legislature of 1897.
To lend credibility to his claim, Dr. Goodwin gave these credentials:
Section 3. In further proof of the value of the author's proposed contribution to education, and offered as a gift to the State of Indiana, is the fact of his solutions of the trisection of the angle, duplication of the cube and quadrature having been already accepted as contributions to science by the American Mathematical Monthly, the leading exponent of mathematical thought in this country. And be it remembered that these noted problems had been long since given up by scientific bodies as unsolvable mysteries and above man's ability to comprehend.
It seems that Dr. Goodwin had already solved two of the great unsolvable problems of ancient geometry and claimed to have solved a third with his method of squaring the circle.
The bill made it through three readings and votes in the House, and its first reading in the Senate. It was evidently seen as of economical benefit, since Indiana would save royalties on the patent, and the legislators proclaimed themselves unfit to comprehend the details of the bill anyway. The finale was dramatic and down to the wire:[4]
That the bill was killed appears to be a matter of dumb luck rather than the superior education or wisdom of the Senate. It is true that the bill was widely ridiculed in Indiana and other states, but what actually brought about the defeat of the bill is recorded by Prof. C.A. Waldo in an article he wrote for the Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science in 1916. The reason he knows is that he happened to be at the State Capitol lobbying for the appropriation of the Indiana Academy of Science, on the day the Housed passed House Bill 246. ... The roll was then called and the bill passed its third and final reading in the lower house. A member then showed the writer [i.e. Waldo] a copy of the bill just passed and asked him if he would like an introduction to the learned doctor, its author. He declined the courtesy with thanks remarking that he was acquainted with as many crazy people as he cared to know. That evening the senators were properly coached and shortly thereafter as it came to its final reading in the upper house they threw out with much merriment the epoch making discovery of the Wise Man from the Pocket.
Re:Ground troops and the state's ability to enforc (Score:3, Funny)
That's why we have large men in not-so-fancy uniforms who carry guns.
can i get the over/under (Score:5, Funny)
on whether gambling will be successfully outlawed worldwide?
and what website can i go to to place a wager on that occurence?
Re:Ground troops and the state's ability to enforc (Score:5, Funny)
OK:
The judge runs over your puppy and laughs while pissing out the window on your head.
Re:DNS (Score:3, Funny)
Can't you just cut the telegraph line?
Re:Ground troops and the state's ability to enforc (Score:5, Funny)
I really don't think the RIAA need to get involved in this one.
Re:Ground troops and the state's ability to enforc (Score:5, Funny)
They would have moved it to Federal Court sooner (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Ground troops and the state's ability to enforc (Score:3, Funny)
Re:DNS (Score:5, Funny)
I'll be here all week enjoy the squirrel stew and bourbon.
Re:Ground troops and the state's ability to enforc (Score:3, Funny)
Of course General Public has uniforms. He's a general, fer cryin' out loud!