Hahaha the morons on FTP forum who were saying that FTP is fine etc.

Take a look at this, cached from 16th June on 2+2.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:TboFWMas8h4J:forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29/news-views-gossip/fulltilt


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Chased off another one did ya!?  LMAO

As the walls fall down... need a laugh? (I'm pretty sure these were tweeted before 8am EST today)


http://twitter.com/agentmarco

Cant wait to the flood of posts about rush week bonuses, oh yah forum down, but what happens to those.

I mean ft did take care of the take 2 bonuses, thank gosh for that

Rigged!

Sixandfour narced to Aldernay, to get more people on this forum!

Shameful... but I'd do the same.

I wouldn't get to excited by this BNS.  There is one thing that stands out like a red flag-


That is a big no-no in the US.  There is no way any bill will be amended to allow people to gamble on credit in the US.  It's just not going to happen.  You would have to use a debit card or prepaid stuff, but never will it be allowed to use credit to deposit.

The argument goes along these lines.  You don't gamble with any money you don't have and can't afford to lose.  If you are going into debt (which is what you are doing by using a credit card) then you shouldn't be risking that money in the first place. 

Maybe you don't understand how it is in the US, but I assure you, Credit cards will not be allowed to deposit in the US. 

I normally don't read 2+2 but found some funny pictures in it. Just LOL

Here is the good news about all of this. I saw the new Transformers movie last night, and it was good.

That is all.

looks like you and most of the non-critic audience agree
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/transformers_dark_of_the_moon/
http://www.metacritic.com/movie/transformers-dark-of-the-moon

sounds like consensus is maybe not great, but good -- at least it ain't as bad as #2

This makes zero sense to me !   Isn't the very notion of a "credit" card that it is a means to pay for something with money you don't have?  I mean the clue is in the name really !  Credit is exactly that, a temporary loan of money.  What you spend that money is not really relevant PROVIDED that there is a limit on the level of credit.  Using a credit card to buy a poker tournament ticket is no different to using a credit card to buy a washing machine.  The user may or may not be able to pay that money back quickly (or at all!) but that's the risk assessment that all credit companies carry out every day.   What matters is that the credit is limited to the appropriate level so that no single person can get in debt beyond what is deemed to be an acceptable level.  Is it beyond the US Government's power to ensure that credit companies impose the right levels of credit limit?  If not, how can they hope to manage the world of credit across all other industries?  The global crisis allegedley started by a bunch of sub-prime mortgages given to people who clearly could not afford to pay it back.  Ok we know that's really BS (not that they couldn't pay it back but that it was the cause of a worldwide crisis) but it's clear that lending on the whole has to be better controlled.  
Ordinary credit (i.e. use of a credit card) is surely about simple credit limit management and interest fees.  Larger credit (i.e. big loans) is more about securing the credit against assets (like your house) and so on.   No one really cares what you spend your credit card purchases on.  It alters nothing.  

Assuming the US Government now extract their significant pound of flesh from the poker industry in the form of taxes etc then it's in their interest to allow people to use any and all payment mechanisms.

If someone uses a credit card to pay for a normal item (like, say golf balls), there is only a small probability that the person does not pay back the loan.

If someone uses a credit card to buy into a poker tournament, the probability of default goes up big time.

Banks and credit card companies do not like to make loans that don't get paid back.  It is not in their interest.

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