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Seven or so Minutes To Midnight
Jan. 18th, 2007 11:51 amThere was an article in the newspaper this morning about how we had got nearer to nuclear meltdown, or Armageddon, and the "clock" had been moved forward by two minutes to Five Minutes To Midnight.
Notwithstanding that this "clock" was the inspiration behind one of the greatest pop songs of all time, bar none, ever, in Wah's "Seven Minutes To Midnight", it's fairly silly concept. Clocks, for example, kind of go forwards. But the world does not remain in ever-closer-to-death states. At times the world becomes a safer place (passé the fall of the Berlin Wall) and so, I gues, the clock should be moved back in time. Ahh, but we can't travel back in time.
Which shows what a rotten metaphor this clock is in the first place, despite its newspaper-like appeal.
And, anyway, didn't it get moved forwards to three minutes to midnight a while ago? Do they quietly move it back a minute every so often, hoping that no-one is looking?
++++++++++
And so Neteller drops US customers. I'm going to try to keep beneath the radar on this one because, despite announcements that non-US customers won't be affected, I'm a kind of "dual-passport" customer at Neteller (about the only British thing in my relationship with them is my address), and I would quite like to keep the situation "as is".
The development has been in the works for a while and I guess that it was the arrest of the co-founders which brought matters forward somewhat. The obvious question is to what extent it will impact the poker sites still accepting US customers. I don't give a toss about the 2+2 12-table whingers, obviously. The sooner they all leave, the better. But that type always find a way. The question is, how will yer casual US gambler be impacted? My suspicion is; not a lot. Setting up the Neteller deal in the first place was hard enough, so most of the "casual" players will have fallen by the wayside already. Its major impact will be to make life harder for the regular multi-tabler who likes to draw out a couple of thousand dollars a month as living expenses, and to move money from site to site with ease. The choice now will either be to focus on one site or to have more money sitting in each of the sites used.
I can't access 2+2 from work any more, but I will enjoy reading of the gnashing of teeth when I get home.
Meanwhile, early evening in Limit world remains a tight hellhole, and I'm ducking and diving to the best possible effect. Provided new blood can be generated in Europe and the Far East, the situation on the non-US sites is probabbly sustainable in its present state, for a while. But a quick glimpse at the tables of an afternoon shows how small the player base at my level now is.
Notwithstanding that this "clock" was the inspiration behind one of the greatest pop songs of all time, bar none, ever, in Wah's "Seven Minutes To Midnight", it's fairly silly concept. Clocks, for example, kind of go forwards. But the world does not remain in ever-closer-to-death states. At times the world becomes a safer place (passé the fall of the Berlin Wall) and so, I gues, the clock should be moved back in time. Ahh, but we can't travel back in time.
Which shows what a rotten metaphor this clock is in the first place, despite its newspaper-like appeal.
And, anyway, didn't it get moved forwards to three minutes to midnight a while ago? Do they quietly move it back a minute every so often, hoping that no-one is looking?
++++++++++
And so Neteller drops US customers. I'm going to try to keep beneath the radar on this one because, despite announcements that non-US customers won't be affected, I'm a kind of "dual-passport" customer at Neteller (about the only British thing in my relationship with them is my address), and I would quite like to keep the situation "as is".
The development has been in the works for a while and I guess that it was the arrest of the co-founders which brought matters forward somewhat. The obvious question is to what extent it will impact the poker sites still accepting US customers. I don't give a toss about the 2+2 12-table whingers, obviously. The sooner they all leave, the better. But that type always find a way. The question is, how will yer casual US gambler be impacted? My suspicion is; not a lot. Setting up the Neteller deal in the first place was hard enough, so most of the "casual" players will have fallen by the wayside already. Its major impact will be to make life harder for the regular multi-tabler who likes to draw out a couple of thousand dollars a month as living expenses, and to move money from site to site with ease. The choice now will either be to focus on one site or to have more money sitting in each of the sites used.
I can't access 2+2 from work any more, but I will enjoy reading of the gnashing of teeth when I get home.
Meanwhile, early evening in Limit world remains a tight hellhole, and I'm ducking and diving to the best possible effect. Provided new blood can be generated in Europe and the Far East, the situation on the non-US sites is probabbly sustainable in its present state, for a while. But a quick glimpse at the tables of an afternoon shows how small the player base at my level now is.
