Free Nevada wrote on November 29, 2008 12:45 AM: The only way to deal with problem gamblers is to deny them service and put them (and anyone they are staying with here in town) on some kind of do-not-serve registry that private businesses can choose to check before extending hotel/motel reservations, leases or even mortgages. Obviously, landlords and mortgage companies have great incentives to check this, but for hotel/motel operators, they can be motivated by taking away their affiliations with the online travel sites if they don't use the service. It's not fool proof, but would go a long, long way.

Meanwhile, if such problem gamblers already live here, for example, the reported 80-90 year olds who gamble away their life's savings and then lose there will to live, then the next step is to start breaching their privacy a bit until their neighbors, personal/professional/family associations or even people they owe money to run them out of town, preferably across the Utah border to go hang out with that crazy 'Don't kill the Messenger' guy, lol. This begs the question, of course..what qualifies as bad enough 'problem gambling' to get listed in the do-not-serve registry? That's where Gaming Control has to setup some standards with the license holders and ensure that, statistically at least, there are enough people being banned that it's likely the regulations are being upheld. I am not naive enough to believe there is enough nobility and good will around town to pull this off, especially in a down economy, but it is totally possible.

flamingorose wrote on November 28, 2008 10:11 PM: Sheesh...seems like the messenger was dropped on his head as a child. What a jackass.

Jen wrote on November 28, 2008 08:44 PM: Casinocon and all others - what exactly would you like the casinos to do? Create psychologists out of all the employees to diagnose and treat compulsive gambling? Please - of course we pay "lip service" it's a regulation. We have to provide literature and "self-limit" people when they ask; of course, they have to ask first.

There's not a whole lot we can do about it - just like in a bar, would the bartender diagnose an alcoholic? Of course not, if they want to drink- they're going to drink. If they want to gamble, they're going to gamble.

One Option wrote on November 28, 2008 08:07 PM:
Problem gamblers should get together and form their own group similiar to that of 12 step program.

We need to keep in mind that the vast majority of gamblers are responsible.

Don't kill the Messenger: wrote on November 28, 2008 07:53 PM: Memo to the Pink hand type: We both know its you, and I differently know why you need to be on the psychologists couch. Too much touchy-feely as a child? You esoteric fool.

Dear, Don't Kill... wrote on November 28, 2008 07:04 PM: Dear 'Don't Kill,'

I have not written on this board prior to commenting on your grammatical errors. I simply made the comment as it was quite clear you needed to be taken down a notch or two. Clearly, you have some kind of deep-seeded rage or something that would best be suited for a psychologist's couch.

If you want to be respected on message boards (or in life in general), I would suggest that you learn to make your points without childish name calling (or the myriad of run-on sentences you have scattered throughout this page).

Finally, if you are so upset over the election, you have your choice of hundreds of other countries in which to live. I would bet many of your fellow Las Vegans would help you pack.

Don't kill the Messenger: wrote on November 28, 2008 05:30 PM: Normally I don't comment on conjugations, or prepositions, or spelling; however, let's take a closer look at you moron since you are talking like some macho egotist writer from Paris, let's look at you.

a. minor but it's a lot not (alot)

b. its the Byzantine Empire, NOt the (Bizzantine) way off on that one Genius.

C.its feuds not (fueds) moron.

d. each other, should be "one another" genius.

e.and, and.....said it twice.

f. its Which, not "witch" genius

Well there you go "pink-hand."

"X, n. In our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will doubtless last as long as the language."

Grow up dude, still mad about Prop eight or something like that.

Dear, Don't Kill... wrote on November 28, 2008 03:42 PM: Quote:

"Man, what public school was you thrown out of."

Dear 'Don't Kill the Messenger,"

Please take a moment from spewing venom to learn subject-verb conjugation as well as how not to end your sentences with prepositions or incorrect punctuation.

Cheers,
The Rest of the World

ex gambler wrote on November 28, 2008 03:31 PM: Bada bing Casinocon. Not only do casinos not care, they would go broke if not for the compulsive gamblers. Legalize drugs and watch casino profits nosedive. Drug money is big business for casinos. Casinos are nothing less than drug dealers. The 'fix' casinos offer the compulsive gambler is the high of winning that next jackpot.

Don't kill the Messenger: wrote on November 28, 2008 01:35 PM: Memo to Vegas Abroad: Only moronic one is you. You think Hitler was starting a Democracy over there when we entered the war. Man, what public school was you thrown out of.

I'm talking about "Our Wars," what makes you go on some imbecilic tyrant about the (Byzantine empire from 1500 years ago) somehow you are trying to tie this into Christianity. I can smell a "Pink-hand" type like you from a mile away.
By the by, you do mean "Byzantine empire" right?

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