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- From: cholette@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Cholette Martin)
- Subject: Re: Stupid, stupid, #3
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.205724.20910@cc.umontreal.ca>
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- Organization: Universite de Montreal
- References: <1992Dec26.191207.9229@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>
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- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 20:57:24 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec26.191207.9229@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> bspencer@cs.mcgill.ca (Brian SPENCER) writes:
- >In today's Gazette, I read another stupid aspect of our new casino. They
- >will not allow smoking or drinking in the casino. I think this ti, the
- >government has lost all sense of reality.
- >
- >On smoking: I am not a smoker, nor do enjoy it when people smoke around
- >me. But I think smoking should be allowed in a casino. All they have to
- >do is declare some tables as being non-smoking, for people like me.
- >Atlantic City and Vegas have them. So why can't Montreal? Because our
- >government is being extremely short-sighted on this issue. They see a
- >casino as a giant video arcade for people to indulge themselves at the
- >government's profit. Well, that profit isn't going to arise if they
- >continue to alienate huge parts of the populati.
- >
- >On drinking: The big casino's give out free drinks while you play,
- >hoping that it will dull your sense of judgement...and it works. Trust
- >me, I know. The Sands Hotel in Atlantic City won $14M off one guy during
- >a 5 year period by giving him free drinks. I'm not saying that drinks
- >should be free in Montreal, but rather that they should be available to
- >those that want them. Again, the government has missed on the purpose of
- >a casino. If I'm betting lots of money and I need a crutch to help me
- >over my nervousness, I want that crutch available to me.
- >
- >I think that with the no vice rules, the french only signs rule, its
- >relative non-proximity to downtown, its rediculously high wages its
- >going to pay its employees (a dealer in AC makes about $16K per annu,
- >and whatever stupidity that sure to follow, this casino will lose money.
- >They will have to either close the casino or sell it to private
- >enterprise (heaven forbid). At first, I thought that a casino in
- >Montreal would be a good idea. Now, I'm not so sure.
- >
- >Anyway, everybody have a good week. I'm drivng to Atlantic City on
- >Monday to the land of english signs, free drinks, and smoking at a
- >blackjack table (if I so choosed).
- >
- >Brian Spencer (bspencer@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca)
- >
-
- Well said Brian!
-
- Martin Cholette
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