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...system works: starting this week, you'll visit the CyberCash Web site, download an empty electronic wallet onto your hard drive and register it with the company (if your own bank signs up with CyberCash, it will offer you its own self-named wallet). The software acts like an ATM, allowing you to transfer $20 to $100 from your bank into your wallet before heading off onto the Web. When you reach a site that accepts CyberCash, you can spend your money by using either your credit card or CyberCoins...
...Problem Gambling. "It allows them to break their focus on gambling, their compulsive thought process. In some cases, it might give you the time you need to cool down and think about what you're doing." Casino owners see the move as nothing more than a convenience, as ATM and credit card machines are already accessible at casinos. Others see it as sheer madness. "If someone went to a bank and asked for $5,000 saying he wanted to go gambling in Atlantic City, he'd be turned down," said Edward Looney, the head of the New Jersey Council...
...Problem Gambling. "It allows them to break their focus on gambling, their compulsive thought process. In some cases, it might give you the time you need to cool down and think about what you're doing." Casino owners see the move as nothing more than a convenience, as ATM and credit card machines are already accessible at casinos. Others see it as sheer madness. "If someone went to a bank and asked for $5,000 saying he wanted to go gambling in Atlantic City, he'd be turned down," said Edward Looney, the head of the New Jersey Council...
...also unabashedly proclaims itself "a nude dancing mecca," where a single escort service lists more than 100 different options in the Yellow Pages, and the giveaway tourist guide, This Week Atlanta, offers boxed reviews of skin houses. Atlanta's strip joints do have their idiosyncrasies (they boast Internet addresses, atm machines and free valet parking, and one, on Corporate Boulevard, actually advertises "corporate atmosphere"), yet the unbroken lines of Girls-R-Fun clubs and joints presenting "250 Platinum Girls" throw some of the city's sobriety into question. When Billy Payne appeared on Moscow TV live (via satellite) this year...
Unlike Valley entrepreneurs, who have used Wall Street like an ATM, id has no plans to sell stock to the public. Why? "Because," says Wilbur, "we want to have fun." If id can sell just half the 500,000 copies of Quake it ships--not unlikely--there'll be some good times in Mesquite, or anyplace else reachable by Ferrari...