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Re: Gambling Demographics
Dear Chief of Police Lou Dekmar and Captain Pheil,
The premier gambling casinos in the world still call Las Vegas, Nevada home. Prior to the millennials becoming interested in video game gambling, most gambling was done by the elderly probably white female population. Gambling and its concomitant problems: alcohol and drug abuse and prostitution are on the rebound in our society. One of the driving forces is multiplayer video game gambling. People get hooked on video game gambling since there is skill involved in playing video games. Slot machines also known as one-arm bandits are purely stochastic in nature. Our society can’t afford to become a gambling refuge for the planet. We need to teach the young of the perils of gambling where skill is involved. In other words, don’t let infants and young children get hooked early on video games provided by cellphones (smartphones and Internet connected tablet computers). The Internet of Everything (IoE) is going to kill all the social skills that we need to teach the young.
Sincerely,
James Pate Williams, Jr., BA, BS, MSwE, PhD
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Author: jamespatewilliamsjr
My whole legal name is James Pate Williams, Jr. I was born in LaGrange, Georgia approximately 70 years ago. I barely graduated from LaGrange High School with low marks in June 1971. Later in June 1979, I graduated from LaGrange College with a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry with a little over a 3 out 4 Grade Point Average (GPA). In the Spring Quarter of 1978, I taught myself how to program a Texas Instruments desktop programmable calculator and in the Summer Quarter of 1978 I taught myself Dayton BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) on LaGrange College's Data General Eclipse minicomputer. I took courses in BASIC in the Fall Quarter of 1978 and FORTRAN IV (Formula Translator IV) in the Winter Quarter of 1979. Professor Kenneth Cooper, a genius poly-scientist taught me a course in the Intel 8085 microprocessor architecture and assembly and machine language. We would hand assemble our programs and insert the resulting machine code into our crude wooden box computer which was designed and built by Professor Cooper. From 1990 to 1994 I earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from LaGrange College. I had a 4 out of 4 GPA in the period 1990 to 1994. I took courses in C, COBOL, and Pascal during my BS work. After graduating from LaGrange College a second time in May 1994, I taught myself C++. In December 1995, I started using the Internet and taught myself client-server programming. I created a website in 1997 which had C and C# implementations of algorithms from the "Handbook of Applied Cryptography" by Alfred J. Menezes, et. al., and some other cryptography and number theory textbooks and treatises.
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