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Buck the System Infringed up my free speach

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Posted 2010-February-23, 14:58

deleted my post bcuz i spoke out against the monopoly of BBO.
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Posted 2010-February-23, 15:00

no wayyy :(
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Posted 2010-February-23, 15:07

FYI you don't have a right to frea speach here. You do however have a right to prove you don't know what a monopoly is.
Please let me know about any questions or interest or bug reports about GIB.
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Posted 2010-February-23, 15:14

PhantomSac, on Feb 23 2010, 04:00 PM, said:

no wayyy :(

Justin is right. The thread that was removed (at least temporarily) was done so for a lot of reasons, none of which had to do with MisterE speaking out against the BBO Monopoly. To be honest, other than some rambling about Lycos and BBO going their way, I had no idea he was attacking BBO. His suggestion was reviewed by uday, who in part agreed with him, and gave his opinion.

You can still read uday's response in my comments about the removal of that thread at this link.... Public notice of the thread removal

As you may note in that thread, I mentioned some additional (very mild) administrative action. The result of which was an inappropriate response aimed directly to me which I took offense at, so I exercised even additional "monopoly power", no doubt speeding BBO's path towards Lycos.
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Posted 2010-February-23, 15:26

Wow he got banned, that's awesome haha.
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Posted 2010-February-23, 15:37

Anyone who didn't log on the past few hours missed the whole saga, that seems unfair.
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Posted 2010-February-23, 15:43

BBO is the Man?

Wow.

I mean, I have notice a one-world-government feel to BBO. All this smells like League of Nations or United Nations control of bridge playing, and stuff.

When I found out about the monopoly, I started looking into things. Strange, but the name "Gitelman" is extremely curious. Apparently, Sir Gitell-Mann was a Prussian knight of the Templar movement who originally introduced monarchy-based playing cards in an attempt to entice the intelligencia into accepting monarchy that is patriarchal, except with the "Ace" being the top of the deck, not the bottom.

Why?

Well, the lowest shall lead?

Obviously, this was a feigned monarchism in that the real control was the people, the lower classes. Hence, communism.

However, this communism, a part of the very game of bridge (or "britisch," an old Russian game -- coincidence? coincidence? Red commies?), is a unifying of the "monarchy" with the leadership of the "Ace," the supreme one. Elevation of the least.

What is, however, the "monarchy" in bridge?

Well, notice that the "suits" determine which monarch appears to rule (but really is subservient to the Ace -- the least). The "suits" is an obvious reference to corporates. And, one "suit" rules, is trump. (Donald, anyone? Please -- so obvious.) Monopoly, derived from bidding.

A corporate monarchy, decided by bidding between suits, with the least -- the Ace -- as the supposed head of everything.

And yet, notice that "no trump" actually is highest. Why is that? Well, the templars, like Sir Gitell-Mann, are "no man." Hidden. Not seen. The real powers, whom not even the suits control.
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Posted 2010-February-23, 15:45

I saw it. :(
I shalln't miss it. :D

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Posted 2010-February-23, 16:31

Hi:

OKB is owned by bbo? The other bridge sites are all under the control of bbo.

They got us, we have to play bridge under bbo control.

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Posted 2010-February-23, 16:56

Can you out the gimmick, Inquiry?
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Posted 2010-February-23, 16:58

jdonn, on Feb 23 2010, 04:07 PM, said:

FYI you don't have a right to frea speach here. You do however have a right to prove you don't know what a monopoly is.

that's a game that has the same luck factor as bridge, right? :(
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Posted 2010-February-23, 16:59

spotlight7, on Feb 23 2010, 05:31 PM, said:

Hi:

OKB is owned by bbo? The other bridge sites are all under the control of bbo.

They got us, we have to play bridge under bbo control.

Regards,
Robert

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Posted 2010-February-23, 17:05

kenrexford, on Feb 23 2010, 04:43 PM, said:

BBO is the Man?

Wow.

I mean, I have notice a one-world-government feel to BBO. All this smells like League of Nations or United Nations control of bridge playing, and stuff.

When I found out about the monopoly, I started looking into things. Strange, but the name "Gitelman" is extremely curious. Apparently, Sir Gitell-Mann was a Prussian knight of the Templar movement who originally introduced monarchy-based playing cards in an attempt to entice the intelligencia into accepting monarchy that is patriarchal, except with the "Ace" being the top of the deck, not the bottom.

Why?

Well, the lowest shall lead?

Obviously, this was a feigned monarchism in that the real control was the people, the lower classes. Hence, communism.

However, this communism, a part of the very game of bridge (or "britisch," an old Russian game -- coincidence? coincidence? Red commies?), is a unifying of the "monarchy" with the leadership of the "Ace," the supreme one. Elevation of the least.

What is, however, the "monarchy" in bridge?

Well, notice that the "suits" determine which monarch appears to rule (but really is subservient to the Ace -- the least). The "suits" is an obvious reference to corporates. And, one "suit" rules, is trump. (Donald, anyone? Please -- so obvious.) Monopoly, derived from bidding.

A corporate monarchy, decided by bidding between suits, with the least -- the Ace -- as the supposed head of everything.

And yet, notice that "no trump" actually is highest. Why is that? Well, the templars, like Sir Gitell-Mann, are "no man." Hidden. Not seen. The real powers, whom not even the suits control.

kenrexford for mod!
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Posted 2010-February-24, 10:10

Ken obviously has waaaayyyy too much free time on his hands.
Is the word "pass" not in your vocabulary?
So many experts, not enough X cards.
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Posted 2010-February-24, 15:38

jdonn, on Feb 23 2010, 09:37 PM, said:

Anyone who didn't log on the past few hours missed the whole saga, that seems unfair.

Damnit!!!!, no screenshot or something?

Ben, send it to my mail please :P
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Posted 2010-February-24, 15:49

I could share the PM meistere sent me, but its veryyyyy unsuitable lol
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Posted 2010-February-24, 15:50

I could read some of it on general BBO dscussion, sounds like a smurf account of a young guy.
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Posted 2010-February-24, 15:55

Is smurf the same as our use of gimmick?
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Posted 2010-February-24, 16:05

I believe so yes. Not sure of wha tis the correct english word, but I am sure to have heard smurf before.
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Posted 2010-February-24, 16:26

I believe we intend gimmick to mean fake, as if they don't want to reveal their identity but they want to be a nuisance or cause mischief. Though I suppose it could mean a lot of things.
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