Message no. 1

From:	Rune Fostervoll <runefo@***.UIO.NO>
Subject:	Re: International waters/Casino
Date:	Thu, 12 Jun 1997 03:11:09 +0000

> <<(A permanent casino in international waters.. interesting idea.).>>
>
> IIRC, the Vegas mob (Bugs Siegel and others) set up a floating
> casinojust outside the three-mile international limit off of Monaco (?)
> in the 1930s. Well, I'm sure I got the 1930s part right...
>
> International waters may not belong to anyone, but the people running
> casinos on them have to be citizens *somewhere*, and Bugs and the gang
> eventually got busted for tax evasion (among other things). Earning
> scads of money that easily tends to draw enemies.

Of course, but consider this: Most cruise ships has casinos on board.
I'd vager they use international law, but do it according to
regulations and pay tax on it. The difference is wether they do
everything overboard or not; if they played straight I'd guess it
would be perfectly OK.

And since we're talking SR, all they would have to do is claim it as
a corporate site, and according to corporate law, gambling is legal.
(Or, at least some corporations.). But this is a self - defeating
argument, because if this was the case (and it is in SR) then they
wouldn't need to make it in international waters.
Someone private, though, couldn't do that and would still need it in
international waters, though.



--
Rune Fostervoll

"But the dread of something after death,
The undiscovered country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have,
Than fly to others that we no not of."