Cyprus is going for a long shot as far as odds go. The government of this island state is making an attempt to ask the European Commission if it has its permission to ban online gambling outright in the country. What reason, you may ask? Because Cyprus believes that online gambling has driven the rate of crime up. Analysts say that the government doesn’t stand much chance in getting its request okayed, which will force Cyprus to appeal – beginning a process that will take years and years. Methinks that Cyprus should simply do like it the Joneses (in this case, Spain, France, etc. etc.) and open its doors to foreign operators. What you can’t beat, join!
And on the subject of the power of the EC:
“The European Commission has announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU, rather than German, which was the other contender. Her Majesty’s Government conceded that English spelling had room for improvement and has therefore accepted a five-year phasing in of “Euro-English”.
In the first year, “s” will replace the soft “c”. Sertainly, this will make sivil servants jump for joy. The hard “c” will be dropped in favour of the “k”, which should klear up some konfusion and allow one key less on keyboards.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome “ph” will be replaced with “f”, making words like “fotograf” 20% shorter.
In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent “e” is disgrasful.
By the fourth yer, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing “th” with “z” and “w” with “v”.
During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary “o” kan be dropd from vords kontaining “ou” and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and everivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer. ZE DREM VIL FINALI COM TRU!” www.davidbrown.co.uk
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