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To: Greg h2o who wrote (36265)	2/24/1998 2:06:00 PM
From: Falcon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 61433

Gambling can be an investment....a defintion of investing can be construed as "giving money to something or someone for in hopes of a return on that investment" You drop a $5 chip into a slot hoping to make a return right? You buy ASND hoping to make a return(profit) right? Granted that gambling is instantaneous investing...You either win back or lose everything instantly. You can sit with a bad hand for 6 months like you can with a stock. And research is of course limited to non existant..but you can still argue gambling being a wildcard form of investing

To: Greg h2o who wrote (36265)	2/24/1998 2:30:00 PM
From: Sowbug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 61433

*** OT *** Fallacious reasoning. To wit: a square is a rectangle, but a rectangle is not a square. In order to make sure the two are equal, let's turn it around and listen to how ridiculous this sounds, "any gambling is an investment." Nah, just doesn't work, does it?