Games of chance in Europe

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While not all EU Member States have a legal definition of the concepts of “games of chance” and of “gambling”, in most jurisdictions a game of chance is defined as a game that offers an opportunity to compete for prizes, … Read More

Hackers

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A hacker is anyone who enjoys the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming or circumventing limitations, primarily in their fields of interest, namely programming or electrical engineering. As will be discussed below, there is a trend in the popular press to … Read More

Three-card Monte

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Three-card Monte is a gambling game, a scam, played on the sly in the markets and in public places. It is practiced at least since the fourteenth century, and it is still played in many countries. It is called Kümmelblättchen … Read More

Advertising – Neither science, nor art

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Advertising, as well as publicity, is a form of communication whose purpose is to fix the attention of a target (consumer, user, user, voter, etc.), to encourage to adopt a desired behavior: buying a product, election of a politician, encouraging … Read More

Unsolved problems in physics

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The following is an incomplete list of outstanding problems in physics. Some of these problems are theoretical, meaning that existing theories seem incapable of explaining some observed phenomenon or experimental result. Others are experimental, meaning that there is a difficulty … Read More

Pricing Policy in Online Businesses

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Starting a website costs. After the website was established objectives, the next step is to analyze costs. The difficulty is that prices vary substantially. It is a new technology, with many options available to the customer. The main question that … Read More

Condolence

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Condolence Condoleanţe 1. We have learned with deep regret the sad news , of the death of your…, Mr… Please accept our sincere sympathy for the great loss you have sustained. 2. I was deeply grieved to hear of the … Read More

Babels

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Babels is a network of interpreters, translators and volunteers that wants to be a player in the anti-globalization debate. Babels is not a service but a political actor. Babels supports all unpaid interpretation and translation of European Social Forum and … Read More

Joomla package and extensions

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The package consists of several parts, which are built to be as modular as possible, allowing extensions and integrations to be made easily. Some extensions are called “plugins” (formerly known as “Mambots”). Plugins are extensions working in background that provide … Read More

Collective intelligence on Internet

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Usually, collective intelligence defines the cognitive abilities of a community resulting from multiple interactions between its members (or agents). Applying this definition to the virtual community on the Internet considered as ultimate cognitive media, new capabilities are resulting from the … Read More

Definitions of games of chance in EU

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The long-standing definition that exists for gambling activities in general in EU secondary legislation is that relied upon to exclude such services from the Electronic Commerce Directive (Directive 2000/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June … Read More

Romania demographics

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According to the 2002 census, Romania has a population of 21,680,974 inhabitants, it is expected that in the years to register a slight decrease of the population due to negative natural increase. The main ethnic group is formed by Romanians … Read More

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