Re: Hotel situation

[Randall Gellens <[e-mail]>]

At 8:25 PM +0000 1/9/16, Lloyd Wood wrote:

>  blockquote, div.yahoo_quoted { margin-left: 0 !important; 
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> !important; background-color:white !important; } and then there was 
> that time physicists met in Las Vegas and the town told them never 
> to return.
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>  <>http://physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com/2015/09/one-winning-move.html
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>  L.
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>  the only winning move is not to bet on -00.


Amusing story, although I expect that, were the IETF to try and 
emulate this, the hotel would find it one of their most profitable 
weeks.  Likely the bar tabs alone would fund the entire hotel 
operation, with gambling winnings providing pure gravy.


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>  On Saturday, January 9, 2016, 11:14 AM, Randall Gellens 
> <[e-mail]> wrote:
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>  At 8:19 AM -<tel:0800%201/5/16>0800 1/5/16, Ole Jacobsen wrote:
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>>   Las Vegas would clearly win, but I have a strong impression that
>>   many of our attendees would object to going there. (It also happens
>>   to be a "tourist destination" for reasons that kind of escapes
>>   me, but that's yet another discussion).
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>  I'd be very upset if we started meeting in perhaps the last remaining
>  all-smoking-all-the-time location in the U.S. or Canada.
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