Thank goodness all of our savings haven't just been spunked away by double-or-quits gamble-happy bankers.
Unfortunately though, for citizen sanity, business reality, and, well, anyone not happy gambling everything on fantastically functional systems that don't exist yet, it's still leaning heavily on undefined technological solutions to try to make its alternative customs arrangement fly.
"I'm quite cautious in most areas of my life, but I'm always happy to gamble when it comes to acting.
The reported compensation fee for him of £3.5m may sound an awful lot, but it could equally be said to reflect a realistic level of transfer fee at a time when clubs are happy to "gamble" four times that amount on a striker.
Gatland revealed that once he knew Bowe would be fit for the second Test, he was happy to gamble on starting George North in Saturday's Brisbane epic, despite concerns his hamstring would not last the full match.
She says her earliest memory is of playing poker with her father for pocket money, and she associates gambling with a warm, happy time in her childhood.
She just wallowed in her misery, and soon the only thing that made her happy was gambling and Las Vegas.
I grumble, but Manuel is happy; his favourite gambling stories are losses, and I suspect he prefers it.
Still, Webb's connections to houses of gambling displeased the baseball commissioner, Happy Chandler, who in 1950 made his concern public and was about to launch an investigation.
And though the title of her book, "Hats and Eyeglasses," is an old gambling expression for a dreadful run at the table, Ms. Frankel's childhood memories are happy ones, in which gambling equaled friendship equaled food equaled laughter equaled love.
While viewing a gambling video designed to evoke emotional and motivational antecedents to gambling (actors who mimicked emotional [eg, happy, angry] situations followed by the actor describing driving to and walking through a casino and the feeling of gambling), participants were asked to press a button when they experienced gambling urges.
