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Like many folks, I'm not a fan of this (or any other) church/religion. That said I have adopted a live and let live view. This particular lot do seem to be on the upper part of the the scam/culty/crazy scale, but I do know a few of their lot, most of whom I had previously believed were much lower on the gullible spectrum. Personally I would give this lot a wide berth, but they do appear to look after their own as well as offer the type of faux care and support that those indoctrinated into religion are looking for. Other than fleecing their sect are this lot any better or worse than the others? Even with their current wave of extortion tithing they have an awfully long way to go before they are worth the estimated $12 billion that the Church of England are worth or the $200 billion that the mormons are worth. They do seem to be spending over the odds (~£500k) on the site, so hopefully the local economy may benefit, even if the congregation may not. All religions are really about money and control, this lot do seem to be a little more open about that than many others.

TBH you haven't, you have made some vague generalisations about what you think, but have failed to actually quote the relevant act(s) or even give any indication that you have read them. **TLDR - Nothing about Hitting it Big (or similar sites) contravenes any (current) Isle of Man laws as long as they are not operated from this jurisdiction. FYI (in case you are not aware of it) The legal definition of a lottery (Lexis Nexis) ....Lotteries involve the distribution of prizes by chance to participants who have made a monetary contribution ... In the UK THE GAMBLING ACT 2005 has provision of these 'skill' games that qualifies them as a lottery. (see Section 14.5) A process which requires persons to exercise skill or judgment or to display knowledge shall be treated for the purposes of this section as relying wholly on chance if— (a)the requirement cannot reasonably be expected to prevent a significant proportion of persons who participate in the arrangement of which the process forms part from receiving a prize, and (b)the requirement cannot reasonably be expected to prevent a significant proportion of persons who wish to participate in that arrangement from doing so. In the Isle of Man GAMING BETTING AND LOTTERIES ACT 1988 is concerned with and only with gaming, betting and lotteries conducted on the IOM and is only enforceable against those on Island and is concerned with those actions that require actual gaming (rather than online.) In the IOM we have not adopted the variation of these 'skill' games that would have them seen as a lottery, The IOM can not view this as a lottery because there is a question to answer, regardless of how simple that question is. The closest that you will find under this legislation is 29.1.e, but this can not me applied to online games. Online gaming is covered by ONLINE GAMBLING REGULATION ACT 2001 (more commonly known as OGRA) OGRA is concerned with the provision of online gaming FROM the IOM not into the IOM, there is nothing in this legislation that would affect hitting it big.

Can you point at the actual gaming laws you think are being broken?

I used it many years ago (different phone and number,) but now it just won't complete the set up.

Hello MFers, Can some folks try something for me? I have been trying to get Viber installed and configured on a number of mobiles, all running android. All goes OK until the activation part, my MT mobile(s) do not receive SMS or voice messages. Can some other locals try to set up Viber (ideally both MT and Sure) and let me know how you get on?

Does this mean that MF qualifies as a religious group?

I think the requirements will be more and less The regulators will need to be sure that grows will be fully controlled for quality and auditability. Glass houses are generally for lower grade grows, as the IOM initially is looking at medical grade for export it's implicit that high quality and provenance are a what they hope will set up apart from other jurisdictions.

+1 for "The Other Place" I'd also strongly recommend "The Ravioli House." There is a new chef at the Habour Bistro who has a good local reputation so that might also be worth a shout. If you are prepared to go out to Lezayre; "Cafe Rosa" is pretty good.

The only teacher worthy of a mention was Mr McSheffery (although more correctly Dr McSheffery.) For those who did not have the honor of meeeting him, he was a huge bear of a man with a brain to equal the best computer and a heart of gold. He was a world chess grandmaster and (for some time) world draughts champion. He was head of Maths at Balla (and head of that crazy new subject 'Computers') he insisted that during his time there that if he was to teach the top set (to challange them) that he should also teach the bottom set (as they needed his help the most.) Every time I used to try and sneak out for a quick smoke by asking if I could use the toilet, he would ask me if i was going for a ciggie, every time I would dutifully answer of course not. At this point he would ask me to jump on the spot and when he heard the matches in my pocket he would tell me to leave them on his desk. It got to a point where he would just tell me to pop my matches on his desk (and he would always return them) if I asked for a loo break. He was the chair of the IOM branch of Mensa........but the new of the invention of the cigerette light seemed to have escaped him! In truth looking back, he knew there was a lighter in my pocket. It takes a special kind of person to knowing let an oink think that they have got one over on them. In the words of Hagrid........A Great Man (RIP)

Give these chaps a try, although they might be quite pricey!

To be honest I don’t have many good memories of teachers, other that Dr Ian MacSheffery (sp?) A huge brusque Irish genius who was a model of what a teacher should be. A gentle giant of a man who viewed teaching as a vocation, he opted to teach Maths and computers to high and accelerated sets, but also to the lowest and remedial sets. Anyone who ever met this chap will know of what I say.