They said it couldn’t be adequately monitored to keep children from betting and raised fears of creating a generation of gambling addicts. With what could be a billion dollar market in the nation’s most populous state, there’s simply too much at stake for supporters to give up.Īttack ads said Proposition 27 would turn every cell phone, laptop and tablet into a gambling device. A measure supported by Native American tribes that would have let gamblers place sports bets at tribal casinos and four horse tracks was opposed by 70% of voters.īut the result of Tuesday’s election is not a doomsday scenario for sports betting in California. With 5.3 million votes counted Wednesday, more than 80% of voters rejected an effort by the gaming industry that would have allowed online and phone wagers on sports. The result was a pasting at the polls for both. “The most powerful money in California politics is on the ‘No’ side of ballot measures.” And in a nuclear war everybody loses,” McCuan said. “Whenever we have dueling ballot measures, and the competitors have an arsenal of dollars … the competitors will go nuclear. history.Īnytime voters face two measures at odds with each other, they tend to reject both, said professor David McCuan, chairman of the political science department at Sonoma State University. On rare occasions, it will take longer than a day, but I don't really care.The effort to legalize sports betting in California ran headlong into a typical challenge for competing ballot measures as each was battered in a torrent of negative advertising that doomed both to spectacular failure in the most expensive ballot race in U.S. Often I'll come back to my computer the next night and a file will be finished and I don't ever bother to look how long it took. I have Azureus set to download the file and then seed it until the ratio is at least 2.0 (meaning I've uploaded twice as much as I've downloaded). When I see something that I want, I start the download. Having said that, I leave my computer on all the time anyway, so I don't really care how long it takes. For the shows that I've downloaded entire seasons of, I've done it one episode at a time, once a week as the new eps become available, not all at once at the end of the season. So you are getting files with 5, 10, 15 seeders rather than files with several hundred seeders, which you generally see the first few days after an episode airs. It's highly unlikely that the early episodes of that season are still in high demand among the users out there. I think the biggest problem you are running into is that you are trying to DL an entire season of a show at the same time.

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