Alrighty. I came to class a bit early this morning and I could swear that Univeristy of Woodford Square was moved to the St. Augustine Campus up here at UWI. We were discussing the banning of gambling in Trinidad and Tobago. Now, I decided to actually listen to the discourse that my compadres in IT. They were discussing the 'adverse' effect of banning online gambling. Uhm. i doh know eh, but we doh really HAVE online gambling here. So it basically really does nothing to the country. The bottom line more or less was that the gov't shouldn't ban online gambling because it takes away from (as one collegue said) the 'free tertiary education fund'. So i asked the question...how much do we get from our online gambling faciitles? The answer...$20 MillionTT. I then asked another question, how much does the government put into thta same fund...the answer? $750 Million TT. Ok then!
Now while the 'drop in the bucket' $20 Million dollars is beneificial towards the fund, but the REAL question should be asked as to how much of the $20Million does the gov't put towards our education in the first place. Once you can answer that question, then you get your bigger picture.
Oh..and for those who were in the tutorial this morning. The definition, from three REPUTABLE and CREDIBLE sources, of e-commerce are:

"Pronunciation: 'E-"kä-(")m&rs
Function: noun
Usage: often attributive
: commerce conducted via the Internet"
Source: Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

"Commercial activity conducted via electronic media, esp. on the Internet; the sector of the economy engaged in such activity.
Source: Oxford English Dictionary

"Electronic commerce (also referred to as EC, e-commerce or ecommerce) consists primarily of the distributing, buying, selling, marketing, and servicing of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks."
Source: Wikipedia.com

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