You might shake your head with painful memories of large dollar amounts lost, and swear on a stack of Bibles that you'll never again be foolish sufficient to engage in a shoot-out with the One-Armed Bandit, but who are you kidding? Maybe, with just a little luck, you will be able to resist the call of the playing slot online machine for a couple of weeks, perhaps even a month or two. But you know damn well that you'll be back for a rematch at some point. You cannot just let that Bandit win so conveniently, can you? No way.

It is just a machine, of course, with a "brain" comprised of wires and microchips. You, in contrast, are a living, breathing entity with the capacity for critical thinking and self-reflection. If humankind is to possess any hope at all in surviving the global war against machines that surely will come some day, we'd better at least be able to beat the slots.