You could shake your head with painful memories of large dollar amounts lost, and swear on a stack of Bibles that you're going to never again be foolish enough to engage in a shoot-out with the One-Armed Bandit, but who are you kidding? Maybe, with a little luck, you will be able to resist the call of the slot machine for several weeks, perhaps even a month or two. But you know damn well that you will be back for a rematch in the end. You can not just let that Bandit win so quickly, can you? No way.

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