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Have a friend that was in the vending business. Mostly cigarette machines and video games. Was pretty easy money, ran his route 2 days a week. It all came crashing down in the 90's. He's a surveyor now.

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My dad owned a network of small candy vending machines that you see in barber shops, grocery stores, etc.  Had about 30 different ones set up all over Tyler.  He'd make his rounds once every few months and made enough to go on skiing vacations twice in the winter.  That's what he used them for.  He sold them about 3 years ago for about 3 grand.

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My friend Mitch developed a vending machine that sells other vending machines.  The thing is huge.

Joking aside, the video gambling machines in the suburbs of Chicago are a wonderful example of political corruption.  The City of Chicago won't allow the machines in city limits because they say it promotes gambling and bad elements.  Really it was a kickback from the mob so that they could retain control of all the underground gambling in the City.  But, City of Chicago officials somehow retain regulatory authority over the machines in the suburbs of chicago where the machines are pervasive and in about half the bars and lounges for 30 miles in any direction.  That's right, the City of Chicago won't allow them in their city, but somehow gets to regulate them in the suburbs where they are supposed to have no local control.  They used their transit authority to justify the overreach.  The mob uses a different justification.  

Anyway, the technology that allows vending machines to communicate with their home base/repairmen/stockboys was developed well before IoT.  And it was developed and given IP here at the University of Texas.  Fucking-A 

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10 minutes ago, Lobo said:

My friend Mitch developed a vending machine that sells other vending machines.  The thing is huge.

Joking aside, the video gambling machines in the suburbs of Chicago are a wonderful example of political corruption.  The City of Chicago won't allow the machines in city limits because they say it promotes gambling and bad elements.  Really it was a kickback from the mob so that they could retain control of all the underground gambling in the City.  But, City of Chicago officials somehow retain regulatory authority over the machines in the suburbs of chicago where the machines are pervasive and in about half the bars and lounges for 30 miles in any direction.  That's right, the City of Chicago won't allow them in their city, but somehow gets to regulate them in the suburbs where they are supposed to have no local control.  They used their transit authority to justify the overreach.  The mob uses a different justification.  

Anyway, the technology that allows vending machines to communicate with their home base/repairmen/stockboys was developed well before IoT.  And it was developed and given IP here at the University of Texas.  Fucking-A 

Skynet in it's infancy.....

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