To "allow other people's assessment of you to determine your own self-assessment is a very big mistake, " says Mr. Bollinger, a First Amendment author and scholar.
For its part, PokerStars said in a statement that its suitability for a gaming license is a matter for expert regulators to determine, not self-interested partisans picking a public fight.
As if that wasn't enough, the whole thing also promises to be funded entirely by micro-payments from the public (which would also determine its final size), and be completely self-powered, with it relying on a combination of solar power and regenerative braking from the lifts in the towers.
Used to be (remember those days?) that the high quality of some self-published books (and even proposals pre-word-processing) was a great way to quickly determine the commitment of the author and often even was a harbinger of the quality of the prose itself.