I'm not trying to be mean, but if you didn't realize that this was a ponzi scam disguised as a poker operation, you really need to do A LOT more research before your next attempted investment.

Anyone with one ounce of knowledge of how poker works, particularly poker staking, would have realized this was fraudulent. even if you don't have that knowledge, which is vey possible, trying to figure out how poker/poker staking works even a little bit would have clued you in.

No one, especially no random person on the internet, is going to give you a free lunch. Before you do an "investment," figure out how exactly they are going to be making money for themselves and for you, and find out why they need your money and what they are going to do with it. Trying to do that it this scenario would have shown you that this was a fraud 5 minutes into your searching.

It's called a settlement. Give her 250k to get her to give up the other stuff instead of having to spend time/effort/money to TRY and get it from her.

Before crying note that this is all taking place in florida, where OJ Simpson was able to live in a 500k+ house despite owing the Goldman family 35 million dollars for a case where HE was found liable, getting a house that Vernon's ex-wife lived in is nothing close to a slam dunk.

The science community is keeping a wary eye on a Canadian research team's claim of finding possible homes for life in outer space.

The researchers from Universite Laval in Quebec City say analysis of some unusual signals has helped them identify 234 potential systems that might be playing host to extra-terrestrial intelligence.

The theory has evolved over several years and took root when lead researcher Ermanno Borra published a paper in 2012 speculating on how residents of other galaxies may try to broadcast their existence to the rest of space.

He published a theory that such life forms could use lasers to make their home planet emit an unusual signal that would be noticed by anyone carefully observing the cosmos.

Now, Borra and graduate student Eric Trottier say they've identified 234 stars emitting that exact signal, adding they all appear to have characteristics that would enable them to help sustain life.

Fellow academics are intrigued enough by the research to study the findings more closely, but are currently treating the findings with skepticism and saying it's too early to make definite claims.

Borra agrees, saying the latest findings — which have been published to a repository of scientific papers and are awaiting peer review — are far from conclusive.

"The kind of signal we found is in agreement with the ETI hypothesis, but right now it's still a hypothesis that must be confirmed with further work," Borra said in a telephone interview from Quebec City.

The signal at the heart of the theory involves lasers, which Borra said are a simple form of technology to produce and would be well within the capabilities of civilizations that are potentially much more advanced than humankind.

For their research, Borra and Trottier turned to the Slone Digital Sky Survey, a 16-year project that has purportedly mapped more than 30 per cent of the sky and catalogued spectra for at least 2.5 million astronomical objects.

Borra said they compared the theoretical spectrum that would be produced by laser flashes to the survey results and found only 234 matches.

Borra said the stars in question all share spectral characteristics with the sun, which itself is too hot to support life forms. The stars he's identified are therefore more likely to be the centres of prospective stellar systems in which other life-sustaining planets could exist, he added.

its because of withdrawal limits. its something tiny like 0.2 btc / week so it takes years if people want out. thats how leroy rolls!

I think this is the craziest thing I've heard all year.  If it weren't Spoetnik I would mock it right now.

I don't like Cloudflare too (too expensive and they can't manage/deny those attacks.
But there are other good alternatives:   Incapsula (a good one), Keycdn, Maxcdn, etc.