OK this helps, these all seem reasonable (in the sense that they help explain the answer to my question) but what about the financial institutions handling the transactions? My memory may be hazy but it was my understanding that the reason Stars and FTP couldn't simply move servers to somewhere like Russia and soldier on was because the FBI had the money-changers by the balls. And I'm pretty sure the Wire Act was made use of extensively to get them out of USA

Calvin Ayre owned bodog, a previously branded version of bovada. He was indicted in the US, though charges have been dropped after he agreed to give up a lot of money that was seized during the shut down process.

Bovada is owned by Mohawk Gaming, a Canadian tribe who really really dgaf.

Skalansky gonna be insufferable if online pokers comes back.

lol "gonna be"

While reading an article about how to contract scurvy in the modern era, there was a reference to why the medical community ignored evidence that citrus fruits may prove beneficial to sufferers of the disease. The author states that this was ignored because practitioners at the time believed in Shakespeare's Four Humors.

Reading through this reference I was immediately reminded of a naturopathic book that was recommended to me years ago. The more I read, the more I realized that pretty much the foundation of this "modern wonder" of a book was basically entirely premised on Shakespeare's Four Humors. Like, down to the names and everything.

I guess there are suckers born every generation, and you can repackage any garbage "science" from two hundred plus years ago and find someone willing to pay you a lot of money for it. The book I linked to is a number one seller. Sad.

I didn’t intentionally mean to provide more evidence that maybe humanity has peaked, but there it is.

idk why we’re blaming Shakespeare for ideas the ancient Greeks came up with.

Lol

The four humors explanation makes no sense. Scurvy was cured in the 18th century and then came back in the late 19th/early 20th for polar explorers when people certainly did not believe in the four humors. Here is a better story about the issue: http://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm.

I had a momentary urge to go out in the yard and pick some grapefruit. Maybe I'll have coffe instead though.

People knew citrus cured/prevented scurvy before Shakespeare was born, though not everyone knew it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scurvy

This is literally where limey comes from. How did people forget about the connection of citrus fruits and scurvy?

Four humors goes back to at least Galen (c. 150 AD) and likely as far as Hippocrates. It was a pretty useless system that at best gave some loose theoretical basis (which hampered further inquiry) for some scattered empirical results, much like the "four elements". People often associate the emergence of scientific medicine with Harvey's Circulation of the Blood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Harvey and greater focus on dissection/autopsies, with Padua being an important center of inquiry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatom...eatre_of_Padua

It's all in the link I posted, but you're supposed to use lemons and not limes. In addition, if you keep the lime juice in copper vessels, the vitamin C gets degraded and it doesn't do anything. So people took lime juice, got scurvy anyways, and decided that lime juice doesn't prevent scurvy.

https://twitter.com/AP_Interactive/s...43272400326657

True, true

Scientists transplant memories into snail

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44111476

So I've posted about the Michigan work for Medicaid program and how it makes African Americans work while exempting poor rural whites, but apparently that's how all these work for Medicaid programs work

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/tru...aid-work-rules

We can't consider Jefferson County a single entity for school districting purposes, but we'll sure as hell do so for Medicaid, as long as it means we can take health care from some black people.

Calling that "memory" is a loose definition.

Except for like Applebee’s. Waaah millennials are killing bad fast casual restaurants!

Ban Garrison has finished his magnum opus:

Can one of our many politard lawyers give me some cliffs on why RBG and Sotomayor voted against legalizing sports betting?