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Partysane (10754 D(B))
14 Jun 14 UTC
World Barista Championships 2014
During the last week the World Barista Championships were conducted in Rimini (Italy). There the national champions of 54 countries promoted speciality coffee and direct trade / fair trade.
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bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
14 Jun 14 UTC
I Need Some Games
It's summer, I'm bored and unemployed, it's not spring anymore so I'm afraid to go outside, and I just bought a bunch of bitcoin that the US seized from Silk Road and I'm gonna go use it on Silk Road 2.0 - irony anyone?

Long story short - who wants to play...
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DniceG (0 DX)
14 Jun 14 UTC
parameter "fromterrID" set to invalid value "17" mean
This came up when I was playing a game as Italy. I tried to convoy an army from Greece to Marseilles ( I had fleets in the Ionian sea, tyrennien sea, and gulf of Lyon ) but when I try to support the convoy into Marseilles from the fleet in the gulf of Lyon it gives me the error parameter "fromterrID" set to invalid value "17". What does this mean and how can I fix this. I need an answer soon since the phase moves on at 5 in the morning pacific standard time
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Clyde Hancock (0 DX)
14 Jun 14 UTC
live gunboat
Join live gunboat game http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=143365 starts in 50 minutes
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goldfinger0303 (3157 DMod)
10 Jun 14 UTC
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Congratulations to the Masters 2013 Winners!
The tournament finally wrapped up in May - about 5 months behind schedule (ah well), and the results are in! Congratulations to The Hanged Man for coming in first place!
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krellin (80 DX)
13 Jun 14 UTC
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Dogs More Responsible then Liberals (Study)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2656101/Clever-boy-Dogs-prefer-EARN-treats-solving-problems-receiving-handouts.html

"In a series of experiments, scientists found dogs were happier when they earned a reward by performing a task, rather than just being handed a treat" Too bad all our government tit-sucking Liberals weren't dogs...
krellin (80 DX)
13 Jun 14 UTC
I does explain why, collectively, Libtards are so angry about everything...
SantaClausowitz (360 D)
13 Jun 14 UTC
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During work hours, I guess dogs are more responsible than you as well...
Randomizer (722 D)
13 Jun 14 UTC
But dogs are good at finding out what humans want and responding to get rewards, so there may be an experimental bias. They've been doing it for thousands of years ever since the wolves raided garbage dumps.
Mapu (362 D)
13 Jun 14 UTC
In other news, "Dogs Smarter Than WingNuts"
If you'll excuse me, me and my liberal values are going off to work, where I plan to WORK, and not google search "how to please dogs."
Chaqa (3971 D(B))
13 Jun 14 UTC
Lunch breaks, yo.
SantaClausowitz (360 D)
13 Jun 14 UTC
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we've already determined that Krellin's lunch break lasts from about 9 to 5
Draugnar (0 DX)
13 Jun 14 UTC
Salaried employee paid to fulfill my responsibilities whether they take 8 hours or 80 in a week, yo. And I know krellin is the same and *may* even be between his old job and the new one he just accepted.
ghug (5068 D(B))
13 Jun 14 UTC
"so.angry about everything"

Thanks for that. Nothing like some hilarious irony to start the day.
krellin (80 DX)
13 Jun 14 UTC
Draug, even having signed my offer letter and having a start date in hand, therefore knowing that any commision I would earn between now and then will be lost to me, I am still submitting candidates and have scheduled 4 candidate interviews this week.
Mapu (362 D)
13 Jun 14 UTC
So you are a recruiter of some kind?
abgemacht (1076 D(G))
13 Jun 14 UTC
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Why do you sound surprised? Krellin always presents himself as such a people person.
krellin (80 DX)
13 Jun 14 UTC
Oh, I am, I am...
Draugnar (0 DX)
13 Jun 14 UTC
Oh geez! That didn't work! If anyone here works in Dynamics AX development, never try creating a Task in C# and running it under DynAX. IT shuts down AOS in a freaking heartbeat! Time to find another way to speed this up...
Draugnar (0 DX)
13 Jun 14 UTC
Just showing you we can work *and* monitor the forums at the same time. :-)
krellin (80 DX)
13 Jun 14 UTC
Candidates love me - I'm a former engineer who can actually talk about their jobs from experience, instead of some low-educated liberal arts shmuck who landed ass-backwards in recruiting and couldn't ask a technical follow-up question in an interview if their life depended on it.. And clients trust me, because I bring them what they want.
Chaqa (3971 D(B))
13 Jun 14 UTC
It's actually pretty easy.
Mapu (362 D)
13 Jun 14 UTC
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Draug, a strange post about 90's technology just showed up on this thread under your name.
abgemacht (1076 D(G))
13 Jun 14 UTC
Draug is a Windows developer. They're all stuck in the 90's. : )
Draugnar (0 DX)
13 Jun 14 UTC
@Mapu and Abgemacht - By your definition, the business world is stuck in the 90s. I'm talking about trying to make Dynamics AX 2012 (the latest and greatest from Microsoft) multitask. It's easy in normal .Net environments, but not so much in Axapta.
Draugnar (0 DX)
13 Jun 14 UTC
I ended up having to do it using X++ and adding a batch job to the AX batch queue, but that sucks as AX doesn't exactly put a high priority on batch jobs. At least it got back to out more modern system quicker than synchronous processing, but not as quick as a true asynch series of calls would have been for processing a service request with hundreds of lines. Synchronous was painfully slow. Asynch fire and forget it calls of the webservice in AX caused AX to overload and shutdown. This is a happy medium.
ckroberts (3548 D)
13 Jun 14 UTC
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School age users of the website, hear me!

Look at krellin decrying the importance of a liberal arts education. Notice how he can barely make a coherent sentence and lacks the basic reasoning and argumentative skills so important to public and professional life today. Draw the correct conclusions! Take those liberal arts classes, and pay attention in your literature, history, science, and philosophy courses. See what path krellin has trod - you can avoid it!
Randomizer (722 D)
13 Jun 14 UTC
Engineers don't need to be coherent. They just need to make the next gadget work and have a death ray on hand to take out critics.
jmo1121109 (3812 D)
13 Jun 14 UTC
Or take Engineering and CIS classes and be successful. My University required that all CIS students make a study in liberal arts. I did mine in biblical and heretical history because why not. I'll give you 1 guess as to whether or not knowing about the history of the Bible helped me get my job at a software firm that pays over 60K straight out of college.
krellin (80 DX)
13 Jun 14 UTC
ckroberts - actually, I took honors english writing courses in college, took a philosophy series and various liberal arts classes to round out my education.

then I got myself a real degree so I could buy a house, a car and feed myself.

The reason you most likely fail to comprehend anything said to you that isn't in the pidgen english of yoru media masters is because you never took logic courses, anything requiring critical thinking, etc...but most likely indulged yourself with a bunch of libtard morons who told you no matter what you do, you are wonderful (especially if you simply repeat what you are told).

You are a good, proud sheep, no doubt. Sorely lacking in any critical thining skills...but hey, ignorance is bliss, right?
ckroberts (3548 D)
13 Jun 14 UTC
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If you consider the most important thing in your life to be how much money you make at your job, you really need those liberal arts classes.
krellin (80 DX)
13 Jun 14 UTC
Chaqa - you are either a liberal arts clown who is completely oblivious to your lack of understanding of the world, or have never actually been in an interview.
krellin (80 DX)
13 Jun 14 UTC
ckroberts - did I say that? I did not. Again...critical thinking skills, clown...get some. Pathetic, really.

Perhaps it's simply your lack of reading skills, as I listed some of my non-technical acedemics...having taken them, I would have assumed that even a retard might gather that I find these things important. Meaning that you are...less than...(I'll see if you can complete the self-assessment on your own...)
ckroberts (3548 D)
13 Jun 14 UTC
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krellin, it is neat that you literally do not know what liberal arts means, but you don't let that slow you down. A logic course and a course that includes critical thinking (which would mean most sciences and social sciences, I guess) would fall under liberal arts.
ckroberts (3548 D)
13 Jun 14 UTC
But krellin you are correct that you did not say that about jobs, I was replying to the implications of jmo's statement.

krellin (80 DX)
13 Jun 14 UTC
Taht being said ckroberts...if you are the smartest little liberal arts clown around, but you can't feed and house yourself, then you are a fool and a moron. Denying the importance of financial well being means you, no doubt, are a yet-another oxygen wasting libtard either living off the government tit, or most likely in Mommy and Daddy’s basement…which, I might remind you, since you are clearly too stupid to grasp this yourself…there would be no basement if someone didn’t make money to build it, and there would be no government tit to suck from if there were not income to tax, moron.
krellin (80 DX)
13 Jun 14 UTC
ck - I'm well aware of what liberal arts means. It's neat that you deny that technical education generally speaking will result in a higher standard of living...and allow us to support the whiners with their liberal arts degrees. But you keep thiking what a smarty-smart guy you are....it's what we expect of you.
jmo1121109 (3812 D)
13 Jun 14 UTC
@ckroberts, I love my job, it's awesome and I get to make things that are useful and helpful to thousands of people. While I understand the appeal of liberal arts classes, I do not understand the people who feel that being a liberal arts major is enough. I have to agree with Krellin here, because I've known too many Liberal Arts majors who don't strive to do or be anything once they graduate, who only complain that life doesn't match the expectations they created for themselves in school.
krellin (80 DX)
13 Jun 14 UTC
Liberal arts classes are nice to round out the personality of someone that produces something in society.

In modern society, in many cases Liberal arts alone makes for arrogant paupers...
krellin (80 DX)
13 Jun 14 UTC
ck...do you need us to define "pauper" for you? Or is the mirror sufficient?
ckroberts (3548 D)
13 Jun 14 UTC
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krellin, Lots of engineers are smarter than me, it's a tough field which requires (you guessed it) the skills which a study of the liberal arts develops. You can't do engineering without math. We need engineers and other professional and technical folks, although I suspect we have too many of some.

Your reliance on crutches of bad thinking, like the word "libtard" or your insinuation that I am a pauper and such fact has some relevance on the points that I make a.k.a. the ad hominem fallacy, plus the fact that you did indeed take some liberal arts courses, suggests you might be beyond the improvement of even America's best educators. But for the average individual, a better understanding of history, rhetoric, science, and so on (i.e. the liberal arts) will make them a more well-rounded citizen - crucial to the very existence of self-government - and I would say more professionally valuable. Almost everyone writes and communicates in their work, for example, and most people can only get better at that in a liberal arts curriculum.

jmo, money is important, sure, but it's a means to an end. You recognize that there's a larger purpose, and I applaud that. However, lots of people in technical fields seem to make the same mistake which you ascribe to liberal arts majors - a misunderstanding about what's a tool and what's the purpose. The study of the liberal arts best provides the skills and knowledge to understand what's important in life and how to navigate it, the same way that a good income makes it possible to get through life more easily. But neither is a goal in themselves except to the extent that they're enjoyable.

I find it impossible to believe that you don't see people even on this very website who need a more rigorous background in history, persuasive writing, critical thinking, and so on.
abgemacht (1076 D(G))
13 Jun 14 UTC
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You can make a lot of money in STEM fields, but only if you enjoy it and are good at it. A bad engineer is not going to make good money (unless he goes off and becomes a recruiter : p )

You're much better off doing something you can be great at. There are plenty of rewarding and profitable non-STEM fields. To suggest otherwise is foolish. And yes, being well rounded is important for all fields, even if it means suffering through some stuff that isn't of immediate interest.
abgemacht (1076 D(G))
13 Jun 14 UTC
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Take for instance my gf. She loves writing, poetry, and all that boring stupid stuff so she majored in English. She now works as a technical writer making tons of money. I would say her Liberal Arts degree prepared her very well for the real world.
2ndWhiteLine (2736 D(B))
13 Jun 14 UTC
Take my girlfriend...please!
bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
13 Jun 14 UTC
There was a guy once who was so desperate to stay in a poker game when he ran out of money that he put up his wife to the other player if he lost. Well, he did lose, and his wife was so upset with him that she left him for the player that beat him.


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Yellowjacket (835 D(B))
10 Jun 14 UTC
Another dead child in another school shooting
Nope, no problem here. Keep calm. Give thanks tonight that this child sacrificed himself so that you can maintain your right to bear arms.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/10/justice/oregon-high-school-shooting/
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ThatBuhlLarry (100 D)
13 Jun 14 UTC
World Game Anyone?
Created a live world game, starts in 1 day
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SYnapse (0 DX)
13 Jun 14 UTC
The languages game EOG
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bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
12 Jun 14 UTC
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Air Force Nearly Dropped Nuke on NC
http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/12/us/north-carolina-nuclear-bomb-drop/

Uhh... woopsies?
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NigeeBaby (100 D(G))
13 Jun 14 UTC
Iraq .... what a difference all those tax dollars and allied deaths made
Another blundering intervention into a foreign country thanks to Bush & Bliar and another nutter put in charge.
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krellin (80 DX)
12 Jun 14 UTC
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Oh No! I'm SCARED!!!!
I just learned about something that happened 50 years ago and it was scary and now *I'm scared*!!! Oh no..someone help me!!!!
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obiwanobiwan (248 D)
11 Jun 14 UTC
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor LOSES Primary to Tea Party Candidate
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/11/us/politics/eric-cantor-loses-gop-primary.html I hate to post two threads in one day, but wow...that's a stunner! He was supposed to be a rising star in the GOP, and reasonably conservative, too...I said back during the Government Shutdown that it was going to hurt moderates more than the Tea Partyers, but WOW...I never thought someone as conservative as Cantor would go. Isolated (if astounding) incident, or indicative of a bigger shift?
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denis (864 D)
12 Jun 14 UTC
Replacements for Live Gunboat
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=143290 Austria and England
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CommanderByron (801 D(S))
12 Jun 14 UTC
Civil Disorder
I'm a genuine noob, what is Civil Disorder (in this game) and simply looking for an explanation.
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ssorenn (0 DX)
11 Jun 14 UTC
Two team members per country game?
gameID=143236

Here's the link for anyone interested in the game.
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TheMinisterOfWar (509 D)
12 Jun 14 UTC
Political polarization in the US
Interesting data on longitudinal political polarization in the US:

http://www.people-press.org/2014/06/12/political-polarization-in-the-american-public/
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Chaqa (3971 D(B))
11 Jun 14 UTC
Mafia III Game Thread
Stuff to follow.
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ILN (100 D)
12 Jun 14 UTC
Man protects daughter from thugs... with a gun
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/husband-and-wife-open-fire-on-gunmen-who-try-to/article_29109617-bc56-534f-82e6-d36ccba40c38.html
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Maniac (189 D(B))
08 Jun 14 UTC
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What kind of site moderation do we want?
I know that we've had this discussion before. I can't recall what we all preferred, but we have ended up with a mod who sees it as OK to taunt, hound and attempt to out-bully another member. Not only is that likely to bring the site into disrepute but it is borderline criminal in Kestas jurisdiction and could lead to site sanctions. Is this what we want?
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denis (864 D)
11 Jun 14 UTC
So a Live Game has been paused
A live game has been paused due to Russia's impending absence, I was wondering if it doesn't start back up as a live game (as paused live games often never do) could a mod change it to a different time per phase so that the game could continue
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obiwanobiwan (248 D)
02 Jun 14 UTC
The Favorite Author Tournament: The Sweet 16
Into Round 3 we go, with Team Virgil once again eking out a victory to move on...will it happen again? Will Rowling or Woolf be able to keep busting through that glass ceiling and move on as the only two female authors left? Will Asimov continue to keep the hopes of fans alive, as after a glut of sci-fi writers to start, he's the last one standing? Will Thucy drop the "vote 12 times per turn" thing now that Thoreau and Laozi have gone the way of Shakespeare? 16 enter, 8 move on!
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steephie22 (182 D(S))
11 Jun 14 UTC
What to do with a bent splint (right word?) in my mouth?
I already called the dentist and I'm going there tomorrow morning since earlier is impossible, but meanwhile I was wondering if there's something I can do to make it less damaging. The thing is that it's very much irritating the flesh around the teeth, as well as presumably pulling my teeth out of position. Can anyone think of a fix?
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Bayclown (0 DX)
11 Jun 14 UTC
Far Cry
Saw some Far Cry 4 footage and it looks pretty interesting. I've never played any of the games in the series are they worth picking up?
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NigeeBaby (100 D(G))
11 Jun 14 UTC
Tony Bliar - Working his magic in the Middle East
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-27800319

Is this a good time to review Tony Bliars role as Middle East Peace Envoy?
I hope it is not payment by results, I don't think he could afford it !!
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SYnapse (0 DX)
11 Jun 14 UTC
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Funniest exchange in a game I've seen so far
Autumn, 1916: Turkey : (OOC: I had a close family member pass away this weekend. Sorry for NMR.)
Autumn, 1916: Austria: Fuck's sake Turkey do you want to lose?
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President Eden (2750 D)
09 Jun 14 UTC
Mafia III: Trouble On The Fruited Plain
As above, below
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bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
10 Jun 14 UTC
"Hard Choices" by Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton's new book came out today, June 10. See below for the point of this post.
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bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
10 Jun 14 UTC
bo_sox48 Chastisement Thread
I feel left out. Hit me.
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SandgooseXXI (113 D)
10 Jun 14 UTC
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Sandgoose Chastisement Thread
Go on, spank me, call me a bad little boy. It only gets harder from here...if you know what I mean. ;)
#countonsandgoose #justiceforjmo #fapfapfap
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