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Yellowjacket (835 D(B))
07 Aug 13 UTC
Awesome daily show clip
http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/tue-august-6-2013-liam-hemsworth


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krellin (80 DX)
07 Aug 13 UTC
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Thucy Depends Fund
In a recent pot, Thucy made a brave admission: he said he doesn,t know what it means to be respnsible for his own bowel movements...yes, he doesn't understand he has responsibilty to not shit hus pants. It's true...he said this.
Therefore, as a caring community, we will start a fund to purchase and send Thucy a supply of Depends. Would anyone care to start a PayPal account for this. We're just waiting on his size preference before we begin collections.
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Jack_Klein (897 D)
06 Aug 13 UTC
The definitions of liberal and conservative (and reactionary, and radical)
See below, long bit.
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orathaic (1009 D(B))
06 Aug 13 UTC
this remains one of the coolest bits of science news...
Giant ¿Virus? www.nature.com/news/giant-viruses-open-pandora-s-box-1.13410?WT.ec_id=NEWS-20130723
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Yellowjacket (835 D(B))
04 Aug 13 UTC
This country is going to hell.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-75-most-unforgettable-moments-from-minnesotas-first-day
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Cachimbo (1181 D)
04 Aug 13 UTC
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Osheaga (Montreal) !!!
Tons of fun. More when I'm done.
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thehamster (3263 D)
07 Aug 13 UTC
Live Game Buyin
Good position (turkey, 6 supply centers) http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=124255
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Maniac (189 D(B))
05 Aug 13 UTC
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Cheap Oil Paintings at www.westealtoorder.com
I've spent some time wondering around some galleries recently and I'm amazed how lax the security is. There are so few people actually looking at the pictures that I doubt anyone would notice if a few went missing. Let me have your requests and proposals for payment.
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krellin (80 DX)
06 Aug 13 UTC
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UN-Equal Reporting - Black on White Crime
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2385447/Theyre-beat-boy-death--Bus-driver-heard-pleading-CCTV-help-13-year-old-brutally-beaten-older-teens-way-school.html

A 13 year old white boy (unreported, but seen in video) is severly beaten by 3 15 year old black youths. No US reporting....No Al Sharpton in the streets. No calls for racial justice. Silence in the USA. Care to explain, anyone? Interested in why people think this is? Had it been REVERSED...imagine the hue and cry...
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SYnapse (0 DX)
26 Jul 13 UTC
Putting something into space
I really want to launch something into space.
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NigeeBaby (100 D(G))
06 Aug 13 UTC
I've found Leonidas.....
http://lifeofastrangerwhostolemyphone.tumblr.com/

He is on the thread at the end of this mail......
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NigeeBaby (100 D(G))
05 Aug 13 UTC
Billy Bragg
Socialist song-writer and singer
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Shirin (0 DX)
05 Aug 13 UTC
cheap wholesale oil paintings at www._____.com!
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Draugnar (0 DX)
05 Aug 13 UTC
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Please route *all* league replacements through me.
Draugnar ([email protected])

I am the TD and I am trying to free up some time to handle them. We *will* get the B-leagues back ont rack and get the next round of games started.
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Tardigrade (102 D)
05 Aug 13 UTC
Players needed for American game. Third attempt.
There's currently an American game titled "Battle for Texornia" that has six spaces left. The four people currently listed, and one more who will be listed if he decides to join, do know each other. Alliances and enemies however, will be made under circumstance and not pre-game relationships. Please take that into account if you sign up. The toll is 15 D and the password is turner.
gameID=124027
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dirge (768 D(B))
05 Aug 13 UTC
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Proof that 9/11 was an inside job
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dvv-Yib1Xg
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redhouse1938 (429 D)
05 Aug 13 UTC
Dutch beef 2.0
http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2013/08/artificial-meat
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bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
06 Aug 13 UTC
RIP Kramer Williamson
One of the great racers I've ever had the pleasure to know. Built on character and a genuine kindness... most sprint fans probably like me thought he was invincible.

Sad day.
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slyster (3934 D)
02 Aug 13 UTC
Virginia Beach
See inside
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Sbyvl36 (439 D)
05 Aug 13 UTC
The Enemies of Sbyvl
I am starting a game in which I will play the people I disagree with on the forum. If you want to be in the game, PM me, and I'll give you the password.
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2ndWhiteLine (2596 D(B))
05 Aug 13 UTC
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Looking for paintings
Hey guys anyone know a good site where I can get some cheap oil paintings?
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bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
05 Aug 13 UTC
Need Sitter
Since four people so graciously refused, I need a sitter for one gunboat game through Monday. Shouldn't be a hard position to play, but could be necessary for a stalemate.
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LakersFan (899 D)
04 Aug 13 UTC
America, the Terrified -- and Terrible
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/08/03/1228675/-Unarmed-Couple-Shot-At-137-Times-By-Police
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Xildur (2284 D)
05 Aug 13 UTC
Help from Mod
Greetings. Since today, I need to go until 14th August.
Please pause my games since I'll be unable to connect to internet to play until I return from abroad.
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seth24c (5659 D)
01 Aug 13 UTC
College.
Moving in Monday for my freshman year. Any (hopefully serious, but if not i don't mind) last minute advice?
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Shirin (0 DX)
05 Aug 13 UTC
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Yellowjacket (835 D(B))
01 Aug 13 UTC
Idiots hate logic?
There are a couple prominent idiots on the forum recently doing foul things towards logic...and have been prominent idiots in the past (4 examples to follow). The forum response? THEY TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY. Funny, the mods openly speak about all sorts of multiaccounting issues...but on rampant logical fallacy by idiots...silence. Do IDIOTS HATE LOGIC?!?
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Sbyvl36 (439 D)
04 Aug 13 UTC
I challenge you, Bo sox
I challenge you to debate which economic system is best: Capitalism or Communism. Do you accept?
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Chaqa (3971 D(B))
04 Aug 13 UTC
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I will moderate.

I want a good, dirty, fight. Lots of trash talk and insults.
Sbyvl36 (439 D)
04 Aug 13 UTC
That is if he even responds...
Sbyvl36 (439 D)
04 Aug 13 UTC
Unfortunately, Mr. Liberal has left the forum. This debate will have to occur tomorrow. But anyhow, I'd like everyone to know that I am giving bo_sox the Nitwit of the Month award on my blog. I hope this makes him feel better.
bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
04 Aug 13 UTC
You can't eat money.

That's the crux of my economic debate. Think what you will, there's not much to discuss with me.
redvolunteer (119 D)
04 Aug 13 UTC
>I challenge you to debate which economic system is best

What a fantastically inept way to start a "debate". Better at what? For whom? Is this theoretical, or are you talking about comparing cases of Actually Existing Socialism in the 20th Century with the developed West? Unless you want to get involved in a lengthy polemic which would be better suited to e-mail, it's better to pick a specific facet of production / society / <whatever> and debate the merits of each social system in light of this.

In fact, ignore that. Why don't we all just skip straight to the "Stalin literally all of Ukraine in GULAG, lol trabants" phase so we can have some amusement.
krellin (80 DX)
04 Aug 13 UTC
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I'd like to see a debate where you actually take the viewpoint you do NOT believe in but try to win the debate, to see if anyone around here actually knows what the hell they are normally arguing against.

Chances are...this would be a miserable failure of a debate...
bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
04 Aug 13 UTC
Yes, it likely would, considering I'm a high schooler that hasn't ever taken an economics class and Sbyvl is, well, Sbyvl.
krellin (80 DX)
04 Aug 13 UTC
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Bo -- I was actually directing that comment to the entire community.

Most times people start trash talking and have to idea what the hell they are talking about.

For example, if you listened to the anti-conservative crowd around here, you would actually think we eat babies, shit in the water supply and buy cartloads of groceries that we dump in the garbage just to make sure nobody else has it.

Of course, ALL the rabid characterization of whack-job Liberals *do* tend to be spot on...don't you think? lol
bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
04 Aug 13 UTC
Well, the oil companies do shit in the water supply. Other than that, yeah, I hear ya.
NigeeBaby (100 D(G))
04 Aug 13 UTC
"Capitalism is an economic system in which capital assets are privately owned and items are brought to market for profit. In a capitalist economy, the parties to a transaction determine the prices at which assets, goods, and services are exchanged,"
You cannot use an economic system to as a basis for national governance. If you did there would be very little place for war as it so unproductive and wasteful of resources. Strict adherence to Capitalism would decimate the arms industry.
One of the key components of a successful Capitalist system is labour, so the welfare of the population would be paramount as a healthy, flexible, educated supply of labour is vital to maximise productivity, therefore you would have lots of incentives and programs seeking to maximise employee health & happiness.
There would be much stricter controls over large multinationals that seek to gain economic advantage by reducing competition and gaining oligopolistic or monopolistic advantage, control prices, supplies, etc.
Proper Capitalism is a system to make effective use of available resources via a supply & demand model, unfortunately we don't punish severely enough the people seeking to distort and control these markets.
If we want real Capitalism we have to stop working with organisations and governments that constantly seek to control and/or destabilize Capitalist Markets like the Chinese, or the large banks or oil companies, if you want to see proper and efficient capitalism legislation is required.

YadHoGrojaUL (330 D)
04 Aug 13 UTC
+1 Nigee.
semck83 (229 D(B))
04 Aug 13 UTC
That's an interesting idea, krellin.
MajorMitchell (1874 D)
04 Aug 13 UTC
@ redvolounteer--- well made points
thats almost exactly my initial response when I saw the thread
"better at WHAT ???"
it's a bit simplistic, but one observation I have made about Capitalism when compared to Communism, is that:
Capitalism is the best system for creating wealth, but has not much ability to distribute the wealth created with equity or fairness
Communism, obviously.
kaner406 (356 D)
04 Aug 13 UTC
um... that should be capitalism vs socialism; right?

or are you talking about democracy vs communism?
Sbyvl36 (439 D)
04 Aug 13 UTC
Capitalism vs. Marxism, two different economic systems
Cachimbo (1181 D)
04 Aug 13 UTC
These systems all answer to different conception of reason, all of which are relevant, none of which is sufficient on its own. We need an integrated system, one that can bring together the various relevant principles and structure a social world more attuned to the complexities of human reality.
Sbyvl36 (439 D)
04 Aug 13 UTC
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You mean Capitalism?
jmo1121109 (3812 D)
04 Aug 13 UTC
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"I'd like to see a debate where you actually take the viewpoint you do NOT believe in but try to win the debate, to see if anyone around here actually knows what the hell they are normally arguing against."

Couldn't agree more.
bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
04 Aug 13 UTC
That's what we do during school debates, jmo/krellin. It usually requires some extensive research.
Sbyvl36 (439 D)
04 Aug 13 UTC
I wonder why bo sox is an Anti-Capitalist....
krellin (80 DX)
04 Aug 13 UTC
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Bo - that's great. I really don't think a lot of people actually take the time to explore and understand the other side of issues.

I have a friend - she works used to work as a head of staff for a pro-life Democrat Congressman (she's a Lib/Dem) - and she often had to do research and write speeches supporting the pro-Life movement as part of her job. It was an interesting experience for her...and then she lost a baby while pregnant and completely changed her stance to pro-life, and now runs the organization Democrats for Life in America. But I think it was her research and understanding of "the opposition" that helped inform her decision to change stances after her personal trial...

...sop you never know what might happen to you when you *truly* attempt to research and understand *all* sides of an argument.

It's too bad that our education system in this country is often so biased and one-sided on many issues (on *both* sides of the political spectrum, I might add, as you move from topic to topic....)

Sbyvl36 (439 D)
04 Aug 13 UTC
"pro-life Democrat Congressman" Is there such a thing?
krellin (80 DX)
04 Aug 13 UTC
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Sbyvl....you would never know it by Democrat party politics or the media. Anyone that doesn't tow the party line is ostracized and silenced. She has been denied entry to Democrat conventions in the past - the Democrats are not a very open and receptive party *at all*. It's actually very interesting to talk to her and here the inside party dirt on the party of hypocrisy.

AND YES, I know, the Republicans are the same way, blah blah blah...BUT...BUT....if you look at the Republican party *today*, you will see that it is a party of division...a party that DOES have more than one opinion on any subject matter -- you know, a party where people are actually ALLOWED to have more than one opinion and fight for what they believe in....

Think about that...
Sbyvl36 (439 D)
04 Aug 13 UTC
Very true. Who is this Pro-Life Democrat? She deserves a gold star...
bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
04 Aug 13 UTC
@Krellin, I'd say those debates (and other diverse forums like this one) are the primary reason that I don't buy into all the propaganda that the Democrats throw into our faces nowadays.

Teachers consider it their jobs to enlighten their students to as many aspects of the world as they can, and while it seems like teachers could become curriculum robots and follow the textbooks to the letter, they have personal feelings like anyone else and those tend to come out in their teaching. The state of education in the United States is so torn up by politics that there's no way it's biased either way because neither party does it any good at all and every teacher knows that, though many choose the lesser of two evils in their minds by supporting the left, which is clearly more favorable to progressive education than traditional education. However, teachers also know that education should be about students, not politics.

@Sbyvl, yes, there is, but you're too closed-minded and oblivious to see that there are actually variations in policy among those with party membership on both sides.
Sbyvl36 (439 D)
04 Aug 13 UTC
Teachers are organized indoctrinators. Been there.
bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
04 Aug 13 UTC
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I don't even know what that means.
Sbyvl36 (439 D)
04 Aug 13 UTC
You don't know the definition of indoctrination?
krellin (80 DX)
04 Aug 13 UTC
Well Bo - I'd say you have to look at where the teachers BECOME teachers to understand in part the politics they bring to the table. The UNiversity systems is *highly* politicized and liberal, and the education system is bought and paid for by the very-left leaning teacher's unions. Therefore....

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NigeeBaby (100 D(G))
04 Aug 13 UTC
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Peter Capaldi is Who?
...... Who is he
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Mintyboy4 (100 D)
04 Aug 13 UTC
Can anyone account sit me quick? End game position.
Can anybody please sit my account for 1 week. Very short notice I know, but it would be a real shame to screw up a decent long game like this.
Just found out that I have no connection from tomorrow at all. I'm playing 1 full press anon WTA classic game, 48 hour phases. The game is in the end game, Might finish before I get back.
Please message me for details.
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