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08 Oct 13 UTC
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A New Site Feature

I know less than nothing about how this would have to be implemented, so feel free to ignore this. Would it be possible to add a feature that allows people to "follow" games that they aren't in?

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Coming out....

Of retirement. Havent played a game in about 5 months, and have been spoiled by high quality play for to long to be satisfied by a random game.

Looking for 6 other good, reliable players who send a lot of press. Who wants in!?

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Happy Thanksgiving!

To all our neighbours in the nourth.

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14 Oct 13 UTC

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Join

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Blankflag Memorial Classic

in honour of our friend blankflags latest silencing i thought it would be cool to have a game the only special rule is that in your press you have to type like blankflag with no capital letters or other punctuation

join to my game gameID=127466

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Passion of the Christ

I've just watched that for the first time ..... whoever made that film must have loved the Jews.

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NFL Pick 'em: Week 6--Can the Giants Get A Win? Should the 'skins Change Their Name?

We start Week 6 with a game that looked a LOT better before the season started, the Giants and the Cowboys. The Cowboys and Redskins play on Sunday Night, an always-fun match-up (what do you think about the Redskin name, by the way, change it or no?) and there are plenty of interesting games with the Pack and Ravens going at it, the Saints and Patriots going head-to-head, and more. So, Week 6, here we go...PICK 'EM!

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Protest by Congress

Not against Congress... actual people from Congress protesting... http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/10/8/us-lawmakers-arrestedatimmigrationrally.html

Start of something big maybe?

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Are you a fuloughed US employee? Do you like free stuff?

Apparently GOG is giving away free video games to anyone who sends them an email with a picture of them, and their furlough notice. I remember some people complaining on this forum about being furloughed by don't remember who. So public notice y'all. http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/128554-GOG-Offers-Free-Games-to-Furloughed-U-S-Employees

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Good News for Arizonans........

...... bad news for Washington politicians
The Grand Canyon has re-opened.
Anarchy in the USA, profit-making tourist attraction back in business.

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Nobel Peace Prize Continues to be a joke

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/12/world/chemical-weapons-watchdog-wins-nobel-peace-prize.html

How can you give the peace prize to a chemical weapons watchdog the year chemical weapons are used in war? They had one job.

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Shoddy Peer Review in Open Access Journals

As reported in Science (http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/60.full):
Open Access Journals may be more likely to accept suspect papers (as they are paid by the authors) as demonstrated by Bohannon, who submitted a clearly false paper to several hundred journals, to be rejected by less than half.

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12 Oct 13 UTC

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Rules question passing by

Can a Fleet in Bulgaria (nc) support a move to Greece?

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Enhance the Forum, Please!

Add "follow" like mute thread function to prioritize to top, and please add a category in thread creation for "diplomacy" and "non-diplomacy" so we can filter one or the other at any time.

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Otto Von Bastard (302

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Support holding a unit which is supporting another units move?

If a unit is supporting a move, can another unit behind it support hold it or does that not work because the unit it wants to support hold is not holding?

Say Rumania wanted to support move a unit but I wanted to support hold Rumania from Bulgaria would that protect Rumania or would it not work?

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The Web of Fear's a Source of Joy Again--9 DOCTOR WHO EPISODES RECOVERED! :D

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24467337

That's really great, and just in time for the 50th anniversary too...even if we want to say maybe that timing is a little "too" good, hey, they're missing episodes recovered, and all of them from Troughton, who is awesome in the role...I'd love to see these!

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The Blame Obama thread

What is Obama's fault? Let's make a list.

I'll start off and say terrorism is Obama's fault.

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Can I get some feedback from someone

gameID=127434
not my best game but normally I play horribly as Italy
If anyone who professors the SoW games has some free time i'd like to get some feedback. Especially because live full-press games are very different from less speedy games

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Weall love Saudi Arabia ....

....... they got cheap oil !!
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/variety/2013/09/28/Driving-affects-ovary-and-pelvis-Saudi-sheikh-warns-women.html

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A Nobel in Two Pages

Physical Review is making available for free the papers that won the Physics Nobel Prizes this year (for the prediction of the Higgs boson). One of them is two pages, and the other is three. That's not so uncommon in physics, but it's still remarkable how tersely a great idea can be communicated. Here is the link for the interested:

http://prst-ab.aps.org/edannounce/2013-nobel-prize-in-physics

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World Cup Qualifiers

In terms of CONCACAF, Mexico is the brink of having to fight New Zealand in a playoff to get in. I had the pleasure of seeing USA defeat them in person and secure our spot in Brazil. How is everybody else looking?

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Debt Service without Raising the Ceiling

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics-live/liveblog/live-updates-the-shutdown-4/?hpid=z2#c1e3ada3-dc00-41

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Yes, we can service our debt and not default on our credit without raising the debt ceiling. Just like YOU, the individual, can prioritize your spending at home (say, cancel cable when money gets tight)...so can the Fed. QUIT LYING OBAMA AND ALL YOU LIBTARDS!

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Invictus (240 )
09 Oct 13 UTC
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Sure, it COULD work. But why risk it? Why risk a financial crisis? Why risk a further downgrade? Why risk launching an international movement to move from the dollar as the world's reserve currency to a basket of currencies?

The Congressional Republicans need to cave. Cruz's magical thinking on this issue has proven to be as silly as sober Republicans said it would be. Keeping this debacle going will do nothing but discredit reasonable moves to bring spending down to sustainable levels and reform entitlements, and do great damage to the only party that even pretends to want to address these looming crises: the GOP.

People like krellin enable irresponsible politicians and weak Congressional leadership to create messes like this. Whenever the Democrats win over the next 8 days, get ready for a wholesale slaughter of leadership (#SpeakerRyan) and a Chris Christie apotheosis. It's time for smart conservatives to get back in the driver's seat, not delusional ones.

Jack_Klein (897 )
09 Oct 13 UTC

I personally would welcome the non nutjob conservatives to get in the drivers seat. You can do business with them.

jmbostwick (2308 )
09 Oct 13 UTC

Invictus, I'm with you on everything you said except the notion that Paul Ryan as Speaker would somehow be a move *away* from delusional. (Though I may have misinterpreted that, and if so I apologize).

Bob Genghiskhan (1233 )
09 Oct 13 UTC

Honestly, I don't think the Republican party will return to sanity until we do something fairly drastic about gerrymandering. Is there a defensible reason why we still let partisan politicians draw up their own districts, at the state or federal levels?

Invictus (240 )
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No, you understood right. You're confusing political opposition to Paul Ryan with him being delusional like, say, Senator Cruz or the handful of nihilists in the House. As far as I know, and he's been keeping mum so it's hard to tell, he's not in that camp at all.

Paul Ryan is exactly what I mean by smart conservative. It doesn't mean NOT pushing extensive reforms and efforts to bring spending to sustainable levels, but rather doing it in a reasonable way that has the potential for success.

And, let's face it, Paul Ryan's the only one to be Speaker if the current leadership is shaken off. Cantor would be a move in exactly the wrong direction, and no other member has the stature and support Ryan has.

Putin33 (111 )
09 Oct 13 UTC

But if we didn't the GOP would go extinct. Fair elections are to Republicans what garlic is to cats.

Invictus (240 )
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No, no good defense exists for gerrymandering. But this isn't a new or uniquely Republican problem. Look at what Democrats did to Illinois' districts after the 2010 census, or how black Democrat politicians in all states WANT gerrymandered districts which enclose as many blacks as possible in order to give them safe seats and a guaranteed seat at the governing table.

For what it's worth, I think districts should follow county and municipal lines and be drawn by apolitical panels of people like retired judges and statistics professors.

Invictus (240 )
09 Oct 13 UTC

Cats hate garlic? You learn something new every day.

Bob Genghiskhan (1233 )
09 Oct 13 UTC

Hell yes, the Democrats abuse the power to draw districts with equal glee as the Republicans. I'm guessing that if the Greens or the Libertarians ever took over a state, they'd do the same damn thing. Which is why it needs to be done away with.

Draugnar (0 )
09 Oct 13 UTC

No such thing as an apolitical retired judge. He or she always has a horse in the race when you consider most judges are elected at the lower levels and all judges start at the lower levels. Even appointed judges have a horse in the race (the one that appointed them) so when they retire, that is still their "party".

Invictus (240 )
09 Oct 13 UTC

You haven't met many judges, have you?

Bob Genghiskhan (1233 )
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@Putin

no, the GOP would not go extinct if we ended the practice of gerrymandering. There's still plenty of states where they'd be able to win districted elections. But because their elections would not be sure things, they wouldn't have to spend all their time worrying about being successfully primaried by the craziest doofuses in the country. I'd love to see a sane Republican party, if only because that would force the Democrats to stand for something other than "Hey, at least we're not those guys." as they shovel the public treasury at the large investment banks.

jmbostwick (2308 )
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There are simple, easy-to-understand ways of splitting up districts using statistics, rather than politics -- the "shortest split-line method" is one example. But even fixing gerrymandering doesn't completely solve the issue of entrenched political parties. To do something like that, you'd need to do away with giving each citizen only one vote.

As for Paul Ryan -- he's well-spoken and charismatic, but he's just as far-right as Cantor or Cruz. His economic proposals (especially those put forward before he got nominated as potential VP) are radical, and hardly the sort of thing one might expect from a reasonable Republican -- and that's without getting into his views on social policy. The guy is a hardliner.

Bob Genghiskhan (1233 )
09 Oct 13 UTC

I don't think we're going to do away with entrenched political parties while attempting to have a republican form of government. It sure as shit didn't take them too long to evolve after the founding. But if you can raise the opportunity costs for crazy behavior, then maybe you can get things at least somewhat working again.

Putin33 (111 )
09 Oct 13 UTC

Wah, wah. The Republicans controlled redistricting in all but seven states. Illinois is the only state the GOP can gripe about. The others were already Democratic controlled.

Invictus (240 )
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Again, I think you're confusing political opposition with whether he's a delusional type. I think he's exactly the sort of politician the House GOP should be like, but we're just going to have to disagree on this. I mean, I'm not saying the Republicans should just become Democrats who wear red ties slightly more often. I'm saying they should be smart about trying to enact their policies and win elections and not rely on magical thinking like what's happened with the shutdown.

Invictus (240 )
09 Oct 13 UTC

Putin33, Republicans just happened to have a good year and were in a position to do exactly what the Democrats would have in the same position. The problems isn't one party, it's the process itself.

bo_sox48 (5202 )
10 Oct 13 UTC
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Congress is keeping its members-only gym (yes, paid for by tax dollars) open through the shutdown in case you all don't know.

It's really weird though because I didn't know you could do thrusts with your head up your ass.

Invictus (240 )
10 Oct 13 UTC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghxO90gtkm4

sweetwatersam (1796 )
10 Oct 13 UTC

I feel this bunch of politicians are about the worst I have seen in my 67 years. I, for one, would like to throw them all out since everything now is about power and not about the country or the constitution.

semck83 (229 )
10 Oct 13 UTC

I went to an interesting talk by a mathematician on gerrymandering recently. The upshot was that every method for designing districts totally sucks in some respect, having some very undesireable property; and that the states were surprisingly non-gerrymandered, as compared to (say) random district-building algorithms.

Putin33 (111 )
10 Oct 13 UTC

Who did the talk?

abgemacht (1076 )
10 Oct 13 UTC

@semck

Do you have a paper or anything on that talk?

Gunfighter06 (224 )
10 Oct 13 UTC

Everything would be so much simpler if the two parties to choose from were libertarian and authoritarian. But nooooo, Americans from both parties have to be hypocrites.

Democrats: The government does not belong in the doctor's office or in the gun shop. We don't need entitlements or welfare.

Republicans: The government does not belong in the bedroom or the marijuana dispensary. We do not need a massive military or Social Security.

All: The government should be no bigger than its constitutionally mandated size.

All of the authoritarians need to stop hiding as neo-cons or New Deal Democrats. If you believe in big government regardless of the issue, be a man and say as much. Everyone who doesn't believe in big government regardless of the issue, unite against this tyranny.

sweetwatersam (1796 )
10 Oct 13 UTC
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I once handled my house much as Congress has done and the result was bankruptcy. One simply cannot continue to spend more than one receives. Where does the debt ceiling stop? When do,we ever get control? I, for one, would support a constitutional convention for the purpose of amendments for (1) a balanced budget, (2) a line item veto and (3) and most important would be term limits for Congress, say no more than 12 years.

semck83 (229 )
10 Oct 13 UTC

No I'm sorry. It was a master's thesis talk at my university. It summarized research by a few different people, and also the student and her advisor. I can try to get some references, though.

sweetwatersam (1796 )
10 Oct 13 UTC

Right on, Gunfighter! I express my opinion very time I can with my vote.

Putin33 (111 )
10 Oct 13 UTC

"One simply cannot continue to spend more than one receives."

We're not on the gold standard. There is a difference between the currency issuer (government) and the currency user (everybody else). The government does not need revenues in order to spend money. It issues currency first in order to collect revenues. The government is not a household. Such analogies are very harmful and led to the Great Depression.

Invictus (240 )
10 Oct 13 UTC

The way Putin33 and abgemacht asked their questions is quite illustrative. Putin33 wanted to know the person's name, abgemacht wanted to see the argument.

Maybe one wanted to see if the academic was a fellow traveler worth listening to or a bourgeois hack to ignore? Just a thought.

Bob Genghiskhan (1233 )
10 Oct 13 UTC

@Gunfighter

I believe in big government on some issues and not on others. Fuck off with your false dichotomy.

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America doesn't want to lead the free world?

Okay, bye guys, see you, it was fun and you did better than some others. Hello Vladimir, just so you know, there's no one in the cockpit and the door's open. Happy birthday. The world is yours.

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US commando raids in africa

-Chinese commandos sieze a man in a New York street and fly him to China to face trial for orchestrating "free tibet" terrorist attacks - justice?
-Iranian paramilitarys kidnap Barack Obama and put him on trial for the casualties he orchestrated in Pakistan - justice?

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Happy Birthday Vladimir Vladimirovich!

S Dzhem Rozhdeniya!

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11 Oct 13 UTC

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Economists I need your feedback

on this

http://bryanblears.com/2013/10/10/economic-republicanism/

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Obama Blinks First - Utak Open Fed Parks

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/10/11/232090272/utah-allowed-to-re-open-national-parks-and-foot-the-bill

The REAL question is this - the Utah can pay $1.67 million to open the parks, to generate $100+ in revenue, why are YOUR tax dollars funding the park anyway? PRIVATIZE or give parks to the states, and these stupid problems go away...

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We're in the world news...

...and almost no one here (in my country) seems to know.
Basically Dutch policemen arrested a Russian diplomat who abused his children. That's the story I believe. Is this bad? Good? Legal? Illegal?

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Replacement Player Needed

British Columbia, Fall of the American Empire, replacement needed due to banned player: http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=126986

Thanks :-)

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official freedom weekend thread

truckers plus bikers plus veterans in dc
the media will not be able to ignore it
democracy in action gogogogogogo

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