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Tettleton's Chew (0

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Infrastructure Bank

Is this anything more than a jobs bill for expensive unionize labor just like the original stimulus bill was a jobs bill for unionized state employees? If you don't work in a union or you own a business that doesn't employ union labor do you exist in Obama's economic world view?

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Starting a new game

I'm down to one game so I'm looking to start a few new ones.
Here is one. 2

/move, wta, anon. 40

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Is there a useless territory in Classic Diplomacy?

I dare to say there isn't. Reasoning follows.

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Mind the gap!

Does anyone else get the urge to fill in the holes in your territory? You know those islands of alien colour spoiling your empire. How far will you go - divert an army a move? Two moves?

My megalomania has no room for anyone else, it's the itch I have to scratch.

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It's a Packer thing

'nough said

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Turkey, Spring 1901

I was wondering what the forum's consensus is on the movement of the smyrna army. Should it go to armenia or constantinople?

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How much sex is too much sex?

When should I lay off of the sex? Should I slow down when the women lose their individual robotic identities and combine forces to become the Megazord, or is that, instead, the perfect time to finally bang that hag Rita?

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disbanding

in the autumn retreats stage:

if i have (for example) 7 supply centres and 7 units and i choose to disband a unit instead of retreat, will i be able to immediately (in the next stage) place it back in one of my home supply centres?

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"Open" Games

Apologies if this has been answered before, but:

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08 Sep 11 UTC

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Money theft

So this is a dilemma about petty theft from someone who I know personally...

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ISPs suck the big one

How happy are you with your ISP? My ISP, TimeWarner Cable, maxes out at 15 Mbps where I live in a major US city. What the fuck is that?

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If one conspiracy theory were true, which would it be?

TC's thread gave me an idea. OK, I'm not asking for either critique or serious support of any conspiracy theories....

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Recently Cancelled Game

Seriously. How weak was that game

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Forcing a draw

Is currently in a gunboat game (http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=65576) where the west has formed a perfect stalemate line against Turkey. However, he/she won't vote for a draw, resulting in a very prolonged game without any end. As there won't be a winner, is there a way to for example a mod to force a draw and end the game so we won't have to fill in the same orders over and over again?

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Tettleton's Chew (0

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07 Sep 11 UTC

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Where do you get your news?

I'm interested to know where people get the information that governs their lives.

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07 Sep 11 UTC

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How to join the Order of Freemasonry

Hey, i am wondering if there are any Masons playing web diplomacy who can tell me how to join. I am interested, but have no idea how. Any real instructions would be most welcome.

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05 Sep 11 UTC

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Religion Vs. Atheism

I intend this forum to be used for civil debates between people who believe in religion and people who do not (atheists). When posting, please state your religion if you believe in one.

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08 Sep 11 UTC

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Can anyone defend evolution?

Can anyone defend the idea that a "species" that diminishes its relations to another species in exchange for increased evolutionary imposition of genetic variation among lifeforms can produce life as we know it?

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Tettleton's Chew (0

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01 Sep 11 UTC

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Could this happen?

Could a woman walk down the street in Mecca in a bikini?
If this couldn't happen something is wrong with the people and society in Mecca.

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DonQuigleone (294 )
04 Sep 11 UTC

I'm admitting fully and completely that I am wrong and you are right? Are you unable to accept? Dyou not believe me when I sincerely say how very right you are!

Let me repeat it, Tettleton's Chew, YOU ARE RIGHT! R I G H T! Your eloquently written language, your robust arguments! All of it screams RIGHT RIGHT RIGHT!

If only I was as intelligent as you I would seek to expand on what you say! But alas, I am not, so I can only parrot you in order to hope to convince others of your ultimate rightness!

DonQuigleone and Tettleton's Chew, we are true brothers! Together we shall fight these ignorant liberal, communist elitists with their bizarre wahabist fetishes. We shall prevent them from turning America into some socialist communist marxist fantasy!

As for "I'm wrong all the time, but I'm also right sometimes as well. "

I know you feel you feel it would be arrogant for you to say "I am always correct", but don't worry, it's not arrogance when what you say is true! Is it arrogance to say America is the greatest country on earth? NO, because it's TRUE. Just like that it is not arrogant for you to admit you're universal correctness!

Other people here are jealous, and foolishly try to defy you with their "logical arguments" and "facts" (fed to them by liberal press might I add), they're just stupid liberal windbags who haven't worked a proper day in their lives, half of them live on welfare, and the other half live in their mom's basement. They feel uncomfortable with how truly profound your statements are!

Please accept me as a fellow soldier of Righteousness in your ranks!

I am but a lone stupid individual, I hope that you will accept my offer of abject subservience!

Please, tell me how I can help you spread your gospel of truth and justice!

Tettleton's Chew (0 )
04 Sep 11 UTC

You have a blanket statement Don Q which means nothing. What are you wrong about? Spell it out because if you can't your intellect means nothing to me.

We aren't brothers at all because I'm not vauge, ambiguous and disingenuous.

You have such insecurity on this issue in this thread that you want to expand it to universality as a smoke screen.

You remind of individuals I used to work with in a corporation. We were all supposed to be mentors to subordinates and everyone preached diversity and equality, but when it came time to choose their proteges the higher ups picked, you guessed it, young/white/men.
I always took someone who was older under my wing and a women if I could. I wanted a perspective totally not my own and I wanted to be true to the rhetoric.

Don Q, you are full of rhetoric and no substance. How revolting.

Tettleton's Chew (0 )
04 Sep 11 UTC

I keep wondering what my "arrogance" is, and I hit the nail on the head. No one in business would think me arrogant. In business there is no uncertainty there are only decisions. Do I launch the iPad today or no. You find out if you are right or wrong after the fact, but before the fact you eliminate uncertainty and decide what is "right" as in the best thing to do.

I guess people who don't face make or break decisions like that simply can't comprehend the level of conviction necessary to simply get through a day dealing with momentous decisions that effect not only your own family, but the livelihood of every employee you have.

Deciding whether or not to open Norw-Barents/ London to North/Liv to Edin or Liv to Wales, Lon to Eng Ch, Edin to North is a fun respite from that type of thing.

Putin33 (111 )
04 Sep 11 UTC

"I get my news off the web almost exclusively. "

That explains a lot.

DonQuigleone (294 )
04 Sep 11 UTC

You are not arrogant at all! In fact, you are precisely the opposite! You are a wonderful Lustrous Personage.

I find it so pleasing that you have condescended to complement me so in your posts! Would that I had the intelligence or wisdom to do so in reutrn, but als, I am of at most limited intelligence, compared to you I am at most nothing, a mere decimal point to your long string of worthy numbers!

I just hope that my small contributions here have helped further your cause!

In fact I think they have!

Thank you so much Tettleton, or as I know call you Tettie, for we are now the greatest of friends, for accepting me into your rugged and superior band!

I am so happy and excited that you have accepted me into a bond of brotherhood together! Together we shall sweep this board before us!

Tettie X DonQ <3

Tettleton's Chew (0 )
04 Sep 11 UTC

Being forthright and honest must be two things you remain unacquainted with Don Q.
I do apologize for leaving you in such a frustrated state, but carry on if it is therapeutic for you.

DonQuigleone (294 )
04 Sep 11 UTC

It's amazing you trust my forthrightness and honesty so much!

Together forever!

SantaClausowitz (360 )
04 Sep 11 UTC

I shutter for TC's employees

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04 Sep 11 UTC

and shudder too

Tettleton's Chew (0 )
04 Sep 11 UTC

Nope, now you are coming off as a spineless worm incapable of independent action or thought Don Q.

Thucydides (864 )
04 Sep 11 UTC

TC your questions are leading and ageist but since you answered mine I answer yours honestly:

Did you accept money you did not earn for yourself from anyone or any institution in the last twelve months?
Yes, if you count taking out loans and the little bit of money my parents give me when I visit them at home.

Have you ever legally been responsible for your own child?
No, I have no children.

Have you ever been married?
No.

Have you ever buried a parent?
No. Grandparents and friends, no parents yet thankfully.

Have you ever been in a delivery room and watched a live birth?
No, I expect I would only do so with the mother of my children or if I was an obstetrician.

Have you ever created a job and hired someone and paid their wages?
No, not in the sense you are asking. Obviously I have paid people to do things for me like "please alphabetize my bookshelf I will give you this money" but no.

Do you know who W. Edwards Deming is?
Without Googling, the name sounds familiar but no. I assume/think I remember him being a business leader or CEO.

Have you ever purchased a home?
No. I rent.

Can I ask you what the purpose of your questions were? Am I not an adult until I have done the above things, or something? Should everyone strive to have done all of those things in their lives?

SantaClausowitz (360 )
04 Sep 11 UTC

if you havn't done these things than you possibly couldnt have a rational thought. The truth of the matter is TC probably hasn't done half of these things. If the poor bastard had a wife and kids he'd bring them up more than Krellin.

SantaClausowitz (360 )
04 Sep 11 UTC

how about you ask him about the tens of millions of people who have done these things and who vote democrat and believe in a strong state, my parents and grandparents being some of them

Yonni (136 )
04 Sep 11 UTC

"Barbara Streisand"
TC, you're showing your age.

Putin33 (111 )
04 Sep 11 UTC

TC apparently believes his generation wants to repeal Medicare and Social Security. Yeah good luck selling that message, oldtimer. The only people who believe in this unfettered market bullshit are 20-something computer geeks from the mountain west.

Thucydides (864 )
04 Sep 11 UTC

The only people who believe in this unfettered market bullshit are 20-something computer geeks from the mountain west.

lmao what a generalization. a hilarious generalization, but all the same

Putin33 (111 )
04 Sep 11 UTC

http://www.npr.org/blogs/bryantpark/2007/12/who_are_ron_pauls_supporters.html

It's pretty accurate. Look at how many of the Ron Paulies are computer people. And if you look at donor maps you see that the money is largely coming from western states and men.

Fwum (189 )
04 Sep 11 UTC

Just as a a side note: TC, are you a big fan of Ayn Rand? Is reading Atlas Shrugged atm and much of your argumentation reminds me of the ideas expressed there.

pjmansfield99 (100 )
04 Sep 11 UTC

I think everyone has missed the point here. We just discovered that TC is Steve Jobs. He quite clearly states that he got to decide whether to launch the iPad or not today. Come on guys, you can now understand why his posting has increased, he suddenly has much more time on his hands.....

DonQuigleone (294 )
04 Sep 11 UTC

Tettie! From now on, I shall endeavour to be capable of independent action and thought!

How should I start?

pjmansfield99 (100 )
04 Sep 11 UTC

DQ - after a rubbishy night, this just made me smile. Thanks ;-)

Tettleton's Chew (0 )
05 Sep 11 UTC

By not contradicting yourself Don Q. It's an elementary step.

Tettleton's Chew (0 )
05 Sep 11 UTC

Don Q, After much contemplation I must wish you all the best in your life.

PooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooF! Gone like a stale fart.

DonQuigleone (294 )
05 Sep 11 UTC

Tettie! You make me feel so nice inside! We can both be POOFs together!

Tettleton's Chew (0 )
05 Sep 11 UTC

Thucy, see me when you grow up and have experience to guide you instead of such empty theory you've never even put to the test in your own short life.

Tettleton's Chew (0 )
05 Sep 11 UTC

Fwum, read Atlas, Fountainhead years ago. You ever read Robert J. Ringer? My favorite author is Milton Friedman. My favorite current PhD is economic historian Brian Domitrovic.

I've put all of their theories to the test owning my own business. So my posts aren't based on ideas. They are based on real world experience.

I always enjoy reading idiots in this forum talk about business when they have never created a job in their lives.

Geowiz (236 )
05 Sep 11 UTC

Perhaps you have put all their theories to the test. However, all that means is that you can validate points with experience only when those points concern limited economic ecosystems. Ideas that work for individual businesses cannot necessarily be multiplied and applied to the larger market, which is much vaster and more complex than a single business. These ideas can certainly not be applied to government and all that it has under its competencies. A business usually doesn't care about the environment in which we live in, nor about those workers who can easily be replaced, while it is a government's duty to care about these things. Also, as to the issue of creating jobs, someone who works relatively high up in a company ought to have as good of an idea of what works for a business as someone who owns a company. Perhaps not a good idea of what works to start one, but a good idea of what works to run one.

Tettleton's Chew (0 )
06 Sep 11 UTC

Yonni, I never lied to you about my age.

Tettleton's Chew (0 )
06 Sep 11 UTC

Geowiz, you strike me an as individual posting out of your ass about something that you know absolutely nothing about, business.
I'm going to make a snap appraisal here, but there is no doubt in my mind you have never been an owner of a business in your life. I also have no doubt you have never created a job and paid the salary, benefits, and taxes out of the profits of a business you owned in your life.

So you are basically posting about something that you are totally ignorant of first hand knowledge.
Theorists like you are as useless as tits on a bull as the saying goes.
I'm sure you could find work in the Obama White House spewing idiocy that would destroy more jobs, put more homes in foreclosure, and basically destroy more of the American dream just as Obama has done.
Fortunately for me in the forum I have the ability to mute the stupid ramblings of ignorant theorist like yourself.
So feel free to spew theoretical stupidity all you want to anyone who doesn't mute such useless diatribes, but I do.

POOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOF. Another ranting idiot bites the dust.

Tettleton's Chew (0 )
06 Sep 11 UTC

Even the Yemen Times criticizes the Saudi Wahhadists over their treatment of women.

Women in Saudi Arabia demand their freedom and dignity

Mai Yamani
Published:22-08-2011

The unexpected visibility and assertiveness of women has helped propel what has become known as the Arab spring. Major changes have occurred in the minds and lives of women, helping them break the shackles of the past and demand their freedom and dignity.

Since January 2011, images of millions of women demonstrating alongside men have been beamed around the world. One saw women from all walks of life marching for a better future for themselves and their countries. They appeared prominently - eloquent and outspoken, chanting calls for democratic change. They walked, bused, telephoned, and tweeted, motivated partly by a desire for their own empowerment.

The contrast between this dynamic space for open protest and Saudi Arabia could hardly be starker. Saudi women find themselves living in a petrified system. Faces of the royal family are seen everywhere; the faces of women are shrouded, forcibly hidden.

http://www.yementimes.com/DefaultDET.aspx?SUB_ID=36497

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Calling The Loved...

...and the Hated. Yes, all members of gameID=65584 should report here. Those of you who would like to start another game let me know, I do not expect any other than me, but I will still try. Regardless, I would like to start a seperate game similar to the one before, but I would like to add some rules...

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FtFDiplomacy on Twitter

If you've ever wondered what goes on a a FTF Diplomacy tournament.... Live Tweeting from Chicago this weekend. What could go wrong?

Follow the feed on Twitter at @FtFDiplomacy

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Valedictions

Regards, Kind regards, Best Regards, Best wishes, All my best or, simply, Best?

Which do you use and why?

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Could this happen?

Could Tettleton provide a reasonable argument?
If this couldn't happen something is wrong with his brain and its function.

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Metal Pieces

So me and my friends started another Diplomacy playing binge after a 2-3 year hiatus.. I bought the game, for the old board game we had, well our friend moved to Calgary...

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Bob Genghiskhan (1238

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07 Sep 11 UTC

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So, any news on the Masters game that got cancelled a couple of times?

Just curious what's happening.

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Chas Diamond (316

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06 Sep 11 UTC

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How to quit?

How do you quite from a game? I can't work it out...

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06 Sep 11 UTC

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New game for you physics nerds.

I have only one game at the moment and would like to continue my Newton's 3rd law series. Please join me:
gameID=67295

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What do You Think of This?

I was given the following reply for why someone was attacking me in a game. META-Gaming?

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Broken Keyboard Buttons

After cleaning my keyboard a bit too rigorously, my backspace and enter keys have stopped working. It's not too big a deal since I'm likely to get a new laptop for Christmas, but for the short term it's aggravating. How can I change some settings so that, say, my extra shift is a new enter?

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06 Sep 11 UTC

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Weakest Nations

I have heard various comments on what the weakest nation is, both in regular and ancient Mediterranean maps. i want to know what the community thinks.

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