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umbletheheep (1645

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28 Jul 11 UTC

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Iowa F2F Diplomacy

I have a group of 11, and we are putting together F2F Diplomacy games in central Iowa. If you would like to be a part or know of someone who does give me an email at russ (at) russdennis.net

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LoneSeramoni (100

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28 Jul 11 UTC

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Script Error

Webdiplomacy script installed on my site.How can handle this problem? ERROR: i.imgur.com/cWuVQ.png

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28 Jul 11 UTC

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FtF Diplomacy in New England: HuskyCon (Aug 19-21) in Long Island, NY

Details: http://huskycon.com
First round - Fri Aug 19th at 7:00pm
Big mansion, food provided, some will be camping outside - lots of FtF players, most likely including myself and theWizard. anyone else from webdip wanna go?

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dD_ShockTrooper (1199

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23 Jul 11 UTC

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Can anyone defend freedom?

Can anyone defend the idea that "people" can produce a better society by diminishing governmental control in exchange for increased libertarian imposition of civil freedoms on the government?

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28 Jul 11 UTC

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Are no-hitters not a big deal anymore?

When guys like Ervin Santana can get one and we've had something like 10 in the past 2 seasons are no hitters going to become passe?

Also, what the heck is La Russa's major malfunction?

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28 Jul 11 UTC

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End of the LAST PERSON TO POST WINS!!!!!!!!

http://webdiplomacy.net/forum.php?threadID=444658&page-thread=385#threadPager

The thread is now locked so its now impossible to post. In the end there were 11532 posts over 728 days. dD_ShockTrooper was the last person to post and so he won. Congrats dD_ShockTrooper!!!!!!!

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20 Jul 11 UTC

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Account sitting.

I'll be out of town for four or five days, and I'm not sure what to do. I'm pretty new to this site so I'm not sure how it works, but I've seen people mention 'account sitting'? How does that work? What are the rules? How do I find someone to do that for me? I guess I'm just looking for a general explanation. Thanks in advance. Oh, and sorry if this is explained elsewhere on the site. Perhaps I missed it when I looked.

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obiwanobiwan (248

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28 Jul 11 UTC

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How Much Is Everyone Muting?

I ask becuase I see folks saying they're muting folks in threads more and more...and it just seems like a shame and almost unfair to me, really...granted I'm probably one of the most-muted on the site--at least I would guess I am--but even so, all the more reason I just can't mute anyone..."if you can't stand the heat"...? You can't have it both ways, give a critical opinion and erect a shield to deflect all criticism, even if that "criticism" is a foolish troll, yes?

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Tettleton's Chew (0

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15 Jul 11 UTC

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An Education in Economics

Liberals have the mistaken and baseless idea that government creates jobs, that government creates demand that stimulates the economy, and that any time there is a great reduction in government spending a recession will result.

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Yellowjacket (835

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29 Jul 11 UTC

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new game

Hey all, I'm starting a game with some work friends, might not be able to get 7 though... anybody want to be an alternate? They're all new, so less skilled players preferred.

20 buy in, anon, 24 hours period, starts Saturday at 7:12

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UnknownHero (436

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29 Jul 11 UTC

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Looking for sitter

I'll be away for 5-6 days next week and still have a couple games running. It shouldn't be too huge of a time commitment if anyone is willing, since one is a 4 day phase world game in which I have only a single unit. The other is a game in the summer gunboat tournament, so someone not part of that would be preferred.
I hope I'm not asking too much with only a few days notice, but if someone with a good reputation would PM me saying they can, I would be extremely grateful.

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27 Jul 11 UTC

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Pizza v. Tacos

Let's say there is a pizza joint and a taco stand right across the street from each other...

Darwyn (1601 )
27 Jul 11 UTC

Every day after work the people who like pizza eat at the pizza joint and the people who like tacos eat at the taco stand.

But let's say that while you are sitting enjoying your pizza someone walks in through the door and starts complaining about pizzas and extolling the virtues of tacos.

Would you be very suspicious of the motives of a professed taco lover standing in the middle of your pizza joint insulting pizza eaters?

Probably.

But, would you suspect that the professed taco lover standing in the middle of your pizza joint insulting pizza eaters is secretly working for the taco stand?

taylornottyler (100 )
27 Jul 11 UTC

At that point I'd go get a hotdog.

SacredDigits (102 )
27 Jul 11 UTC

Chewley's gum.

Jamiet99uk (873 )
27 Jul 11 UTC

Are you suggesting that Tettleton is secretly working for The Ghostmaker, Darwyn?

Tettleton's Chew (0 )
27 Jul 11 UTC

The guy talking up tacos sounds like a jerk.
Tacos are better than pizza though.

SantaClausowitz (360 )
27 Jul 11 UTC

Obviously the Israelis sent the taco guy

Darwyn (1601 )
27 Jul 11 UTC

"Obviously the Israelis sent the taco guy" lol...nah, everyone knows it was the Iranians.

Darwyn (1601 )
27 Jul 11 UTC

cui bono? Who benefits from a taco lover badmouthing pizza lovers?

The taco stand owner, of course.

SacredDigits (102 )
27 Jul 11 UTC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTbusMZEL0Q

SantaClausowitz (360 )
27 Jul 11 UTC

how about you give us the great reveal already and stop talking about tacos

SantaClausowitz (360 )
27 Jul 11 UTC

whats the conspiracy this time?

TrustMe (106 )
27 Jul 11 UTC

Unless... it gets out that the Taco stand owner is trying to sabotage the Pizza joint and then the taco eaters realize what bad form it is to bad mouth pizza, since they kinda like pizza too. So they all go to the Pizza joint and no one eats tacos. So maybe the Pizza joint set this all up...

TrustMe (106 )
27 Jul 11 UTC

So maybe we should all just ignore the taco lover badmouthing pizza lovers and eat whatever we want.

Jack_Klein (897 )
27 Jul 11 UTC

I would answer this by demanding a taco pizza.

Thus bringing peace to the Middle East for all time. True story.

Darwyn (1601 )
27 Jul 11 UTC

Santa - there is no reveal. Just something to keep in mind.

Sacred - perfect clip!

Draugnar (0 )
27 Jul 11 UTC

I'd see if the taco lover had any tacos on him, then beat the crap out of him, steal his tacos, and go have a good international meal of pizza *and* tacos.

Draugnar (0 )
27 Jul 11 UTC

Oh, and I'd have to have them with a big ol' pitcher of iced sweet tea (artificially sweetend, unfortunately) to add a desidedly Southern US flair to my international feast.

krellin (80 )
27 Jul 11 UTC

Come on, we all know that both the pizza joint and the taco stands are part of the same multi-national and that the whole thing is staged simply to generate press. The multi-national knows that every time the news comes on, they will show photos and video of people licking delicious greasy goop from their fingers...and thus the mutli-national will use the willing, but ignorant, media to get some more free advertising.

And, since they also own the hot-dog stand, they clearly aren't concerned inf anyone is turned off by the whole event.

Alderian (2425 )
28 Jul 11 UTC

My wife runs a store and has had a competitor post on craigs list as if they were just an average consumer, asking about my wife's store and then starting to bash it. Thankfully karma was good and they are out of business while my wife is not. Do I have proof it was the competitor? No. But they were just making stuff up so I strongly believe it.

So yes, I would suspect that the person badmouthing the pizza place was somehow associated with the taco place.

OR, that the person really likes pizza, but not how busy it is and wants shorter lines.

krellin (80 )
28 Jul 11 UTC

******* Damn.....Alderian found my Craigslist post....CURSES!

Darwyn (1601 )
28 Jul 11 UTC

"I would suspect that the person badmouthing the pizza place was somehow associated with the taco place."

I agree. At minimum, it is a safe assumption to move forward with.

dD_ShockTrooper (1199 )
28 Jul 11 UTC

Maybe the taco-lover is actually an employee of the pizza place that is causing a ruckus in order to convince people that taco-lovers are terrible people and the taco joint must be terrible if that is the average customer. Just a thought.

Darwyn (1601 )
28 Jul 11 UTC

that sounds like there's one two many steps in logic for that to be considered Shock.

The intention of the taco-lover is clear...to get pizza-lovers to hate pizza so that they can start loving tacos.

gigantor (404 )
28 Jul 11 UTC

Going a little off-topic here, but surely bad-mouthing pizza wouldn't be the best way to do it, if he indeed wanted to get people to stop liking pizza and start liking tacos. Sure, talking up tacos would help his cause, but insulting the very people he's trying to convince must be somewhat of a hinderance.

krellin (80 )
28 Jul 11 UTC

Insulting your opponent *is* the American way, is it not? Let's see, Obama says the Republicans are idiots, but never puts up his own plan. The candidates with the most negative ads wins. etc. You get the point. It may not be the most effective, but it's our way.

Cachimbo (1181 )
28 Jul 11 UTC

I'm not an American.

gigantor (404 )
28 Jul 11 UTC

Let's pretend I'm a Republican. Yee-haw. (no, I'm not American either) Obama says, "Hey that dude you like is an idiot who's going to ruin the economy." I get annoyed because I like that dude that I like, mumble (or yell) some expletives and go home to eat corn and talk about how I hate Obama even more than I did yesterday.

I just don't get how that works as a political strategy! (apologies to all the folks I surely offended during this post)

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28 Jul 11 UTC

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Collaborative Story...

You *must* reply with an entire paragraph. Each paragraph will be proceeded by a number. You reply must be indicated by (that number +1) so we know what you are responding to. In the event of simultaneous posts, the FIRST poster is the ONLY valid next paragraph.

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Tettleton's Chew (0

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28 Jul 11 UTC

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Obama Repeated Buffet's Misstatement

Tomorrow's WSJ shows that Warren Buffet misstated a fact Obama included in his national address Monday, Buffet doesn't pay a lower tax rate than his secretary. It's nice to see the press doing its job.

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Tettleton's Chew (0

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18 Jul 11 UTC

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Social Security Funding

It's interesting that the motto of social security is that you've paid in all your working life and the money is sitting there waiting for you.

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Tettleton's Chew (0

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21 Jul 11 UTC

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Immorality of the State vs Morality of the Market

Big government advocates proceed under the assumption that government is moral and the marketplace is immoral when the exact opposite is true.

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Tettleton's Chew (0

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19 Jul 11 UTC

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Thy mythical victim

Why is it that opinions put forth to justify government monopolies to deal with social problems consistently rely on mythical victims instead of truth or logic?

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Tettleton's Chew (0

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26 Jul 11 UTC

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Who would pass a tax increase?

The House certainly wouldn't
The Senate would pass a tax increase.
You are going to find 51 Democrats who will vote for a tax increase?

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Tettleton's Chew (0

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25 Jul 11 UTC

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Hysteria & Welfare State Bankruptcy

In the current budget debate you see two viewpoints-the House of Representatives realizes the Welfare State is bankrupt with $200 Trillion in deficits and unfunded liabilities. The Obama administration and the Senate think everything will be fine if they raise taxes and keep pumping devalued dollars into the economy.

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Tettleton's Chew (0

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25 Jul 11 UTC

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Monks 1 Autocratic State 0

The verdict from federal court. Monks can sell caskets in Louisiana without also providing embalming and other funeral home services that the autocratic state government required in order to grant a monopoly over casket sales.

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Tettleton's Chew (0

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26 Jul 11 UTC

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States defy Big Government lunacy

In individual states smaller government candidates won a majority of elections across the country in direct defiance of Big Government lunacy dominant in Washington D.C.

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Tettleton's Chew (0

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26 Jul 11 UTC

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Common sense saves schools

Schools are for the kids not for the administrators and teachers.

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Tettleton's Chew (0

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28 Jul 11 UTC

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Signed copy of Reckless Endangerment

How many of the forum frequenters have a signed copy of the best seller "Reckless Endangerment." What a great read.

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26 Jul 11 UTC

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League Format for next Season

Alderian, have you decided how you will proceed towards next season?

The detailed thread about this subject has been locked, but here it is for others who want to read the debate: http://www.webdiplomacy.net/forum.php?viewthread=742701#742701

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27 Jul 11 UTC

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gunboats are stupid and ruin diplomacy

the point of diplomacy is exactly what it says. DIPLOMACY. When we get rid of ingame messaging it does away with the crucial factor of diplomacy and results in no improvement of luck. It actually makes the game far more random and chancy than it should be. I believe that we need to get rid of this option to allow DIPLOMACY to take its course. Please add your comments about this.

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28 Jul 11 UTC

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Can anyone defend, I mean remember, centrists?

Why is politics so polarized today--what happened to the centrists? Is it a function of the political parties controlling the vast majority of campaign contributions?

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27 Jul 11 UTC

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Can anyone defend 1bruchen's views?

Besides 1bruchen, of course.

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27 Jul 11 UTC

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Nationalism and Patriotism

The bane of civilization?

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obiwanobiwan (248

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28 Jul 11 UTC

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Can anyone defend posts asking in the title for posters to defend something?

If you can--well, I suppose you're needed on one of the many other generic "defend" posts...

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27 Jul 11 UTC

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Minor bug

I'm not sure if others in this game are experiencing the same oddity, but in
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=63232, which is a gunboat, it's telling me I have an unread global message and I can't figure out how to "read" it or otherwise fix the problem. Thanks.

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