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obiwanobiwan (248 D)
24 Oct 12 UTC
A Diplomacy Game for Literature Lovers?
Well, we've done Star Trek Diplomacy before, each power corresponding to one of the powers from Trek...anyone up for playing a game where each player of a power (we'll say Turkey counts for the whole Middle East to make it easier) takes on the persona of a great author from said country? Ex., Shakespeare/Chaucer/Dickens for England, Hugo/Proust/Racine for France, Goethe for Germany, Dostoyevsky/Tolstoy (not that one!) for Russia, etc...?
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c0llieman (0 DX)
27 Oct 12 UTC
live game
anyone up for a live game
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Tolstoy (1962 D)
24 Oct 12 UTC
The Third Party Presidential Debate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EcaX12h46k
Debate starts at 1:02:00
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Mapu (362 D)
26 Oct 12 UTC
Banhammer Thread
aka Another one gone, another one gone, another one bites the dust...

This guy just ruined a game of mine:
http://www.webdiplomacy.net/profile.php?userID=47663
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Fasces349 (0 DX)
26 Oct 12 UTC
Canada's economic problem
So I am an econ major in my first year of university, so obviously I know very little compared to others about economics. However Canada has a rather strange economic problem (which I will explain below) and I think I have a viable solution to solve it. Can some of the greats on this site explain why my solution wont work (as why isn't it on the table as a solution)
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krellin (80 DX)
26 Oct 12 UTC
Fed Spends 2.5*Poverty PER Pov Household
Ahhh...Government efficiency at its finest. Read it an weep. No...really...you should honestly weep at this.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/over-60000-welfare-spentper-household-poverty_657889.html
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Puddle (413 D)
24 Oct 12 UTC
Genie
You come across a genie, and you get one wish, assume that the genie will properly carry out your wish, not malicious misunderstand the intent. Only rule is no asking for an infinite stream of wishes (or anything that would be tantamount to this).
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umbletheheep (1645 D)
26 Oct 12 UTC
Determine the Election Game
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erist (228 D(B))
26 Oct 12 UTC
Need a replacement Austria
1902. Austria in a fine position with 5 supply centers.

http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=102520
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redhouse1938 (429 D)
25 Oct 12 UTC
Somebody used the words "poor" and "UK" in one sentence, and then PE posted something
The first thing made me think of Theodore Dalrymple, the second of legalizing drugs. So without further ado, I present to you Theodore Dalrymple on the legalizing of drugs.
http://www.drugfree.org.au/fileadmin/Media/Reference/DontLegalizeDrugs.pdf
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Jamiet99uk (873 D)
26 Oct 12 UTC
I AM KRELLIN
I have a terrible confession to make.
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Puddle (413 D)
24 Oct 12 UTC
If Romney wins the election
What do you think his chances of successfully carrying out proposed policies is? As well as how he'll be forced to govern?
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Jamiet99uk (873 D)
23 Oct 12 UTC
Sustainable development and human happiness
An excellent speech by the President of Uruguay:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr465Atwenw
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Tantris (2456 D)
26 Oct 12 UTC
EOG: Gunfall
I thought I had the win, but you got the stalemate line together. When France spooked backwards, it seemed like my win was guaranteed, but then he returned with English fleets as backup. I imagine I missed an opportunity, but I am not sure right now what it was.
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redhouse1938 (429 D)
19 Oct 12 UTC
South Africa
I'm curious what people's opinion about this is. I know mine is a little controversial, I'll post it later, but 99% of you are not going to like what I have to say :(

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21564846-south-africa-sliding-downhill-while-much-rest-continent-clawing-its-way-up
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Putin33 (111 D)
21 Oct 12 UTC
"Where exactly have I mentioned rape in the context of race, black or white?"

If you call anybody who brings up environmental factors in contributing to rape, including apartheid, a defender/apologist for rape, what are you left with? Claiming that the peoples of southern Africa who lead the charts on rape per capita are simply rapacious monsters, "full stop".
Putin33 (111 D)
21 Oct 12 UTC
" Yes some of your best friends are English I am sure."

I like England a hell of a lot more than you like America, hypocrite.
fulhamish (4134 D)
21 Oct 12 UTC
You are a twister and liar.

The Goebbels remark is supposed to be my comment on the mass rape of German women by the Russians, that's it. Something that most right thinking historians accept and condemn, but not you apparently. So much for your accusation that I formulate one ''every other post''. You are a twister and a liar.

Your anti-semetic accusation is based on my pointing out the exit of the Saudis after 9/11, you have nothing else but this. I fail to see any anti-semitism here. You are a twister and a liar.

I posted on this German genocide in their colony of South West Africa, and went on to say that it was a forerunner of the Holocaust itself, by employing this excellent reference: The Kaiser's Holocaust: Germany's Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism. I therefore, in your view, am engaged in some sort of whitewash of the considerably smaller scale British action in the Boer war. You are a twister and a liar.
fulhamish (4134 D)
21 Oct 12 UTC
You are not therefore proposing an causation of rape which embraces both genetics and the environment? You hypothesize that environmental factors are the sole causes of rape? You only give poverty and apartheid in your twisted response to the appalling rape figures for women, children and babies in South Africa.

Let's also however consider ideologies of male sexual entitlement, alcohol, childhood abuse, low educational standards, multiple sexual partners, pornography, violent computer games, poor marital relationships, weak legal sanctions....................
Trouble is that none of these fit in with your political agenda do they? When will you learn that correlation is not necessarily causation? My best bet is never, because you would rather twist and distort facts.
Putin33 (111 D)
21 Oct 12 UTC
The 2 million myth comes straight from two Nazi propagandists who wrote "Woman in Berlin". One of them wrote under a pseudonym to hide from his past as a Nazi propagandist. Beevor accepted all neo-Nazi sources in his hitpiece on the Red Army, and the myth has pretty much relied on Beevor for any substantiation. So yes, you are regurgitating Nazi propaganda, full stop.

Which isn't surprising considering Fulham also questioned the number of deaths in the Holocaust.

http://webdiplomacy.net/forum.php?threadID=716401#717424

And I ask how is he not a Nazi? He also defends the Confederacy, claiming the war was about the tariff, not slavery, basically spewing any nonsense he can to defend the Slave Power.

And let's be clear, Fulham said absolutely not a single word of condemnation about the British concentration camps. He said not a word about the fact that the German idea for concentration camp, even word for it, was taken straight from the Boer War. He called it "concentrations of people" and then went on a tangent about the Kaiser. He did everything he could to deflect from British culpability, as he always done. He has never said a single word condemning a single historical crime done by the British government. Yet he feigns moral outrage about everybody else.


fulhamish (4134 D)
21 Oct 12 UTC
''This is the same guy who thinks the Irish should shut up and salute the British uniform after the Black & Tans were unleashed upon them during the First World War. ''

What I do say unequivocally and stand by, despite your prolonged campaign of twisting my words, is that the poor treatment of the returning brave Irish volunteers for the Allies in WW2 was wrong. Indeed many Irish people now say this as well. I have given references before and here is another from May of this year: http://www.irishcentral.com/story/roots/ireland_calling/the-irish-world-war-ii-shame---irish-soldiers-faced-hostility-after-arriving-home-153574625.html


I will further point out that until you were confronted by the evidence you brazenly denied any such thing happened at all. I suppose that it says a lot about you as a person that your denial has now amazingly turned to supporting the post war harassment of these brave men. And you call yourself a man of the left?!
Putin33 (111 D)
21 Oct 12 UTC
"You are not therefore proposing an causation of rape which embraces both genetics and the environment? You hypothesize that environmental factors are the sole causes of rape?"

No, you are a twister and a liar. I'm giving primary emphasis to environmental factors. I said very explicitly there were likely many factors in the South Africa case. I never excluded other factors, liar. Go back and read the thread, that is if you are capable of reading, which I doubt.

"Let's also however consider ideologies of male sexual entitlement, alcohol, childhood abuse, low educational standards, multiple sexual partners, pornography, violent computer games, poor marital relationships, weak legal sanctions.."

Yes, let's consider them. And how many of these factors are also present in other countries? All of them. So you have to look at what is different, and apartheid is different, and many many people have commented on the role of apartheid in the emasculation of the black South African male, but I guess they're all monsters/apologists for rape too, right.

And anybody who completely dismisses the link between poverty and crime would be laughed out of any sociology/criminal justice class room. Oh that's right you think sociology is junk science and academia is full of brainwashing. And your latching onto any hairbrained conspiracy theory reflects your devotion to data and facts.

The fact is you can never prove causality, so I guess we're left with never being able to make sensible conclusions about contributing factors for any phenomenon, in Fulham's silly anti-scientific world.
Putin33 (111 D)
21 Oct 12 UTC
Since when was worshipping the British Empire obligatory for the left? It's hilarious that you think I should bow down and kiss the boots of the British soldier in WWII when you just got done calling the Soviet Red Army the biggest mass rapists in history.

I asked before and I ask again. Why should the Irish feel 'ashamed' at not kissing the boots of Irishmen who fought for their oppressors when the Irish who volunteered for WWI came back to organize the RUC and Black and Tans? You have never provided an answer to this, as usual.
Putin33 (111 D)
21 Oct 12 UTC
Remember kids. Smoking doesn't cause lung cancer. Correlation doesn't equal causation. Oh what a clever slogan.
fulhamish (4134 D)
21 Oct 12 UTC
PUTIN WRITES THIS: ''Which isn't surprising considering Fulham also questioned the number of deaths in the Holocaust.

http://webdiplomacy.net/forum.php?threadID=716401#717424''

This is the record of what I actually wrote in that thread, I challenge Putin to say something different:


Darwyn gave this as a reference:

From 4 million in 1945 (http://www.vanguardnewsnetwork.com/wolzek/1948_AuschwitzPlaque.html)...

to 1-1/2 million in 1990 (http://www.vanguardnewsnetwork.com/wolzek/1990_AuschwitzPlaque.html).

I recomend that, unless you are intersted in reading a selection of sickening racist diatribes, you steer well clear of his references.

AND

Santa I am not sure that I understand your response to my post. Could you please explain?

AND

Santa, I accept your apology, it's no problem. I understand your anger, even if it was misdirected on this occassion.

AND

I think that it is difficult to get an accurate death count because of the horrendous and varied nature of the killing. 5-6 million Jews (including c. 1 million children) are the constraints placed on it by reasonable historians. I think that these parameters have been arrived at by comparing pre- and post-war census records as well as the records kept by the Nazis themselves. Given the robustness of the evidence, I think thart one must question the motivation of those who wish to dispute it.

AND

Santa writes - ''My grandmother was in the camps, and before she died she had hallucinations of Nazis coming to kill her''

My father was among thr first to enter Belsen (n.b., liberated by the British) and the memories have never left him. Here is a flavour of them -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/holocaust/5111.shtml

Now it is obvious from the written record that Putin is indeed both a twister and a liar. There can be no clearer proof.
fulhamish (4134 D)
21 Oct 12 UTC
''I asked before and I ask again. Why should the Irish feel 'ashamed' at not kissing the boots of Irishmen who fought for their oppressors when the Irish who volunteered for WWI came back to organize the RUC and Black and Tans? You have never provided an answer to this, as usual. ''

Another example of twisting, I never mentioned WW1 but rather WW2. He knows this, it suits him to lie and twist to fit his argument, what a scumbag.
Not to bring up the past (friday) but redhouse, where you said 'The supposed moral superiority of the left never ceases to surprise me', I feel you made quite a mistake; there is no "supposed" moral superiority with the left, there just is moral superiority with the left.
Putin33 (111 D)
21 Oct 12 UTC
"Another example of twisting, I never mentioned WW1 but rather WW2. He knows this, it suits him to lie and twist to fit his argument, what a scumbag."

Wow you are illiterate. The point, which should be clear to anyone who can read the English language, was that during WWI the Irish volunteers who came back to Ireland, - those that did come back - formed the RUC and Black & Tans. With *that experience* as a recent memory, WHY ON EARTH, should the Irish have greeted the returning volunteers for the British Empire with chocolates & roses?

Is that simple enough for you? Or should I break it down in three word sentences?
Putin33 (111 D)
21 Oct 12 UTC
Mea culpa on rereading Santa's post.
Stressedlines (1559 D)
22 Oct 12 UTC
I guess my questions wont get answered, as Putin found someone else to entertain him, and spew his shit at.
Putin33 (111 D)
22 Oct 12 UTC
What questions? Your last post contained no questions.
redhouse1938 (429 D)
26 Oct 12 UTC
http://www.economist.com/blogs/baobab/2012/10/education-south-africa
Interesting.


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Conservative Man (100 D)
25 Oct 12 UTC
I'm back
So my opinion on a very important subject has changed. See inside.
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jmo1121109 (3812 D)
26 Oct 12 UTC
JavaScript question
See inside
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Tantris (2456 D)
25 Oct 12 UTC
If Obama wins...
How many conservatives are moving to Canada?
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bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
26 Oct 12 UTC
EOG: Bill Chase
gameID=101405

I know Ancient Med doesn't usually get any attention, but…
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President Eden (2750 D)
25 Oct 12 UTC
@Tolstoy and other libertarians
Scale of 1-10, how disappointed are y'all in Rand over this? I'm about an 11 right now.
http://www.businessinsider.com/mourdock-rape-republicans-rand-paul-2012-10#ixzz2AJdU8N56
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King Atom (100 D)
25 Oct 12 UTC
Show Me Something Interesting
The other day, someone told me I am too caught up in the past to function appropriately. It was then made a point that my taste in music accurately depicted the same conceptual view of my personality. So tell me, strangers, what is better today than it was yesterday? And can someone please explain the appeals of ANY form of modern music? I'm not sorry when I say that I am satisfied with listening to this for the rest of my life: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ_JAgHxR14
[BCAC]
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mapleleaf (0 DX)
24 Oct 12 UTC
new game!
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Bob Genghiskhan (1238 D)
25 Oct 12 UTC
How to not play for a draw.
EOGs for a game where hate overwhelmed sense. Link as soon as it's officially over.
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2ndWhiteLine (2611 D(B))
24 Oct 12 UTC
Gerrymandering at its finest
My NY state assembly district. 140 miles long. 10 miles wide in some parts. Zero tons of American pride.

http://www.latfor.state.ny.us/maps/2012a/fa101.pdf
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Gen. Lee (7588 D(B))
25 Oct 12 UTC
EOG - Live Gunboat -276
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hecks (164 D)
25 Oct 12 UTC
Issues logging in from Facebook
Are other people having issues logging in using the Facebook interface? I can't get into any of my active games (user sheck) and had to create this new account just to post about it. I'm worried I'm missing phases.
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yaks (218 D)
25 Oct 12 UTC
EoG Procrastination!-2
gameID=102725

We had france at 17 for a long time.
Theres something inexplicably thrilling about being a single unit for four years =).
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abgemacht (1076 D(G))
25 Oct 12 UTC
Apple Mini
So, are you getting one? Do you like the size? Is it worth the price when you can get a Nexus 7 or Kindle Fire HD for so much less?
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The Problem of Evil
Inquire Within
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bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
25 Oct 12 UTC
Hurricane/Snowstorm Sandy
I know it isn't hitting landfall for at least another week yet, but if you're out there, be aware of it. There was a public service announcement regarding it in central Indiana last night, so if we have to worry about it, the east coast should really focus on it.
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