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Jefe (100 D(S))
27 Nov 11 UTC
Late Night Live
http://www.webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=73348
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guy~~ (3779 D(B))
27 Nov 11 UTC
Anyone game for (semi) high stakes game?
Only 170 a pop!

gameID=73287
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President Eden (2750 D)
26 Nov 11 UTC
WE GOIN TO DA SHIP WHAAAAAT
WE GOIN TO DA SHIP WHAAAAAT
WE GOIN TO DA SHIP WHAAAAAT
WE GOIN TO DA SHIP WHAAAAAT
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redhouse1938 (429 D)
25 Nov 11 UTC
Templeton's Chew
This thread is supposed to become a temple where we can worship TC. Post all your fan mail here.
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santosh (335 D)
22 Sep 11 UTC
Winter Gunboat Tourney 2011 v2.0
http://tournaments.webdiplomacy.net/gunboat-tournament/gt-2011
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G1 (92 D)
26 Nov 11 UTC
DCL, where are you?
Hey, so I was looking to find the DCL thread to see what was going on (because group B games are all over and I'm not sure about group A). I tried to find the DCL thread by looking through the forum archives but I went ten pages without finding anything, by which time I was into the old, dead, locked threads that can't even be replied to. Can someone tell me what's going on? I drew in all 3 games so I should be in the next round, right?
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Diplomat33 (243 D(B))
21 Nov 11 UTC
New game, join if interested.
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=72845

It is a world game, 5 point bet anonymous players. My first real world game, discounting the game I joined midway through and was ganged up on.
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Myself538 (100 D)
22 Nov 11 UTC
Thoughts On The American Debt Deal
This is just for you people to argue your brains out on wheather if the deal on the american debt situation, is really being taken care of. All the politicians are following their parties, whereas they should be focusing on the benefit to the whole american public. Just post your thoughts and arguments here.
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Sargmacher (0 DX)
20 Nov 11 UTC
WebDip Poll: Survive or Defeated?
Webdip Poll: Survive vs Defeat
+1 one of the options below to vote on this often contentious poll.
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ezpickins (113 D)
26 Nov 11 UTC
Join Up!
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=73295
Anon, FUll Press, 15 bet, no CD's please
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damian (675 D)
21 Nov 11 UTC
150cc live game club, is looking for your input
You're thoughts would be appreciated.
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Tettleton's Chew (0 DX)
21 Nov 11 UTC
France’s fragile AAA rating
Unsustainable Old World welfare states are hit by reality.

France is the poster child.
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Tettleton's Chew (0 DX)
21 Nov 11 UTC
Spain's election obliterates socialists
Spain's center-right opposition stormed to a crushing election victory Sunday as voters punished the outgoing Socialist government for the worst economic crisis in generations.
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Tettleton's Chew (0 DX)
06 Oct 11 UTC
The Greek Debt Thread
How about a thread dedicated exclusively to the Greek Debt!
Sounds Great!
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Maniac (189 D(B))
30 Oct 11 UTC
The solution is easy and yet somehow almost impossible to achieve until things get a lot worse.

In 1909 when the UK state pension was introduced for men aged 65 and over the life expectancy was 47 and the school leaving age was 13. An average man would therefore be supported by his family and state for 13 years and then support his family and the state for 34 years - to achieve a balance over his lifespan he should contribute 38.23 of his earnings when he is earning. When life expectation was 65 and school leaving age was 16 - he would need to contribute 32.65% of his earnings when he was economically active. Now that the school leaving age is still 16 but life expectatancy is 78 a man needs to contribute 59.18% of his earning when he is economically active. However it is far worse than that - more people now stay on until 18 and almost 50% of the population go to uni until they are 21.meaning some people should contribute over 77% of their earnings to remain in balance. This is obviously unsustainable anywhere in the world. The only way to readdress this imbalance is to reduce education and increase the pension age. Perhaps if people go to uni they should work longer as their jobs are likely to be less physical?

Whilst the solution is easy - achieving a higher pension age and less education is politically impossible - unless of course democracy fails and such things are imposed.
Tettleton's Chew (0 DX)
30 Oct 11 UTC
Democracy won't fail. The irrational-fiscally unsustainable socialist nanny state has failed, see Greece, followed by Portugal, followed by Italy, followed by Spain, followed by Illinois, followed by California, followed by........

Models that fund their systems on endless streams of borrowed money discover that there are no endless streams of borrowed money.
hellalt (24 D)
30 Oct 11 UTC
Greece was and is socialistic only in paper dumbass.
Pepijn (212 D(S))
30 Oct 11 UTC
@ Maniac: The first of the aims is achievable, though maybe not to the necessary degree. A gradual transition to a pension age of 67 years is already in place in some European countries while an increase to 69 years is in discussion.
Maniac (189 D(B))
30 Oct 11 UTC
@Peijn - suppose they raise the retirement age to 69. A university educated person would then on average spend 21 prior to becoming economically active; then work for 48 years then spend 9 years in retirement. 48 years working and 30 years not working. This doesn't include periods of unemployment and absences to raise children. Also any increases in state pension age are lways deferred for years rather than been brought in straight away.

We need to do so much more.
Tettleton's Chew (0 DX)
30 Oct 11 UTC
The United States needs to abolish social security for everyone under 50 and rely on personal 401 K plans.
People would then realize that understanding personal finance is second only to the knowledge they use at work to contribute to a sound retirement.

Thinking that some government official will be as diligent and efficient planning for your retirement as you are is about as illogical an argument as someone could put forth.
Tettleton's Chew (0 DX)
03 Nov 11 UTC
The Greeks don't even want to repay 50% of what they borrowed.
The word of a Greek or of Greece is totally worthless.
Tettleton's Chew (0 DX)
05 Nov 11 UTC
Quick recap for idiots who don't understand what sovereign debt is, Government Debt plus External Debt=Sovereign Debt

Government debt is owed to lenders from within the country, Credit Suisse loaning money to the Swiss Government for example.
External debt is debt owed to lenders outside the country, JP Morgan loaning money to Switzerland by purchasing Swiss bonds.

End of lesson for the fiscally ignorant, like Pete U.
Tettleton's Chew (0 DX)
10 Nov 11 UTC
Greek looks like it will go through what Argentina went through at the beginning of the century when it failed to honor its sovereign debt.

A Greek default will cause Greece to quit using the Euro and any new Greek currency would destroy well 50-75% of the savings of individual Greeks.
GDP will collapse by 10-15%
Unemployment will approach depression era numbers in the 25-30% range.

This is exactly what happened to Argentina a decade ago when it defaulted.

Greek banks would collapse since they own sizable amounts of Greek debt.

Fasces349 (0 DX)
10 Nov 11 UTC
So TC, if Greece failed because it was socialist how do you explain the debt in America?
Tettleton's Chew (0 DX)
15 Nov 11 UTC
The Greek debt crisis is in its end game. The only questions left will determine how much money Greece will refuse to ever repay of other people's money they borrowed and wasted, and when Greece will leave the European monetary union.
Italy is now in crisis, but the Italians are in much better shape than the Greeks, unless of course it turns out the Italians are like the Greeks.

The real question is what crisis Greece and Italy will instigate?
The pampered, egotistical Europeans are beginning to realize that their social/cultural model is collapsing (it's amazing to realize the Europeans are too dense to recognize the obvious already) and what type of political crisis this will set off.
With the collapse of European socialism and a complete inability for the European mindset to compete in a free market what will the decaying cultures of Europe turn too, Fascism again?
Perry6006 (5409 D)
15 Nov 11 UTC
I was born 1975.
Before the Wars of the Balkans , in the 90s, I thought there would never be any war in Europe, during my lifetime...
After the Wars of the 90s, I thought there would never be a War fought in Western Europe, during my lifetime...
Right now, I'm pretty sure there will be a War fought in Western Europe, during my lifetime...
Tettleton's Chew (0 DX)
16 Nov 11 UTC
I do not know if war will result, but in the last week the political leaders of Greece and Italy changed, and when you study Europe's history the continent produced some of the most extreme political leadership of the 20th century. Let's pray that Europe doesn't produce another class of murderous leader in this century to match those Europeans followed into the abyss last century.
Let me guess, this murderous leader is socialist, no doubt.
Tettleton's Chew (0 DX)
22 Nov 11 UTC
Lessons for U.S. from Canada's "basket case" moment

Finance officials bit their nails and nervously watched the clock. There were 30 minutes left in a bond auction aimed at funding the deficit and there was not a single bid.

Sounds like today's Italy or Greece?

No, this was Canada in 1994.

Bids eventually came in, but that close call, along with downgrades and the Wall Street Journal calling Canada "an honorary member of the Third World," helped the nation's people and politicians understand how scary its budget problem was.

Canadian debt shrank to 29 percent of gross domestic product in 2008-09, from a peak of 68 percent in 1995-96, and the budget was in the black for 11 consecutive years until the 2008-09 recession.

Canada's experience turned on its head the prevailing wisdom that spending promises were the easiest way to win elections. Politicians of all kinds and at all levels of government learned that austerity could win.

MORE SPENDING CUTS THAN TAX HIKES

The ratio of spending cuts to tax hikes was seven-to-one. Asked why, Chretien said simply: "There was more need on one side than the other."

That contrasts with proposals this year by President Barack Obama and the Democrats to have a much higher proportion of revenue increases in the deficit-tackling mix.

Canadian ministers were told how much they had to cut and then told to come back with a plan on how to do it. Cuts ranged from five percent to 65 percent of departmental budgets and included controversial cuts in transfers that help provinces pay for health and education, decisions that lengthened medical waiting lists for years to come.

After wrestling the deficit to the ground, Canada enjoyed what Crowley calls the payoff decade, outperforming the rest of the G7 on growth, job creation and inward investment. From 1997 to 2007, it averaged 3.3 percent economic growth. while U.S. growth averaged 2.9 percent.

The Canadian dollar weakened from around C$1.38 to the U.S. dollar at the time of the 1995 budget to almost C$1.62 in 2002, helping make Canada more competitive. But it has since roared back and now stands close to parity with the greenback.
Tettleton's Chew (0 DX)
25 Nov 11 UTC
A Greek, an Italian, and a Spaniard walk into a bar and proceed to get drunk. Who pays the bill? A German.
Keep trying Tettie, you're only catching carp (me) with your bait.
hellalt (24 D)
25 Nov 11 UTC
TC There is a house with a Greek, and Italian and a Spanish (Spaniard is not a valid word you uneducated moron) WHORE in a notorious bar and proceed to get fucked.
Who is the cheapest? The American.
hellalt (24 D)
25 Nov 11 UTC
all copyrights reserved hellalt 2011
Adam Bomb (100 D)
25 Nov 11 UTC
Yeah, we'll ALL be using that one right away. I'm sure it'll catch on.
Adam Bomb (100 D)
25 Nov 11 UTC
"Let me guess, this murderous leader is socialist, no doubt."

One was, yes. Hitler was a member of the Nationalist Socialist German Workers' Party.
Tettleton's Chew (0 DX)
26 Nov 11 UTC
je, I'm glad your reduced to grammar correction.
Did you learn how to do that from a German?


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Jacob (2466 D)
25 Nov 11 UTC
The Aftermath: Being Stabbed
I define a stab as any broken agreement or deception which leads to a change in ownership of one or more centers. In this thread I'd like to start by opening it up for inpt on how you react to being stabbed. This is NOT a thread about stabbing (just about being stabbed). I'll post my thoughts later in the thread.
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abgemacht (1076 D(G))
22 Nov 11 UTC
F2F Dip--Central Square in Cambridge, Dec 10/11
Alex, the TD of the Boston Massacre, is trying to get some games set up for Dec 10/11 at Pandemonium Books and Games in Central Square in Cambridge. If you're in the area and have never played F2F before, I highly encourage you to come. I'm going to try to make it. PM me for Alex's contact info.
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taos (281 D)
25 Nov 11 UTC
if i send an invitation to player to join an anonimous game?
am i breaking any rule?
my intention is to play anonimous without knowing who is who and not comunicate outside the game once it has started
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flc64 (1963 D)
25 Nov 11 UTC
Hernando/trinity/alppu the Cheater! The fall of civilization -2, gameID=66394.
Sadly this game ended before Hernando/trinity/alppu was exposed as a cheater. Nothing like playing for two months only to find out after the game has ended that the winner was a cheater! Thanks to the mods for sniffing him out.
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Adam Bomb (100 D)
26 Nov 11 UTC
Pre-Thead Thread
This thread is just to see how many people will come and slaughter me. Waiting to start an actual thread, and I don't want the subject to be purely political. So, bring all your emotional rants about evil capitalism here, and I'll promptly shut this off and start a new one with a different topic.
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joshildinho101 (128 D)
26 Nov 11 UTC
gameID=73226
gameID=73226 join this LIVE GAME TYPE for some live fun action
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lorelei11 (54 DX)
25 Nov 11 UTC
cheating or not
Russian cheaters
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mapleleaf (0 DX)
22 Nov 11 UTC
New game : Get rid of mapleleaf
It's a WTA anon gunboat.

327pt buy in.
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santosh (335 D)
25 Nov 11 UTC
50CC-001 EOGs
here shortly. gameID=73204
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☺ (1304 D)
25 Nov 11 UTC
Where did Eden's GEAUX TIGERS threads go.
Cause G. E. A. U. X.
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Tettleton's Chew (0 DX)
18 Nov 11 UTC
$15 Trillion Debt-Each American's share
Politicians, journalists, and idiots talk about the $15 trillion dollar national debt as if it were nothing.
Debt isn't nothing though. Just ask a Greek.
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Diplomat33 (243 D(B))
25 Nov 11 UTC
Live Ready based game going to get started
Going to do a live ready based game. Post here if interested. Ready based means you put enter as fast as possible but it isnt live.
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BuZzEvilly (135 D)
25 Nov 11 UTC
World War. Join game!
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=72921
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jcbryan97 (134 D)
25 Nov 11 UTC
Gunboat
Anyone want to play a 36 hour phase gunboat game? I usually ready up in 12 to 24 hours.

I'm looking for known players of any GR.
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yebellz (729 D(G))
25 Nov 11 UTC
Happy Black Friday
It's 4am on the east coast... fuck this shit.
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Tettleton's Chew (0 DX)
19 Nov 11 UTC
Financial world abandons Europe en masse
A couple of weeks ago Kokusai Asset Management in Japan unloaded nearly $1 billion in Italian debt.
The exodus of money from Europe is crippling a decrepit socialist system in Europe that survives on continual infusions of credit from outside Europe.
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