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jpgredsox (104 D)
02 Oct 11 UTC
Anwar Al-Awlaki
The United States has assassinated an American citizen, never having been charged or indicted; this has sent a precedent that anyone the government deems a "threat" by a legal analysis the government won't even release can be blown up from the sky. There is no outcry or even discussion among most Americans; he is a terrorist. When people exchange liberty for security, they deserve neither.
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bihary (2782 D(S))
14 Oct 11 UTC
Deleting supply centers
If I was to delete some supply centers on the map to improve balance and to make the map less unit-crowded, I would delete centers in Rumania, Denmark and Portugale. What do you think?
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Sargmacher (0 DX)
11 Oct 11 UTC
Ulysses, James Joyce
So, I'm reading Joyce's Ulysses this week as part of my studies. It's a renowned and controversial text so I figured many of you here would have something worthwhile to offer me on it. Although I expect and welcome a fair amount of comments of ridicule - I hope some of our more scholarly contributors might be able to offer me an insight/judgement or two.
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obiwanobiwan (248 D)
14 Oct 11 UTC
"If *I* Say Its Too Hard, Joyce Has Clearly Failed.*
^True quote from a guy so pompous even *I* can't stand him (who claims to know all about...everything, and knows nothing, INISISTING English people wore no pants or anything of the sort until Henry VIII, and that tarring a guy's ball's is ESSENTIAL to understanding Huck Finn...not kidding, he said this)
1. If a work is "too hard"/unclear to you, your fault, authors's fault, or both?
2. I argued you should read such works twice, he said bull--opinions?
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jmo1121109 (3812 D)
14 Oct 11 UTC
So many good games
with openings, if only they were not password protected.
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basvanopheusden (2176 D)
11 Oct 11 UTC
The advice thread
Some of us are students who seek knowledge. Some of us are professors, teachers, or practicioners who have knowledge. Why not use this forum to learn?
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Draugnar (0 DX)
14 Oct 11 UTC
Bug with muting and the Home screen.
I'm not on the Dev forum and don't even remember if I ever created an account so if Kestas reads this or someone wants to relay it...
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rollerfiend (0 DX)
14 Oct 11 UTC
Big Mouth game password
Hi I'm trying to get into a game called Big Mouth, I'd like to play if y'all still need players
please pm me whenever!
cheers
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The Hanged Man (4160 D(G))
14 Oct 11 UTC
Mute Thread
is the best feature EVAR. Okay, you can mute this one now.
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Zarathustra (3672 D)
12 Oct 11 UTC
Congratulations!
I have now been back around phpDip for a couple weeks now and I just want to say to everyone that this must be one of the best forums on the web.
Ges (292 D)
12 Oct 11 UTC
The forum has seemed kind of cranky and ad hominem of late to me. I would say, though, that if we take a two-day sample even in a rough patch, we'll find at least one game-related thread and one non-game-related thread of interest. That's not too terrible.
Zarathustra (3672 D)
12 Oct 11 UTC
Precisely. Good stuff that's off topic and good stuff on topic.

Ges, you should have seen the forum back when I was first playing. Thucy and Treefarn(I am pretty sure that's who it was. Any old timers recall this?) would be at each other's throats every single day. It was fantastic. The forum, as far as I can tell, has not gotten worse and is perhaps better behaved than it was.
Thucydides (864 D(B))
13 Oct 11 UTC
Hm. Thought I responded but it must not have gone through.

Anyway I barely remember anything about Treefarn besides his name, I'm sure you are mistaken Zara.. I haven't really had a beef with anyone on this site. Lol.
Tru Ninja (1016 D(S))
13 Oct 11 UTC
I can't say I recall those types of threads either. Although I've been on the site for about 3 years, I didn't participate much in the first year or so. I get the feeling that people are just now beginning to recognize my name around here.
Zarathustra (3672 D)
13 Oct 11 UTC
I could have sworn it was you Thucy.... hmm.. I'll have to delve into the old threads.
Zarathustra (3672 D)
13 Oct 11 UTC
My bad, Thucy! It was mapleleaf and Pandora. I knew you chimed in on the side of reason, but I thought you had been subject to the directed attacks.
abgemacht (1076 D(G))
13 Oct 11 UTC
I remember Treefarn. I think I played with him in his first game on this site. I don't remember him being active in the forum though.
abgemacht (1076 D(G))
13 Oct 11 UTC
"It was mapleleaf and Pandora."

LOL yes, that makes much more sense.
Ges (292 D)
13 Oct 11 UTC
@Tru Ninja: Well, you are a ninja. The low profile makes sense until you wish to make yourself known . . .
Draugnar (0 DX)
13 Oct 11 UTC
All you had to say was "It was mapleleaf and _______" We can fill in most any name in the blank. ;-)
Thucydides (864 D(B))
14 Oct 11 UTC
Haha wow it's been FOREVER since Pandora was rustling up the dust. Her friend Sicarius is still active though. I do remember those threads though but I didn't remember her biggest hater being mapleleaf. I never noticed mapleleaf losing his shit until about a year, year and a half ago. Anyway. Lol. Yeah, that wasn't all that bad in my memory anyway, things are mostly the same. I would just say that we have more right wing extremists than we used to lol, as opposed to left wing extremists or anarchists which are still here but have fallen out of vogue.
Draugnar (0 DX)
14 Oct 11 UTC
The left-wing extremists will be back. The Tea party has made right wing extremism come in vogue with the whack jobs, but the Occupy Wallstreet movement will bring back the extreme left.
Thucydides (864 D(B))
14 Oct 11 UTC
Lol i meant on the site, both movements have always been alive and well on the national level.
Draugnar (0 DX)
14 Oct 11 UTC
I meant with the trolls in general, both on this site and on others around the interweb thingy. :-)


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Putin33 (111 D)
12 Oct 11 UTC
Fanning the flames of white grievance
So I'm not accused of derailing the science thread.

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santosh (335 D)
13 Oct 11 UTC
StP Fleet NC in Builds 1901
When would it make sense to build Fleet StP 1901 instead of an army there? Isn't the army there much more flexible and useful? My point is that Russia cannot hope to mount a full offensive on England this early - and certainly not a naval one, so isn't his best hope in the North to mount a flexible defense while spooking Germany into helping him? Even when he succeeds in doing so, wouldn't Germany play the major naval part with your original fleet supporting from the Norwegian?
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omnomnom (177 D)
13 Oct 11 UTC
I just love it when people make contraversial threads and then...
When their arguments are blown apart, they don't respond except to correct spelling errors and declare victory because of that.
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AverageWhiteBoy (314 D)
12 Oct 11 UTC
The Mormons are heretics.
But that's not the same thing as being a cult.
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jpgredsox (104 D)
13 Oct 11 UTC
Iran-U.S. Relations
The Iranian government won't provoke the US into war because Iran would not win. Iran's nuclear ambitions result from a regional struggle with Saudi Arabia and having a weapon would increase local prestige/power; Iranian possession of a weapon is certainly not a threat to the US, and is less of a threat than to the US than Pakistan's weapons are.
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jgcrawfo (100 D)
13 Oct 11 UTC
Live anonymous gunboat, starting in five minutes!
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=69958
Join up! Fast & fun!
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wacki (132 D)
13 Oct 11 UTC
no orders possible in all World Diplomacy IX games
since more then 2 hours it is not possible to fill in orders in my World Diplomacy IX games. There is only the message orders loaded... but nothing happened. Reload, Reconnect and Restart of game, browser, internetconnection and computer do not change anything so I guess the problem is not local...
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obiwanobiwan (248 D)
07 Oct 11 UTC
NFL Week 5 Pick 'Em
Cocnkey topped the field of WebDip NFL Experts--sure, we're experts, right?--with 14 games picked correctly...congrats! (Full standings inside!)
But its a new week! The Jets and Pats enter a game neither can afford to lose with the upstart Bills at 3-1! Buffalo can drop Philly's Dream Team to 1-4 with a win! Oakland, Houston, Tampa, and San Fran all play as upstarts trying to gain standing! GB@ATL in the nightcap, and DET@CHI on Monday Night! Week 5...PICK 'EM!
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tricky (148 D)
13 Oct 11 UTC
Fast dilema
I'm looking to organise a 5min turn anon with no in game messaging this evening but only have two points. Is there a way around this problem?
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Yonni (136 D(S))
11 Oct 11 UTC
As G, what do you tell R about Sweden in S01?
I've always felt that this is one of the more awkward talking points in S01. How do you normally approach this as Germany (or Russia for that matter)?
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The Situation (100 D)
13 Oct 11 UTC
Five Finger Death Punch
So how 'bout their new album - American Capitalist?
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Zarathustra (3672 D)
11 Oct 11 UTC
Still looking for players....
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=69707

It would be really sad if gryncat and I's welcome back game started with civil disorder.
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Draugnar (0 DX)
13 Oct 11 UTC
Quote of the day - Read in a business article regarding study criteria.
"Like any good negotiation, we've managed to make all parties moderately dissatisfied,"

Just felt so Diplomacy related on oh so many levels.
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Cynical Naif (142 D)
13 Oct 11 UTC
Suggested press variants to spice up the game
Make the diplomacy phase more challenging with the outside-the-box message variants contained within.
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SantaClausowitz (360 D)
11 Oct 11 UTC
DC Plot
This thing is wild. Let your thoughts and inevitable conspiracy theories fly.

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/11/official-fbi-dea-disrupt-terror-plot-in-u-s-involving-iran/?hpt=hp_t1
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Tsarwash (100 D)
11 Oct 11 UTC
Player collusion in anonymous, nil message games.
Do people think that it actually happens much, in games with no messaging at all, that two players decide before the game to help each other. I'm not complaining, or accusing, I just wanted to know what people's thoughts are about this. I have only come across one game where I suspected that the two players were in cahoots from before the game started, but whether or not it happened, the actions of two players kind of ruined the game.
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Riphen (198 D)
12 Oct 11 UTC
Top 10 Stoner Movies
And no. This is not a list of movies that you liked while high. It is about the movies that have actors acting like they are high.(or are really high)
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Lando Calrissian (100 D(S))
12 Oct 11 UTC
live game
I am tired of shitty live games. Anyone interested in a high quality gunboat tonight?
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fulhamish (4134 D)
12 Oct 11 UTC
''never forget that everything hitler did in germany was legal''
I wonder what people think of the MLK quote?
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Diplomat33 (243 D(B))
12 Oct 11 UTC
Teen Diplomacy Tournament registration
Post your profile name followed by age if you intend to participate. Post nothing else. This is a list of participants only.
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