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BenGuin (248 D)
03 Feb 12 UTC
Lord of Ultima
This was a thread in Vdip, but me, King Atom, and Drano019 is thinking of starting a Lord of Ultima, Webdip alliance. For those who know how to play, we are probably going to be starting as soon as a new English Server is opened... For those who don't know how to play, Server 60 would be a good experience-gathering game
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E_03 (303 D)
03 Feb 12 UTC
Split Coast Fleet Movements
Hi, board. I have a question regarding fleet movements including territories with two unique coasts:
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President Eden (2750 D)
04 Feb 12 UTC
Attention: Diplomat33
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ulytau (541 D)
03 Feb 12 UTC
ONE DOES NOT SIMPLY SILENCE A THREAD ON WEBDIP
They will sooner stop eating people down there in Congo.
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The Czech (40398 D(S))
04 Feb 12 UTC
Gunboat in 5 minutes gameID=79672
gameID=79672 40 D buy in
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Putin33 (111 D)
26 Jan 12 UTC
Santa re: Rutgers
http://espn.go.com/college-sports/recruiting/football/story/_/id/7506907/rutgers-scarlet-knight-recruits-wait-greg-schiano-never-arrives-meeting

This is screwed up. I feel bad for Rutgers.
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Yonni (136 D(S))
03 Feb 12 UTC
2012 Music Festivals
Hey, any of you guys ever head to festivals?
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brainbomb (290 D)
03 Feb 12 UTC
Classic gunboat LIVE complaint


Very likely France and Germany are communicating/cheating. No reason why two people with 10 builds bordering each other would still be just chilling out sipping pina coladas like this.
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hellalt (24 D)
03 Feb 12 UTC
Anti-ACTA hackers hack the Greek Ministry of Justice
"Anonymous" hackers against the ACTA act (something like PIPA and SOPA) took over the website of the Greek Ministry of Justice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eJP9wDhDoI
way to go dudes :-)
I'm waiting to see more official government sites hacked!
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Lando Calrissian (100 D(S))
02 Feb 12 UTC
new thread
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d31 (312 D(B))
03 Feb 12 UTC
Trump endorses Romney
How much will it hurt Mitt in the polls?
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MrcsAurelius (3051 D(B))
30 Jan 12 UTC
Top GR 150 Invitational!
Dear all! Next month I hope to graduate to the GR 150 club for the first time, after two recent draws, and I want to celebrate by starting up a game against my new peer group :)
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Sandgoose (0 DX)
30 Jan 12 UTC
What do YOU do?
Sandgoose is curious as to what you all do for a living. I am an Underwriter at Liberty Mutual...Sandgoose is wondering...what do YOU do?
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obiwanobiwan (248 D)
03 Feb 12 UTC
One Million Moms, Zero Common Sense--Ellen DeGeneres Targeted by Anti-LGBT Group
http://news.yahoo.com/one-million-moms-jc-penney-fire-ellen-shes-173429894.html "Funny that JC Penney thinks hiring an open homosexual spokesperson will help their business when most of their customers are traditional families,"
Funny this should even be an issue in the year 2012...JC Penny will keep her on, but what does this say about the state of LGBT Rights in America?
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mdrltc (1818 D(G))
21 Jan 12 UTC
Capital Region Team - Diplomacy World Cup
Announcing the Capital Region team for participation in the Diplomacy World Cup. Team Participant Criteria: must live, or have lived in DC, Virginia or Maryland, or states that border those states, or states that border states that border DC, Virginia, or Maryland. Personally viewed or saw a picture of the Washington monument or the Lincoln Memorial. Has a used ticket stub to a Nationals or Capitals game (Wizards fans, you are out of luck, as are any of the Baltimore teams fans).
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SpeakerToAliens (147 D(S))
02 Feb 12 UTC
Rogue "Pause" votes
gameID=75418: Why do I keep having to cancel a "Pause" vote? I've haven't voted to Pause so why does it keep saying that next to my name?
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obiwanobiwan (248 D)
31 Jan 12 UTC
First The Olympics...Now--A Super Bowl In London?
http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=sportsxchange-000552729_report-nfl-might-consider-super-bowl-in-london
We already play a regular season game there each year...now the league's talking about maybe holding a future Super Bowl in London.
US Citizens--How would you feel about that? Fair or Foul?
UK Citizens--Well...If We Hold It, Will You Come/Watch/Care?
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Thucydides (864 D(B))
01 Feb 12 UTC
Who to follow on twitter
@Mobute @ActualPerson084 @HumorForMens @horse_ebooks @UtilityLimb @TheOnion. Now sit back and enjoy
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redhouse1938 (429 D)
02 Feb 12 UTC
So, when you guys elected Mitt
I may drop by for a few years.
Emigration to the US after Ph.D.: YES/NO?
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thelevite (722 D)
02 Feb 12 UTC
Need a replacement Russia
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=75412
Pretty good position in a world game, previous Russia banned. 21 hours left so for sure some time for communication. Nothing unbalances a game quite like a major power in CD.
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Perseguidor (0 DX)
02 Feb 12 UTC
What I have to do When two players are coordinated in a no in-game messaging game?
I'm playing a no in-game messaging game and two player are supporting hold each other during 3 turns. Is it against the rules? What can I do?
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Sydney City (0 DX)
02 Feb 12 UTC
urgent replacement needed- ok position
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=78864&msgCountryID=0
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Sit In
I need someone to cover for me this weekend here and on vdiplomacy…
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The Prussian (0 DX)
01 Feb 12 UTC
Christian Just War Theory
I would like to hear the opinions of the community here at WebDiplomacy regarding Christian Just War Theory. Whether Atheist, Christian, or any sort of religious affiliation, your thoughts are appreciated. Does it concur with what Jesus taught? Is there room for killing in a Christian lifestyle if these conditions are met? Any and all thoughts are appreciated thank you.
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Sargmacher (0 DX)
02 Feb 12 UTC
February GR Live Gunboat Challenge
February's first live GR Gunboat Challenge in 4 hours: gameID=79549
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BosephJennett (866 D)
02 Feb 12 UTC
Is this type of post allowed?
I am currently in a game with a terrible ally. Let me be more specific: they're not an evil stabber or an incompetent strategist, but they are simply a terrible ally. I don't know how else to describe it. I'm talking possibly the worst teammate I've ever had in any game, Diplomacy or other. Is it improper to discuss this here if I don't use names?
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Draugnar (0 DX)
02 Feb 12 UTC
Mods, please check your email...
It's not urgent per se, but it's an ethics thing and needs to be handled or the violators will get away with what they are trying to do...
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NikeFlash (140 D)
02 Feb 12 UTC
PUNNY POST OF PUNS
I am really bored......


PS: this is my 100th post :))))))
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ghug (5068 D(B))
20 Jan 12 UTC
Northwest USA World Cup Team
Anyone from Washington or Oregon, Northern California, Idaho, and BC are probably OK to join too if we need people.
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Tettleton's Chew (0 DX)
02 Feb 12 UTC
States Cracking Down on Political Speech
Once again George Will shows why he is the most important opinion writer in the United States.
Tettleton's Chew (0 DX)
02 Feb 12 UTC
Dina Galassini does not seem to pose a threat to Arizona’s civic integrity. But the government of this desert community believes that you cannot be too careful. And state law empowers local governments to be vigilant against the lurking danger that political speech might occur before the speakers notify the government and comply with all the speech rules.
Last October, Galassini became annoyed — like many Ron Paul supporters, she is easily annoyed by government — about the city’s plan to augment its spending with a $29.6 million bond issue, to be voted on by mail by Nov. 8. On Oct. 6, she sent e-mails to 23 friends and acquaintances, urging them to write letters to newspapers and join her in two demonstrations against the bond measure. On Oct. 12, before she could organize the demonstrations, she received a stern letter from the town clerk: “I would strongly encourage you to cease any campaign-related activities until the requirements of the law have been met.”

State law — this is the state of John McCain, apostle of political purification through the regulation of political speech — says that anytime two or more people work together to influence a vote on a ballot measure, they instantly become a “political committee.” This transformation triggers various requirements — registering with the government, filing forms, establishing a bank account for the “committee” even if it has raised no money and does not intend to. This must be done before members of this fictitious “committee” may speak.
Galassini wrote to ask the clerk if it would be permissible for her to e-mail the 23 persons telling them the demonstrations were canceled — she got no response — and told the clerk, “This is all so confusing to me.” Confusion and inconvenience — Galassini could have made an appointment for tutoring by the clerk’s office concerning permissible speech — are probably intended consequences of laws designed to burden political speech that is potentially inconvenient for government. Galassini gave up trying to influence the vote.

The Supreme Court, in its splendid 2010 Citizens United decision, said that laws requiring licenses or other official permission to speak “function as the equivalent of prior restraint by giving the (government) power analogous to licensing laws implemented in 16th- and 17th-century England, laws and governmental practices of the sort that the First Amendment was drawn to prohibit.” Paul Avelar of the Institute for Justice, the nation’s only libertarian public-interest law firm, which is helping Galassini contest the constitutionality of Arizona’s law, says that such niggling nuisances are proliferating nationwide.

A Florida law requires disclosure, including the name and address of the contributor, of any contribution, no matter how small — a penny for your thoughts? Report it — to a political committee. A Washington state law is notably protective of the political class: There must be litigation before a campaign to recall a public official can start, and lawyers are essentially forbidden from volunteering their help with that litigation. In Mississippi, anyone can put up his or her own Web page about a ballot issue, but the Web page designer must disclose the time he or she took to do it. And anyone who spends more than $200 on political speech — say, a small ad in a local newspaper — is required to give the government monthly reports about his or her political activity.
Such pettifogging laws reflect, aside from the joy governments derive from bossing people around, the current rage for regulating political speech lest . . . what? Campaign regulations usually focus on money, supposedly to prevent quid pro quo corruption or the appearance thereof pertaining to candidates. But many laws cover activities involving ballot measures, which suggests that, for reformers, limiting political speech is itself the goal. Hence their obsession with political money, most of which funds the dissemination of speech.

Nationally, political hygienists are regretting their inadvertent creations, this year’s super PACs, entities run by supporters of presidential candidates but forbidden to “coordinate” with the candidates. Super PACs are spending money that the reformers, by imposing low limits on contributions to candidates and parties, have diverted away from campaigns that otherwise could be held directly accountable for, and judged in terms of, the speech they finance. We hear, yet again, the reformers’ cry: “There is too much money in politics.” This year, the presidential campaigns combined may spend almost $2 billion, which is almost as much as Americans will, in a few weeks, spend on Easter candy.


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