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Your Daily "Trololol" News

http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/13/world/meast/iran-argo-response/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

Oh that Counsel of Elders is really something...

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Bloomberg soda ban halted

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/mayor_bloomberg_believes_themselves_enfmR96eplT88TyLQInuoI

Discuss.

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March madness 2013!!!

In this 2013 basketball season it has been filled with upsets and well the battle of the better teams. I personally think the final four will be Michigan state Spartans, Indiana Hoosiers, Florida gators, and Michigan wolverines. Now knowing selection Sunday hasn't happened I thought I would have a little college basketball talk with people over America or out side who follow the college basketball association. What do people think will happen in the tournament. Thoughts?

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12 Mar 13 UTC

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e e cummings variant game

In the thread: threadID=982959 - hecks made an excellent proposal:

"An e e cummings variant game. Public press only, no capitalization, no punctuation, all comments must be made in deliberately vague e e cummings style poems."

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13 Mar 13 UTC

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Join gameID=112381

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Philosophy Variant Game (Pure Diplomacy)

Hi I propose a game of the following:

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12 Mar 13 UTC

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British people, have a question

is the mirror a tabloid, or is this article correct?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/teenage-british-sex-slave-raped-1755604

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Pause requested for technical malfunction on internet connection

From friday 15th of March to monday 18th of March I'll be without internet connection due to a misfunction in my house's telephonic connection... Can we pause this games in those days thanks?
- Manchester Utd 4- 1 Benfica
- Lithium-2
- Polly

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12 Mar 13 UTC

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Writing Thread

How many of you write? What do you write about? Want to trade critiques?

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What is your primary news source?

Where do you get your news and current affairs? Newspaper? TV? Website? Radio?

For me it is a newspaper: The Australian

NigeeBaby (100 )
12 Mar 13 UTC

www.bbc.co.uk

TheMinisterOfWar (553 )
12 Mar 13 UTC

In order, Economist, Guardian, Foreign Policy, BBC, Politico.

I often scan headlines of others (Dutch Nu.nl for example), but then look it up elsewhere. There are simply too many good news sources to abide with crappy ones.

NYT and Haaretz were among my favorites until they introduced a paywall. I have no problem with paying per se (I pay gladly for Economist), but find a paywall for hard news so old-fashioned, and I find online cross-platform access to them still quite dated. Besides, the Guardian and BBC are amazing without having to pay.

TheMinisterOfWar (553 )
12 Mar 13 UTC

Oh, and to adress the question on medium: no TV, headlines on radio, no dead trees. Mostly through browser, but also on iOS directly.

Jamiet99uk (873 )
12 Mar 13 UTC

Interesting survery.

Online: www.bbc.co.uk/news

Print: Economist, Private Eye, Guardian, Morning Star.

Jamiet99uk (873 )
12 Mar 13 UTC

Radio: BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 5.

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12 Mar 13 UTC

http://kcna.co.jp/index-e.htm

bo_sox48 (5202 )
12 Mar 13 UTC

BBC, Guardian

Yellowjacket (835 )
12 Mar 13 UTC
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Comedy Central.

2ndWhiteLine (2611 )
12 Mar 13 UTC

The local Channel 4 i-Team. Reporting REAL news from the front lines every day at 6 and 11.

krellin (80 )
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blankflag is recently my one and only source of all information. I thrive on *fantasy*...

Mintyboy4 (100 )
12 Mar 13 UTC

bbc.co.uk
Time Magazine
Any newspaper I find lying about. Usually the Metro when i'm going to central London to watch a musical.

Those are my primary sources.

jmo1121109 (3812 )
12 Mar 13 UTC

Dammit Yellowjacket, I saw this and immediately opened it to answer comedians.

abgemacht (1076 )
12 Mar 13 UTC

General News: NPR, The Economist, webDiplomacy
Science and Technology: Scientific American, Science, IEEE Specturm
Consumer Electronics: The Verge

semck83 (229 )
12 Mar 13 UTC

General news: Drudge Report, New York Times, Dallas Morning News, Seattle Times, Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

Science News: Science Daily (occasionally), physics blogs.

Additional political news: RCP, Politico.

yebellz (729 )
12 Mar 13 UTC

Google News, Reddit, and the morning local news show before work

Octavious (2701 )
12 Mar 13 UTC

bbc.co.uk (daily)
BBC Radio 5 (daily)
The Somerset Guardian (weekly)
The Telegraph (every now and then)
Le Monde, ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), and CNN (when I'm in the mood... which isn't often)

SpeakerToAliens (147 )
12 Mar 13 UTC

On T.V:
Sky News,
BBC News.

On line:
www.theregister.co.uk - tech/science news.
news.bbc.co.uk - very popular here.
order-order.com - a political blog run by "Guido Fawkes" [NvSFW]
www.sciencedaily.com - does what it says on the tin.
www.dailymail.co.uk - <StA dons asbestos underwear>

abgemacht (1076 )
12 Mar 13 UTC

@semck

Have any good science blogs you'd recommend?

semck83 (229 )
12 Mar 13 UTC

@abge,

My favorite is Not Even Wrong by Peter Woit. He's controversial, since he's one of the leading anti-string-theory people, but whatever you think of that (and I'm somewhere in between -- string theory definitely still deserves active investigation and is very interesting, but it has quite possibly been oversold and promoted in silly ways, and people should still give thought to other approaches as well), he does a fantastic job keeping you up to date on developments in the field (both pro and con his views). Skim a few recent posts and you'll see what I mean.

http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/

There are also great discussions in the comments.

dubmdell (556 )
12 Mar 13 UTC

NPR

Lando Calrissian (100 )
12 Mar 13 UTC

Globe and Mail or 680 News

LittleNapoleon (0 )
12 Mar 13 UTC

Fox News

abgemacht (1076 )
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@Little

The OP wants to know where you get your news from, not your entertainment.

ashleygirl (1131 )
13 Mar 13 UTC

Come on abgemacht, Fox news is soooooo fair and balanced.

ashleygirl (1131 )
13 Mar 13 UTC

Bwa hahahahahahahaha

2ndWhiteLine (2611 )
13 Mar 13 UTC

NPR, NYT, Time, reddit, the Atlantic

Others: Gizmodo, Engadget, Deadspin, Onion AV Club, Nashville Scene, Grantland

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13 Mar 13 UTC

The amount of people who use Reddit as a source of information is depressing.

Lando Calrissian (100 )
13 Mar 13 UTC

I missed Grantland. Also, Canadian Beer News.

Lando Calrissian (100 )
13 Mar 13 UTC

Webdiplomacy.net/forum ain't bad either

SunZi (1275 )
13 Mar 13 UTC

aljazeera.com
democracynow.org

Thucydides (864 )
13 Mar 13 UTC

BBC, AP, Reuters, Twitter, The Economist

Thucydides (864 )
13 Mar 13 UTC

RFI for French language news especially Africa

Jeune Afrique and All Africa are good Africa news outlets.

bo_sox48 (5202 )
13 Mar 13 UTC

I sometimes read RFI and Deutsche Welle for Europe's news as well.

Mapu (362 )
13 Mar 13 UTC

I get my news from Robin Quivers and my analysis from Howard Stern.

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TED talk: Charity done wrong in America

http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pallotta_the_way_we_think_about_charity_is_dead_wrong.html

Pretty compelling IMHO

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RIP Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist

Died at the age of 90. A good man; sad to see him go. He outlived the man that he offered to die for by a looong time.

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11 Mar 13 UTC

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is we are change right wing?

i saw one of those hosts on msnbc go off on extreme right wing patriot groups such as we are change. since when is we are change a patriot group? is that new?

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13 Mar 13 UTC

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Problem with Pause

Hey, a game I'm playing was paused about a week ago, and although everyone it has readied their moves and attempted to unpause, it won't allows to unpause the game. Anyone know how to fix the problem?

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13 Mar 13 UTC

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Get your hands off that shark you lazy bastard

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-21753342

Don't say we don't take decisive action against shark worriers in the UK. Too many lazy Welshmen looking for a fish fight if you ask me

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08 Mar 13 UTC

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NIGEE CONFUSION THREAD

This thread is to voice your opinions on the player known as Nigee. Please post if you don't understand his jokes.

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12 Mar 13 UTC

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Hunt the Sandgoose

""Hey boys.... I'm on webdip again... Just wanted you to know. :) happy hunting!"

First person to find him gets a ticket to Goose World, not to be missed.

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12 Mar 13 UTC

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in World Diplomacy is it possible to.....

Convoy one army from Iraq to Iran with the fleet in Arabian sea, while moving a fleet from Iran to Iraq?

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Bring Sandgoose back?

I would like to propose bringing Sandgoose back. He's been punished enough and I found that creature hilarious.

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11 Mar 13 UTC

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Site slow?

Is the site getting slow again for anyone else?

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12 Mar 13 UTC

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Messrs Supply and Demand doing work again

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21752441

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12 Mar 13 UTC

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Unpause vote does nothing

In this game:
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=111946

Out unpause vote does absolutely nothing. It won't process that we've clicked unpause, so the game simply will not continue. Any ideas?

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11 Mar 13 UTC
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Clever, so thought I'd share

I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting; nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality counterbalancing indecipherability transcendentalizes intercommunication's incomprehensibleness.

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11 Mar 13 UTC

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SCENARIO

below

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10 Mar 13 UTC

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What doea your name mean?

Some people have obvious references to historical or fictional characters, others are some form of their name (like mine, my name really is Phil) but for those with more cryptic names, I'm curious where they came from.

Some that I know from previous posts - draugnar is Tolkien elvish for some kind of wolf, Nigee is a name one of his friends used to call him, etc. But what about Bosox, mapu, sbyvyl, redhouse, abgemacht, etc. ?

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12 Mar 13 UTC

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This message can be safely ignored

I'll be blowing off some steam from my data-analysis here.

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12 Mar 13 UTC

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Anonymous Game Advertising Thread

Is there a way to make a thread anonymous for advertising anonymous games?

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08 Mar 13 UTC

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The Most Conservative Contest

The question is: Who on the WebDip forums is the most Conservative? It shouldn't be too hard to figure out, as there are only a handful of Conservatives on this site (Krellin, Draug, ConservativeMan and myself come to mind). So in order to figure it out, we will post our positions on the issues here, and let the others decide.

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11 Mar 13 UTC

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High School Experience?

Thoughts

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12 Mar 13 UTC

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More Drone Fun

http://www.progressivepress.net/air-force-stops-releasing-data-on-afghanistan-drone-strikes/

Strange response, albeit effective I guess. Can someone please tell President Obama that encouraging targeted killings is only going to come back to bite the US someday?

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