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Giovannig2 (0 D)
20 May 11 UTC
Help me my account was hijacked
My original account is Giovannig, but it was high jacked by the user Treesniffer2. I have already contacted mods and didn't get any reply. Can anyone help me, I don't know what to do.
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Putin33 (111 D)
19 May 11 UTC
The case of Dominique Strauss-Kahn: Or, how I turned into Sicarius
This has the stench of a set-up, and a rather disgusting one - using rape.
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2011/05/strauss-kahn-predator-or-plot-victim.html

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EdiBirsan (1469 D(B))
16 May 11 UTC
Diplomacy Pod Cast
http://diplomacycast.com/

Eric Mead and Nathan Barnes have set up a site for pod casts on Diplomacy play. They just interviewed me on the play of Italy in the third segment. (I think my interview starts a little more than half way through the podcast).
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Geofram (130 D(B))
19 May 11 UTC
Favour Needed, Crucial Replacement
This game has been paused for over a month and we really want to follow through with it.
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Babak (26982 D(B))
17 May 11 UTC
Playing Italy... does anyone have issues playing Italy?
Check out this link that Edi Brison shared:
http://diplomacycast.com/files/other/DiplomacyCastEp3.mp3

start around minute 20 for a great conversation and detailed explanation of how to play well with Italy. Much of this will be boring for experienced players, but newer players or early to mid-level players should listen to improve their games dramatically.
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Eggzavier (444 D)
19 May 11 UTC
New Game +1
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Carpysmind (1423 D)
19 May 11 UTC
Orders Not Being Recieved . . . .
Are any other players experiencing issues where orders after end of turn ARE NOT correlating with the orders you submitted? A couple of other players are saying “that’s not the orders I submitted” in more than one game and now I’ve experienced the same thing. I have 75+ games on this site under my belt and previously have calked up the incident as player error but this seems utterly peculiar to have actually been submitted under any circumstances.
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Zenetar (225 D)
12 May 11 UTC
cooperation against Western Tripple Allience
England/France/Germany (Western Triple)

I'm interested if there's a way to stop/block this allience without convincing its members to stab.
Can Austria, Russia, Italy and Turk stop them?
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Sicarius (673 D)
18 May 11 UTC
US cyberspace security plan
"hack us and we'll bomb you"
Sicarius (673 D)
18 May 11 UTC
The US revealed its “International Strategy for Cyberspace” yesterday. It’s mostly blather about how terrific “cyberspace” is, but it gets more specific on a few key issues like national defense. Could our next war start because of a hack? The government says it’s possible.
“States have an inherent right to self-defense that may be triggered by certain aggressive acts in cyberspace,” says the policy. Indeed, such aggressive acts might compel a country like the US to act even when the hacking is targeted at an allied country.
“Certain hostile acts conducted through cyberspace could compel actions under the commitments we have with our military treaty partners,” says the document. “When warranted, the United States will respond to hostile acts in cyberspace as we would any other threat to our country.”
Military force will only be used as a last resort after other diplomatic and economic remedies are attempted, but the US government has certainly realized the value of the Internet and has no intention of sitting quietly while corporate and governmental computer systems are attacked with impunity.
Draugnar (0 DX)
18 May 11 UTC
Reference? Come on Sic, let's us see the source of the story.
Tolstoy (1962 D)
18 May 11 UTC
While I too would prefer that Sic cite his source, is it really that hard to google the first sentence?
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/us-warns-of-military-response-to-severe-cyberattacks.ars
Sicarius (673 D)
18 May 11 UTC
www.whitehouse.gov/sites/.../international_strategy_for_cyberspace.pdf
Draugnar (0 DX)
18 May 11 UTC
The point is, we shouldn't have to google jack. He should site his source instead of plagiarizing articles.
Draugnar (0 DX)
18 May 11 UTC
And thanks, Sic.
Draugnar (0 DX)
18 May 11 UTC
Well, that link didn't work, Sic.
Draugnar (0 DX)
18 May 11 UTC
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/rss_viewer/international_strategy_for_cyberspace.pdf
Darwyn (1601 D)
18 May 11 UTC
lol...I can't help but think what sort of flimsy proof will be given to prove the US has been "hacked". At least if we've been physically attacked, we can see the destruction...but very few people can see a "hack", let alone understand what it is.

This is like the US's golden ticket for war. They don't even need to bother trying to fool us anymore.
Invictus (240 D)
18 May 11 UTC
So... the point? This makes perfect sense. In today's world a cyber attack can do unimaginable damage, and this makes it clear that the consequences of such an attack would be severe. This is, like, the policy that every country on earth ought to have.

It's probably also a formal response to Russia's cyber attacks on Estonia (a NATO ally)a couple of years ago and Russia's use of a cyber theater during its war on Georgia. China's also busy in that department. A policy like this is meant to make it clear that the United States will stand by its allies in the event that one of them is the victim of a cyber attack which nevertheless is short of open war. I mean, would you expect nothing to happen if North Korea destroyed the South Korean stock exchange with a virus? This is a perfectly sensible policy.
Invictus (240 D)
18 May 11 UTC
Good grief, Darwyn. A cyber attack is what the 21st century Pearl Harbor will look like. Not everything's a sinister conspiracy. Sometimes the government behaves responsibly and plans for a real threat.
Darwyn (1601 D)
18 May 11 UTC
"This is a perfectly sensible policy. "

The threat of war is supposed to be a deterrent, but as we have seen with suicide bombers, death isn't even a deterrent.

This policy only serves one purpose, Invictus.
Invictus (240 D)
18 May 11 UTC
You can't be that stupid. This is against state actors. Russia and China don't use suicide bombers.
Darwyn (1601 D)
18 May 11 UTC
I'm at a loss for words Invictus...
Darwyn (1601 D)
18 May 11 UTC
BaaaAaaa, BaaaAaaaa.
Invictus (240 D)
18 May 11 UTC
Yeah, you're right. A policy that states the United States will respond to cyber attacks on both itself and its allies just can't be as simple as that. It couldn't possibly be a way to make it clear to foreign governments that, say, America won't let China turn off Japan's power grid, or Iran sabotage the UAE's port system, or Russia bully the Baltic states with impunity. No, it can only be an excuse to... well... allow evil Jew space lizards to put us all in FEMA camps and take our guns.

You must be right.
Stukus (2126 D)
18 May 11 UTC
I think my neighbor's an evil Jew space lizard. This sounds serious! Hold on, let me update my blog.
Draugnar (0 DX)
18 May 11 UTC
Why are so many people cosmoherptaphobic?
Sicarius (673 D)
18 May 11 UTC
Because when you conspiracy brand someone, you get to turn your brain off.
no critical thinking or anything. I hear its nice.
ottovanbis (150 DX)
18 May 11 UTC
xD
Draugnar (0 DX)
18 May 11 UTC
@Sic - Who is being conspiracy branded? Certainly no specific nation, religious persuasion, or race. This policy applies to all foreign relationships to the US.
Invictus (240 D)
18 May 11 UTC
Critical thinking requires thinking, Biff. If you think about this you come up with a conclusion like mine. It makes sense geopolitically. It makes sense diplomatically. It even makes sense as a general part of international customary law in the new world we live in.

It's one thing to question, quite another to look for the nefarious motives to fit your own agenda.
Darwyn (1601 D)
18 May 11 UTC
Of course it makes sense. It also made sense 10-20 years ago.

but hey, good thing we have this policy NOW.
Darwyn (1601 D)
18 May 11 UTC
"America won't let China turn off Japan's power grid"

The US really dodged a bullet here. If China tried that last week...well, who knows...
abgemacht (1076 D(G))
18 May 11 UTC
"America won't let China turn off Japan's power grid"

Yeah, because Japan needs so much help with that...
Invictus (240 D)
18 May 11 UTC
"Of course it makes sense. It also made sense 10-20 years ago.

but hey, good thing we have this policy NOW."

Point? Also, the first cyberwarfare attack happened in 2007 against Estonia. There's only been a United States Cyber Command since 2009. Could it be as simple as the clunking bureaucracy of the American government has just now gotten the policy sufficiently vetted that now it's proper to make it public? Sound rather plausible.

""America won't let China turn off Japan's power grid"

The US really dodged a bullet here. If China tried that last week...well, who knows..."

What does that mean? I don't recall anything happening in Japan last week specifically besides the PM changing some policy on a specific power plant. But maybe you're referencing China's earthquake machine?
Darwyn (1601 D)
18 May 11 UTC
The point is that this policy is nothing new. If another country cyber attacked the US and caused damage, this policy of retaliation for it has already existed, just like any other attack.

What I'm saying is that NOT having this policy would not have saved Iran from bringing down the New York Stock Exchange. Can you imagine the conversation?

X - "Mr. President, we found proof that Iran cyber attacked and brought down Wall Street"

Y - "What are our options?"

X - "We have none sir...there is no policy for it"

The policy itself changes nothing. It's announcement does.
Invictus (240 D)
18 May 11 UTC
Well, perhaps it timing means SOMETHING in Washington inside baseball. But the terms of what it means are undoubtedly like I said. Hopefully it means the government is taking the threat to ourselves and out allies seriously. Here's a link to a 60 Minutes segment on the subject if you want to be scared.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6578069n&tag=segementExtraScroller;housing
Sicarius (673 D)
18 May 11 UTC
Totalitarian state powers grow by great leaps and bounds in the midst of obvious threats to the safety of the people, such as major wars and great financial crises. This has happened repeatedly in the U.S. from Lincoln's Civil War to Bush and Obama's Global "War On Terrorism" and their "Saving" the American people and the world from the Great Financial Crisis the government created through the wild pump-priming of the Federal Reserve and Big Banks. When the crisis is over some of those powers are reduced, but not eliminated, so the totalitarian powers ratchet up one big step at each major crisis and over a century and a half the U.S. government would by those big steps alone have created most of the totalitarian police powers it now possesses.

The Secret Police and federal banking system are extreme examples of that. There were no Secret Police or federal banking system before the Civil War, though the U.S. Bank Jackson eliminated was in small part a federal bank de facto. We now have sixteen publicly known secret police armies at the federal level and no doubt many top secret ones not admitted to exist, as the NSA and others were long top-secrets. The Fed and Ten Big Banks it guarantees and oversees control about 75% of all banking loans now and are a gigantic financial tyranny working almost entirely in secret on the crucial issues.

These processes by which totalitarian systems grow from created or perceived "Threats" in democracies have been obvious since the ancient world when tyrants like Sulla and Caesar and Augustus built their hidden tyrannies in these ways. Even when Augustus had become an extreme tyrant controlling almost all of the still standing institutions of the Republic of Rome, he was able to hide it carefully enough that most Romans, as far as we can tell, did not know he was a tyrant at all. Other tyrannies have been just as successful at secrecy in Republics, from the Medici in Florence to the USSR and other People's Republics and the U.S. today.

While they have grown mostly by the big steps "absolutely needed to save the people from grave threats," they have also used many other deceitful processes and devices. ranging from the use of secret police acts of tyranny, such as massive intimidation of officials and bribery of all kinds. and keeping the ancient forms of freedom but secretly refilling them with tyrannical powers of the Party or Leader, to building the totalitarian powers very slowly in baby steps that come on cat's paws, very quietly and gently in ways the people rarely notice and when they do accept as "small inconveniences but nothing serious." Just as intelligent monetary officials build inflation by small increases in the money supply over long periods so the people will not feel enough pain at any time to revolt, so the intelligent tyrant in general uses small steps on gentle cat's paws to slowly eat away the real freedoms below the pain threshold of public perception. The Fed was imposed on the American people by a conspiracy of big bankers working with the government secretly in 1913. At that time the U.S. gold based currencies issued had slowly been gaining real purchasing power on average since the Revolution, with some oscillations, including the huge inflationary fall in purchasing power during the Civil War when federal greenbacks and Confederate money was poured out by the governments to pay for the war. In this century the Fed has produced a step-by-step, ratchet up inflation of over 2,000% without the people revolting and burning down the Fed. People get very mad during the inflations of war time, so the government imposes price controls which hide the inflation by driving it into the soaring black markets.

Today, after a century and a half of slow growth of totalitarian Party powers at the federal level and increasingly at the state and local levels by percolation downward, the U.S. is a huge totalitarian police state in which the Party, the Republicrats, has very effectively used the "laws" and "courts" to shut all real competing parties out of the big election of the Party Leader, the President. Since the Party Leader appoints the top officials in the courts and almost all other realms of power at the top, the Party's powers expand very rapidly with full court approvals and the tyranny grows faster and faster. If you look at any good summing up of the day's news on legal fronts in the U.S. and think about the vast powers some of the court rulings are "giving" the Leader and the Party, you will see them very easily, unless you choose to blind yourself to the obvious. Some of these now are really revolutions against the ancient foundations of our legal system and our most basic freedoms, but they are presented in small baby steps on gentle cat's paws as "absolutely necessary to protect Americans," so most Americans will not even bother to notice them.

Eventually almost all intelligent people who are not the major beneficiaries of the vast powers and wealth of the Party government begin to wake up and ask, "Hey! Whatever happened to our freedoms? Why can the police and the CIA kidnap or shoot innocent people and get away with it routinely? 'Why am I being robbed quietly by the Big Banks to enrich the richest people at the top and none of them ever goes to jail for it?"

By then, of course, it is too late and the "wise" person keeps his mouth shut, allowing the totalitarian police state to grow behind the Mass Media fronts of "freedom." Most Americans still say in public "Americans are the richest and most free people in the world!" That boast is absurdly false but who will dare speak out in the Mass Media to tell the ignorant or cowed people what has happened to them?
Sicarius (673 D)
18 May 11 UTC
http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/as-egypt-goes-offline-us-gets-internet-kill-switch-bill-ready-20110131-1aah3.html

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/09/29/engineers-slam-internet-censorship-ahead-key-vote/
Sicarius (673 D)
18 May 11 UTC
Telecommunications Minister Stephen Conroy says new measures are being put in place to provide greater protection to children from online pornography and violent websites.

Senator Conroy says it will be mandatory for all internet service providers to provide clean feeds, or ISP filtering, to houses and schools that are free of pornography and inappropriate material.

Online civil libertarians have warned the freedom of the internet is at stake, but Senator Conroy says that is nonsense.

He says the scheme will better protect children from pornography and violent websites.

"Labor makes no apologies to those that argue that any regulation of the internet is like going down the Chinese road," he said.

"If people equate freedom of speech with watching child pornography, then the Rudd-Labor Government is going to disagree."

Senator Conroy says anyone wanting uncensored access to the internet will have to opt out of the service.

He says the Government will work with the industry to ensure the filters do not affect the speed of the internet.

"There are people who are going to make all sorts of statements about the impact on the [internet] speed," he said.

"The internet hasn't ground to a halt in the UK, it hasn't ground to a halt in Scandinavian countries and it's not grinding the internet to a halt in Europe.

"But that is why we are engaged constructively with the sector, engaging in trials to find a way to implement this in the best possible way and to work with the sector."
^^Sounds like you're upset because you're not going to able to watch porn on the internet anymore.
largeham (149 D)
19 May 11 UTC
dD, as an Australian, porn is my main concern. Isn't that what the internet is for anyway? :D


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rollerfiend (0 DX)
15 May 11 UTC
Rules for Drawing a Game?
At what point does a game become officially drawn, even if one of the parties has not voted that way. Is there a way to "force" a draw? (with a moderator's help perhaps?)
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mr.crispy (0 DX)
18 May 11 UTC
Wednesday Gunboat-3
I need to leave people, can we all draw. Like I REALLY need to leave.
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Oskar (100 D(S))
17 May 11 UTC
16hr WTA 50 point
Looking to fill in a few spots for the following game: gameID=59002

Post if you're interested.
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ottovanbis (150 DX)
18 May 11 UTC
New Elite Game
I just set up a WTA 143 point buy in (for a 1001 pot), the name is Legal's Mate, and it has a two day per turn period. Please join if you want to compete. http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=59191
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Invictus (240 D)
17 May 11 UTC
DISCUSS AGADIR CRISIS HERE
Utilize this thread by posting comments about Agadir Crisis here and only here.
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idealist (680 D)
18 May 11 UTC
1v1 games ads
anyone? links insde
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Stukus (2126 D)
17 May 11 UTC
Dark Press Dip
Just a reminder, twitter is here: http://twitter.com/#!/DarkPressDip PM me for password if you need it.
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Dunecat (5899 D)
13 May 11 UTC
Provocatively Ignorant Political Thread Title With Unnecessary Question Mark?
Tired and morally objectionable claim made in the thin veil of a poorly-worded question? Mention of pseudo-scientific evidence and popularity of ignorant belief, segueing into totally absurd conclusion about the world which I seek to defend at length because I've already made up my mind. What do you think?
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Riphen (198 D)
17 May 11 UTC
Put your selves in Turkeys Shoes.
gameID=59021

When I moved to Armenia what would you of thought?
Was I trying to stab? Or something else?
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6425skh (100 D)
17 May 11 UTC
World Game
So I have never played the World Map before. and I would like to get a game going, but unlike all the failed tries, I want this one to work and I want it to actually go off as scheduled. So please, if youre interested, join in. gameID=59132
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idealist (680 D)
15 May 11 UTC
3 weeks in U.K. by myself...
any suggestions on where i ought to go? (besides the 3 diplomacy cities) ;-]
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Stilgar42 (127 D)
17 May 11 UTC
WorlD
Join "World fun!"
....it will be fun
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abgemacht (1076 D(G))
11 May 11 UTC
Boston F2F is almost here!
There's still time to sign up! We've got a *great* group of people but still need 6 more people; will you be one of them? On June 11-12, Boston is the place to be! Contact me at [email protected] if you want in!
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ottovanbis (150 DX)
17 May 11 UTC
Please Join Live Game
gameID=59076
There's the game ID, it's called Denouement, is a WTA with a 50 pt buy in. 5 minutes per turn, anonymous.
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Graeme01 (100 D)
17 May 11 UTC
a few more needed, starts in 14 hours
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Invictus (240 D)
17 May 11 UTC
DISCUSS AGADIR CRISIS HERE
Utilize this thread by posting comments about World War Two here and only here.
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figlesquidge (2131 D)
16 May 11 UTC
http://projecteuler.net
Anyone here tried the puzzles there?
My friends been doing them this last year, and unfrotuantely today I made this mistake of trying some. The first few pages aren't hard, but as with any programming task they really eat away at free (/revision) time!
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ottovanbis (150 DX)
17 May 11 UTC
Live Game
I apologize, but I couldn't locate that large thread specifically for live games. Therefore, I'm asking here if within the half hour or so anyone is interested in a live WTA game. Thanks...
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MarshallShore (122 D)
17 May 11 UTC
Join my game - "Names don't always have to be catchy.
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pastoralan (100 D)
17 May 11 UTC
Need to drop out of the Masters tournament
Real life is an issue and I need to reduce my game load. I'm going to try and finish out the League, but I need to drop out of the masters. I'm currently getting my butt kicked in Round 4 because of a couple of NMRs.
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Gunfighter06 (224 D)
15 May 11 UTC
New Game
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=58912
24 Hour Turns, Anonymous players, PPSC, Classic board, all chat allowed, 100 D buy-in. Thank you!
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