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Lando Calrissian (100 D(S))
28 Nov 11 UTC
MODS?
Any mods online? Please check e-mail/PM me.
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damian (675 D)
28 Nov 11 UTC
Mathematical Induction
Okay next time, I'll do the math before drinking. But I could use some help with an induction sum problem.
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Lando Calrissian (100 D(S))
28 Nov 11 UTC
Real football news
Lions up seven and threatening again. Will this be a blow-out?
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Cachimbo (1181 D)
26 Nov 11 UTC
Real football news
Barça just lost to Getafe, their first Liga defeat since last April. The refs were just awful though Getafe put on a really solid def.
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Diplomat33 (243 D(B))
27 Nov 11 UTC
Pi memorization contest
How many digits of Pi can you remember? Test yourself here!
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AzygousWolf (100 D)
26 Nov 11 UTC
what are the purple lines?
I just lost a country during a "retreat" phase, someone retreated into my country and I lost a supply center... what the hell?
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joshildinho101 (128 D)
27 Nov 11 UTC
in a coma? join nowwwwwww!!!
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Baskineli (100 D(B))
27 Nov 11 UTC
Please help me
I have a contest with a good friend of mine - we are racing for who is going to have more followers on Twitter. Could you please subscribe to me? My username is elibaskin. Thank you very much.
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Diplomat33 (243 D(B))
27 Nov 11 UTC
Has anyone onsite ever soloed in there first game?
Just curious. I soloed in my third game. Did anyone do it before me?
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GrumpyBear (100 D)
27 Nov 11 UTC
Join my game !
please join my game, 4 missing, 2 days turns, starts in a bit more then 1 hour.
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Tettleton's Chew (0 DX)
19 Nov 11 UTC
George Will on Obamacare
George Will's piece today is well-reasoned and superbly written opinion journalism at its best.

Tettleton's Chew (0 DX)
19 Nov 11 UTC
Shortly before the Supreme Court agreed to rule on the constitutionality of Obamacare’s individual mandate, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit affirmed its constitutionality. Writing for the majority, Judge Laurence H. Silberman, a Reagan appointee, brusquely acknowledged that upholding the mandate means there is no limit to Congress’s powers under the Commerce Clause. Fortunately, Silberman’s stark assertion may strengthen the counterargument. Silberman forces the Supreme Court’s five conservatives to face the sobering implications of affirming the power asserted with the mandate.

Does Congress’s enumerated power to regulate interstate commerce empower it to compel individuals, as a condition of living in the United States, to engage in a commercial activity? If any activity, or inactivity, can be said to have economic consequences, can it be regulated — or required — by Congress? Can Congress forbid the inactivity of not purchasing a product (health insurance) from a private provider? Silberman says yes:
“We acknowledge some discomfort with the government’s failure to advance any clear doctrinal principles limiting congressional mandates that any American purchase any product or service in interstate commerce. But to tell the truth, those limits are not apparent to us, either because the power to require the entry into commerce is symmetrical with the power to prohibit or condition commercial behavior, or because we have not yet perceived a qualitative limitation. That difficulty is troubling, but not fatal, not least because we are interpreting the scope of a long-established constitutional power, not recognizing a new constitutional right.”

Some discomfort about saying limited government is essentially a fiction? Silberman’s distinction between interpreting the scope of a government power and recognizing a right is spurious because rights begin where powers end.
So argues Florida International University’s Elizabeth Price Foley, constitutional litigator for the Institute for Justice. She is amazed by Silberman’s disregard of “the inherently symbiotic relationship between the scope of government powers and individual rights.”

She says Silberman has two false assumptions. One is that Congress compelling acts of commerce is “symmetrical” with prohibiting or regulating commerce. The other is that the lack of any principle to limit Congress when purporting to regulate interstate commerce is unimportant because it concerns only government power, not an important liberty interest of individuals.

Silberman’s supposed symmetry between compulsion and regulation ignores the momentous invasion of liberty by the former. If compulsion is authorized whenever Congress touches anything affecting commerce, this Leviathan power dwarfs all other enumerated powers.
Seventy-five years ago, the Supreme Court stopped defending many liberty interests it decided were unimportant. Since the New Deal, Foley says, the court has, without “textual or even contextual basis,” distinguished between economic and non-economic liberty. The latter has received robust judicial support. But economic liberty — freedom of individuals to engage in, or not engage in, consensual commercial transactions — has received scant protection against circumscription or elimination by government. This denial of judicial protection has served the progressive agenda of government supervision of economic life.

Judge Brett Kavanaugh, dissenting on the D.C. circuit court, dryly praised Silberman’s “candor” in “admitting that there is no real limiting principle” to the Commerce Clause jurisprudence embraced by the court’s majority. Kavanaugh, like Foley, emphasizes the asymmetry between, on the one hand, regulating or prohibiting commercial activity and, on the other hand, compelling such activity.

He says the limitlessness means “a law replacing Social Security with a system of mandatory private retirement accounts would be constitutional. So would a law mandating that parents purchase private college savings accounts.” Kavanaugh rejects the majority’s (Silberman’s) attempt “to mitigate the dramatic implications of its no-limiting-principle holding” by noting that “Congress is subject to a political check”:

“As the Supreme Court has told us time and again, the structural principles of the Constitution . . . protect individual liberty. And the courts historically have played an important role in enforcing those structural principles. . . . That Congress is subject to a political check does not absolve the judiciary of its duty to safeguard the constitutional structure and individual liberty.”

There is an abdication of judicial duty in Silberman’s complacent conclusion, which is: We can articulate no limit on Congress’s power flowing from the Commerce Clause; get over it. This might galvanize a Supreme Court majority to say “Enough!” and begin protecting individual liberty from a Commerce Clause that the court itself has transmogrified into an anti-constitutional gift to Congress of a virtually unlimited police power. This case can begin restoring Madison’s constitutional architecture for a government limited by the enumeration of its powers.
MASSIVE wall of text. Doubt any of it was your own work.
And I thought you already had a priceless George Will topic..?
Tettleton's Chew (0 DX)
27 Nov 11 UTC
George Will does it again with his article in the Post today.

Privatize the nation’s mail delivery.

the U.S. Postal Service, whose financial condition resembles that of the federal government, of which the USPS is another ailing appendage, is urging cancellation of Saturday deliveries, perhaps en route to three-days-a-week delivery. The USPS lost $5.1 billion in the latest fiscal year — after serious cost-cutting. Total 2012 losses may exceed $14 billion, a figure larger than the budgets of 35 states.

Of course no one could do anything better than the government does it.

It is so satisfying not to have a sheep's mentality.
krellin (80 DX)
27 Nov 11 UTC
@Shocktrooper -- whether or not you agree with Tettleton, he DID properly acknowledge that it was George Will's work. If you are going to criticize somebody, at least have the decency to comprehend his **VERY FIRST STATEMENT**. And hence, you succinctly illustrate the problem with most liberals on this site, who often fail to read or comprehend anything before lashing out at the person that posted, instead of the topic/discussion at hand.....
krellin (80 DX)
27 Nov 11 UTC
This will now be illustrated by people that will lash out at me....


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mr_brown (302 D(B))
26 Nov 11 UTC
Ghost rating
Tried to look through the forum but unearthing old posts is so cumbersome. What's the status on the current Ghost rating. I know the Ghostmaker (was that his name?) is on hiatus, but IIRC he said he would continue posting the ratings, no?
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Sebass (114 D)
27 Nov 11 UTC
Game needing participants
Advertise your games here if you have small-scale games which you wish to advertise:
1. Funny Story-2 (World, Points per SC, Public)
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Sebass (114 D)
27 Nov 11 UTC
Appropriate bets
For a world game; what is the right stake if it is points per SC?
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Sebass (114 D)
27 Nov 11 UTC
Classic?
I have a new game open; Funny Story-2, it is a world game and was wondering whether it is the general opinion that the Classic Map is just that, Classic?
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Sebass (114 D)
27 Nov 11 UTC
World Game starting soon.
There is a world game, Funny Story-2. Since I don't know how to delay a start, will begin in 5 mins. Can you tell me either how to delay it, or feel free to join the game.
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Sebass (114 D)
27 Nov 11 UTC
Game Starts
Is it possible to delay the start of a game? Because recently I have been forced to remake a game due to a lack of players. The game is Funny Story-2. Also is it possible for a game to start with less than max. players like in the board game.
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Tettleton's Chew (0 DX)
03 Sep 11 UTC
How badly will Obama lose in 2012?
Will Obama lose as bad in 2012 as Jimmy Carter did in 1980?
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SaladinAyyubi (100 D)
27 Nov 11 UTC
please
http://95.211.128.12/webdiplomacy/board.php?gameID=73368
come pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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orathaic (1009 D(B))
26 Nov 11 UTC
what's really going on?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/nov/25/shocking-truth-about-crackdown-occupy?CMP=twt_gu

discuss.
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Gobbledydook (1389 D(B))
27 Nov 11 UTC
EOG: Peace Sells... But Who's Buying? 2
Thanks all for the games.
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SaladinAyyubi (100 D)
27 Nov 11 UTC
Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeee
Please comeeeeeee
http://95.211.128.12/webdiplomacy/board.php?gameID=73366
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Curtor (121 D)
22 Nov 11 UTC
Pre-Game joining period
Is this period set in stone, or does it get truncated if everyone joins the match right away? Are the first orders always due (2 * phase length) from game creation, or could it be sooner?
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Jacob (2711 D)
27 Nov 11 UTC
The Aftermath: Stabbing
Once again, 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 hear how you proceed immediately after you successfully stab someone. I'll chime in later in the thread.
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G1 (92 D)
26 Nov 11 UTC
Great game to join right here
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AzygousWolf (100 D)
26 Nov 11 UTC
a noob question
ok as a noob to this great game I have a question, when I move into a new country with a supply center, on the next turn it shows my unit there with a little square that is my colour and the country is still the same colour as the "enemy". why is this? do I need to leave my army to "hold" the country for a turn? or am I miss understanding the rules?
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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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