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jwalters93 (288

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09 Apr 12 UTC

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gameID=85640

Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?

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10 Apr 12 UTC

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Gunboat....HELP!!!

Have recently played Gunboat....and, while in "normal" Diplomatic games I have a good record in recent months, Gunboat was a **disaster**.

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09 Apr 12 UTC

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Fund for the Public Interest

Anyone worked for them? I was offered a job as a field manager, making about 400-500 a week for the summer. I've read plenty of bellyaching online. Some of it was legitimate, but has since largely been resolved by a class action lawsuit. The rest was basically complaining that it was a lot of work, at only a little bit above minimum, and repeated failure to meet your fundraising quota resulted in firing, no if's and's or but's about it.

Putin33 (111 )
09 Apr 12 UTC

Prepare to be exploited and fired like never before.

krellin (80 )
09 Apr 12 UTC

whAT?!?!?!?!? tHE HElL yOu say?!?! A LEFTIST environmental organization is....<GASP!!!!>...a scam? A Fraud? No way...

I mean....given all the "Green energy" companies going BANKRUPT (even WITh Federal funding....) I was SURE that all enviro-green-earth-first organizations were legit....

lol Too funny. Get a REAL JOB next time, and don't whine about getting screwed by your leftist political organization.

Puddle (428 )
09 Apr 12 UTC

@Krellin, I'm not sure who that is directed at. But I haven't been screwed over yet. Also I'm not sure what makes this particular position not a "real job". Also abusive labor policies (if they actually are doing that) wouldn't necessarily make them a fraud or a scam. Don't get me wrong I'm not trying to defend them as I have little to no experience with them.

@Putin, yea I've been reading a fair amount of that online, but as far as I can tell they largely eliminated most of those practices in 2007 and some more in 2009.

Puddle (428 )
09 Apr 12 UTC

But for real, any first hand knowledge?

Putin33 (111 )
10 Apr 12 UTC

Not first hand, a good friend of mine worked for GCI and had a terrible experience. Now, this happened around 2006, so they might have cleaned up their act. But their whole purpose is to do fundraising at virtually zero cost to the NGOs, so I doubt it.

So he worked for them for about a month and was the #1 or #2 overall fundraiser for his office, and yet they fired him for missing quota and didn't pay him his wages for the one week he missed. They also don't give you breaks and pressure you/mislead you to take on extra hours voluntarily for no pay. You also shift from campaign to campaign so the thing you were interested in and really passionate about doesn't end up being the thing you work on, or if you do work on it you work on it for a day.

Puddle (428 )
10 Apr 12 UTC

The no pay thing, and "volunteer" projects I know have both been done away with. But hey, if the pay really is 400-500 a week (About right based on hours work to hourly wage) then I don;t really care how much pavement I have to pound.

krellin (80 )
10 Apr 12 UTC

I suspect that Puddle is a victim of NOT READING THE CONTRACT but instead he bought in to the hype...

Yeah...I've done door to door sales before too. DRAMATIC claims of the "potential"....reality far different. As with most liberal causes...and most door to door jobs. If you agree to "volunteer"...then why are yo bitching about not getting paid.

By everything you have posted, you appear to have no case to complain about not being paid for volunteer work....and when you didn't make "400 to 500" dollars per week, obviously there is a REASON for the sliding scale, which you failed to divulge.

Quit bitching when you got screwed for falling for the easy money scheme.

Puddle (428 )
10 Apr 12 UTC

Krellin, I haven't even taken the job yet man, I'm just trying to find out if there is any validity to the bad mouthing I have seen. Calm down.

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AncientMemories (635

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10 Apr 12 UTC

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Replacement needed.

Not an amazing position but a potentially goo one and very influential, especially if you come before the adjudication in 7 minutes.
gameID=84655
Please join, gunboat and not a huge bet

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09 Apr 12 UTC

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New gunboat?

Buy in between 200 and 500, 24 hour phases, commitment to finalize!

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09 Apr 12 UTC

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Value of "What the Founding Fathers Would Say"

What the title says.

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09 Apr 12 UTC

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Value of

What the title says.

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09 Apr 12 UTC

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Changing my IP

I have an account on MLB.com but cannot watch the Jays game because it's blacked out in my area. Does anyone know a quick and safe way to get around the restrictions? Feel free to PM me so multis don't get any ideas.

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09 Apr 12 UTC

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I've just had...

TWO cans of coke, even though Mommy says I have to go to bed in an hour.

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08 Apr 12 UTC

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The Thread for People Who Want to Gunboat Good and Do Other Stuff Good Too

Would the gunboaters who frequent the 1000

buy-in games please post here how they play gunboats so the rest of us may learn from you? Looking at a game isn't enough, we need to know what you're thinking when you see a board. What does the better player see that I miss?

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Tettleton's Chew (0

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02 Apr 12 UTC

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Glad that the U.S. is not Europe

Euro zone unemployment reaches near 15-year high
Joblessness in the 17-nation currency zone rose to 10.8 percent - in line with a Reuters poll of economists - and 0.1

worse than in January, Eurostat said on Monday.

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09 Apr 12 UTC

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BAD TROLL ROOM (Putin...in here...)

That's right, bitch...

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abgemacht (1076

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05 Apr 12 UTC

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Attention Men!

It is very important you see this:

http://www.dollarshaveclub.com/

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08 Apr 12 UTC

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Jesus Rises from the Dead

http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=Jhn&c=20&v=1&t=NLT

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09 Apr 12 UTC

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URGENT Good Position Replacement Needed

gameID=84058

Kenya - strong position. No real dangers.

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09 Apr 12 UTC

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Sargmacher 5 pt. Challenge game 10

http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=84578

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Vaftrudner (2533

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08 Apr 12 UTC

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Vaftrudner's 1000 point challenge

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Thucydides (864

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08 Apr 12 UTC

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Help me craft a style

So I'm rebooting my diplomacy. It's been on autopilot for like a year and half and I'm going nowhere fast... let's talk comprehensive strategies, shall we?

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09 Apr 12 UTC

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Heading To the Sex Offender Capital of America...

Guess where that is!

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centurion1 (1478

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09 Apr 12 UTC

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How Karmic is this?

http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=85569#gamePanel

draw when there is a cd.

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08 Apr 12 UTC

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Search Options

Can the search option be set to find only new games that are public? Why are password protected games even listed on the same page as public games anyway?

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Lando Calrissian (100

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08 Apr 12 UTC

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Masters

Anyone watching?

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Thucydides (864

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07 Apr 12 UTC

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RIP The Hanged Man

for he is hung :(

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08 Apr 12 UTC

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Gunboat Challenge Game 3 EOG

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rokakoma (19138

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08 Apr 12 UTC

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Sargmacher's 1000 Point Challenge - EOG

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Lando Calrissian (100

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08 Apr 12 UTC

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board.php?gameID=82998

EOG

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08 Apr 12 UTC

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EOG Sargmacher's 1000 Point Challenge

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08 Apr 12 UTC

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Big Live Game (1400 pot)

Join quickly: gameID=85508!

Do you have the guts to take the glory?!

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04 Apr 12 UTC

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TIL That Mormons hate knock knock jokes.

Just happened as I washed from dinner.
Knock knock.
"Evening sir, have a moment to talk about Jesus?"
"You're supposed to wait until I say 'who's there.'"

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08 Apr 12 UTC

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Is Messi better than Pele?

"People always ask me: 'When is the new Pele going to be born?' Never. My father and mother have closed the factory."

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