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RiverOtter (100 D)
29 Jun 12 UTC
Export Game in Judge or jDip Format
I am shocked this is not part of the interface. Please tell me I'm wrong, or I'll write a standalone tool to do it.
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Sandgoose (0 DX)
28 Jun 12 UTC
Help - Dipn' Dots
hi...i haven't played a lot of games here but understand the fundamentals and basics. i noticed on the board that all the various colors remind me of a form of dipn'dots...is it possible to lick the screen and "taste the rainbow" so to speak...
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RSf (0 DX)
29 Jun 12 UTC
Ratings
I'm relatively new to WebDip .. and am interested to know roughly how the ratings work and what influences your status. Is it primarily about proportion of wins? (But I have noticed people with no wins who have moved on from 'political puppet'.) Or is it more about the overall proportion of wins/draws/survived/defeats? Do the total number of points you have influence things? Does the quantity of games played matter?
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Favio (385 D)
28 Jun 12 UTC
Aliens in the White House
Apparently 65% of americans say that Obama would handle an alien incursion better than Romney.....sure...he offers them Obamacare and they blow the planet up because they realize that it is ridiculous.
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Tyran (914 D)
29 Jun 12 UTC
EOG Mutually assured destruction
Roflmao! The game was canceled in like 1908 or later! Don't leave up your cancel votes and leave it to the only guy losing to vote cancel lol
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Sajtoskefley (111 D)
28 Jun 12 UTC
Help - Black dot
Hi all! I am new here, I didn't play too much games yet, but I understand the basics. There is one thing yet I do not understand: At some provinces there are a black dot with a circle around it. What does it mean?
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orathaic (1009 D(B))
25 Jun 12 UTC
Looking for a sitter...
...on vdip.
We're playing an interest bankroll variant (see: http://vdiplomacy.net/forum.php?threadID=29140&page-thread=1#threadPager) by signing up you'd be agreeing to follow the rules in the thread. I need someone to sit for ~10 days as i'm away with my scouts.
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2ndWhiteLine (2736 D(B))
28 Jun 12 UTC
Moving to Canada
See below.
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Sun_Tzu (2116 D)
28 Jun 12 UTC
Problem in a world game.
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=89935#gamePanel.
I went to move fleet Quebec NC to New Foundland & fleet New Foundland to Quebec SC and It bounce! It should have went because two different coasts.
Thanks.
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JRMA (0 DX)
28 Jun 12 UTC
Need World Diplomacy Players
Ten more players needed in "Against The World".
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Putin33 (111 D)
28 Jun 12 UTC
Azzuri win!
Mario!!!
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rokakoma (19138 D)
28 Jun 12 UTC
2012 end of the world - EoG
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Catan_banned (0 DX)
17 Jun 12 UTC
Debate?
Atheist here. Want to debate god's existence?
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JRMA (0 DX)
28 Jun 12 UTC
Against The World
Come join Against The World; World diplomacy.
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jmbostwick (2308 D)
28 Jun 12 UTC
Full-messaging PPSC game, need players!
24-hour phases, full messaging. We need a few players to join, since a couple friends dropped. Please be sure you're willing to commit to the whole game.
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JRMA (0 DX)
28 Jun 12 UTC
Against The World
World Diplomacy, "Against The World". Come play!
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Draugnar (0 DX)
28 Jun 12 UTC
Help - Grey dot
Hi all! I am new here, I didn't post to many threads here, but I understand the basics. There is one thing yet I do not understand: At some players there are a grey dot with a circle around it. What does it mean?
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redhouse1938 (429 D)
28 Jun 12 UTC
Help - Green dot
Hi all! I am new here, I didn't post to many threads here, but I understand the basics. There is one thing yet I do not understand: At some players there are a green dot with a circle around it. What does it mean?
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orathaic (1009 D(B))
28 Jun 12 UTC
Damn cool:
http://gizmodo.com/5921868/scientists-invent-particles-that-will-let-you-live-without-breathing
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taos (281 D)
28 Jun 12 UTC
political puppet tournament
i want to organise a small tournament for political puppets only.
pasworded games,have to be a political puppet at the moment of registering,ppsc games sc's count.
who is in?
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semck83 (229 D(B))
25 Jun 12 UTC
Supreme Court mostly overturns Arizona immigration law
The Supreme Court unanimously (8-0) upheld the part of the law requiring police to check the immigration documents of people they arrest/stop. It overturned the rest of the law -- 6-2 for the part of the law dealing with employment, and 5-3 for the rest.
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SantaClausowitz (360 D)
26 Jun 12 UTC
A State government pays for this IN AMERICA.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/loch-ness-monster-used-debunk-evolution-state-funded-190816504.html
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Sargmacher (0 DX)
26 Jun 12 UTC
Baby Boxes
"Boxes where parents can leave an unwanted baby, common in medieval Europe, have been making a comeback over the last 10 years. Supporters say a heated box, monitored by nurses, is better for babies than abandonment on the street." Discuss.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18585020
achillies27 (100 D)
26 Jun 12 UTC
Interesting... I might read that now.
Sargmacher (0 DX)
26 Jun 12 UTC
I'm surprised by how many countries already have active running baby box schemes - and very surprised to see Germany in the higher end of this category, I had not heard about it at all.
groverloaf (1381 D)
26 Jun 12 UTC
This is actually not uncommon in the USA--many states have laws to this effect--though here you have to leave the baby with a fire department or hospital.
Sargmacher (0 DX)
26 Jun 12 UTC
Yeah, in Europe people can take babies to hospitals - do you mean that in these fire stations and hospitals there is an anonymous box that you place the baby inside?
groverloaf (1381 D)
26 Jun 12 UTC
Oh no, not the box. Is that the issue here? That it's a box? As opposed to, say, giving the baby to someone? Because the physical procedure used seems to be a pretty minor piece of this as opposed to questions such as: is it ok to anonymously give up your child? What does our society do when we get such a child dropped off? How can we prevent this sort of thing in the first place?
SacredDigits (102 D)
26 Jun 12 UTC
I forget what they call it in America, but you can drop off any children under the age of ten at a hospital with no ill will towards you for doing so. The state figures that most unwanted children are going to end up in their care eventually anyway and in this way they make it seem voluntary and prevent some of the abuses that parents give to unwanted children.
Surely a low-overhead system (like the US FD or hospital idea) is better than leaving a defenceless child to die on its own? Whats to discuss?
Sargmacher (0 DX)
26 Jun 12 UTC
"Is that the issue here? That it's a box? As opposed to, say, giving the baby to someone? Because the physical procedure used seems to be a pretty minor piece of this"

I completely disagree. Whilst the other questions/issues you cite are of course important, I don't think the issue of a box drop-off is any less an important or noteworthy.

Taking a baby to a hospital and giving it to someone of responsibility is commonplace.

The issue raised in the above article is specifically the idea of 'drop off boxes' at the side of the road, for example, in which parents can place their children. These boxes are then checked on daily by medical staff. I certainly don't think such an idea is minor.
SacredDigits (102 D)
26 Jun 12 UTC
The box is monitored by nurses in the article...the child isn't left to die. The idea is that people might think that a hospital or FD would report them despite assurances to the contrary, they would think this less likely if there's no one immediately present (but ready to come there quickly in the event of a dropoff).
Sargmacher (0 DX)
26 Jun 12 UTC
@SD: Yes exactly.
SacredDigits (102 D)
26 Jun 12 UTC
Actually, the main box they discuss in the article opens immediately into a hospital, it just has anonymity of the approach.
re-reading my comment....maybe I wasnt clear...
I figure any low-overhead system (FD, hosp, monitored baby-box at BlockBuster Video shop, anything you can think of) is better than leaving a child somewhere random, to perhaps be found before it dies.

King Atom (100 D)
27 Jun 12 UTC
Whatever happened to abstinence?
Isn't having fewer babies less of a problem than having too many babies?
largeham (149 D)
27 Jun 12 UTC
Aw, is KA jelly because he isn't getting any?
smcbride1983 (517 D)
27 Jun 12 UTC
Abstinence is a personal choice. Not a public policy option.
ulytau (541 D)
27 Jun 12 UTC
I read the article yesterday and wondered if it could spark a debate here. Thanks for testing it, Sarg!

I was surprised how underdeveloped babyboxes are in the world, they are relatively often mentioned in news on TV here, especially when a child is put there (cute-baby-with-tough-life footage sells). The fact that the Czech Republic has the highest number of those per capita bar Vatican puts it into perspective. As they say when one of them is installed: "We hope no one would ever have to use it but if it saves a baby which would be otherwise left on a park bench or in a trash can, it's well worth it." Most of them are on the premises of some medical facility (all but 2, which are on the walls of municipal offices), the more high-end ones have automatic doors, can be opened from the other side so the baby can be immediately taken care of (otherwise one would have to wait until the parent walked away, which is only a few seconds but still a neat feature).
Thucydides (864 D(B))
27 Jun 12 UTC
Whoa I never thought of this before, but what if everyone in the US, or some other large industrial country, just gave up their children under whatever the legal age for that is?

How do you think the government would respond in such a (admittedly outlandish and impossible) scenario? Probably passing a law essentially drafting parents. So weird.
Octavious (2732 D)
27 Jun 12 UTC
You think too much, Thucy.

But no, the government wouldn't be able to respond. Society would collapse and civalisation would end. Similar sort of thing to what the government would do if everyone decided to shoot themselves. Fortunately this is about as likely as Greece finding enough gold hidden under the Parthenon to pay all their debts.

To truly appreciate the worth of the boxes I would have to know how many babies are found dead on park benches or trash cans in the box deprieved nations of Europe. I suspect the answer to be at or near zero.
Thucydides (864 D(B))
27 Jun 12 UTC
Hahah Jesus Christ. Soldiers deployed to the streets in an attempt to enforce suicide laws to prevent total population loss.

So many things are possible, and yet, impossible. Very weird.
SacredDigits (102 D)
27 Jun 12 UTC
You'd be surprised, Octavious. From the article, this movement took traction in Germany when this statistic happened in Germany:

"In 1999, we had five babies abandoned and three of them were found dead. So we thought about this situation, and why it happened, and found a new way to help children to stay alive".

And that's to say nothing about the fact that a safe place to drop a child might encourage people who aren't quite desperate enough to drop their baby on a park bench but aren't prepared to be parents to do the best thing for the child.
SacredDigits (102 D)
27 Jun 12 UTC
In specifically Hamburg, Germany. Sorry. Next time will proof before posting.
Octavious (2732 D)
27 Jun 12 UTC
@ SacredDigits

What I'm struggling to understand is how the sort of half crazed woman who choses to abandon her child to the elements instead of, say, a supermarket or department store where it will at least be warm until it is found, will have the wits to conclude that a box will be a better option than a bench. The box will only attract those desperate women who at least still care enough about the child to try and ensure it falls into responsible hands. It will have no appeal to the pitiful mix of heartless and mentally derranged people who would abandon a baby outside and alone.
SacredDigits (102 D)
27 Jun 12 UTC
@Octavious: There's a shame element in presenting a child to another individual, and in the case of a market or other store, there's a chance someone will confront them with "Miss? You seem to have walked away from your baby." And, in most supermarkets and stores, you are on camera walking in. These individuals wish to not have their baby, but don't wish the shame element or the possibility of being hastily involuntarily reunited. It's criminal to abandon a baby, so the thought process is to do it where you're least likely to get caught. These boxes give the desired outcome of "no repercussions" and the desired outcome of "no baby" and the desired outcome of "no shame".

The park bench still has a POSSIBLE repercussion (if someone witnesses it and calls the police), so irregardless of whether they care about the child's welfare or not at this point, the box has the best possibility of giving them all three of their desired outcomes.
orathaic (1009 D(B))
28 Jun 12 UTC
i have a radical proposal...

create a subculture of village-sharers, a multi adult family who share food, resources, parenting, etc... yes, a regular ole' hippie commune, based on solid legal footing (you know like how marriage is given some legal protection for some crazy cultural reason)

ok i've been reading things like the links below, but i actually think i'd do much better in such a group, have done well in the past as it happens...
( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9ygq7F4TX4&feature=related
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Sex_at_Dawn)
Sydney City (0 DX)
28 Jun 12 UTC
Maybe the "mother" should have kept her bloody legs closed the whore- rather than dumping a baby


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2ndWhiteLine (2736 D(B))
26 Jun 12 UTC
Gunboat Isn't Real Diplomacy
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Draugnar (0 DX)
22 Jun 12 UTC
So which of you fucktards wants to get your ass kicked first...
...in a World game with yours truly, the Draug! :-)

Seriously, I'm in the mood for a full press, non-anon, WTA world game of 24-48 hours. Anyone else who wants in, sign up by replying below!
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joeschoen (0 DX)
19 Jun 12 UTC
Liberals vs Conservatives
i don't no which ideologies make more sense so start debating
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orathaic (1009 D(B))
27 Jun 12 UTC
Open Science
Discuss:
http://www.nature.com/news/open-your-minds-and-share-your-results-1.10895
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abgemacht (1076 D(G))
27 Jun 12 UTC
Truck Update
Just wanted to thank everyone for their advice on trucks. I bought a 2000 Ranger a little over a week ago and I love it! As thanks, here's a video of a kid being really stupid with his ranger: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEfnfOfbsi4
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orathaic (1009 D(B))
27 Jun 12 UTC
God hates Shrimp
For your amusement: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/God_Hates_Shrimp
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dubmdell (556 D)
20 Jun 12 UTC
dubmdell gunboat invitational
I would like seven games with the same six players either in series or simultaneous. With permission (and help) from a mod, we would each play as each nation exactly once. Buy in will be 44 D, 36-48hr, WTA. PM or post here if interested. Note: if simultaneous, you must have 308 D at least before joining as this is the minimum to play 7 games at 44 D each.
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