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Military Benefits

http://www.esquire.com/features/man-who-shot-osama-bin-laden-0313?click=pp

These are the things that bug me... these are the stories that say I have no reason to be a soldier and that I shouldn't enlist because I don't get any respect for it... these are the things that scare me away, not warfare.

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Unpause request

We paused our game for a weekend break but now clicking 'unpause' doesn't seem to do anything. Can a mod please unpause?
Game: gameID=109269

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Books you recomend

Post here books that you recommend reading in the subject of military history or current developments, strategies, negotiations techniques etc. If you wish you may elaborate on the book to make it more interesting.

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WWII Variant Test game

Testing games being held at "http://lab.vdiplomacy.com/board.php?gameID=28"

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VDiplomacy

http://vdiplomacy.com/board.php?gameID=12423

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Hypocrisy

Hypocrisy, I think, is one of the worst human traits, because it violates the rules of rhetoric and deceives both the hypocrite and their listener, obstructing reason and acceptance in the way of subversion and blind authority.

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The atheist experience

Anybody ever watch this? These guys are absolutely brilliant. This is just one of many hilarious clips:

https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#sent/13c64f84f236f8a2

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Proposed new Union Jack

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-IMECGFsgP1w/URkSBeZ9_NI/AAAAAAAAA-0/JvXZh77s8i0/s499/uk.bmp

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Question - how does this work?

Available points: 26875
Points in play: 0
Total points: 55199
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Mission To Mars...Fun To Dream About...Make It Happen, You Science-Type People Here!

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/story/2012/09/12/manned-mars-mission-still-on-track/57767950/1 "If the time line holds, a manned test flight of the Space Launch System and Orion capsule will take place in 2021. If that's successful, an asteroid landing would be feasible by 2025, followed by a landing on Mars sometime in the 2030s." (If YOU could go on that trip, and leave one thing on The Red Planet, there until the last syllable of recorded time, what would it be?)

obiwanobiwan (248 )
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My choice is as simple as it is obvious--

Made of the most weather-resistant material I could find, a copy of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (and maybe a quote or something from any of my works, if I have anything published by that time.)

Even if no one ever read it, it'd be nice to know Hamlet's words, forever true--"There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy"--would still be readable and existent even if we ruined the Earth...

Mozart, Beethoven and Bach already have recordings of some of their music on the Voyager Golden Record...they're dead and gone, but their music might last ages...it'd be nice to see some of the great words and thoughts of humanity be preserved that way, even if they'd be forever indecipherable, just to know they'd still exist (and then, of course, a garbage scribbling of my own...because if I'm spending all that time in a cramped capsule to make it to this place, damn it, I'm leaving something behind of my own too!) :)

semck83 (229 )
11 Feb 13 UTC

I'd probably leave a Bible. Original languages I suppose, though obviously there would still be some choices to be made on manuscript, etc.

I'd _consider_ other things, though. Like a photo of somebody I loved and considered a worthy image to represent the human race.

But probably a Bible.

obiwanobiwan (248 )
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That'd be cool...

I'm obviously no believer or great fan--"NO!" I hear the shocked voices calling out--but yeah...after all the impact it's had on humanity, the Bible as much as Shakespeare definitely deserves to be preserved...and I'd be lying if I wouldn't like the Exodus story preserved...it may never have happened and it has major ethical problems, but as a foundational myth of human and especially Jewish culture, I'd like to see the Moses story survive...

And as much as I love the English language and would want to see something of it remain (hence Shakespeare) second after that would be Hebrew--I can't read it myself (I know a little Yiddish, but not Hebrew) but the same part of me that's happy about the Passover ritual surviving all these millenia would like to see Hebrew survive as well. :)

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Leave one thing? The complete works of babylon 5? does that count as one thing? All fiction written about mars? how about a complete terraforming station designed to create global warming to make mars habitable...

mapleleaf (0 )
11 Feb 13 UTC

Or, better still, let's send ALL of the jews to Mars.

goldfinger0303 (3157 )
11 Feb 13 UTC

Screw NASA. I'm going to Mars with Elon Musk

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/05/mars-colony-elon-musk-how_n_2232435.html

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This sounds very exciting. I'm confused as to why we aren't spending more time on the Moon before we send people to Mars. To me, it would seem to make more sense to send a couple more rovers to Mars while we prepare people for space habitation on the Moon.

Jamiet99uk (1307 )
11 Feb 13 UTC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u0MjpHaRQw

Tyran (914 )
11 Feb 13 UTC

I would probably leave a collection of Isaac Asimov books or possibly some Poe. Isaac Asimov is an amazing scifi author

Octavious (2802 )
11 Feb 13 UTC

An interesting video for all you Mars fans! (posted mainly because the chap in it was my University tutor who I got on rather well with, but also because it's good)

http://spaceinvideos.esa.int/Videos/2012/09/Europe_at_Mars_Eight_Years_of_Mars_Express_Science

SpeakerToAliens (147 )
11 Feb 13 UTC

What would I leave on Mars? Well my first thought was a large, highly durable Black Monolith measuring 1 by 4 by 9.

My second was a really really strong magnet. And, near the centre of the magnet, printed on thin sheets of diamond, a copy of the salient parts of The Silmarillion.

But my third and final thought was that I'd leave Ceres! It's the largest asteroid and mostly water - just what Mars needs. I'd add a few more of the larger asteroids, to give Mars more mass/gravity/escape velocity, so that it can keep a denser atmosphere. I'd have to soft-land them so they didn't create too much heat at the point of impa ... err ... landing. Natural geological* processes would handle distribution of the masses over time. I'd then scatter some bacteriological packages around, to kick-start life.

*-The "geo" in "geological" refers to Earth. What's the Martian equivalent of "geo". I can't find that on Google.

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Need People

A password world game was started with random people given the password. Only six have signed up and now the game is stuck at the same number of players with 5 days left. The game is "The Red Pill" and the password is matrix. Please join.

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Cassus Belli Variant

See below

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11 Feb 13 UTC
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Replacement Pope

#Thucy2013

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Russian Gold Buying Binge

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-10/putin-turns-black-gold-into-bullion-as-russia-out-buys-world.html

Thoughts? Russia is on a gold buying binge. Thoughts? Are they acknowledging something about the global economy and the potential demise of the US dollar?

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Uncommon Alliances

A question I've posed many times in the past to specific people but never here... what are some uncommon press alliances that work as well as any juggernaut/WT/etc.? My favorite's the Mediterranean triple but nobody else seems to like it o_O

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Why is the west supporting Muhamed Morsi again?

He's an anti-Semite (no, we're not going to argue the word anti-Semite and I use it in the colloquial sense where it means anti-Jewish) reactionary woman-repressing islamist. He's not our friend. Discuss.

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Looks like the EU leaders got the message..

Great news, the EU budget is going DOWN! Look at the agricultural budget! Yummie!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21386818

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lead paint causes crime

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/07/violent-crime-lead-poisoning-british-export

Another factor of socioeconomic theory that is rather interesting.

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Masters Interest

This is just a thread to judge if there is enough interest in the community to start another round of the Masters. Note that this tourney does take more than 40 players to start, and will take 6-8 months to complete. I'm gonna try to keep this to top 200 GR, due to complaints about the quality of the last round.

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Brand new stupid question of the day

I've been looking back on some of my previous games and I see that there are several people who I've played with that have a big red x next to their names. Is it safe to assume that these players were banned for something? Or am I completely wrong on this?

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Free market pharma?

see:
1 ) the problem http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPf8vwnoEtU
2) the solution? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx8FWdMTkrM
discuss

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Austria issue

I have searched the forum for similar topic, haven't found any. However if the issue was somewhere discussed just delete the thread.

Playing Austria is very difficult in most of the cases. Moreover, players usually tend to play a pattern of "lets kill Austria first." Although you may say it is a natural fate of nations that some are stronger other are weaker, personally I think that in the game Austria should have a more equal chances (...)

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NCAAM...

... one of the most exciting seasons in recent memory up to this point. The top teams can't stay at the top; the bottom teams come out of nowhere; top-five teams go down like flies; and, oh, by the way, 5 OTs...

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One player needed for Classic game

One player needed for a Classic game with 24-hour phase starting in about eight hours. Six people in the game currently, all friends, all relatively new to the game. Looking for someone with under 20 games played to join and make up the numbers. PM me or reply below and I'll send the password.
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=109951

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LIVE game

Anybody up for a quick live game? Starts in one hour. gameID=110264

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Raymond Towler - a true inspiration

Asked on radio whether he was angry after being wrongly imprisoned for so many years he said "anger only consumes the vessel that contains it".
If you have forgotten his story see below

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Gunboat for Idiots

Anybody interested in another idiot's game?

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Pretty good satire from Reddit

Explain the gay marriage debate like I'm an alien whose race has seven genders

http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeIAmA/comments/17u14o/explain_the_gay_marriage_debate_like_im_an_alien/c88ysj6

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Borderline Movies

List films you're not sure if they land on the happy side of par...or just barely fail...or just hit the line...Mine's "Bladerunner"--I STILL can't tell if that's the best bad movie or worst good movie I've ever seen...it has some of the best stylistic and atmospheric elements of any even partially-action film I've seen...but even with the PDK book's ideas and the VK test...so DULL, and plodding, with a plot heavier on conceptualization than payoff, until the very, very end...I dunno.

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1 More Player Needed - 3 hours to go (not a Live game)

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