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abgemacht (1076 D(G))
11 Mar 13 UTC
An Alternative to Simcity in the Works
If anyone was as disappointed as I was about EA's botched Simcity job, you may be interested to know there is a indie game in the works that looks very promising. More info here:
http://tinyurl.com/bk3a3cc
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steephie22 (182 D(S))
10 Mar 13 UTC
Total War games
Anyone plays them? I´ve got Rome (with Extended Realism mod), Empire and Napoleon.

Do you like them? Why? Which one? Discuss. Also, if anyone´s interested in a multiplayer campaign say so.
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blankflag (0 DX)
11 Mar 13 UTC
who has 25mins to waste?
25mins on *press tv* drone debate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-TxIsc_qfQ
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Maniac (189 D(B))
09 Mar 13 UTC
Poker challenge
I'm thinking of setting up a diplomacy players poker tournament. The idea is that we all 'donate' our buy in to Kestas and then he redistributes the cash based on the result of the poker challenge. We will then play a tournament online. I haven't spoken to Kestas until I know we have enough interest.
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obiwanobiwan (248 D)
10 Mar 13 UTC
Open Books and Minds--What Would You Want YOUR Kids Taught?
I've debated this with friends before, but I'll raise the question here--generally (for US Lit, anyway) colleges split it into 2 core classes (often Pre and Post-Reconstruction), with mostly white, male authors and a bit of representation from others, and justify it by saying "Hey, you can go take the African-American Lit class and read Langston Hughes THERE." Why not have 3 US Lit classes, teach everyone, and INTEGRATE Minorities, make it just US Lit all-around?
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jimgov (219 D(B))
10 Mar 13 UTC
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What this site really needs
When I hear the ramblings of some people on this forum, it occurs to me that we could add something that, I think, wouldn't be very difficult and, at the same time, be very useful. In short, we need a -1 option. That way, some of the lunatics could really see how we feel about them. Then maybe, once you hit a predetermined number, -10 or -100 or whatever, you are temporarily banned from posting your bullshit.
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Tom Bombadil (4023 D(G))
11 Mar 13 UTC
Hey Science Geeks!
For a quite silly class assignment in my 100 level environmental science class I need to find an advertisement or news story that misuses scientific concepts or misuses statistics. I've been searching but thought that maybe someone here has an example that they already know about and would be willing to pass along to me.
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Jamiet99uk (1307 D)
06 Mar 13 UTC
Syria
So, today the British government has announced £millions worth of support for the rebels in Syria, including military equipment such as vehicles and body armour (but not arms). What does the forum think of this decision? Good idea? Bad idea? Justified or illegal intervention?
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EightfoldWay (2115 D)
10 Mar 13 UTC
What happens in a game if *everyone* CDs?
Because it looks like it's about to happen in about a week: gameID=110331

Seriously, what the actual fuck.
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bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
10 Mar 13 UTC
Concentration v. Internment Camp
There is a definitional difference, but is there a difference in the whole between concentration and internment camps? Internment camps treat people more humanely, but is the punishment the same? Is the end result the same - in other words, is a loss of dignity and chattel equally present in both?
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redhouse1938 (429 D)
09 Mar 13 UTC
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Can you ask someone who's not your girlfriend to marry you?
I'm a little drunk, but hear me out.
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fulhamish (4134 D)
10 Mar 13 UTC
Wealth inequality in America
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM

An obsceniy or not? No wonder the video has millions of hits. ''All we need to do is wake up and realise that the reality in this country (world) is not at all what we think it is.''
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NigeeBaby (100 D(G))
08 Mar 13 UTC
What if Women ruled the world?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-21661744
The very subject I have been thinking about for a little while now...... could the world be a safer happy place if we replaced men in senior positions with women
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Sbyvl36 (439 D)
09 Mar 13 UTC
Lindsay Graham is Finished.
After being one of the few people to oppose Rand Paul's filibuster, I would like to say that Lindsay Graham is done. In South Carolina, Republicans favor "Someone more Conservative" than Graham by 25 D. So we will be finally rid of this NBC-loving Snake in the Grass.
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blankflag (0 DX)
10 Mar 13 UTC
which diet is best
so between the far northern aboriginal diet and the hip new banana diet, which will result in faster death?
people who lived in the far north would just eat raw fish with nothing else. cool kids today are eating basically bananas with little else. which of the two is better? that far-north diet lasted for thousands of years so it has kind of been tested. i am not sure if any culture has ever survived on pretty much all fruit, so i am thinking the all meat diet is probably healthier.
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Crazy Anglican (1075 D)
10 Mar 13 UTC
Saturday night
I've had a 750ml bottle of Three Philosophers AND my daughter asked me to help her with her argumentative writing paper.
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Pjman (0 DX)
10 Mar 13 UTC
Joining games
People DO NOT let me say it again DO not join a game and then say you can't play at the begging. If you can't dont join!!! Once again join games you know your going to be able to finish... Thanks
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Jamiet99uk (1307 D)
09 Mar 13 UTC
France invades UK
French naval and amhibious forces have launched an invasion of the UK. What shall we do?
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jimgov (219 D(B))
10 Mar 13 UTC
EOG for Bored on Saturday Game
Well...congratulations Gen Lee. You played a great game.

As for ukulelemike...I can't understand how you could just give that game away. And you did give that game away. Actively.
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jpribe (1009 D)
10 Mar 13 UTC
If any mods are online, please check your email
Thanks! (and my apologies if it isn't proper protocol to post a thread saying this)
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zultar (4180 DMod(P))
09 Mar 13 UTC
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ADVERTISE your gf here and here only thread
I'm a little drunk and dyslexic, but here me out. I am very socially awkward, but I was wondering if it's okay to get some sex under the pretense that I will ask a girl to marry me in front of my boyfriend. If you have a gf who is willing to do this, please post it here. I know it's not Craiglist or anything, but there are a lot of weirdos on this site.
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steephie22 (182 D(S))
07 Mar 13 UTC
Worst pokerhand? (pre-flop)
I'm thinking a 2 and a 3 of different colours with a small group and a pair of 2's in a big group... How about you guys?
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2ndWhiteLine (2736 D(B))
09 Mar 13 UTC
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Elephant Ivory Challenge
I'm thinking of setting up a diplomacy players ivory tournament. The idea is that we all 'donate' our dead elephants to kestas and then he redistributes the cash based on the result of a cockfight tournament. I haven't spoken to kestas until I know we have enough interest.
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redhouse1938 (429 D)
07 Mar 13 UTC
The West Wing
Who else is a fan?
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blankflag (0 DX)
09 Mar 13 UTC
the elites intentionally collapsed the market thread
what evidence do people have that the elites intentionally crashed the market for fun and profit. i have a couple points but maybe you people have more.
bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
09 Mar 13 UTC
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• Blankflag says so.

Greatest evidence of all.
blankflag (0 DX)
09 Mar 13 UTC
apparently lehmans morgans swore in a deposition that after all this discussion with the other banks and the fed/etc on how to save the banking system, and after they disclosed their liabilities, jp morgan made crazy margin calls they knew lehman could not cover and that is what caused them to go down. and the other bankers and the fed had to have known this was happening.
blankflag (0 DX)
09 Mar 13 UTC
i mean lehmans lawyers
blankflag (0 DX)
09 Mar 13 UTC
here are some historical quotes about the last collapse, the so called great depression

“Actually, it was the calculated ‘shearing’ of the public by the World Money powers triggered by the planned sudden shortage of call money in the New York Money Market. – Curtis Dall, son in law of FDR.

It was not accidental It was a carefully contrived occurrence. The international bankers sought to bring about a condition of despair here so that they might emerge as rulers of us all.” - Rep Louis T. McFadden (D-PA)
Tolstoy (1962 D)
09 Mar 13 UTC
Before this question can be answered, it must first be defined who "the elites" are - and why Lehman Brothers would not be included but JP Morgan Chase would.

I believe the 2007-201? financial 'crisis' has largely been a war *between* the financial elites, with the Little People of course suffering the vast majority of casualties - as they do in all wars.
blankflag (0 DX)
09 Mar 13 UTC
the people who controlled lehmans were probably also elite. who said they werent. when i say elites collapsed the economy i dont mean every single elite obviously i just mean some elites crashed the economy.
blankflag (0 DX)
09 Mar 13 UTC
for all i know the people in charge at lehmans could have known that their bank would be taken down when they disclosed their liabilities to the federal reserve. those lawyers for lehmans are legally required to work for the company, not for the ceo of the company or whoever was in charge. working for the company itself means working for the shareholders.
blankflag (0 DX)
09 Mar 13 UTC
thomas jefferson apparently knew what was up

if the american people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency first by inflation then by deflation the banks and the corporations which grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered

note that under fractional reserve banking inflation is when the banks decide to lend out money and deflation happens when the banks decide not to lend money. and this is exactly what is happening. this strategy by the banks is making americans homeless.
blankflag (0 DX)
09 Mar 13 UTC
there may also be some confusion as to what inflation and deflation are. in this quote he means that the average person has a lot of money to use or doesnt. in our current economy the average person has no money and cant borrow money so loses his property. so it is really money in circulation among the people. even though prices are rising and even though giant banks and corporations are awash in money, real people do not have money.
Jamiet99uk (1307 D)
09 Mar 13 UTC
When did "the average person" ever have "a lot of money"? If Jefferson did say that, he may have thought the average american had plenty of money in his day, but that's probably because his concept of "the average american" extended only as far as wealthy slave-owners such as himself.
blankflag (0 DX)
09 Mar 13 UTC
believe it or not the country did not always have all the wealth consolidated in the hands of the very few. people typically owned their own houses and farms in america before the bankers did the great depression. if you look around now all the wealth is owned by a very very few people, but that has happened over a long time by continuous consolidation of the rich by controlling the media and government.
Jamiet99uk (1307 D)
09 Mar 13 UTC
Evidence?
blankflag (0 DX)
09 Mar 13 UTC
it is kind of hard to find historical data because it is all retroactively changed. like the temperature record. ... i need to think about where to get evidence of the distribution of wealth from hundreds of years ago... so maybe i will have to get back to you on it.
blankflag (0 DX)
09 Mar 13 UTC
according to the congressional record there was a memo sent out by the american bankers association that read like this
on spet 1, 1894 we will not renew our loans under any consideration. on sept 1 we will demand our money.

we will foreclose and become mortgagees in possission. we can take two thirds of the farms west of the mississippi and thousands of them east of the mississippi as well at our own price...
then the farmers will become tenants as in england...

> so apparently the farmers were not tenants before then.
blankflag (0 DX)
09 Mar 13 UTC
sent out by the aba to its member banks in 1891 as printed in the congressional record of april 29, 1913.
note that is planning an economic crisis 3 years in advance. so they really knew what they were doing.


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Thomas Olai (599 D)
08 Mar 13 UTC
pause and unpaue
Apologies if this have been covered elsewhere, but how do we unpause a game that have been paused?
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ghug (5068 D(B))
06 Mar 13 UTC
Fog On The Barrow Downs EoG
gameID=107743

Thanks for setting it up Tom, and well played all of you (except Dharm, I guess). I'll write something up later.
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steephie22 (182 D(S))
04 Mar 13 UTC
Rules of life?
Does anyone has some sort of rules they live by, like the Ten Commandments? Semper Fidelis? Carpe Diem? Anything you live by?

An important one for me would be: Sometimes you're wrong.
I'm thinking of making a list for myself so I know what I want if it ever gets to a rash decision of big importance or something...
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EmperorMaximus (551 D)
05 Mar 13 UTC
Game. Join. Play. Win.
gameID=111739
2 Day Phase
WTA
147 Bet
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ghug (5068 D(B))
08 Mar 13 UTC
THREAD THREADING THREAD
This thread was designed for the purpose of threading threads. Please use this thread to thread threads, preferably with thread.

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
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