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abgemacht (1076 D(G))
21 Mar 13 UTC
The Boroughs Diplomacy Tournament
I am currently organizing a F2F Diplomacy tournament in the beautiful City of Marlborough, Mass. A few years ago, the webDip F2F tournament was a great success and I encourage everyone to consider coming. Details within.
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redhouse1938 (429 D)
22 Mar 13 UTC
Daylight super-saving time
So, I checked the calendar for sunrise in Holland. Latest sunrise during the year: 8:48 AM (from Christmas to New Year's this is fixed). What if we do this: all secondary schools start their first class at Sunrise+27 min until the sun rises at 7.03 AM, at which time school starts at 7:30 AM for the rest of the year until sun rises after 7.03 again.
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Tomicohen (100 D)
22 Mar 13 UTC
help
for some reason i cant bulid this turn
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=111479
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EvanTheDiplomancer (0 DX)
21 Mar 13 UTC
I'm New Here
I've played Diplomacy a number of times in person, but I've just started playing online. Any tips from those of you that have been here longer?
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Commander_Cool (131 D)
22 Mar 13 UTC
Orders question
Just another question about the rules and stuff so I don't horribly destroy myself by entering orders based on a wrong understanding...
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TheMinisterOfWar (509 D)
22 Mar 13 UTC
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Keepin it real
I noticed that people are posting all this stuff I don't like on the forum, It would be cool if we could keep it restricted to content I approve of.
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Danny (100 D)
21 Mar 13 UTC
YORKS DIPLOMACY (recently finished game) discussion
All players of the game and any other interested parties please feel free to discuss the game
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goldfinger0303 (3157 DMod)
11 Feb 13 UTC
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The Masters 2013
Rounds 1 and 2 are set to kick off this week and next week. Let the Tournament begin!
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March Madness Help Needed!
So unfortunately I live in the UK at the moment and only have a UK itunes account and this means I can't legally stream march madness, normally with sport this isn't a problem as I have no qualms with an illegal stream, but since it is free to stream normally I am struggling to find a place to watch March Madness - if anyone could tell me how to solve this horrible problem I would be very appreciative! Thanks.
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nudge (284 D)
18 Mar 13 UTC
Odd request, but can translation help please
Can anyone speaking languages other than English translate this phrase please into their language? - "Fuck my brown dog!"
It is the favourite exasperated expression of a colleague, who has been advised to find an alternate. Thanks in advance
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Crazy Anglican (1100 D)
20 Mar 13 UTC
Favorite British Prime Minister
and why.
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dubmdell (556 D)
21 Mar 13 UTC
Rape culture
For you naysayers, here's a link that may help you understand this is a real thing: http://rantagainsttherandom.wordpress.com/2013/03/19/so-youre-tired-of-hearing-about-rape-culture/
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obiwanobiwan (248 D)
21 Mar 13 UTC
Star Trek 11--This Time, It's Personal! (New International Trailer)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhz4A5BCMAA
With every trailer it looks better and better...they seem to have better chemistry this time...Cumberbatch looks like a great villain...for the modern age I love the terrorism angle...

If it doesn't go TOO overboard I think it could be a great one--thoughts?
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NigeeBaby (100 D(G))
20 Mar 13 UTC
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The best news I've heard in ages ..... assault rifles are back !!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21849814
Let the free world celebrate, it should be a basic human right that everyone everywhere can own an assault rifle, they so big and shiny

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CSteinhardt (9560 D(B))
21 Mar 13 UTC
Random Power Selection
I've been told by some people that power selection on this site is entirely random, and by others that it's weighted random, biased in favor of powers you have played less often. I didn't see anything in the Rules/FAQ, though I could have missed it. Anybody know the answer?
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SpeakerToAliens (147 D(S))
21 Mar 13 UTC
What travels at least 10000 times faster than light?
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/150207-chinese-physicists-measure-speed-of-einsteins-spooky-action-at-a-distance-at-least-10000-times-faster-than-light
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Thomas Olai (599 D)
19 Mar 13 UTC
Game: Confectus - Classic Diplomacy
Gentlemans Diplomacy game
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dubmdell (556 D)
21 Mar 13 UTC
Whose territory is whose?
When negotiating the Balkans or the Netherlands/ Scandinavia, ownership has trends. This thread is to explore how players view ownership of centers in 1901 before the first move is even made. My first post will explain more.
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NigeeBaby (100 D(G))
21 Mar 13 UTC
PKK declares ceasefire ...... I hope it holds
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21874427
This is a day to celebrate, this means something, good news !!
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hecks (164 D)
21 Mar 13 UTC
Global Gunboat needs player pickup
gameID=112881
A player was banned and needs cheap pickup. Spring 1901 Diplomacy, no turns yet processed, so you haven't missed anything.
I do hope this doesn't constitute commenting on an ongoing gunboat. Please come help complete the game.
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I need help :)
I play with France in this game http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=112297&msgCountryID=0&rand=52391#chatboxanchor
Like you see Germany, Russia and Austria play together.What I must to do in this situation?
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cteno4 (100 D)
21 Mar 13 UTC
Important supply centers
I know this is an old topic, but here we are again: If you were to identify any shortlist of supply centers that predicted a solo victory in Diplomacy, what would they be and why?
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SYnapse (0 DX)
20 Mar 13 UTC
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American Politics vs European Politics
American Politics:
SYnapse (0 DX)
20 Mar 13 UTC
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Blabla tax 2.5% on the congressional thingamajit
Blabla senator X the bill is unconstitutional congress whatever
Blabla X Monetary Reform Act never get through congress whatever
Blabla Obamacare $536 per person @ 10.5% blabla
Blabla 1776 Constitutional My Ass
SYnapse (0 DX)
20 Mar 13 UTC
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European Politics:
Blabla farming subsidies to Estonia, they don't have much farming infrastructure
Blabla European Court of Human Rights crucial employment tribunal
Blabla need to give 10 million Euros to Spain because they GDP blabla
Blabla Brussels vote blabla
Draugnar (0 DX)
20 Mar 13 UTC
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Try $20,000 per family or a typical cost of $5,000 per person for Obama Care.

I get so tired of the European thugees sticking their nose into *our* political business. Run your own country into the ground but leave mine the fuck alone.
datapolitical (100 D)
20 Mar 13 UTC
Not to stick my face in the hornet's nest or anything, but I do think if the europeans had any influence over our politics we'd have a very different healthcare system than we do right now. Obamacare is a typical liberal compromise with a center that's afraid of big government spending. The difference between the right and the left in this country is that, politically, the right doesn't pull its punches and the left does because it's scared of the country becoming center-right again. The GOP doesn't have to worry about that. They just have to *look* moderate in order to get votes. Fortunately for democrats, they have a hard time doing that.

So each party shoots themselves in the foot in different ways. Don't you just love american politics? ;-)
Fasces349 (0 DX)
20 Mar 13 UTC
Both the EU politics and Washington politics sucks.

Scandinavia has the only respectable democracies out there.

Singapore and China have efficient well run governments, but their laws prohibiting speech is concerning.
Hellenic Riot (1626 D(G))
20 Mar 13 UTC
Corruption in China is rife, so I'm not sure what kind of 'efficiency' you're talking about.


They get the job done, yes, and probably a lot quicker than 90% of other nations, but at what cost?
Fasces349 (0 DX)
20 Mar 13 UTC
Fair enough, maybe I should have used effective for China.
2ndWhiteLine (2736 D(B))
20 Mar 13 UTC
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European politics:

Blahblahblah another country needs a bailout
Blahblahblah another country needs a bailout
Blahblahblah another country needs a bailout
Blahblahblah "What the fuck guys?" - Germany
Fasces349 (0 DX)
20 Mar 13 UTC
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Canadian politics:
Blahblahblah do whatever Harper says.
Hellenic Riot (1626 D(G))
20 Mar 13 UTC
"Fair enough, maybe I should have used effective for China."

Yeah, that's true.
redhouse1938 (429 D)
20 Mar 13 UTC
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"I get so tired of the European thugees sticking their nose into *our* political business. Run your own country into the ground but leave mine the fuck alone."

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-28/obama-solving-euro-crisis-of-huge-importance-.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/09/us-warns-uk-european-union
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/5113786/Barack-Obama-backs-Turkey-over-EU-membership.html
krellin (80 DX)
20 Mar 13 UTC
I love how good liberals can ignore certain hideous facts when judging: "China has efficient and well run government"

"Yeah...but they have no freedom"
"Oh..well than it's just efficient...and I still love it"

Efficient at what? Hell, if efficiency is all you are looking for, look no farther than Adolf Hitler - he was pretty damned efficient, too, and that is the standard by which we judge a good government?
ulytau (541 D)
20 Mar 13 UTC
Except Fasces is libertarian. Which makes it even more lovely since it's a great example of hypo... krellin will fill in the blanks.
Draugnar (0 DX)
20 Mar 13 UTC
@red - I would also like our country to stay out of European politics as well. The only time either needs to interfere in the others operation is on the global monetary scale. Europe should be sticking it's nose into our global financial situation just as we should with the imminet EU collapse. But we shoudl no mroe tell the independent countries of the EU what they should and shouldn't offer as a "right" than they should us.
Celticfox (100 D(B))
20 Mar 13 UTC
Well I'll be damn Draug is the first person who has the same views on me on this kind of situation.
redhouse1938 (429 D)
20 Mar 13 UTC
Yeah and there's the occasional world war of course, where a little advice before appointing a rather nervous creature named Adolf the chancellor of the most powerful European nation couldn't hurt, especially if you need to interfere later and people are going to ask you why you're only seeing the problem now..
Celticfox (100 D(B))
20 Mar 13 UTC
I still feel the same way. We don't have any right telling another nation what to do or how to run their country. We sure as hell wouldn't put up with that here.
Hellenic Riot (1626 D(G))
20 Mar 13 UTC
Does that include the middle east or just Europe? ;)
redhouse1938 (429 D)
20 Mar 13 UTC
@Celtic, I think you do. I found an obscure document in the basement of my University catching dust. Something titled "First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States." That couldn't be something vaguely related to your legal system now could it?
airborne (154 D)
20 Mar 13 UTC
Belgium Blahblahblah everything is alright
France Blahblahblah everything is alright
Germany ARRGH! Shiver me timbers!
Sweden ARRGH! Prepare to be boarded!
Celticfox (100 D(B))
20 Mar 13 UTC
I meant as a government policy and you know it. Individual people fine, but our government needs to mind it's own business just like other counties should stick their nose out of ours.

@Hellenic I feel the same way no matter where in the world.
redhouse1938 (429 D)
20 Mar 13 UTC
@Celtic,
About Barack Obama telling European nations what (not) to do: if Turkey, Greece, Spain, Portugal, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Germany etc. etc. and all these other NATO countries would be attacked, the United States has not only a political, but even a *legal* obligation to come to these countries' aid. *Certainly* the United States government has a right to speak out on the politics of these nations as they're supposed to send twenty year old in war zones if these countries screw up.

It's a perfectly healthy practice in international politics to debate all kinds of matters and if it's all the same to you and Draug, that's exactly what we're planning to do in this thread. You know what they say: words can't hurt anyone, the UGM-133 Trident II missile can.
Draugnar (0 DX)
20 Mar 13 UTC
I'm with Celtic. Middle East or Europe is irrelevant. We shouldkeep our noses out unless *asked* for help. For instance, Israel/Palestine, while I'm actually on Palestine's side (the west gave land to "Israel" and then "Israel" took even more), I don't think it is our place to intervene unless one or the other side asks us to mediate. Of course, this also means we shouldn't be arming Israel as we have (do you honestly think Israel developed those jets and tanks?) any more than we should arm Palestine.

Now, if either side comes to us and says "Can you help us find peace and a mutaually acceptable agreement with our neighbors?" then we have been invited and have a clear mission set forth by the invitee. I think the first Gulf War was a good example of how we could handle this. We were asked to help out with Kuwait and that is *all* we did. We could have pursued Saddam beyond the borders and taken him out of power then, but we didn't.

Now, a country attacks or hides/supports a group that attacks us, we have every right to step in (Afghanistan for instance). But we should never have gone into Iraq, and we should keep our noses out of Greece and Turkey until they *ask* for us to help.
Celticfox (100 D(B))
20 Mar 13 UTC
Sure that's the legalities of it, but we're talking theory. I don't think the U.S. should play police man to the world. Let's focus on our county not others.
Draugnar (0 DX)
20 Mar 13 UTC
@red - What about Greece's financial collapse in any way puts our soldiers at risk? Answer: nothing! Therefore we should not intervene in the affairs of the EU and it's internal struggles. Now if Germany is coerced into paying out the nose and they come to us and say "Hey! We need some backing to tell these EU schlongs to go fuck themselves." then we were invited to help by a nation directly affected by the situation who also happens to be our ally.

It's like being a good neighbor. What happens in my neighbors house is his business. If offensive smells (like rotting corpses) start wafting into my yard, then it affects me and is time I step in. But unless he kills his kid on the front lawn where I see it or I smell decomposing flesh, he can be Jeffrey Dahlmer and I have no business interferring. In short, until I have real evidence of a crime, I am a busy body and should but out.
redhouse1938 (429 D)
20 Mar 13 UTC
@Draug,
That's simply not how it works. Let's say a conflict is brewing between Greece and Turkey, both NATO members. The conflict heats up and Greece sends forces to Turkey. Now the United States is asked by Turkey "to help" and commits ten thousand troops. Isn't it healthier for the US government to make a phone call to the Greek government a *little* bit before that point and, you know, spare the country the agony of sending ten thousand of its boys overseas?

And since when are we putting "Israel" between "quotation marks"? Is it no longer a "real country" since you're on the "Palestinian side"?
King Atom (100 D)
20 Mar 13 UTC
I don't know why you've gotten all these +1's here, this is just obnoxious.

I also find it hilarious that you all (the common man) think that you have any claim to say things about the way politics are done. There are no policy makers to hear you all complain...And there are no policy makers here to have input.
redhouse1938 (429 D)
20 Mar 13 UTC
Who says the Germans *didn't* ask for US pressure?
Draugnar (0 DX)
20 Mar 13 UTC
@red - Yes, and that is helping. My view is all help should start with political/diplomatic measures before conflict. But our present policy is to jump right in without even waiting to be asked. Having US troops is often the *last* thing the situation needs and just escalates the violence any how. So we wait until one side or another directly affected party (say Italy can't use the Med for shipping because their transports are getting torpedoed) asks us to, then we step in first diplomatically to try and rersolve the situation and then with force only as a last resort and then with Un approval *only*. But we ignore the Un often enough and we do whatever the fuck we want and that is wrong. I think even krellin would agree with that.
Draugnar (0 DX)
20 Mar 13 UTC
@red - If they did, fine. Then our diplomatic communications and attempts to provide solution have been requested.
Celticfox (100 D(B))
20 Mar 13 UTC
OUt of curiosity.. Redhouse where are you from again?
Draugnar (0 DX)
20 Mar 13 UTC
@red "Israel is now, but at the time it was a tribe of people, not a nation. We took and gave them land to call their own without asking the people who occupied it if they minded. So it was "Israel" when that western interference occured.
redhouse1938 (429 D)
20 Mar 13 UTC
Draug,
That is not true. In the event of an attack on Italian ships by a clearly identified power, the US won't wait for UN approval to respond, the NATO charter suffices. Also, getting your transports torpedoed is pretty much the point where the other guy says that negotiations are no longer an option :-)
redhouse1938 (429 D)
20 Mar 13 UTC
@Celtic, I'm from Holland. You're from Illinois, correct?
ulytau (541 D)
20 Mar 13 UTC
On one bunga bunga party...

The PIIGS are having fun.

Italy: C'mere, me beauty!
Greece: Yo ho ho, and a bottle of... rum!

Then the bill arrives. Present fiscal conservatives are surprised.

Germany: Shiver me timbers!
Finland: Well blow me down!

Then decide to take decisive action.

Netherlands: Avast, me hearties!
Sweden: Prepare to be boarded!

Later, some PIIGS come for a bit of help. It isn't for free.

Germany: Look what trawled out of the bunghole!
All in unison: Swab the poop deck!

Meanwhile in Balkans...

Everyone: I'll be usin' ye for chum!
Everyone: I won't rest till I see ye hangin' from the yardarm!

And in Austrian cellar...

Austria: Wanna know why me Roger is so Jolly? Heheheh...

All the commotion is of course viewed by disgust from across the Channel.

UK: Nothin' but a bilge rat!
Draugnar (0 DX)
20 Mar 13 UTC
@red - Fine, NATO intervenes. But the point is it isn't just the US. It is a joint effort by NATO. And yes, torpedoed tankers and cargo ships probably requires a military intervention, but even then, it weould be of a limited sort with us escorting the Italian tships in the scenario and declaring them under our protection so if Greek or Turkish subs attacked, they have then declared war on the US and they would *not* do that.
Octavious (2732 D)
20 Mar 13 UTC
EU politics in a nutshell:
Germany: You all need to do things the German way!
France: You all need to do things the French way!
Britain: You're all doing it wrong!

Meanwhile, in the US halls of power (and university campuses everywhere)...
I've I leave my work to just before the deadline I'll be better motivated to do it and make a better job of it. I always work well under pressure!
....oh shit.

Seriously, there's no such thing as 'not interfering'. We all share embassies, we all read the same news, all leaders get reporters asking difficult questions, we all have citizens with dual citizenship. All political systems function within the same world community and are forced by nature to interact with others and "interfere" with others. Just the way it is. Isolationism didnt work in the past and sure as hell won't work in this globalized age.
Draugnar (0 DX)
21 Mar 13 UTC
There is a difference between isolationism and not being a busy body. The US is one giant busy body.
Agreed. And agreed it should tone down. But I do not agree with the EU meddling around in the US politics. It just doesnt. Some leaders occasionally comment on some developments in the US, and that's the way it should be. In politics, words are actions. So non-interference would be non-communication, and that's impossible and undesirable.
philcore (317 D(S))
21 Mar 13 UTC
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@airborne: " Sweden ARRGH! Prepare to be boarded!"

Please don't discuss ongoing gunboat games in the forum.


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redhouse1938 (429 D)
20 Mar 13 UTC
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For YJ
A cheap and unpretentious cartoon
http://xkcd.com/915/
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Lopt (102 D)
20 Mar 13 UTC
FUCK CD's!!
I will post here the names of all people that decided it was ok to join a game and shortly after walk away...!!!
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chluke (12292 D(G))
20 Mar 13 UTC
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Request Replacement Player button
post to follow...
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rollerfiend (0 DX)
19 Mar 13 UTC
Any so-called skillful players wanna play with moi? WTA
Play with the best, die with the rest
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datapolitical (100 D)
20 Mar 13 UTC
Country selection by player
In tournament style games I've read about you pick your country before the game starts based on a selection order. It would be nice to implement the feature on here for locked games.
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NigeeBaby (100 D(G))
18 Mar 13 UTC
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Iraq war based on complete bullshit ..... now they tell us !!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21786506
The UK & US Govt coming clean (again) on what most people knew all along, there were no WMDs in Iraq, a bullshit story by bullshit politicians
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Doomsday (100 D)
19 Mar 13 UTC
How do you "leave" a game?
I've seen different games where it says "Left" on the player's line. I don't see where you can click that - there's a Pause / Cancel / Draw option, but no "Leave the game" option.

Can anyone tell me how this works?
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