http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25743200

Interesting, court prevents regulation - or at least FCC is not allowed enforce an even playground. What is the politics behind this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUKMUZ4tlJg

My last game was in 2010. Am I too old to play here again?

A general question about assigning countries:
So, if me and a group of friends want to agree to pick the countries ourselves, is there a way to do that? I know mods can reassign countries based on previous threads, but is there a way that, if all the players in the game agree, they can be changed without the use of a mod? The game I'd like to have specific countries for is gameID=133754, if that helps at all. Thanks

gameID=133469

We had so much player interest in the Winter SoW game that it was suggested we do a Study Group game for those not in the main game. Details inside.

Trying to find a quick game around lunch time. Anyone interested?

Hey all,
A player needs 3 of his games sat for this weekend, so I'm posting on his behalf. 14hr Full Press, 24hr Full Press, 25hr gunboat. If interested, please PM me.
Thanks!

Post things -- songs, paintings, photos, poems, mathematical proofs, or anything else -- to which you react, simply, "Dang, that's beautiful."

I don't get it, someone explain it to me

<3

In the game of Diplomacy, the emphasis is - in my opinion - on one's mastery of Realpolitik. To borrow from Wikipedia, it is "politics or diplomacy based primarily on power and on practical and material factors and considerations, rather than explicit ideological notions or moral or ethical premises." In other words, making the best of the situation.

One more spot! gameID=133445

It's time to end the madness - the seat belt must go, as it is known to be a risk factor for injury during accidents! BAN Seat Belts NOW!
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/533761_3
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1996397

What triggers these to add new discussions in the profile? I haven't had anything new show up since November.

https://medium.com/p/81 10230282f

Love to hear thoughts from religious and non-religious folk on this. Thoroughly enjoyed reading through this (it's not too long at all).

http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=132640

http://science.time.com/2014/01/09/can-time-predict-your-politics/

I took it and it was fairly accurate. TIME is reporting a correlation of r=0.604 after 17,000 responses.

dumb idea if you ask me.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140112190807.htm

yeah!

It's a new year and I'm sure some of you are looking for games. Similarly to what was done regularly in the past and what abg(or someone) organized in December, let's have some GR challenge games. Post here with your WTA FP rank, and anon and turn length preference if you're interested.

Let's say you are playing in a gunboat game, and somebody sends you a message by email, Skype, or some other out-of-game communication method. The message refers to the gunboat game, and says something like "support me to Timbuktu", or "DMZ Timbuktu?".

The only thorough and complete way to rectify the damage done, is to cauterise the part of my brain which remembers the content of the message. Ouch!

http://news.yahoo.com/former-israeli-prime-minister-sharon-dies-85-125933133.html Love him or hate him, after David Ben Gurion himself, Sharon's probably done more to define Israel as a PM than anyone else...I know I'd still rather him than that nut Netanyahu...Sharon could be ruthless, but he knew the peace process was necessary, whereas Netanyahu's West Bank dealings are short-sighted and endanger the long-term welfare of Israelis and Palestinians.

http://news.yahoo.com/black-rhino-hunting-permit-auctioned-350-000-033224692.html While it's admittedly morbid to auction off the right to hunt a living creature...if the rhino really is "male, old, and nonbreeding" and the $350K really does go to benefiting the rest of the black rhino population, and this particular rhino's already proving something of a problem because of his aggressiveness...is humane sentiment more important than practical aid in the way of the $350K?

src:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25691066

my only question is, which half?

Become a cop first:
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Former-Fullerton-Officers-Manuel-Ramos-Found-by-Jury-in-Kelly-Thomas-Trial-239924741.html

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/01/where-life-has-meaning-poor-religious-countries/282949/

What do you guys think? Aside from The Atlantic's dire need for proofreaders, of course.

My account was banned, now unbanned, but I have lost all website points, and the leading spot in a world game. I would like to be refunded.

Be there or be square.

People who insist playing after a game is ruined by NMR's...