The official thread for the SoW commentary. Please: only SoW professors should be making posts in here. Thank you.

We have 18-ish hours left. So let's talk Princess Diana. Seriously, who wouldn't believe that the British royal family is a bunch of alien reptiles?

Are there no mods on?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24277277
The current US economic model based on capitalist ideology is unsustainable, if the US govt don't make changes soon the decision will be taken out of their hands, a run on the US$ is a lot closer than you think.

the seymour hersh joins the blank club http://www.theguardian.com/media/media-blog/2013/sep/27/seymour-hersh-obama-nsa-american-media
suggests abc and nbc be shut down and 90% of corporate media news editors of today should be fired

I play on a cell and don't have the real estate to spare. Seriously? Does anyone truly need that warning?

Stuck in my head is "Rio" by Michael Nesmith. Help me!!!!

We kick things off tonight as Colin Kaepernick, Jim Harbaugh and the 49ers hope to remind folks why they were the NFC Champions last year...by playing one of the teams who gave them the most trouble last year, the Rams! The 0-3 Giants try and prove they're not dead (yet) against the Alex Smith, Andy Reid and the surprisingly-alive Chiefs...and a battle of undefeated teams on MNF, the Saints and ...Dolphins??? Let's get started, Week 4--PICK 'EM!

Best post goes to Kestas! What might the next warning be?

...without doing anything special other than being in America, being over 21 and paying for the gun? Also if you can, is this regular bussiness? Are there, like, gun shops near airports so all the foreigners coming in can rent/buy guns?
Just trying to understand this part of American gun laws.

We could use another TA or two for the SoW game. If you're interested, post in the SoW thread. Thanks.

i think i am going to vomit. the navy is now allowing mixed caps in its communications. once a bastion of all-caps, the organization was inflicted this year with the plague of mixed caps that has infiltrated society. almost as disgusting as the mixed-caps road signs.

Why is it that the mall shooting in Kenya is getting so much more press than the church massacre in Pakistan?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/10334556/Christians-now-suffering-mass-martyrdom-says-Archbishop-of-Canterbury.html

I really don't understand the logic :) http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=124968#gamePanel.
Why did a fleet west of Texas survive and an army near Florida disband, for the Florida player? Thought it was "closest to home survives"?

while pregnant to make ends meet
http://www.naturalnews.com/042225_mercury_exposure_homosexuality_ibises_bird.html

are you one of those naive people thinking that if your computer is off and not connected to the internet that you cannot be spied upon? http://www.infowars.com/91497/
so... apparently modern intel processors have the ability to (assuming your computer is plugged in, or is a laptop with a battery in it) be turned on remotely, and can be controlled through a secret backdoor 3G capability that you do not have access to.

Italian player of game ID=126551 claim that "The moves done by the site algorithm was not the ones [he] did", write a global message and leaves the game!
I don't know if someone could verify that, but is it possible to put the game in such a mode where a new player could pick up his country ? The game is in Spring 1902 and the situation of Italy is fine. Thx

If you aren't American the particulars of the ACA don't affect you. If you are American you need to educate yourself on the truly scary nature of the law leaving completely aside the political debate. It is the law and it has real consequences for Americans.

But it's OK. Gunboat is not real diplomacy.

http://www.webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=126628

gameID=122756

Since you keep claiming Syria was a victory for Obama, heres a good article about why it wasn't:

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21586565-deal-over-syrias-chemical-weapons-marks-low-those-who-cherish-freedom-weakened-west

What book is ruining our country the most this year? Captain Underpants. Thanks a lot Obama.

http://www.ala.org/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/top10

And so, my email was hacked by the FBI.

gameID=126757
Got a CD in the first year, so we're rebooting. PM me for the password. 36-hour turns, PPSC, cheap entry, Anon, full press.
Mods: couldn't find the 'Advertise non-live games' thread, so I started this one (sorry if I missed it).

mobile.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24292615
What is actually in the current report.

even 5 years after recession policies started, 3 in 10 americans still deny the fact that they were designed to benefit large banks and financial institutions. at the expense of the rest of the country and the economy as a whole

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/09/20/majority-of-americans-say-banks-large-corporations-benefitted-most-from-u-s-economic-policies/

Can anyone make me a cheap website?

This question may have been asked before, but where do you all get your news? Also, which do you all think is the best organization for news?
I've recently been using BBC and Al Jazeera.

http://spark.rstudio.com/jkatz/DialectQuiz/

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/new-rifle-mimics-machine-gun-s-rapid-fire----and-it-s-legal-145153186.html 450 rounds per minute. Explain to me why you want/need that, gun fans. This isn't even a 2nd Amendment challenge on my part, since I lost that fight here LONG ago. :) But...come on...I'm legitimately curious--450 rounds per minute? Are deer/home invaders suddenly taking running lessons from the Flash? WHY? (And why stop there, how about 1,000 rounds minute!)