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Apr 2nd 2012, 22:19:50

Originally posted by hanlong:

Originally posted by Mapleson:

Canada didn't exist as a nation until 1867, so our involvement in the War of 1812 is synonymous with the British.

i thought canada still doesn't exist as a nation

they still have the queen of england on their currency!

*ducks and covers*

Tell that too Australia, Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Fiji, Jamaica, New Zealand, Saint Helena, Seychelles, Solomon Islands, and Trinidad and Tobago. Hmmm, so many islands...

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Apr 2nd 2012, 22:06:57

I suggest setting up a Remote Desktop at home, then connecting at work through that. They filter the internet, but not very often do they restrict terminal services.

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Apr 2nd 2012, 22:06:25

>.<

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Apr 2nd 2012, 19:09:45

Unless your trying to help an alliance mate, why would you want to help anyone else out?

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Apr 2nd 2012, 18:57:43

Canada didn't exist as a nation until 1867, so our involvement in the War of 1812 is synonymous with the British.

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Apr 2nd 2012, 18:51:55

Why would demos buy food at $36 to resell at $36?

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Apr 2nd 2012, 18:27:15

Let's see, he has 3,447a from you. You've had 10 DH, Nuked 2,648a, and destoyed 724 buildings, and 15.2k military units. Doesn't seem very off putting.

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Apr 2nd 2012, 18:20:45

Originally posted by Forgotten:

the only important US history is that we burned down the white house the last time the Americans tried to invade Canada

It was called the Presidential Mansion before we burnt it.

This thread has been revived as Canada vs USA instead of EVO vs LaF.

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Apr 2nd 2012, 16:19:44

My bad. I checked the others such as For the Bowyer (#723) (400k Rage country last played Feb 26/12).

BTW, wouldn't a better restart name be 'Speaker for the Dead'?

Ender Wiggin (#4) is the last original Rage country over $1m NW. If/when he is killed, all that's left is MD countries propping up the tag and killing the same Neofed restarts (8 Countries under $20m NW).

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Apr 1st 2012, 18:09:31

Was 1 or 10 important on that scale?

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Mar 30th 2012, 21:18:45

I looked at the news for #1210, and FBI started it by grabbing him then hitting 3x over the retal. Of course he's going to be pissed off and do spy ops because they were unprovoked attacks.

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Mar 30th 2012, 21:05:04

Massachusetts is the best state for Canadians to play the lotto in. There is a 25-30% federal tax on foreign lottery winnings, but most other states have an extra 5-12% tax tacked on. In this case, you'd get $480m paid out over 26 years or $240m lump sum.

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Mar 30th 2012, 21:00:36

The moral of the story, disarm missiles after farming. Missile retals aren't going to change the way some people have played the game for over a decade.

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Mar 30th 2012, 20:47:46

FBI needs to learn what other alliances will accept as retals or not. Hitting a third country just because they are smaller than the original attacker is not kosher.

The easy way to learn is to get someone to teach you before you make the mistakes.

The hard way is to do what you want and pay the consequences, but don't expect AT to sympathize when you come whining.

Changing your nick or your clan's tag isn't going to change that message.

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Mar 30th 2012, 20:34:38

On the penny front, expect more take-a-penny-leave-a-penny dishes. It's been too long that making a penny cost more than a penny.

On the employment front, I’d just like to submit the antidote that I’m in the construction industry and there is a large portion of semi-retired individuals, who finished one public-sector job, collecting their pension, and working 3-4 days a week.

Also, we are seeing increased requirements for experienced project leaders (20+ years), so the skew above 50 isn’t going to reverse soon. Education and health are also areas where increased experience is more important than cost-reducing measures.

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Mar 23rd 2012, 22:17:21

The world's ocean volume is approximately 1.3 billion cubic kilometres. Our annual CO2 production is approximately 29.9 billion tonnes. Approximately a third of the global CO2 emissions are absorbed by the oceans (it was 32-33% for most of the century, now it's around 29%). So 6.7g of CO2 per cubic metre water and falling.

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Mar 23rd 2012, 20:57:23

Originally posted by XiQter MD:

Hardy speaks the truth, you forgot to mention that the oceans are the biggest CO2 deposits and with increased global temperatures CO2 emissions from water will increase thus catalyzing the effect further. If we get really lucky the permafrost in the tundras ends releasing methane :)

We are already seeing Ocean acidification increase due to CO2 absorption, which decreases the further amount it can store.

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Mar 22nd 2012, 19:33:48

Crazy going slowly am I

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Mar 22nd 2012, 19:21:45

Canada is cooler than the US and that's a fact. Except maybe Alaska which is pretty cool itself.

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Mar 22nd 2012, 18:12:13

You can create a false dichotomy of AT posters around any alliance: people that love iMag and people that don't; people that hit SAMCRO and people that don't. There is a middle ground, the silent majority that doesn't give a damn about either side.

Also, the EVO/LaF 'grudge' more from the last year instead of the nine previous.

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Mar 22nd 2012, 17:22:35

http://earthgraphs.com/...b=Rage&warreport=Show - Neo vs only Rage

happy?

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Mar 22nd 2012, 16:35:46

So which Muppet are you fazer? Are there any actual players from the former FBI playing with y'all?

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Mar 22nd 2012, 16:32:29

Originally posted by Y-NoT:

Neofed unfortunately you've hit an FDP with a 46%numbers advantage and 82% TNW advantage. MD will not stand for it.

Not to be pedantic, but Neofed had an 83.3% member advantage (22/12 rather than 1 – 12/22), and I suspect the relative networths are also skewed.

One question: Will MD only be attacking from the Rage tag? If not, why tag over and inflate Rage’s war stats?

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Mar 22nd 2012, 16:27:52

http://earthgraphs.com/...2CRage&warreport=Show

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Mar 21st 2012, 20:22:51

We've had weather records for the last 100+ years. Why do you need space travel to measure ground temperatures?

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Mar 21st 2012, 18:41:57

An interesting video put together by NASA.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuY7GnmabfA

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Mar 21st 2012, 16:39:45

Why does every American political debate need to descend into attacks along party lines? Just because someone else has a different idea of how America should be, doesn't make it wrong, just because it came from the other side of the fence.

In Canada, contraceptives are covered under provincial health care. As a result, the spread of HPV, among other health benefits, is down, even among males. For an unbiased list of other benefits, check out http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/std-mts/faq-eng.php

It's not about morality, it's about preventative health care. Stop cancer et al, before they form and the burden of health care costs to the nation will decline. It's a clear example of getting more while paying less over the span of a lifetime.

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Mar 17th 2012, 2:12:52

To reduce abuse of team-on-team declare war, you/they could build in some parameters. I don't like the no hit team A/B rule as you could abuse this for full tag protection of a ten-man clan.

1) Start everyone in GDI, like Express.
2) A country/team may only be declared on by 1 team.
3) While at war, you may only attack the country/team you are at war with.
4) You can only declare war on a team 50%-200% your team NW.
5) If the NW of team B falls below 10% of team A, war ends in A victory.

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Mar 17th 2012, 1:37:30

Just drop the J and join iMag as iMan.

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Mar 16th 2012, 22:07:54

I would also like major dimensions, bust-waist-hips.

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Mar 16th 2012, 21:57:05

I demand photographic evidence of the claimed seksiness!

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Mar 16th 2012, 21:31:38

I thought you quit, jesst? Or was it just Muppets that you gave up on?

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Mar 16th 2012, 21:22:39

Originally posted by Nitro:

So how does Evo running landfarms relate to LaF's alert status?

The thread took a left turn when KJ posted about "Go ask on the LaF site who sent this message and to whom" and has been hi-jacked ever since. Only Watcher seems to be upset about #485.

However, KJ posted a message that all parties involved deny sharing it with anyone else. So one or more of the three (KJ, Pang, Hanlong) are lying. It would be worth while for Pang or someone to run a search on Boxcar insite messages to see if the text exists anywhere else. If not, there has been no creditable disclosure of where the information came from and the only viable suggestion put forth is the highly inflammatory remark of mod abuse (assumedly by qz or another 'evo-friendly' developer).

If KJ has a creditable source for the information, is he willing to disclose the name/contact info to a third party to keep confidential, but verified as a "normal" leak?

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Mar 16th 2012, 17:25:16

It does similar when you do multiple SS/PS. It defaults to the bottom of the dropdown box, not the last selected.

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Mar 16th 2012, 1:04:05

So who sets policy in evo?

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Mar 15th 2012, 22:51:40

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

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Mar 15th 2012, 22:46:05

I thought it was hugs per week. Up from 25 to 26. :P

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Mar 15th 2012, 17:35:35

Here are a few instances from a quick look of EVO leaders dismissing landtrading as inferior to bottomfeeding.

Originally posted by anoniem:

I think landtrading is a good way of recreating the land lost due to suiciders/kamikaze members etc, other than that i wouldn't really participate., not because it's wrong, but because i dont want to play the game that way.

Originally posted by anoniem:

actually evo's pact wouldn't allow for back and forth trading, as a country may only be grabbed once every 48hrs. personally, i prefer it that way, as it don't "abuse" the system.

personally, i think it'll become a sad state of affairs if everyone adopts landtrading (i.e. the blindly back and forth grabbing over extremely short periods of time), because there will be no competitive element and the whole server will be running on 100k turrets lol :P

ah well, we all have our opinions! even if some are closer than others.

Originally posted by BattleKJ:

Ghost acre returns should be nerfed just because of RD and PDM. When a fluff alliance is 10k acres ahead of a very good netgaining alliance in average land, theres something wrong. Very wrong.

There is some difference between farming a 10m NW country (482) and farming a 1m NW country (485). In one case the player kept defense and was not detagged, in the other case he dropped all defense and was detagged. I'm sure there are other cases of players dropping out, but I was just commenting on the content here (482). As I said before, I'm ok with the general concept, so I'm not sure why you are singling me out, anoniem.

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Mar 15th 2012, 16:57:42

Duck Hunt!

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Mar 15th 2012, 16:56:40

To be fair, PDM's restart rate is approximately the same as LCN's and SOL's rate and higher than Imag (both MD and LaF have higher).

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Mar 15th 2012, 16:50:08

Originally posted by Tertius:

Mapleson, that explore right before evo hit him was for 6 acres (assuming he got 20 acre login bonus).

Mar 12/12 2:35:45 PM he went from 6813a to 7682a (gain 869, 20 bonus acres, exploring 61 turns @ 14a) then gained an extra 26a at 2:54:41 PM. On Mar 13/12 3:19:39 PM he explored 128 turns @ 23a.

Originally posted by Tertius:

I'm not sure what the big deal is. People go inactive sometimes; they can't finish the set, they detag and explore when they can. I would hardly say this is giving Evo some big advantage considering how small the gains are this late in the set. As usual though, haters gonna hate.

I said I didn't find anything wrong with the practice, but I do oppose hypocrisy in validating one netting strategy over another. The amount of land taken by EVO from this one country in 48 hours is 5931a. Of that #612 grabbed just under 2k, 6.25% of his current land.

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Mar 15th 2012, 15:54:15

It's hard to compete without feeling like you have been disadvantaged at some point. This is espically true when both sides have a different view of history and the terms of pacts involved.

EVO tried setting LaF up with a pact that was breakable by an allies offensive action. LaF thought those terms began last reset, when EVO was goading Rival into a war (personal insults, etc). LaF think they supported an ally to the letter of the pact, while EVO says that pact didn't start until this reset.

The reset before that, different LaF leadership attacked EVO. Again the two sides cannot agree what was agreed upon.

So until they start having their pacts reviewed by a third party or ever AT, there is little basis for civil relations. It's just like a bitter divorce, he said-she said.

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Mar 15th 2012, 15:44:11

Originally posted by Requiem:

Ahh brink good point I did not know that or look at it I was just posting my opinion as I saw it. I think sometimes we are fast to jump on board and accuse them of something that may not be the case.

If you check the news, he explored 20 minutes before being untagged and 25 minutes before EVO started farming, and then explored again 25 hours later.

There is very little difference between this and land trading, except the benefit of this is all one directional. That said, I'm not against either practice, but it's a bit hypocritical for those that landtrading has no/low risk.

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Mar 15th 2012, 14:43:01

KJ, it's all well and good to say it's a land farm for "everyone", but when only EVO knows it won't retal and only EVO have farmed him, so it's not very genuine to say it's for "everyone" as all anyone else can get is deep DR.

He explored 4 days in February then on March 9, 12, and 13.

I'm not against the idea of some people running a country just to be hit, but at least be upfront about it.

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Mar 14th 2012, 21:00:08

Hey Doc!

Come out of retirement for the 75th or just don't bother with the weekly bonus?

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Mar 14th 2012, 20:57:48

Legend and Armageddon merged in January 2001 to form Legacy. IX broke three pacts that reset with Legacy and FS 72 hours after countries were paid as reps. Legacy broke up due to internal pressures.

I'm from the second half of that merger and many other Armageddon players are still around.

For Legend leaders still playing, try RD.

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Mar 10th 2012, 18:48:55

Originally posted by ducko:

We have a country that can fight back... we won't be taken by surprise like the Holocaust. And we will not be exterminated.

You must not be a very good Jew if you think the Holocaust sprung out of no where, Jews had at least a decade of warning with the rise of the Nuremberg Laws.

Originally posted by ducko:

The region has been in conflict for thousands of years, before it was even Israel. There have been Jews, Christians, Muslims living in that small country for thousands of years and it will always be like this.

Hopefully at some point in the future all the god-deluded will come to sense and stop kill each other over the proper way to worship the figment of their imagination.

Originally posted by ducko:

But i assure everyone, It will always be a Jewish State. No country in this world will be able to change that. You can all speculate and you can all talk hypothetical wars and scenarios...but nothing will ever change.

Pakistan is a country on this world that could turn Israel from a Jewish State into a barren wasteland, and Iran is trying to be. Chernobyl happened over 25 years ago and wasn't intended to prevent human habitation, yet it still delivers a fatal dose of radiation in a few hours.

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Mar 10th 2012, 18:28:13

Good job spawn. You can attack an members of an alliance that never touched your tag. What do you think that will earn you? Respect in the community? Or more of fluff on you and your members? You ententionally fluff over people netgaining that never attacked SAMCRO and then come to AT to complain?

I guess we made a mistake in not farming you early and often to keep you down rather than letting you grow mostly unmolested (one member did hit you).

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Mar 10th 2012, 18:23:24

Jiman, I'll love you to death, but dropping a FDP to no pact is not the path down the road to peace. LaF has been trying to rationalize that and the best reason that has been presented is that it was Arsenal's desire. If you or MD would like to present a different interpretation of events, I would love to hear them.