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Global War on Terror Version 6 - Perpetual Motion Machine

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dxmnkd316 said:
Interesting you pick a game of attrition as opposed to a game like go. A game considered far more complex than chess.
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I prefer my President's to be well verse in Magic The Gathering. I'm not gonna vote for somebody who just sits around waiting to combo off!

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dxmnkd316 said:
Interesting you pick a game of attrition as opposed to a game like go. A game considered far more complex than chess.
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I'm fine with alternate qualifications. The main point was that we need leaders who can think strategically and long-term.

I would actually choose backgammon ahead of both chess and go, since backgammon requires both a good strategic aptitude as well as a keen assessment of probabilities. Life has lots of random events, just like each throw of the dice is random; yet a good strategy leads to patterned responses to said randomness that are likely to be effective in the long run in the majority of situations.



OTOH, Chess does seem to have a far wider following, I haven't heard anything in the news about the world go championships lately. ;)
 
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FreshFish said:
IOTOH, Chess does seem to have a far wider following, I haven't heard anything in the news about the world go championships lately. ;)
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I've never heard of a game called "go."
 
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I've only played it a few times and it was against a person who has played it many times.

I'm not certain but it wouldn't surprise me if I flipped the table over and swore off that ****ed game.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
I flipped the table over and swore off that ****ed game.
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I often feel that way about checkers. Someone once told me that if both players were good enough, checkers is just a more complicated version of tic-tac-toe, in that it is only possible to win if the other player makes a mistake. I have no idea whether that is true or not.

I am reminded of War Games, if I am not mistaken one of Matthew Broderick's first movies, after the computer had simulated every possible version of Thermo Nuclear War: "The only way to win is not to play."



Edit: IMDB lists it as the second movie role in his career.
 
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FreshFish said:
I often feel that way about checkers. Someone once told me that if both players were good enough, checkers is just a more complicated version of tic-tac-toe, in that it is only possible to win if the other player makes a mistake. I have no idea whether that is true or not.
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It is. If played perfectly, I think the player who goes first would always win. I remember reading it a number of years ago when some guy broke the record for most games of checkers played at once.
 
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Looks like ISIS/L killed another prisoner - and possibly included an undercard.
@BBCBreaking: Islamic State video purporting to show killing of Peter Kassig also claims to show killing of several Syrian soldiers http://bbc.in/1yJcPOJ
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FreshFish said:
I often feel that way about checkers. Someone once told me that if both players were good enough, checkers is just a more complicated version of tic-tac-toe, in that it is only possible to win if the other player makes a mistake. I have no idea whether that is true or not.

I am reminded of War Games, if I am not mistaken one of Matthew Broderick's first movies, after the computer had simulated every possible version of Thermo Nuclear War: "The only way to win is not to play."



Edit: IMDB lists it as the second movie role in his career.
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His first starring role was the under appreciated Max Duggan Returns. He plays a high school baseball player who can't hit squat. So his grandfather, Max Duggan, hires Charlie Lau of the White Sox to coach him up. Charlie introduces himself to the kid and Broaderick says: "What White Sox?"

This may be my favorite line from WarGames: "Remember you told me to tell you when you were acting rudely and insensitively? Remember that? You're doing it right now."
 
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One day God is going to get upset about what is going on in Jerusalem. I don't want to be there when He goes Old Testament on the transgressors.
 
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joecct said:
One day God is going to get upset about what is going on in Jerusalem. I don't want to be there when He goes Old Testament on the transgressors.
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Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius.
 
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joecct said:
One day God is going to get upset about what is going on in Jerusalem. I don't want to be there when He goes Old Testament on the transgressors.
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I thought Wrath God 1.0 was retired by Love God 2.0 when Man God 1.1's body was robbed from its grave.
 
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St. Clown said:
I thought Wrath God 1.0 was retired by Love God 2.0 when Man God 1.1's body was robbed from its grave.
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Limited Liability God 3.0 brought back wrath with the Just War doctrine. Because churches aren't going to get immunity from state taxation without a little sumthin' sumthin' in return.
 
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/19/us/nsa-phone-records.html?_r=0

Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, worked hard to defeat the bill, which had the support of the Obama administration and a coalition of technology companies including Apple, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo....
In 2006, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court secretly brought the program under its authority and started issuing orders to the companies under the Patriot Act....
Some of its opponents, like Senator Saxby Chambliss, Republican of Georgia, believe it went too far in curbing the N.S.A. Others, like Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, thought it did not go far enough.
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I'm sure it didn't go far enough if Obama supported it, however I have never understood why people consider that a reason to vote against a measure. Half a loaf and all that. It's like saying "I know you're choking to death, and I could give you the Heimlich while we wait for a real doctor to show up, but since that's not a perfect solution I'll just stand here." Thanks, Aqua Buddha.

It's nice to see the GOP doing something so purely evil, though. It helps reduce cognitive dissonance.
 
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