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I have a friend who stayed in Baghdad during the Allied bombing as a human rights observer. She belonged to the same organization that later had three members kidnapped. If any of you right-wingers want to get really riled up, go check out their website at http://cpt.org - which incidentally was the first website I ever designed.

No, right now the Clear button resets units, OOL, e-mail, territory, and any special abort conditions, AA gun etc…

What it does not touch is the radio buttons. The reason for this is that presumably a player playing eg. LL Classic will not want to change that option every time.

Like this?

FATASS Cheerleaders on German TV

Okay some more changes:

• I think I finally fixed OOLs in IE. Hooray!
• If a  battle is run round-by-round and one side runs out of units, the round # and units are reset to make setup for the next battle easier
• In averaging mode, a new probability graph has been added for net IPC loss differential (Defender losses minus Attacker losses). This provides a better picture of the economic probabilities of a battle.
• Changed the options to use radio buttons. While taking more space than drop-down lists, this has the advantage of showing all the available options at a glance and allowing single-click changes.

You can also bid via http://frood.net/aacalc/bid/, all you need is both e-mail addresses.

What are Stratofortresses? In Axis & Allies I mean.

I think tonez and rjclayton are in the guelph area…

Ooooooh……

Okay. Well, we will still crush you anyway. Har har har (cough spit) har har!!!

Jenn - where are the bombers in our current game? I believe your theory on SBRs is one of the reasons I called you out…

I believe “Elohim” means Lord of Hosts, those being the hosts of heavenly beings.

One thing I learned in studying the Old testament is that the Israelites were not always monotheistic (belief in only one god). Rather, they were like other tribes in the area, believing in multiple deities for harvests, rivers, etc… and also that each tribe had its own gods, who fought each other just as the tribes would fight each other. Winning a war would show that your god was stronger, and expanded your god’s geographic domain.

Eventually, the Israelites started saying that their God was god above all other gods, but the other gods still existed. Finally, this morphed into a belief that Yahweh was the only god that actually existed.

Understanding that gods were seen as belonging to different tribes explains why worshiping a different God was taken so seriously - it was essentially treason.

However, despite believing in only one God, the Israelites had a bunch of minor gods that didn’t really fit with monotheism. So these were re-interpreted as servants, or Angels, to the one true God. Basically, ancient Israelite paganism gradually evolved into monotheism.

@cystic:

Except that there was a book that i once heard about supposedly inspired by God which suggests that there may be a heaven and a hell.  It also makes mention of angels and all of Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and the creator God. 
Also there are many millions of people - yet to be accurately described as psychotic (at least according to the DSM-IV) who would claim to interact positively with God.  They are more than happy (i have found) to communicate this with you.

Yeah, but there are other ancient texts about other Gods etc too. And the people who wrote them had no more first-hand evidence than I do.

Perhaps not indistinguishable. My point is that nothing meaningful can really be known about either, if it is unknowable.

Put another way: Is there a God? I don’t know. Is there an angry unicorn on the dark side of the moon? I don’t know that either. This illustrates both that neither “fact” can be tested, and also that neither fact has much impact on anything else - both are irrelevant possibilities.

If something can’t be tested, that means it does not interact in any consistent, meaningful way with the rest of reality.

The universal constant is something that is hinted at by experimental observations. No observations point toward God’s existence other than wishy-washy ones like “nature is beautiful/complex”. MAYBE it points toward an intelligent creator, though I don’t think so, but it certainly does not support elaborate ideas like the Trinity, Heaven, Hell, angels, souls etc.

The unknowable and the non-existent are indistinguishable.

@tonez:

Wow, that sucked.  I just worked a 16 hour day.
Anyway, froodster inquired on another thread about how he could make his dice server TripleA-friendly.
I’m going to answer in this thread.  Basically, a simple dice server with email capability is all that TripleA wants and needs. 
Here’s a sample request to the old tripleawarclub server that worked great:
/MARTI.php?numdice=5&numsides=6&modroll=No&numroll=1&subject=blah&roller=player1@domain&gm=player2@domain&send=true

The html output that TripleA parses looks like this:

Dice serveryour dice are: 6 3 1 5 6

Nice and simple.
Any variation will do as long as it is generic like this. 
A low-luck option is cool too, as long as it is just a flag.  TripleA doesn’t support Low Luck PBEM yet, but perhaps someday soon.

Try those parameters with a script I’ve just uploaded to http://frood.net/aacalc/triplea/index.php (index.php can be left off) The html output is identical to what you show above except that the head section also includes a title tag around “Dice Server”

Okay - http://frood.net/aacalc/triplea/ can take the same variables as the  old MARTI serve (I think)  - test it out and let me know if anything is missing.

Heh. Yeah, I know what the Bible says on the subject too - I went to Bible College for three years and got a Theology degree. For me, it just doesn’t wash.

I really think the bid is overrated - any individual battle will easily vary by 7 IPCs or more in net outcome for one side or the other, especially if one player has been sloppy in moving/placing units. To really even the game I think the Axis should get a tech or a national advantage or something like that.

Speaking of bids though, I’ll flog this here yet too since no one has commented on it anywhere else that I’ve posted it:

I’ve made a blind bid system on my site, at http://frood.net/aacalc/bid/  - all you need is both sides’ e-mail addresses. No membership or login. No info is saved after the counter bid has been entered. So now you don’t need a DAAK account anymore.

I think it can work, but it’s not a good strategy for one reason: it is highly volatile. You might get lucky and not lose any bombers to AA fire for 4-5 rounds, which is very bad for Germany. Or you might get unlucky and lose more bombers than expected. Strategy that relies on luck is not really strategy, it’s only crossing your fingers before you roll the dice.

For each Bomber that AA shoots down, you lose the same amount in IPCs as if Germany had conducted 4 or 5 successful SBRs against UK or US. And Germany does this without committing any resources. Also, it’s an active unit that is destroyed, which is more valuable than IPCs, which represent units that will only be active in 2 rounds or so. Remember that you have to turn IPCs into units before they do you any good.

All lovely speculation. My question is, how do you know ANY of this?

Blah blah blah. All made up stuff.

I have a theory that questions that no one has conclusively answered in several thousand years (eg. why does God allow suffering) are unanswerable because they are based on false premises.

Suffering is not a false premise, which leaves…

And Re: wheat and chaff - God supposedly made us all and loves us all - why would he want to separate us?