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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
They still have to follow a basic outline set by the central government.
Jaslandia, Percyton
From the sounds of it, that 'basic outline' is fairly loose, if a whole province can be so blatantly undemocratic and the central Federation government (which I assume supports democracy and fair rule) does nothing.
It keeps more people alive this way, the central government doesn't want to wipe most of the Zengshini population out, which is about the only way to change that other than time.
Jaslandia, Percyton
Would it really take a genocide? Why not just a strongly-worded message and a show of force?
Percyton
They're an incredibly traditional group, a ridiculously traditional group.
Jaslandia
I see. And very adamant about keeping those old ways, it seems.
Yup, the only things that can change them are time, or genocide.
Jaslandia
No one wants genocide, so I guess that leaves only one other option. That really sucks.
Percyton
Yup, the western provinces seem like they're worlds apart from the rest of the country.
Jaslandia, Percyton
So, can y'all help me make a decisions?
The lease on my current phone (iPhone 6) just ended in mid July. I've kept it and haven't turned it in yet. But recently it has started to really glitch out, so much so that at times it becomes unusable and I have to shut it off and turn it back on.
Coincidentally, my carrier is offering me a pretty good deal if I turn in my iPhone 6 and upgrade to the 7, with a price of 13.50 a month. But since it's so close to the expected release of the 7s (iPhone releases are traditionally done in September, and it is currently August), I'm not sure if I should keep my 6 and wait and see if my carrier offers me a deal for the 7s, or jump at the 7.
If I wait and hope they give me a deal for the 7s, the offer to upgrade to the 7 would be expired. Plus the obvious fact that the 7s will be much more expensive than the 7, and with me moving into my first apartment in 2 weeks, it would probably be best if I didn't have to pay so much (already stuck with paying 600$ +electricity a month)
I'm honestly just not really sure if the 7s is going to be much better if an upgrade at all compared to the 7, given how it's just an incremental year and not a redesign. If it was a redesign year and the new one was going to be leaps better, I would wait, but since it's just a year where Apple upgrades the internals a little bit it doesn't seem really worth it.
I lean towards taking the offer and upgrading to the 7 now instead of waiting for the 7s, but I want to hear some other opinions.
Jaslandia
Buy a Samsung :p
Jaslandia, Vista Major, United Continental States, Neo-Icelandic Commonwealth
You know what is an interesting concept? Liberal fascism. An authoritarian government that polices behaviour anf thoughts to enforce equality and tolerance. :p
(Disclaimer: this is a joke. I do not support such an ideology. Had to clarify in case any rightist snowflakes get their knickers in a twist.)
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, United Continental States
My favorite wrestler alive right now is from somewhere called Ayr, in Scotland.
Percyton
Or something like that
Jaslandia, Percyton
Ah, Ayr. Part of Scotlands Tory country.
All across the Equestrian Empire, from Stalliongrad to Moscow, the streets are awash with celebrating Russians.
And what is the cause of such a massive celebration? None other than two of the most anticipated moments happening almost simultaneously.
Saturday, August 5th, 2017
{10:30am} Soviet troops have finally conquered Bejing and ended the Equus-Sino War. The victory also stopped the Congo Conflict as well as unified the country.
{11:15am} For the first time in nearly 85 years, the Minsk Raiders have won the Red Classic! The defending Kiev Thunder had just come off a brutal series versus the Stalliongrad Colts and expected an easy win. History had other plans.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Percyton
I have no idea as to what Ayr is.
But I do love mr Drew McIntyre
I would say just go to an Iphone 7, as I wouldn't really expect much from just a year redesign, not to mention I doubt they'll give you as good a deal for the 7s.
When I got my S7, I wasn't all that broken up that I didn't get the S7 Edge. It was just "whatever."
Just my thoughts anyway.
See... True though... First phone was an LG, it was meh. Got a Samsung Note 4 and have been with Samsung since.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Its a region in the south west of Scotland.
Jaslandia
Ah
Jaslandia
Finally finished this
http://i.imgur.com/2shSzZf.png
And this is the world map my country is on
http://i.imgur.com/ZZLQJmC.png
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Moldegaard
Unitary Republicanism (my ideology) is Liberal Fascism
Nuremgard
I agree with Sul- just get a 7
a) You need a working phone sooner rather than later.
b) They're unlikely to give you a discount, and certainly not as good of a discount, for a newly released model. If you're overhead costs for other things right now are already high, you don't want to be paying more for a phone than is necessary. Especially when the difference between the design, as Sul said, won't likely be terribly dramatic.
Jaslandia, Yukona
My first phone was a Nokia 2310. :)
http://www.chip.de/ii/121212869_8ee8fa0bff.jpg
Jaslandia, Yukona, Percyton
Your like Animal Farm the nation :P
Jaslandia, Yukona
I've heard it referenced, but I've still never gotten around to researching what it actually is.
Percyton
[spoiler=Today is August 6 and today are:]
Today is August 6 and today are:
- American Family Day
- Farmworker Appreciation Day
- H.H. Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's Accession Day. (United Arab Emirates)
- Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony (Hiroshima, Japan)
- Independence Day (Bolivia)
- Independence Day (Jamaica)
- International Sailor Moon Day
- National Doll Day (United States)
- National Fresh Breath Day (United States)
- National Friendship Day (United States)
- National Kid's Day (United States)
- National Root Beer Float Day (United States)
- National Sisters Day (United States)
- National Wiggle Your Toes Day (United States)
- Russian Railway Troops Day (Russia)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 135 The Roman Empire lays siege to Betar, effectively ending the Bar Kokhba revolt.
- 1284 The Republic of Pisa is defeated in the Battle of Meloria by the Republic of Genoa, thus losing its naval dominance in the Mediterranean.
- 1506 The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Crimean Khanate in the Battle of Kletsk
- 1538 Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.
- 1661 The Treaty of The Hague is signed by Portugal and the Dutch Republic.
- 1777 American Revolutionary War: The bloody Battle of Oriskany prevents American relief of the Siege of Fort Stanwix.
- 1787 Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1806 Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates, ending the Holy Roman Empire.
- 1819 Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.
- 1824 Battle of Junín Peru.
- 1825 Bolivia gains independence from Spain.
- 1861 The United Kingdom annexes Lagos, Nigeria.
- 1862 American Civil War: The Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering catastrophic engine failure near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
- 1870 Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Spicheren is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory.
- 1870 Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Wörth results in a decisive Prussian victory.
- 1890 At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
- 1901 Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
- 1912 The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.
- 1914 World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic: Two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.
- 1914 World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
- 1915 World War I: Battle of Sari Bair: The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.
- 1917 World War I: Battle of Mărășești between the Romanian and German armies begins.
- 1926 Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
- 1926 In New York City, the Warner Bros.' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
- 1930 Judge Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York and disappears never to be seen again.
- 1940 Estonia was illegally annexed by the Soviet Union.
- 1942 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.
- 1944 The Warsaw Uprising occurs on August 1. It is brutally suppressed and all able-bodied men in Kraków are detained afterwards to prevent a similar uprising, the Kraków Uprising, that was planned but never carried out.
- 1945 World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb "Little Boy" is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning.
- 1956 After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena in New York in the Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena series.
- 1960 Cuban Revolution: Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
- 1962 Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
- 1965 US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.
- 1986 A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimeters (13 inches) of rain in a day on Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
- 1990 Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
- 1991 Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.
- 1991 Takako Doi, chair of the Social Democratic Party, becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives.
- 1996 The Ramones played their farewell concert at The Palace, Los Angeles, CA.
- 1996 NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
- 1997 Korean Air Flight 801 crashed at Nimitz Hill, Guam killing 228 of 254 people on board.
- 2001 Erwadi fire incident, 28 mentally ill persons tied to a chain were burnt to death at a faith based institution at Erwadi, Tamil Nadu.
- 2008 A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.
- 2010 Flash floods across a large part of Jammu and Kashmir, India, damages 71 towns and kills at least 255 people.
- 2011 War in Afghanistan: A United States military helicopter is shot down, killing 30 American special forces members and a working dog, 7 Afghan soldiers, and 1 Afghan civilian. It was the deadliest single event for the United States in the War in Afghanistan.
- 2012 NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.
- 2015 A suicide bomb attack kills at least 15 people at a mosque in the Saudi city of Abha.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1809 Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet
- 1880 Hans Moser, Austrian actor and singer
- 1881 Alexander Fleming, Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1911 Lucille Ball, American actress, television producer and businesswoman
- 1917 Robert Mitchum, American actor
- 1926 Frank Finlay, English actor
- 1928 Andy Warhol, American painter and photographer
- 1937 Charlie Haden, American bassist and composer
- 1942 Evelyn Hamann, German actress
- 1952 Christoph Biemann, German writer, director, producer and television presenter
- 1962 Michelle Yeoh, Malaysian-Hong Kong actress and producer
- 1970 M. Night Shyamalan, Indian-American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1972 Geri Halliwell, English singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
- 1980 Roman Weidenfeller, German footballer
- 1983 Robin van Persie, Dutch footballer
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Quote of the day
When ambition ends, happiness begins.
- Thomas Merton -
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Jaslandia, Andromitus, Percyton, Neo-Icelandic Commonwealth
What kind of valuables does a train have ??
Jaslandia, Percyton
"Quiet Philistine" -Scary Godmother (1993)
"That's Skelly, our skeleton in the closet"
"But, other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?"
Oh my lord this movie.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Pirate Kingdoms
Oh Animal Farm? Its a novel where a farmer, Mr. Jones, a mean and drunken man, exploits his own farm animals until they revolt; The entire experience is very similar, I believe, to the Bolshevik Russian Revolution.
[spoiler=Hehehe]But the three pigs in the bunch format a series of laws to ensure total equality, such as all animals are equal, an animal cannot wear clothes or sleep in a bed, but one of them continuously whittles down at these rules to only one, "All Animals are Equal, but some Animals are more Equal than others."[/spoiler]
Jaslandia, Yukona
Jaslandia
I loved that movie!
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
I'd go with upgrading toward the 7. It'll be cheaper, you get a guaranteed deal, and the 7s probably won't do much more than the 7.
My first phone was a flip phone. Around sophomore year of high school I finally got a smart phone (an LG Leon). I've since upgraded to an LG K20 after my LG Leon started having problems after I came back from Europe.
*Aldaur. And he was.
I remember that movie. Cartoon Network used to play it every year around Halloween. It also has a sequel, but I think the original's better.
Vista Major, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
A few different things. Posters, money, DVDs and Blu-Ray disks, little trinkets and souvenirs we've collected over the years, etc.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Finally, not an anarchy anymore (sorry Andromitus !) but a civil rights lovefest!
Jaslandia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica
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Jaslandia
Hi folks, just back from a wee holiday, how we all doing?
Jaslandia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica
Hey Lex! I'm doing good. How are you?
Penguania And Antarctica
Well hey there my friend, long time no see :D
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia
Traitor
Penguania And Antarctica, Moldegaard
http://thecoffincofn.boards.net/thread/33/dlbn-dubh-linn-broadcasting-network?page=1&scrollTo=272
New broadcast up!
Magnatronia
My mind has grown weak away from the Chancellor's seat
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Perhaps not the best way to tell you, but I reminded of it now that you mentioned that you were Chancellor President once. Please delete me from the Union Party.
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
I like it's message: communism isn't even good enough for animals.
The Empire Of Handland, Peoples Liberation Republic, Penguania And Antarctica, Cesorion, South Hyder
Communism isn't even good enough for communists...
The Empire Of Handland, Peoples Liberation Republic, Penguania And Antarctica, Magnatronia, Cesorion
Better dead than Red.
The Empire Of Handland, Peoples Liberation Republic, Penguania And Antarctica, Cesorion, South Hyder
Best comments 2017
Peoples Liberation Republic, Penguania And Antarctica, Magnatronia, Cesorion, South Hyder
I actually read Animal Farm as well as read about the people who are starving in Venezuela and the millions that died of starvation, curable diseases, or legitimate oppression in China, the USSR, Vietnam, and Cuba.
Some will say the sickness that consumed and in some cases still consumes those countries isn't communism, but what else could it be?
Nothing else is such an efficient killer of innovation, freedom, and human life.
The Empire Of Handland, Magnatronia
English farm equivalent of the Soviet Union from foundation to Stalin (shortest way of summarizing it) :p
^This boyo knows what's up
L I B E R T Y P R I M E I S O N L I N E
D E M O C R A C Y I S N O N - N E G O T I A B L E
B E T T E R D E A D T H A N R E D
Jaslandia, The Empire Of Handland, Yukona, Magnatronia, Cesorion
The resident scum were out and about tonight in and around my apartment block. Can kinda' see why Americans want guns to protect themselves.
Then again if guns were widely available, the scum in my block would get their hands on them. *shudder*
Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
Glad to hear it, I'm doing great. Looking forward to having a nice tan for approximately a week and then go back to being white as a ghost.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Now that's one reason I'd avoid Glasgow
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
Youths!
*shakes fist*
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
Glasgow has a bad rep but it's just like any other city. Has nice areas and has bad areas. My area has gotten a lot better over the years but the flats I moved to does have a lot of degenerates (junkies.) The foreign folk who live there are great. Keep themselves to themselves and don't bother you. It's all the white scum who bother you.
Penguania And Antarctica
Youths? Mutants more like!
Penguania And Antarctica
Well also don't forget me being English n' all
Yeah some politicians here in Belgium want to make gun ownership easy and a right, reasoning self-protection. It's extremely stupid because more guns equals more death by bullet. It's as simple as that. And the crime rates aren't even high here so it seems even more unnecessary.
Nuremgard
Och, away and chase yersel. Most Scots don't give a monkeys if you're English or not. Most have English family, friends and spouses. I myself have got a wee thing for Englishmen and always find it a pleasure to hear a nice, smooth accent from down south. A minority of wankers may not like the English just as a minority of wankers in England don't like the Scots.
Depends on the country's culture. Canada is just as gun-mad as America but they don't go about killing each other on the scale Americans do.
Jaslandia
And here we see a right wing circle jerk^^^
Axeldonia, Andromitus, United Continental States
Eh, I've heard bad things about experiences in Glasgow, I've also heard from my dad - who works around Rosyth - that if the Scottish workers hear you're English they can become quite queer with you.
I have also heard experiences from Scots who visit/live in England. People mocking their accents, calling them Jocks, calling them scroungers. Also heard experiences in certain industries up here (like in oil) of English bosses treating their Scottish underlings with contempt.
Percyton
Yes, more common than a left wing circle jerk as people in the right wing typically haven't starved to death, but hey, that's just my observation.
The Empire Of Handland, Magnatronia
I don't doubt it.
Yeap.... Couldn't agree more...
Magnatronia
Humans are arseholes. That's just how it is.
I'm surprised, because being the right wing man you are, I'm surprised you haven't been killed in some war for Lockheed Martin and Boeing yet. But hey, just an observation.
Axeldonia
If tomorrow every human on earth became unable to lie, would the world become a better place?
United Continental States
You can tell it's how it is because that's the way it is, neat, right?
Noooope
Jaslandia
Well Scotland can't be that anti-English. Half a million English residents live here. Either tales of anti-Englishness are exaggerated or the English who live here are obviously masochists if it's as bad as some people like to believe.
It's a reference man, chill it my home stove pot
Care to explain further?
Do any countries which have a monarchy want the Ludanian Queen to be from there? She's from a fictional country at the moment.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Percyton, United Continental States
You don't post often and this isn't really the response you want - but I think your country is really cool, your flag, banner and Welsh take on the UK is quite unique - I always admire it from afar :^)
Ludania, Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
If people suddenly are no longer to say a lie, you have to imagine how many dirty secrets and white lies meant to protect people will come to the light.
I can imagine a spike in suicides and homicides if lying suddenly became a thing of the past.
Jaslandia
I am chill. I was merely commenting.
Is your Dowager Queen still Norsk?
Ludania, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Percyton
Thank you! That's really nice to hear :)
I haven't been posting much lately because I've been working until late this summer.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Percyton
I can see that happening. But what about in the long run?
Christ, man, I don't literally mean you're raging at your keyboard - it's just a way to pleasantly and informally diffuse the situation before it becomes like this and like the countless times before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwDMFOLIHxU
Ludania
She is! She's sunning herself on the royal yacht in Cyprus at the moment.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
It's an inability to lie, not an inability to hide the truth. People still need to ask the right questions, and you can still choose not to answer.
Ya know, a comment like this seems more upset and energetic than Nurem saying he was just commenting.
Nuremgard
Woah, calm down, Yuk. Calm down. Have a whisky.
The medical innovation that is a direct result of modern capitalism would ensure that I survive any Lockheed Martin induced war blunders, although I doubt there will be any. (Wars cost too much for serious capitalists to bother with them.)
I am chill, I was just merely commenting :^)
Nuremgard
It's just gone wrong hasn't it, we just can't have nice things, you and I
Nice "work" being a royal! :P Wish it was me!
Ludania, Jaslandia
I love you, Yuk. You may be a unionist Sassenach but it's okay. We all have our flaws. I still love you. ;)
Jaslandia, Yukona
I think Jim Carrey basically debunked that idea.
https://youtu.be/dAE7uOO_4v4
https://youtu.be/Dx32b5igLwA
https://youtu.be/lbOtyWTRZ_g
Percyton
(It's not a result of the markets you've got such a hilarious hard on for, and I think we've talked about that before)
Axeldonia
Dirty Unionists, gimme a unified Ireland already!
Nuremgard, Axeldonia, United Continental States
Yo Yuk, any progress on the flags? :)
shakes with rage because really the situation is way more complicated than a black and white situation where one can - voice trails off into the distance
Nuremgard, Friedensreich
I went to a cricket match today, I'm a busy man but ironically I have two weeks off now to do nothing - so I'll easily be able to get them done this week if you bare with me.
Northern Ireland's Facebook relationship status: It's Complicated.
Kalaron, Yukona
Sure no prob
Yukona
Yes! Bare yourself to the world with the Unionist :P
Yukona
Of course it is, if you don't believe me, perhaps you'll believe William J. Baumol in his book, The Free-market Innovation Machine: Analyzing the Growth Miracle of Capitalism. (Great read!)
[spoiler=Online Edition]https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=mYW5B4vnuUUC&oi=fnd&pg=PR3&dq=capitalism+and+innovation&ots=tOagFa2Nke&sig=r63Tky0NHg_xAoGguUV2W0fSWwE#v=onepage&q&f=false[/spoiler]
https://youtu.be/UJWQdZW6iHY?t=8
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