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He looks like somebody stretched out Peter Lorre's face over a too large skull.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 6:42 AM
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Wingnut welfare has always been with us.


Posted by: AcademicLurker | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 6:50 AM
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Whenever I read or hear about someone like this I always find myself wondering what the hell put the bug up their ass about Jews in particular.


Posted by: togolosh | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 7:04 AM
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The Russians. I'm not even joking.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 7:05 AM
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You kind of have to wonder a bit about the kind of mind that comes up with something like the Protocols. Some dickweed actually sat down and banged that bullshit out one word at time. WTF, dude?


Posted by: togolosh | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 7:15 AM
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Spreading horrible lies to advance a dubious political cause has been a job description in Russia for a very long time.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 7:21 AM
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You kind of have to wonder a bit about the kind of mind that comes up with something like the Protocols.

Unberto Eco took an amusing stab at answering that question.


Posted by: AcademicLurker | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 7:26 AM
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This guy apparently wrote a book called Jews are looking at you. Did the title alone cause good Aryans to have chills?


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 7:43 AM
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A good Aryan is afraid of and smugly superior to all other races and creeds.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 8:22 AM
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What does that even mean? Like, Rosemary's Baby-style creepy neighbors? Or skirt tucked in your underwear walking down the street looking?


Posted by: Buttercup | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 8:41 AM
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8: Intriguing mysterious titles are part of the recipe for bestsellers!


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 8:55 AM
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The Jews Have Eyes.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 8:58 AM
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Jews looking at you, kid.


Posted by: Eggplant | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 9:01 AM
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12: Indeed, they hath.


Posted by: no shit shylock | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 9:04 AM
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I think a better, more scarier title would be, Jews are looking at you with their laser eyes


Posted by: Buttercup | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 9:07 AM
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4 It was the Italians. Shifting the blame for killing God.

Is it National Brotherhood Week yet?


Posted by: CharleyCarp | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 9:10 AM
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16.1 reminds me of my favorite Sarah Silverman joke.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 9:17 AM
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I Found a Jew in my Refrigerator But I Only Saw Him for a Brief Moment Before He Scampered Off.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 9:17 AM
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18: Was it Fievel Mousekewitz?


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 9:25 AM
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Now I'm picturing a young German in 1925 who wants to study poetry at university and being told by his father "Your not going to waste your education like that! I'll only support you at university if you study a practical skill, like demagoguing the Jews."


Posted by: AcademicLurker | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 9:40 AM
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12 - 14 are hilarious.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 9:44 AM
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Bazza: http://gcaptain.com/maersk-says-its-no-longer-able-to-ship-qatar-bound-cargo/?utm_campaign=twitter&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitter

Sure it's not time for a brief holiday in fabulous London, only six hours away by a large airline that's not party to any dispute?


Posted by: Alex | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 9:54 AM
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"The Mohel Gaze"


Posted by: Todd | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 9:59 AM
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18: I'm just a Jew, a lonely Jew, at crisper.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 10:12 AM
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22 And Iran has stepped in with an invitation to use its deep water ports for shipping food to Qatar.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 10:17 AM
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22 I should be in NYC in less than 3 weeks but good point.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 10:18 AM
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14.pseud could be a trivia team name, if appropriately Chosen.


Posted by: dalriata | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 10:34 AM
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"The ban has meant that any ship sailing to and from Qatar will be prevented from calling at major ports in the UAE and Saudi Arabia, which include Jebel Ali, as well as Bahrain."
How does that work? Any ship that has ever or will ever stop in Qatar? Or can they be cleansed of their sin by stopping at a third party port?
Anyway if we were speculating about Trump being able to play 12-dimensional chess, I'd guess he's doing this to disrupt oil and gas markets so that coal becomes more attractive, but really it's just about that gold necklace the Saudis gave him.


Posted by: SP | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 10:37 AM
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They probably have the same rule with ships that go to or from Israel. Or maybe that's just people who have to hide stamps from Israel in their passports.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 11:04 AM
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if we were speculating about Trump being able to play 12-dimensional chess

He plays one-dimensional tic-tac-toe, and still fucks it up.


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 11:08 AM
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One dimensional tic tac toe is amusing me. it feels like stoned undergraduate math majors would invent it.


Posted by: Heebie | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 11:14 AM
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28 Qatar supposedly doesn't have a deep water port, not deep enough for modern container shipping - there was the old one at Mesaieed built in the late 40s early 50s for oil tankers, and then there is the new Hamad port which is supposed to be deepwater and was opened last year, so I'm not really sure.

What it does mean is that most cargo destined for Qatar offloads first at one of the ports in either Abu Dhabi or Dubai for transhipment to Qatar.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 11:16 AM
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I'm sort of amazed I've never seen it played before, it seems like a very natural game in the genre of silly math games like color or country.

Obviously with only three squares it's a very stupid game, but on a long line the second player has to think a moment or they might easily lose. (That is, the second player's drawing strategy is straightforward, but anything other than that strategy loses fast.)


Posted by: Unfoggetarian: "Pause endlessly, then go in" (9) | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 11:20 AM
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"Have you ever wondered if you have a container terminal or if your container terminal has you?"


Posted by: Opinionated Deep Water Port | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 11:21 AM
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32: Why are they building stupid little islands instead of digging out a real port? Or was somebody else building the stupid little islands?


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 11:24 AM
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33: Hrm, the indefinite-draw-but-easy-to-screw-up state holds for higher dimensional infinite boards, too, right?

So: play on a long line, but with the rule that the long line is a linearization of the plane (via a spiral, or fractal Z curve, whatever). Also, player 1 has to do half a shot before each move. That should be sufficiently disorienting all around.


Posted by: dalriata | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 11:27 AM
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Dubai built stupid little islands and a real port. One right next to the other. You dredge the port and build the islands. It's so very Dubai.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 11:27 AM
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35: That was the UAE.

Maybe player 2 should have to do some smaller fraction of a shot, too. Needs playtesting.


Posted by: dalriata | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 11:27 AM
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Which one built the underwater base for the 1%?


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 11:29 AM
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That was the Objectivists.


Posted by: dalriata | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 11:32 AM
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39: Maybe we need Bob back to help us understand the impact of the crisis on Obama's kid's future plans to reside in underwater luxury while we all die.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 12:36 PM
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Looking that up again and had forgotten about that thread getting around to Bongwater's Folk Song which is of course relevant always.

maybe you'd like to get politically active so you disrupt a Presidential press conference by shoving a 5 pound week old stalk of broccoli between those thin lying lizard lips


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 12:55 PM
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There's a variant called ultimate tic-tac-toe that's a lot of fun.


Posted by: lw | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 12:55 PM
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Alright, the game is one dimensional tic-tac-toe. I'll take the first challenger, but I get to play X:

|___|___|___|___|___|___|_X_|___|___|


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 1:05 PM
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One dimensional tic-tac-toe is passe. The cool kids are playing zero dimensional tic-tac-toe.


Posted by: AcademicLurker | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 1:09 PM
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Four dimensional tic-tac-toe would be interesting. X's and O's would last only for a certain number of moves before they expire and the space becomes clear again. But how many moves?


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 1:12 PM
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The answer is probably seven.


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 1:15 PM
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42: And what is Ann Magnuson up to these days? Not really sure but she just got inducted into the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame with a pretty eclectic class. Also inducted:

Hasil Adkins: "Primitive" rockabilly singer who was an inspiration for The Cramps. "I didn't try to be primitive, I just had bad microphones. No More Hot Dogs.
On April 15, 2005, Adkins was deliberately run over in his front yard by a teenager on an ATV.Ten days later, on April 26, Adkins was found dead in his home, two days before his 68th birthday.

Frank Hutchison: Slide guitarist.

The Morris Brothers: Old-timey music festivals. "Sorry no Country and western, Bluegrass, or Electric Inst on program."

Fred "Sonic" Smith: MC5 and married to Patti Smith.

Michael W. Smith: Contemporary Christian.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 1:30 PM
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47: Plus or minus 2.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 1:30 PM
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Every breath you take
Every move you make
Every bond you break
Every step you take
I'll be watching you

Every single day
Every word you say
Every game you play
Every night you stay
I'll be watching you


Posted by: Opinionated Jews | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 1:59 PM
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I had to puzzle for a minute about whether you were all talking about tic-tac-toe on a line that's long or on the long line.


Posted by: essear | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 2:10 PM
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Apparently I fail at typing links on an iPad.


Posted by: essear | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 2:11 PM
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The "long line" in the sense of the set of all countable ordinals?


Posted by: Walt Someguy | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 2:28 PM
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So, -6 to 17.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 2:33 PM
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1. I got in a conversation with a guy in the library who was clearly a little mentally ill - delusions of single-handedly saving the US by a project he was in the middle of, which would get millions of people on board and then show up in DC and they'd have to go along with the plan.

The funny thing is, he was completely lucid and correct about the problems of politics and society, so it was a genuinely pleasant conversation. His solution was to pass a constitutional amendment where everyone voted on issues instead of politicians. The details about how to get from here to there were where the mental illness became apparent.

He claims to have written many books under the pseud "Will of the People" which is an incredibly un-track-down-able pseud.

He was a nice guy who did not seem homeless, and I wish him the best.

THEN we saw a big snake, walking from the library to the public pool. He crossed our path immediately in front of us. He was very thick and maybe six feet long. WATER MOCCASIN. Jammies says ratsnake.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 2:58 PM
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Oh look, Russia might be behind the whole blowup and Trump was an even bigger sucker you'd expect*. It sure seems obvious that the statement was planned to cause exactly the effect it had- "Mr Trump, you are a poopyhead and your other allies around here are poopyheads and their enemies Iran and Israel are the bestest oh and Germany says you suck too please attack them also, signed Totally the head of Qatar whatever his I mean my name his." I mean, at this point Russia could post something to twitter from a fake account of some head of state telling Trump he has a small dick and Trump would start a war the next day.

*Obligatory DeLong "even accounting for how big a sucker you expect him to be."


Posted by: SP | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 3:43 PM
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56: Holy shit! The Russians are playing 11 dimensional chess while Trump is playing tic-tac-toe.


Posted by: togolosh | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 4:14 PM
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The internet was won for today with this headline: Trump Is Not Playing Ten-Dimensional Chess; He's Not Even Playing Checkers; He's Barely Playing Peekaboo


Posted by: CharleyCarp | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 4:24 PM
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He's playing Rock, Paper. The White House staff doesn't trust him with scissors.


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 4:28 PM
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From now on I am going with the presumption that everyone not in my direct line of sight is a Russian hacker. Do svidaniya, gopniki!


Posted by: Todd | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 4:30 PM
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I just kicked my son's butt in four dimensional tick-tack-toe. Turns out that taking the center square on a bad first move, because that's the first square to become empty.

Also it only actually has three dimensions: time is included, but depth is missing.


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 6:02 PM
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58 and 59 both made me laugh.


Posted by: Heebie | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 6:26 PM
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This is exactly what happens when irresponsible parties are convinced that no one will reign them in. We've seen it before. Multiple times. Stay safe, Barry.


Posted by: dalriata | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 7:04 PM
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Austria hardly wanted more from Serbia.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 7:21 PM
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56, 63 Yeah, as I said in the earlier thread I mostly blame Trump for this. There are serious differences among the parties but it should never have gotten this far. A competent president and administration would have tamped this shit down.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 7:36 PM
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Thank you very much for the information you shared, it's all I've been looking for


Posted by: html color | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 7:59 PM
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Austria hardly wanted more from Serbia.

Well, Serbia had been funding dangerous terrorists so, uh....

Come to think of it, that doesn't really bode well.


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 8:07 PM
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Plus, I bet everybody is really grumpy from all the not eating.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 9:01 PM
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What is up with the trump fils hairlines??? Have they gone in for preemptive transplants or ??? bizarre.


Posted by: dairy queen | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 9:28 PM
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Connectivity problems earlier brought to mind that an attack on internet connectivity and communications might be a next logical step aimed at isolating Qatar and causing a climate of panic in country. How robust are their mobile and other networks? Alex?

It would be a daring escalation what with Udeid and forward elements of CENTCOM here.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 9:43 PM
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Yes, there are going to be consequences for having elected one of the most gullible people on earth to the U.S. presidency, Jesus fuck. (It must be that basic belief that as long as you're doing the gulling, -- as he clearly is! -- you can't be gulled yourself.)

Barry, yeah, I worry about you. Let us know if we can do anything useful.


Posted by: lurid keyaki | Link to this comment | 06- 6-17 10:34 PM
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3 dimensional tic-tac-toe. I had one of the Qubic things when I was a kid. It was basically impossible for anybody to win unless their opponent was high.


Posted by: chris y | Link to this comment | 06- 7-17 2:32 AM
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What if instead of three dimensions, you just did two but vertically so pieces could only drop onto others. And instead of three make it harder, you have to connect four of your pieces to win. It would be awesome!
Actually there should be a version of connect 4 where the board rotates every number of moves so the pieces fall into new positions.


Posted by: SP | Link to this comment | 06- 7-17 2:58 AM
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You've never played with a frustrated four-year old.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 06- 7-17 5:17 AM
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To Connect 4 or Trump, I guess.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 06- 7-17 5:22 AM
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Posted by: foolishmortal | Link to this comment | 06- 7-17 5:37 AM
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I didn't realize internment for lads was so popular.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 06- 7-17 5:41 AM
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70: There are three submarine cable landing points with a total of six systems in Qatar. Doha (4), Al-Daayan (2), Al-Kheesa (1).

http://submarinecablemap.com/#/landing-point/doha-qatar

Two of those systems mostly reach your new worst friends (Fibre Optic Gulf and Qatar-UAE), the others are more useful. However, a couple of those transit through Fujairah in the UAE. There's an important distinction as to whether the cable branches off to the UAE (they all at least do that) or whether the main line of it lands there (I make it one and possibly two that skip by the UAE, the rest land and might even go overland across the isthmus) - if the first it doesn't much matter, if the second they're in a position to cut you off or, of course, just sit there and intercept all your stuff.

That said, doing anything physical to the ones through Fuj would also screw Dubai, Sharjah, Bahrain, Kuwait, and the KSA Eastern Province. Some of the systems have a ring topology, but that means the other side of the ring lands in Iran and I wouldn't expect them to help out the GCC!

A more Qatar-specific attack would be to trawl up and cut the branches that go into Qatar itself. Submarine cable is quite vulnerable in shallow waters - people destroy them all the time by accident, trawling or anchoring where they shouldn't. So that's definitely a possibility, especially as you could do it deniably. (Who, us sir? We're Taiwanese fishermen. Just look at our nice Taiwanese flag!)

The cable landing station - basically a smallish but high-spec data centre by the beach - is less vulnerable in peacetime but more so in war. You can't just casually screw up your moorings and drift across it, and security precautions are usually quite paranoid. In war, though, it's a very valuable point target whose exact location is no secret.

Repairing a cable break is quick (a matter of hours and less than a million bucks) once a cable ship gets there (between less than a day and less than a fortnight, usually). Rebuilding a landing station would be the work of months at least and probably fifty to a hundred million bucks and maybe much more if it's built into a bigger data centre/carrier hotel.

I mentioned the cables that run around the Gulf between the GCC countries and Iran earlier. Qatar (or Iran) would be in a position to retaliate by chopping those up.

It would be fair to assume CENTCOM is a huge user of all of them. They will have other options - satellites - but losing commercial fibre would be a massive pain in the arse.


Posted by: Alex | Link to this comment | 06- 7-17 5:50 AM
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War: may affect your access to cats, porn, and Unfogged.


Posted by: Alex | Link to this comment | 06- 7-17 5:52 AM
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I guess now we know the answer to the protest chant (what is it good for?)


Posted by: SP | Link to this comment | 06- 7-17 5:56 AM
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Question: Is Trump's repeated fucking up and gratuitous insulting part of the reason May is falling in the polls? Europe as a hedge against America?


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 06- 7-17 6:12 AM
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It's open book. You can use your notes.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 06- 7-17 6:13 AM
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77: It's for their own good!


Posted by: Thorn | Link to this comment | 06- 7-17 6:17 AM
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Posted by: Thorn | Link to this comment | 06- 7-17 6:21 AM
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and Unfogged

Unfogged may remain accessible because it at least has the virtue of being low bandwidth. With the exception of the part of the sidebar that lists every week of archives going all the way back to 1842.


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 06- 7-17 6:23 AM
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81. It probably doesn't help, but the fact is she's also running he most incompetent campaign I can remember (on the Tory side), and I can remember back to 1964.


Posted by: chris y | Link to this comment | 06- 7-17 6:24 AM
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78 is very informative. Thanks.

Submarine cable is quite vulnerable in shallow waters

Persian Arabian Gulf waters are notoriously shallow. It's one reason why the southern Arabian coast of the Gulf wasn't mapped accurately till fairly late when the Bombay Marine specially outfitted a few ships for the task with very shallow drafts in 1820 (this was a result of their war against 'piracy' in the region in 1809, best to map the bastards accurately before you need to bombard them again.) And the Persian Gulf waters between Qatar and UAE (or Trucial Coast as it was known back then) were the world's main pearl beds and pearling was the main industry until the Japanese discovered how to culture pearls and the bottom fell out a few decades before major oil field discoveries in the region (the days of hunger those few decades are called). So how shallow are the waters where those cables are? How long can you hold your breath?


79 I can live without the first two (middle one isfairly well cut off here anyway).


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 06- 7-17 6:26 AM
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Really is Serbia 1914. UAE, Bahrain, Saudi, Egypt vs. Turkey, Qatar, Iran. I guess Russia goes with the latter and US goes with the former?


Posted by: SP | Link to this comment | 06- 7-17 6:39 AM
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Further to 86, it will still be remarkable if the Tories fail to win a working majority tomorrow. Just they may not win the sort of landslide that was predicted a few weeks ago. This won't slow May down for an instant. She's already shown that she doesn't give a fuck about minority opinions, even when they're only just a minority.

Endorse 87.1. Very interesting.


Posted by: chris y | Link to this comment | 06- 7-17 6:39 AM
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I think Russia wins if there is enough of a fuck-up for oil prices to go up.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 06- 7-17 6:42 AM
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I fully expect Trump to order an attack on his own base in Qatar.


Posted by: SP | Link to this comment | 06- 7-17 6:44 AM
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88. And then there's this, which I didn't necessarily expect, but seems to cut across your assessment.


Posted by: chris y | Link to this comment | 06- 7-17 6:44 AM
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A lot of people would be pretty happy if this jacked up oil prices. Russia, certainly.


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 06- 7-17 6:48 AM
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Pwned by 90.


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93 If there's truth to the matter that Russia hacked the Qatar News Agency that was the catalyst for the current crisis that might well be why. Wow.

88 Turkish troops on a Turkish base (!?) here. Double wow! Though Oatar's cozy relationship with Erdogan is no secret Turkish troops are a whole other ball of wax.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 06- 7-17 6:55 AM
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95. 1 and 90 too. That could be the play here. What a time for us to have a total fucking gullible moron for a president.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 06- 7-17 6:57 AM
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3 dimensional tic-tac-toe. I had one of the Qubic things when I was a kid. It was basically impossible for anybody to win unless their opponent was high.

Wait, what? I'm pretty sure I saw an undergrad presentation in the past year or two that a draw is mathematically impossible in 3D tic-tac-toe.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 06- 7-17 6:59 AM
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Maybe its different on a 4x4x4 grid vs. 3x3x3?


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 06- 7-17 7:04 AM
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97: D'oh, you're right. The only choice that P2 has is whether to play on a corner or a side for their first move; regardless, P1 wins on their fifth move. Generally, increasing dimensions while holding everything else equal (size of board, number in a row required to win) gives P1 more freedom.


Posted by: dalriata | Link to this comment | 06- 7-17 7:19 AM
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I think the argument went: there are basically only two ways to have a draw in a traditional 2 dim board. Then it's not hard to see that there is no way to stack three draw-boards without creating a vertical or diagonal winning streak.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 06- 7-17 7:25 AM
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59: Good old Rock. Nothing beats rock.


Posted by: Tom Scudder | Link to this comment | 06- 7-17 7:34 AM
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Nothing beats rock.

That's what I tell my kid. He has some bullshit about paper covering rock, but I don't think so. In 1000 years, rock will still be there but paper will be long gone.


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 06- 7-17 8:42 AM
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100: What surprises me is that you can describe, up to rotation, a complete winning strategy with only two very short games.

I never did understand the logic behind paper beating rock.


Posted by: dalriata | Link to this comment | 06- 7-17 8:48 AM
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Paper covers rock because they're friends, and he's saying, "Peace, brother. Quit being such a brute."


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 06- 7-17 8:54 AM
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Iranians now blaming KSA for this morning's (ISIS-claimed) terrorist attack.

I can see how you might argue an ISIS attack is ipso facto the KSA's fault but I think they mean it in a more direct way.


Posted by: Alex | Link to this comment | 06- 7-17 8:58 AM
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The Korean Scouting Association can be brutal.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 06- 7-17 9:00 AM
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ISIS attacking the most important ally of the country that is supposed to be their big funder doesn't make a lot of sense to me.


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 06- 7-17 10:49 AM
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Nor does the president of the United States verbally berating the people that hosts our main base in the area. It's wall-to-wall shitheads. Who knows what sense has to do with it?


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 06- 7-17 10:50 AM
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ISIS just doesn't make a whole lot of sense, period.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 06- 7-17 10:52 AM
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It's sort of like the right-wing militia movement you see in America, except more deadly and less diabetes.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 06- 7-17 10:55 AM
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Or something.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 06- 7-17 10:56 AM
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Well, sure, giant shitheads, but one would think they have some strategic sense to have made it this far. But maybe strategy is a secondary consideration to being coked up on pure evil.


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 06- 7-17 11:08 AM
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59: Good old Rock. Nothing beats rock.

True, if the very tiny paper made by your very tiny hands won't stretch to cover it.


Posted by: DaveLHI | Link to this comment | 06- 7-17 5:45 PM
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Following the Paul Ryan logic from today's hearings, clearly Trump did nothing wrong wrt Qatar because he didn't really understand the situation, he's new at this.


Posted by: SP | Link to this comment | 06- 8-17 12:52 PM
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It's possible he didn't know paying women to pee on you isn't standard behavior.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 06- 8-17 12:58 PM
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People from New York City often underestimate how conservative middle America can be about that kind of thing.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 06- 8-17 1:03 PM
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OT: What happens if the Tories have a plurality, but don't have a majority even with the Lib Dems? Asking for a friend.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 06- 8-17 2:25 PM
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Can all the other groups form a coalition and kick the Tories to the curb? Asking for my fantasies.


Posted by: SP | Link to this comment | 06- 8-17 2:29 PM
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Nobody knows according to this because there's no written constitution. There are some possibly useful precedents.


Posted by: lw | Link to this comment | 06- 8-17 2:39 PM
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I just sold my car. Not happy about having to spend $400 to bribe the DMV into ignoring the fact that they had lost all record of me purchasing the car to begin with.


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 06- 8-17 4:45 PM
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On the bright side, you've just learned that it costs only $400 to legitimize a stolen car.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 06- 8-17 4:57 PM
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Something to keep in mind if I ever come back here.


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 06- 8-17 5:11 PM
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Thing big. Don't steal cars. Teach "Spike's Proven Auto Sales Method To Wealth."


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 06- 8-17 5:26 PM
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"You too can get legitimized ownership of a 2008 Nissan Tiida."


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 06- 8-17 5:34 PM
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Good Post!


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