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#1  Edited By Turambar

Lets just take a second and actually take a look at part of what the leaks say.  And no, I don't care about the Canada bit.  No one does.
 
The bit about Iran is arguably the most important part of this leak, followed by the document stating China would be accepting of a reunified Korea under the South Korean government.  These are documents that speaks about other Arabic nations urging the US to engage Iran more aggressively while trying to placate Iran themselves.  These are also documents coming from the Pentagon stating war with Iran would do more harm than good.  The result is essentially the embarrassment of some of the Arabic nations for sending two opposite messages to two different places as well as giving room for Iran to claim this is all just American propaganda and that it's still just Israel and the US that wants to keep Iran down.  This leak's immediate result has been further tension in the Middle East and we can only hope it stops at that.  (Though it is kind of funny how this pretty much sends a giant middle finger to anyone that does think any aggression Middle East is just some Jewish cabal seizing control of Washington.) 
 
I know that people really like it when documents that expose government secrets come out because everyone wants to know exactly what their government is dong, but what's in this leak is not the same as previous ones.  This doesn't expose some egregious crime committed by the government that's gonna get everyone in an uproar.  The biggest impact its had so far in fact is making the US government question its Post 9/11 implemented policy of various government branches sharing intelligence documents with each other (the reason why State Department intelligence files were available to someone in the Pentagon), and that would kind of suck for people that want more transparency.
 
Wikileaks isn't some group that seems to be leaking files for the betterment of world.  If this leaks sends any message, its that they have no central vision or purpose to what they want to do with the information they get their hands on at all.  And that makes them pretty dangerous.

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#2  Edited By Turambar

Valkyria Chronicles.  Been replaying it.

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#3  Edited By Turambar
@Bucketdeth said:
" How do the people at Wiki leaks get there hands on the information they obtain? "
In this specific case, the suspect is an intelligence officer working in the Pentagon.
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#4  Edited By Turambar

Good to know its not just me.

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#5  Edited By Turambar
@Avaren said:
" How do you guys decide when to advance techs? Is it part of your initial build or do you time it based on some other ingame event?  I am having trouble deciding when to stop massing gateway units and tech to colossi/templar instead. "
Unless you're good at scouting, making your tech timing reactionary would not be a good idea.  Especially as a protoss, the time it takes to go down on of your tech paths to get the money unit (either colossi or templar with storm) is very long, and if you start it only after your opponent has a noticeable advantage because of a certain unit composition, the time it takes to tech to colossi or templar will leave you more vulnerable than you would want as you invest resources into something that doesn't have any immediate return.
 
For me, the best way to find the proper tech timing is just base it on something arbitrary, and then alter it after seeing how well it works over the course of a couple of games. 
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#6  Edited By Turambar
@Paulus said:
" " They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."  ~Benjamin Franklin  I love that quote, it always reminds me of that brilliant proud american invention called the patriot act... "
That quote always astounds me for both how much it will very just in verbiage and how inapplicable it is to almost everything it is quoted for.
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#7  Edited By Turambar

I'm just pretty glad the "National Opt Out Day" protests never materialized.  Regardless of how you feel about the new screeners and pat downs (for the record, I'm ok with the former and find the latter to be a pretty big step beyond what should he permitted), the idea that purposefully causing mass congestion of air ports at Thanksgiving is the right thing to do is pretty retarded.

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#9  Edited By Turambar

All the time.  They're pretty delicious.

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#10  Edited By Turambar

Now that the game's on Steam for 10 bucks for another few hours, I would like to ask the same question.  Being quite into city/economy building side of a lot of strategy games, would I find Patrician IV enjoyable?