Mise
isle of lucy
Why don't you play it like a wargame, with one side deciding on where best to defend and the other side deciding where best to attack, and iterating over the two, except you're playing both sides.
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Is there any sort of game, app on online program that would enable this to be done realistically? Because I would love that.
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Maybe I should rephrase my question. Which areas would be the primary objectives to secure in such an invasion?
Lebensraum?
PlutonianEmpire
King of the Plutonian Empire
Do we still get great philosophers today? As in, Plato was among the greatest(?) philosophers of his time; do we have any modern equivalent around *today* that could be considered among the greatest philosophers of our time?
madviking
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To add to VR's answer...
The cause of the seeming lack of "great" philosophers in the contemporary era is twofold.
Mainly, the problem nowadays is that philosophy is so expansive; covering so many areas that it's not longer feasible to maintain an expert level amount of knowledge in all of those fields. Hence, most philosophers nowadays are relatively specialized in certain fields, e.g. bioethics, legal ethics, morality.
Moreover, there is more emphasis on research, rather than, well, traditional PhilosophizationTM. Hence there are fewer philosophers who write endlessly about philosophy.
The cause of the seeming lack of "great" philosophers in the contemporary era is twofold.
Mainly, the problem nowadays is that philosophy is so expansive; covering so many areas that it's not longer feasible to maintain an expert level amount of knowledge in all of those fields. Hence, most philosophers nowadays are relatively specialized in certain fields, e.g. bioethics, legal ethics, morality.
Moreover, there is more emphasis on research, rather than, well, traditional PhilosophizationTM. Hence there are fewer philosophers who write endlessly about philosophy.
To add on to the discussion about gen ed requirments I have a few points to make.
1) Hobbsyoyo's 205 hours sounds insane. My math degree ended up being like 129 hours, I don't disbelieve you but that's certainly not standard.
2) Again as Hobbsyoyo mentioned most school now expect you to knock out many gen eds in high school, but I didn't do any of that myself and finished in 4 years just fine.
3) A huge part of the reason we have gen ed requirements that nobody seems aware of is supporting grad students. For example I'm in a math grad program now and like most students in such programs I have a full tuition waiver and livable stipend.
This is paid for by having me teach gen ed level math classes (precalculus/calculus), if these classes weren't being taken by almost everyone the department would not be able to support most of it's grad students.
I imagine other departments work basically the same way, so gen ed requirements are there (at least partially) to support grad students in many cases.
4) Some departments (especially Lib Arts, Business, Education, etc.) have lots of students that are sub par and need to get flunked out of the program. However for political reasons the departments may not want to flunk out there own students. So they add in spurious math requirements to shave off the least capable students in their programs.
5) Then lots of "well rounded" reasons already discussed, honestly I'm happy about most of the gen ed classes I took. They were easy and gave me a wider base of knowledge that has been useful at various times.
1) Hobbsyoyo's 205 hours sounds insane. My math degree ended up being like 129 hours, I don't disbelieve you but that's certainly not standard.
2) Again as Hobbsyoyo mentioned most school now expect you to knock out many gen eds in high school, but I didn't do any of that myself and finished in 4 years just fine.
3) A huge part of the reason we have gen ed requirements that nobody seems aware of is supporting grad students. For example I'm in a math grad program now and like most students in such programs I have a full tuition waiver and livable stipend.
This is paid for by having me teach gen ed level math classes (precalculus/calculus), if these classes weren't being taken by almost everyone the department would not be able to support most of it's grad students.
I imagine other departments work basically the same way, so gen ed requirements are there (at least partially) to support grad students in many cases.
4) Some departments (especially Lib Arts, Business, Education, etc.) have lots of students that are sub par and need to get flunked out of the program. However for political reasons the departments may not want to flunk out there own students. So they add in spurious math requirements to shave off the least capable students in their programs.
5) Then lots of "well rounded" reasons already discussed, honestly I'm happy about most of the gen ed classes I took. They were easy and gave me a wider base of knowledge that has been useful at various times.
nerdfighter13
Prince of the Universe
Who is Dommy? I've seen them mentioned in some older threads, but I've don't know who they were.
Mise
isle of lucy
He changed his name to GhostWriter16.
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
There were two Acts of Union, one in 1707 (England + Scotland), one in 1800 (Britain + Ireland). Although most of Ireland left in 1922, the Six Counties remain as per the 1800 act, so we could still plausibly call a Scotland-less Britain a "Union". However, if the Six Counties left as well, which in all likelihood would only be a matter of time, you'd only have the old Kingdom of England, because although Wales regards itself as a distinct nation, it was incorporated directly into England rather than undergoing a mutual amalgamation.
England & Wales could keep calling themselves "the United Kingdom of Great Britain", because I don't suppose anyone's going to be interested in arguing, but it would probably look a bit ridiculous, so we could probably expect a new flag and name before too long.
England & Wales could keep calling themselves "the United Kingdom of Great Britain", because I don't suppose anyone's going to be interested in arguing, but it would probably look a bit ridiculous, so we could probably expect a new flag and name before too long.
The 1707 Act of Union was what formed the Kingdom of Great Britain. In 1714, George I declined to adopt the title of Emperor of Great Britain. The 1801 Act of Union was what formed the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Queen Victoria was the first Empress of India and her great-grandson, George VI (the current Queen's father), was the last Emperor of India, which was granted independence "at the stroke of the midnight hour" in 1947.
The Queen is still Queen of 16 countries in the Commonwealth, including Canada, Australia and Fiji. All of them are still independent countries, though no doubt, the keen political mind of Alex Salmond will devise somehairbrained incisive plan to get whatever he wants for his clearly to-be-independent country, somehow bypassing Westminster in the process and cleverly leaving the bill south of the Tweed.
The Queen is still Queen of 16 countries in the Commonwealth, including Canada, Australia and Fiji. All of them are still independent countries, though no doubt, the keen political mind of Alex Salmond will devise some
You guys are missing what I am talking about. IT really doesn't have anything to do with Wales or Ireland or anyplace but Scotland and England. Before the Union Acts,they had independent crowns of the Kingdom of Scotland and Kingdom of England, even though since James both resided in the same person. AFTER the acts, those two separate crowns no longer existed.
I'm sure that the Kingdom of Scotland could be recreated upon demand, just like all the other territories under the Queen's joint crowns. Of course, the Kingdom of England wouldn't be recreated, because then Salmond's idiot propaganda that the UK would no longer exist, rather than Scotland simply seceding from the greater UK, would actually be true.
madviking
north american scum
depends on whether Scotland establishes its own monarchy 
btw, vr, king/queen of scots, not king/queen of scotland.
btw, vr, king/queen of scots, not king/queen of scotland.
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