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DRAFT KGS ESCAPERS 20100724:
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rec.games.go, soc.culture.usa, soc.culture.korean, soc.culture.china,
soc.culture.japan

Escapers On KGS, More

KGS ADMINS SHAMELESSLY PROMOTE ESCAPERS AND SEEK TO SUPPRESS ANY
HONEST DISCUSSION OF THEIR BIZARRE & CORRUPT POLICY, calling such
comments "trolling".

I am starting a new thread on this topic so as to make the title as
clear as possible. We may be able to direct interested, and
victimized, players here from KGS. For a link to the older thread,
please see Alpha below.

Here's the latest nameless admin double-speak from behind the slammed
door:

{Sorry, you cannot log in because this account or internet address is
temporarily blocked. The reason for blocking is "do not troll about
the effective KGS anti-escaper system".}

For more context therefor, see Beta.

KGS belongs, of course, to its creator William M. Shubert of Portland,
Oregon and he can do as he will with his private property. "wms" does,
however, require the cooperation of many hundreds of people all over
the World for the continued success of his system and for the
maintenance of his own personal reputation.

As long as the otherwise gifted Mr.Shubert continues a) To promote
this strange corruption of bad sports escaping from their lost games,
b)
To censor any truthful remarks on the subject, including answers to
questions,
by booting without warning & adding thereto ridiculous excuses such as
in the present case and c) Slyly to enforce a sinister censorship of
general convos with a bias favoring the Official Imperial Line or
"OIL" as exemplified by Fox News & the Sulzbergerz' NYT --why then for
just so long any interested, impartial observer can point to a) & to
b) as bad behavior and to c) as criminal misbehavior. Failure to point
the accusing finger at nasty blots only encourages their spread.

The typically Jew-tainted WIKI narrates that "The KGS Go Server is
distinguished by a strong sense of community, particularly that of its
Kibitz culture." The murderous Jewish fanatic Vladimir Illich Lenin
once called chess "the gymnasium of the mind". Our ancient and far
deeper game of surrounding obviously is begining to make the
transition from its traditionally dominant place in the cultures of
the Three Home Countries to a similar elevation in our Emerging World
Culture, transcending the role of international chess.

As I have noted often before, JAPE (Gamma) has in the last two decades
destroyed the Muslim nations of Iraq and Afghanistan, murdering many
millions of innocent victims. JAPE under Barracks Obomber is now
waging war against Pakistan, a nuclear power and the 6th largest
country on Earth by population. JAPE is furthermore threatening
thermonuclear attack against peaceful & law-abiding Iran, the 17th
largest nation, with a population of some 75 million souls (Delta).

The very dry wisecrack about one murder being a tragedy whereas a
million murders are merely a statistic comes into play so often
(Epsilon). Will we, therefore, now recall the iconic moment of the
Twenty-First Century and of the Third Millennium A.D. so far? I refer
here, Dear Reader, to the Jews' murder of two young girls, sisters,
during the Gaza Massacre of 2009, as so briefly recounted by the
American attorneys who shortly thereafter interviewed the bereaved
parents on the slaughter site (Eta).

The same criminal clique who shot down the Rabbo Sisters
are running KGS. In tandem with their cousins @ WIKI, they are trying
to pass off their gross mismanagement of that venue as the wise
gardening of "a strong sense of community". This word-rape takes place
in the alley behind "the intelligence community", meaning the nest of
spies, liars, thieves & killers who have named their HQ after George
Bush the First.

The KGS admins are hand-in-hand with the U.S. Congress
which "regularly passes non-binding resolutions that incite and
provoke more violence against Palestinians. The most recent of these
embarrassing resolutions was one that dismissed out-of-hand the
findings of the UN’s fact-finding mission led by world renowned Jewish
and Zionist Judge Richard Goldstone" (Theta).

So Bill Shubert's quirk of raising escapers = a tiny crack in the lens
of the Eye of Earth which invites honest folk to look more closely at
KGS as a contaminated institution.

I have spent a few additional lines here to speak to those players who
realize that the whole universe = our big board and that the time
limit for the game = eternity. The high Brits and also my former
teaching partner @ Columbia University, Professor Zbigniew Brzezinski,
are fond of referring to large imperial schemes, especially in Central
Asia, as "the Great Game" (Iota). Really they lack the faintest idea
of the concept which they so fecklessly invoke.

Will we take truth for our banner, justice for our sword & songs for
our shield? Along with the appropriate supplementary devices, of
course.

Finally I append Kappa from Israel as a tectonic reading.
What the Jews mean by "anti-Semitism" = Any effort to impede their
bloody drive for total world tyranny.

You pays your money and you takes your chances.

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ALPHA:

    http://tinyurl.com/256fo2s

Newsgroups: rec.games.go, soc.culture.usa, soc.culture.korean,
soc.culture.china, soc.culture.japan
From: Hal Womack 3-dan <hal.wom...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 05:16:30 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Some Escapers on KGS

....KGS or the Kiseido Go Server* = one of the more popular mainly
English
language on-line venues for playing the ancient & elegant game of
surrounding, most commonly known in "barbarian" tongues by its
Japanese name of "_go_". KGS one of the numerous morphed copies of the
original and still thriving Internet Go Server or IGS** aka
"Pandanet", which was invented in 1992 by Mark Okada of Berkeley, my
fellow former officer of the San Francisco Go Club***.

The occasion for this article arises from a bizarre
technical defect in KGS which the mainly anonymous "admins"
subordinate to wms stubbornly defend with the lamest of persiflage.
On KGS when one has lost a game, one can simply leave without having
the system record the result. This extremely common KGS vice is called
"escaping". The admins pretend that "the system will take care of it"
because after some number of such instances the particular player-name
is finally designated as an "escaper" and tagged for losses. Since by
far most of the accounts, however, are also anonymous, the habitual
perp can and does simply open a new account under a new false name.
This sort of cheating naturally gives rise to ceaseless complaints on
KGS, especially from newcomers to the swamp, so much so that the KGS
portal itself forbids the victims of such bad sports to speak of it on
the chat panels.

In strongest contrast, IGS keeps a completely clean deck with its
simple rule of allowing someone who has legitimately lost a connection
5' (five minutes) to return to the board or else the game is forfeited
to the opponent who has waited for play to resume....
The substantive defect of KGS = a kabal of kosher war-mongers & their
jootools have blatantly taken over the administration, so that KGS in
this respect resembles other dominant institutions of JAPE or the
Jewish-American Planetary Empire. Think Fox News, the Sulzbergerz'
NYT, NPR etc ad nauseam.

'Tis obviously quite important for "K7" or Kosher King Kissinger's
Kultish Kabal of Kiddie-Killers to occupy this globally strategic
communications venue in order to retard the growth of social
consciousness by the increasing numbers of players worldwide. 'Tis
equally important for the emerging forces of law and justice to expose
this sort of chicanery. Free spirits tussle with DICTATA* for control
of the racial mind.
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* My coinage for the "D.C. -- Tel Aviv Terrorist Axis".
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I tag this poster as "N1" for "Nameless #1" on the thread:
From: David Duckslammer <da...@duckslammer.com>

N1 created its account in order to post to this thread. It also
identified itself as a KGS partisan, apparently including the admin
clique:

{I am told wms created a liberal escaper policy because he believes no
one should ever be forced to finish a game if he doesn't want to.

The policy can be stated simply: a KGS player is allowed to leave 9
games within a 6 month period for any reason without penalty.  At 10+
games left without finishing, the game becomes an automatic forfeit.}

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From: Michael Alford <m...@aracnet.com> An honorable poster using his
own true name AFAIK:

{The way it works on IGS is a person that disconnects from a game has
5
mins to reconnect and restart the game or forfeit. While I think 5
mins
is pretty draconian, I understand that this is a user requested time
limit, not arbitrarily initiated by the admins. If your opponent
disconnects and you do not, opponent has the 5 mins grace to reconnect
and restart, if no restart, then the system resigns the game. If both
players disconnect in said 5 min period, then the game is handled like
a
normal adjourned game. If the adjourned game is not finished in a
certain period of time (I think 2 weeks), it is adjudicated, IGS has a
panel that adjudicates adjourned games, so escaping is simply not
possible on IGS.

Michael }
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Second honorable poster using his own true name AFAIK,

From: Hans-Georg Michna <hans-georgNoEmailPle...@michna.com>:

{Essentially KGS does not enforce the normal go rules, which
state that a player loses the game if he runs out of time.

The official excuse for this non-implementation of the rule is
that Internet connections are unreliable.

I'm not sure whether the KGS client reconnects automatically,
but I think it should after an interruption. On the other hand,
KGS uses TCP, which is a reliable protocol. I don't see TCP
connections break often. Also, the Internet has become much more
reliable over the years.

What is unreliable is the KGS server itself, and that is most
likely the hidden reason for the strange rule bending. KGS has
always been highly unreliable. The server is known to fail under
bigger loads and also from time to time for no good reason at
all.

But that's what we have. KGS uses a fairly good and mostly
likable user interface. IGS cannot match that by far. And so we
have various combinations of good or bad front end and good or
bad back end. What we are missing is a server that has a good
front end and a good back end. Nobody has written one so far,
but there is always hope.

KGS has another strange problem---the god-like creatures that
call themselves administrators. I think they should be summarily
relieved of their function. (:-) Won't happen.

Hans-Georg}
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From: Renli <oliver.rich...@gmail.com> The eddress for this poster
suggests that the party may actually have the name therein contained;
its posts, however, look pseudonymous.
I tag this one as N2.

N2 posted a muddle which contained some relevant remarks.

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BETA:

womack: Hello rukru: Escapers are a constant problem here on KGS. As
long as the admins stick to their bizarre policy, one can only grin
and bear it. Shame on caps-lock gryphon.
[G had called R's simple question "whining".]

BOOTED sans warning.

{Sorry, you cannot log in because this account or internet address is
temporarily blocked. The reason for blocking is "do not troll about
the effective KGS anti-escaper system".}

KGS English Game Room 2010/07/24 @ 19:20 hrz (Zulu):

An evident newcomer, "rukru" asked what to do when his opponent fled
from a lost game. I answered. The nameless censor/slash admin reacted
too quickly for me to capture the entire portion of the relevant
transcript.

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GAMMA:

{Results 1 - 10 of about 360 for "hal womack" jape.}
Google Groups Page search, e.g:

http://tinyurl.com/23m7w4c

Newsgroups: talk.politics.mideast, alt.california, tx.politics,
soc.culture.usa, alt.politics
From: Hal Womack 3-dan <hal.wom...@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 06:35:34 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Plotzalot Meets "GREPA"

"Jewish-American Planetary Empire".

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DELTA:

a.)     http://tinyurl.com/2wv9zrr

Obama is Preparing to Bomb Iran

Webster G. Tarpley
TARPLEY.net
July 21, 2010

After about two and a half years during which the danger of war
between the United States and Iran was at a relatively low level, this
threat is now rapidly increasing. A pattern of political and
diplomatic events, military deployments, and media chatter now
indicates that Anglo-American ruling circles, acting through the
troubled Obama administration, are currently gearing up for a campaign
of bombing against Iran, combined with special forces incursions
designed to stir up rebellions among the non-Persian nationalities of
the Islamic Republic. Naturally, the probability of a new fake Gulf of
Tonkin incident or false flag terror attack staged by the Anglo-
American war party and attributed to Iran or its proxies is also
growing rapidly....} [snip]
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b.)

http://www.counterpunch.org/hallinan07012010.html

July 1, 2010
Dispatches From the Edge
Guns of August in the Middle East?

By CONN HALLINAN

Crazy talk about the Middle East seems to be escalating, backed up by
some pretty ominous military deployments. First, the department of
scary statements:

First up, Shabtai Shavit, former chief of the Israeli spy agency
Mossad, speaking June 21 at Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv on why
Israel should launch a pre-emptive strike at Iran: “I am of the
opinion that, since there is an ongoing war, since the threat is
permanent, since the intention of the enemy in this case is to
annihilate you, the right doctrine is one of presumption and not
retaliation.”[snip]
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c.) http://www.israelshamir.net/

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EPSILON:

{This quotation probably was originated from «Französischer Witz» by
Kurt Tucholsky  (1932): «Darauf sagt ein Diplomat vom Quai d’Orsay:
«Der Krieg? Ich kann das nicht so schrecklich finden! Der Tod eines
Menschen: das ist eine Katastrophe. Hunderttausend Tote: das ist eine
Statistik!»}

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin#Misattributed

Perhaps Erich Maria Remarque perfected the form of the remark about 20
years later.
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ETA:

{We spoke to Khaled Abed Rabbo, who witnessed an Israeli soldier
execute his 2-year-old and 7-year-old daughters, and critically injure
a third daughter, Samar, 4-years old, on a sunny afternoon outside his
home. Two other Israeli soldiers were standing nearby eating chips and
chocolates at the time on January 7, 2009. Abed Rabbo recounts
standing in front of the Israeli soldiers with his mother, wife and
daughters for 5 – 7 minutes before one of the soldiers opened fire on
his family.}

http://www.counterpunch.org/nlg02092009.html

{February 9, 2009
A Report from Gaza
Strong Indications of Israeli War Crimes

By NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD

Gaza City.

We are a delegation of 8 American lawyers, members of the National
Lawyers Guild in the United States, who have come here to the Gaza
Strip to assess the effects of the recent attacks on the people, and
to determine what, if any, violations of international law occurred
and whether U.S. domestic law has been violated as a consequence. We
have spent the last five days interviewing communities particularly
impacted by the recent Israeli offensive, including medical personnel,
humanitarian aid workers and United Nations representatives....}
[snip]

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THETA:

http://www.counterpunch.org/bahour03122010.html

Weekend Edition
March 12-14, 2010
America to the Rescue, (Not) Again!
Proximity Talks?

By SAM BAHOUR*

{We are told that President Obama has taken a leap of political faith
in trying to bridge a final peace settlement between Palestinians and
Israelis.  The United States’ new weapon is “proximity talks”: if
either side fails to meet American expectations, the US will squarely
and publicly lay blame.  If this was a sitcom it would be the
opportune time to crack up laughing; regretfully this is not the
case.  Real people - whole generations - of Palestinians are on the
verge of being locked into another decade of protracted and violent
military occupation....} [snip]

* Sam Bahour  is a Palestinian-American businessman from Youngstown,
Ohio who lives in the  occupied West Bank and is co-editor of
"Homeland: Oral History of Palestine and  Palestinians." He may be
reached at sbahour@palnet.com.

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IOTA:

WIKI: {The term "The Great Game" is usually attributed to Arthur
Conolly (1807–1842), an intelligence officer of the British East India
Company's Sixth Bengal Light Cavalry.[1] It was introduced into
mainstream consciousness by British novelist Rudyard Kipling in his
novel Kim (1901).}
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_The Grand Chessboard

American Primacy And It's Geostrategic Imperatives_

Key Quotes From Zbigniew Brzezinksi's Seminal 1998 Book

(blah, blah, blah)

http://www.wanttoknow.info/brzezinskigrandchessboard

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KAPPA:

#7.)
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7340,L-3675560,00.html

OR      http://tinyurl.com/32u3r5s

{Anti-Semitism makes it to China?

Book alleging Jews run the world and control global wealth becomes
bestseller in country
Boaz Arad

BEIJING – Who's to blame for the current global financial crisis?
According to a bestselling book in China, which is leading the sales
charts in the country, the answer is clear: The Jews.

In the eyes of most Chinese, Jewish people are considered "smart,"
"rich" and "good at making money." Bookstores in China offer a variety
of self-help books titled, "How to make money like Jews," and "The
secret of Jews' global success."

Until recently, the notion that Jews and money were inseparable
carried no anti-Semitic undertone in the country, but a relatively new
book called "Currency Wars" threatens to change all that.

The book's author, Song Hongbing, claims that behind world-changing
events like the battle of Waterloo, Adolf Hitler's rise to power,
President Kennedy's assassination, and the deep recession in Asia
during the 1990s stood an intricate conspiracy aimed at increasing
Jews' wealth and influence.

Song, a Chinese computer engineer and history buff who resides in the
United States, writes that almost every defining historical moment has
been instigated by Jewish bankers, and mainly the Rothschild family,
which Song says dominates the global banking system, including the US
Federal Reserve System.

'important publication' or 'nonsense'?
Song's book was published in China about a year and-a-half ago, and
initially sold an insignificant number of copies. But in recent months
the global crisis has turned the book into a hit. Estimates put sales
of "Currency War" well over a million, not including hundreds of
thousands of illegal copies that can also be downloaded off the net.

Responses among readers vary; online discussions about the book reveal
that many are convinced this is the most important publication ever
written, as it "exposes the truth behind global economy." However,
others claim that this is "nonsense" and say that Song, who has never
studied economics, simply pieced together a theory made up of several
delusional conspiracy theories published on the internet.

Song's publishers, a subsidiary of a state-owned publishing house,
boast the fact that the book has been read by all leading financial
executives in the country, as well as state leaders.

Song himself has become a local celebrity in China, and is often
invited to lecture at financial conventions and is interviewed on TV
as a famous financial analyst.
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 Survey: 31% of Europeans blame economic crisis on Jews

Anti-Defamation League poll conducted in seven European countries
shows almost half of Europeans believe Jews more loyal to Israel than
countries they live in, 40% say Jews have too much power
Ynet

Anti-Semitic attitudes still prevail in Europe: An Anti-Defamation
League report published on Tuesday showed that nearly half of the
Europeans surveyed believe Jews are not loyal to their country and
more than one-third believe they have "too much power" in business and
finance.

The study further showed that 31% of the respondents across Europe
blame Jews in the financial industry for the current global economic
crisis.

The poll was conducted between the dates December 1 and January 13
among 3,500 adults in seven European countries: Austria, France,
Hungary, Poland, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom.

Overall, 40% of Europeans in those countries believe that Jews have
too much power in the business world, with more than half of
Hungarian, Spanish and Polish respondents agreeing with that
statement.

The findings were similar to those of a 2007 ADL survey that found
significant percentages of Europeans continue to believe in some of
the most pernicious anti-Semitic stereotypes.

"This poll confirms that anti-Semitism remains alive and well in the
minds of many Europeans," said ADL Director Abraham Foxman.

"It is distressing that there seems to be no movement away from the
constancy of anti-Semitic held views, with accusations about Jews of
disloyalty, control and responsibility for the death of Jesus," he
added.

"In the wake of the global financial crisis, the strong belief of
excessive Jewish influence on business and finance is especially
worrisome," Mr. Foxman added.

"Clearly, age old anti-Semitic stereotypes die hard, particularly on a
continent which is witnessing a surge in violent attacks on Jews and
Jewish institutions following the war in Gaza."

'Jews talk about Holocaust too much'

A comparison with the 2007 survey indicates that levels of anti-
Semitism have remained steady in six of the seven countries tested.

The United Kingdom was the only country in which there was a marked
decline. Meanwhile, the percentage of those believing that Jews "have
too much power in the business world" increased by 7% in Hungary, 6%
in Poland and 5% in France.

Overall, nearly half of those surveyed in the seven countries believe
that Jews are more loyal to Israel than to their own country. A
majority of respondents in Germany, Poland and Spain believe that this
statement is "probably true;" in Spain, it is 64%.

Large portions of the European public continue to believe that Jews
"talk about the Holocaust too much." Overall, 44% of those surveyed
believe this statement is "probably true". A majority of respondents
in Austria, Hungary and Poland believe it to be true.}
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WIKI: {Ynetnews is an English language Israeli news and content
website operated by Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel’s most-read newspaper,
and the Hebrew Israel news portal, Ynet. The Yedioth Group also owns
stock in the Israeli TV Channel "Channel 2"; "HOT", the Cable TV
company, weekly local newspapers, magazines, and other non-media
companies.}

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2.)
    http://tinyurl.com/34fg7ot

HAARETZ

    * Published 13:26 31.01.10
    * Latest update 13:52 31.01.10

Report: CIA chief met Israeli leaders during secret visit
Leon Panetta held talks on Iran and U.S.-Israeli relations with
Netanyahu, Barak and Dagan.
By Haaretz Service Tags: Israel news

{CIA director Leon Panetta traveled to Israel last week for meetings
with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Ehud Barak,
and Mossad chief Meir Dagan, U.S. news site Politico reported on
Saturday.

The main subject of conversation was Iran, as well as "relations" in
general, the website said, quoting an unnamed former official in the
Israel government.

Regional news reports said that Panetta also traveled to Cairo for
meetings with Egyptian intelligence chief Omar Suleiman and other
officials.

A CIA spokesman declined to confirm that the trip had taken place,
saying that the organization did not usually comment on Panetta's
travel arrangements.

Earlier this month, Obama National Security Advisor Jim Jones traveled
to Israel, the Palestinian territories, Saudi Arabia and Lebanon,
accompanied by the NSC's Dennis Ross.

Panetta was last reported to have visited Israel in May 2009.}
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