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Come Out & Play SF seeks submissions for the 2014 Festival, to be held October 24-25 at UN Plaza in downtown San Francisco. We welcome real-world games of all kinds, but this year’s festival offers additional opportunities for extra-special games: • Games that respond to UN Plaza and the Mid-Market area of downtown San Francisco…
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Amazon textbook rentals: fine-print bans taking books over state lines
mostlysignssomeportents: If you thought Google deleting your ebooks when you cross a border is unreasonable, check this out: Amazon’s textbook rental service comes with fine-print that allows the company to bill your credit card for the full amount if they think you’ve crossed a state line with it. It’s not clear exactly what’s going on…
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While being extremely effective for subduing suspects, these factors can make tear gas remediation especially challenging. Unfortunately, there is no such thing as an easy tear gas remediation job. If tear gas powder or residue is not completely eliminated from a structure, the irritating effects of the gas can linger long after the event takes…
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Can taxing the wealthy strengthen democracy?
Can taxing the wealthy strengthen democracy? The historical record, however, suggests that taxing the wealthiest does have an important, but different, consequence: making the wealthy vested in the common good. In fact, taxing the wealthy was crucial for the emergence of representative government itself.
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The Origins of the Neoliberal War on the Poor » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
The Origins of the Neoliberal War on the Poor » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names shrinkrants: This article gives a clear, well-documented, and chilling history of a major turning point toward our current state of affairs. I wish we had clearer ideas and more compelling leaders in figuring out how to turn things…
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nprradiopictures: Anderson Desir, 9, shares a dream with many boys his age in the Dominican Republic: He wants to grow up and play baseball in la liga grande, otherwise known as American Major League Baseball. But there’s an important difference between Anderson and the 80 Dominican kids from his summer baseball league in San Pedro de…
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Once again, I will not negotiate with terrorists.
chiguire: Reblogging as text just in case it gets vandalised again. ohdeargodbees: Ok, let’s try this again. This has nothing to do with games and is not a matter of legitimate public interest, but is simply a personal matter. I would hope and request that the games press be respectful of what IS a personal matter,…