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Yet Another Game Studio Chooses To Mess With Pirates As A Strategy

3 years 10 months ago
There are lots of ways content makers can respond to copyright infringement. From going fully legal and suing, to attempting to threaten to sue to scare the hell out of the “pirates”, to seeking government intervention that would negatively impact all kinds of innocent folks, to trying (and failing) to curb piracy using DRM, none […]
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OK, sure, but . . .

3 years 10 months ago
Atrios has a question for me: How's your self-driving car, Kevin? Yeah, yeah. I'm not giving up on self-driving cars, but it's true that things haven't been going as swimmingly as I'd thought they might. It turns out to be a hard problem! Then again, my old friend Atrios is stuck in Philadelphia. I'm in ...continue reading "OK, sure, but . . ."
Kevin Drum

Outstanding Senior Triple Jumper AmyDee Bachman Is An Altonized Community Federal Credit Union Female Athlete of Month For Birds

3 years 10 months ago
PIASA - AmyDee Bachman just concluded an exceptional track and field career with the Southwestern Piasa Birds girls track and field team at the IHSA State Track and Field Meet in Charleston. AmyDee is an Altonized Community Federal Credit Union Female Athlete of the Month for Southwestern. She recorded a jump of 9.05 meters at state. The Southwestern coaches said AmyDee has excellent leaping ability and has been a very hard worker throughout the season. Often on weekends, she wanted to be out there practicing and in the end, it resulted in her qualifying for the state meet from the sectional. AmyDee set a goal to clear 30 feet in the season and she did with a 9.42 meters jump, a 30-11.5 result in inches. “It was just fun,” she said of the track and field season. “It meant a lot to me to compete at state. "I had not been to state before in high school or middle school and it was fun to be able to do it my last year." AmyDee said other than competing at O'Brien

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Former Prison Advisor says ‘Family’ of Jail Administrators Stifling Reform

3 years 10 months ago
The Reverend Phillip Duvall announced his resignation from the St. Louis County Justice Services Advisory Board today. He cites "the family," a group of managers and rank-and-file corrections officers, for stifling department reform efforts. The advisory board was formed in 2019 as a response to inmate deaths in the county jail.
Ryan Krull