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Tag: politics

On “basic income”

by outrider on Dec.07, 2009, under braindump

This is a translation of an interview by the daily newspaper taz with Götz Werner, founder of one of Germany’s major drug store chains and avid supporter of the concept of basic income. The original German text can be found at http://bit.ly/4sA15p.

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Video Game Censorship in Germany: How it works, how it doesn’t

by outrider on Oct.29, 2008, under braindump

Since I keep seeing horrendous misconceptions pop up about how game censorship, ratings and the like work in Germany, I felt the urge to clarify matters hopefully once and for all. This should be a fairly comprehensive explanation of how games are rated, “banned” and banned in Germany and how the entire “robots for blood lol” thing comes about. (continue reading…)

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