February 2012
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CHEYENNE — State representatives on Friday advanced legislation to launch a study into what Wyoming should do in the event of a complete economic or political collapse in the United States.
House Bill 85 passed on first reading by a voice vote. It would create a state-run government continuity task force, which would study and prepare Wyoming for potential catastrophes, from disruptions in food...
Does this say something about Europeans versus... →
sarzha:
On German board games:
A Euro-game has little to nothing in the way of chance mechanisms, so there’s very little luck involved. They tend to stick to wooden pieces over plastic, it’s their preference. There’s very little text on the board; only the rules have text on them, so you can actually play with people who speak other languages as long as you both already know how to play. They...
The US Supreme Court has held exactly one criminal... →
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Not sure what I think of this: “Games that no longer support their creators.” Muddled thoughts follow.
Computer game developers (designers, programmers, writers, artists, and so forth) often work together in a studio as a team to produce a game, or a set of games; to fund the development and publication of said game(s), they often rely on a publisher with deep pockets, who receives...
“Health insurer Aetna Inc.’s fourth-quarter net income jumped 73 percent, as it continued to benefit from low use of health care and some key expenses fell.
The Hartford, Conn., insurer’s earnings and revenue topped Wall Street expectations due in part to slower-than-expected growth in health care use, a trend that has helped insurers routinely outperform the past several quarters. Many...
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“Over all, there are now more people under ‘correctional supervision’ in America — more than six million — than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height. That city of the confined and the controlled, Lockuptown, is now the second largest in the United States.
The accelerating rate of incarceration over the past few decades is just as startling as the...
