July 2022 – Page 40 – news.buyenne.com

Netzsperren und IP-Blocking: Glücksspielbehörde setzt Internetprovider unter Druck

Die neue Glücksspielbehörde droht mit Kosten von bis 50.000 Euro, wenn die technisch fraglichen Netzsperren und das IP-Blocking nicht umgesetzt werden. Ein Provider nennt seine Bedenken. (Zensur, Computersucht)

Past environmental threats didn’t just disappear

It’s disturbingly common for people to say solved problems were never problems.

Image of the earth with a blue area over Antarctica.

Conservative political commentator Matt Walsh took to Twitter last Wednesday to say that the widely held belief that humans are causing climate change is, in fact, a crock. The podcaster and Daily Wire columnist apparently knows this because previous environmental issues we were concerned about in the past—namely acid rain and holes in the ozone layer—disappeared, never to be heard about again.

“Remember when they spent years telling us to panic over the hole in the ozone layer and then suddenly just stopped talking about it and nobody ever mentioned the ozone layer again?” Walsh tweeted. “This was also back during the time when they scared school children into believing that "acid rain" was a real and urgent threat,” Walsh tweeted again.

It’s true that you don’t hear much about acid rain anymore, and discussions about humanity’s long-standing propensity to metaphorically kick the planet in the groin have largely moved away from the ozone layer to newer, flashier issues like sea level rise, rising global temperatures, and mass species die-offs served with a side of ecosystem collapse. (Although, if you know where to look, you can still find mention of the ozone hole.)

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Twitter-Panne bei Reizthema: Ministerium verwechselt Impfdosen und Geimpfte

Ausgerechnet in einem Tweet über das Risiko schwerer Nebenwirkungen gab das Bundesgesundheitsministerium falsche Zahlen an.

E-ternité: Alpine macht den A110 zum Elektroauto-Cabrio

Alpine hat ein Elektroauto-Konzeptfahrzeug auf Basis des A110 gebaut. Der Alpine A110 E-ternité fährt mit einer Leistung von 178 kW. (Renault, Technologie)

Leistungsschutzrecht: Google und Corint Media streiten sich vor Schiedsstelle

Im Streit um Zahlungen für Medieninhalte in Suchmaschinen rufen Google und Corint Media die Schiedsstelle beim Patentamt an. Es geht um viele Millionen. (Leistungsschutzrecht, Urheberrecht)

The Terraforming Mars card game is as good as we’d hoped it would be

Ares Expedition captures the feel of the board game in a smaller, tighter package.

The 2016 board game Terraforming Mars is an amazing title.

As evidence, I present the following image:

Note: This image, of a chintzy player mat stamped with clip-art-quality design work, is not from the game we are looking at today. (credit: Nate Anderson)

If a game this ugly can capture the hearts, minds, and continued attention of the devotees of the overcrowded board game market to become a modern classic, you know it’s something special.

And if a board game becomes popular, you can be sure of one thing: A card game version will eventually arrive. If that’s a hit, get ready for the dice version. And then, market willing, comes the roll-and-write version. That may sound like cynical resignation to cash-grabby companies endlessly returning to the same well, but these reimagined versions aren’t necessarily a bad thing. In fact, some of my favorite games are card or dice versions of “bigger” board games.

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