Because it's a "notgame", or as I believe, more of a interactive demonstration.

For example, in this "notgame" he can either tell you how lonely people feel, or you can let you experience it yourself. Single box represents you, the other clumps of boxes represent people doing their own thing and enjoying, only to disperse whenever you approach them...

I think this allows for a deeper experience.

There are others, with similar deeper themes, like Freedom Bridge (you cross multiple barbed wires, all cut and bleeding, but you persevere, you reach a bridge and BAM! you are shot...let's you feel how a escapee of repressive regimes feel...) or The Killer (you take a person through a long through a picturesque scenery, only to shoot him at the end...)

These allow you feel the immerse in the situation and feel the conflicts on a slightly deeper level. These could be described, or presented in video form, but in these "notgames" you actually participate in the activity, and realise the consequences of an action first hand.

YMMV, but I like this games as a way to present a view point. You don't have to play them if you don't like, but if you want some one to *actually* understand the conflict, these "notgames" can be an interesting tool.

Holy google link, batman :D

Here is the actual link:

http://www.necessarygames.com/my-games

And damn, that was depressing. (parent had linked to the game "loneliness") But I see what you are getting at.

Speaking as an Anosmiac, the world *stills* fucking stinks... only I can't use my nose to avoid the stink...

Count your blessings bro/sis because you have never experienced the other side...my eating habits are a total mess because what seems perfectly normal and delectable to others feels absolutely disgusting to eat for me... I never know when I am danger of gas leaks, and I have sat still with the gas leaking, only for a relative to come in and start a panic. My dreams of chemistry education dashed because I could never smell those darn chemicals (Once my beaker of H2S leaked, and here I was standing wondering what the hell is going on, while every one runs away from the lab....)I have been tricked into disgusting things, and once have been pranked by having been sprayed on by a stink-spray, and not realising I was walking around the school being as aromatically pleasing as Pepe le Peu...

Life sucks, so grin and bear it.

Yes there is, try being a religious minority in Saudi Arabia(frankly, all non-wahabi), in Burma(muslims), In Srilanka(hindus)...

My country is a miserable, miserable place, but trust me, I have seen worse.

looks like it is down for all.

http://i.imgur.com/3VoQQ.png

The PTA (Pakistan Telecommunications Authority) has been on a MASSIVE crackdown to block unregistered SIMs...but with a zillion unregistered sims floating around (it was so bad that *hawkers* used to sell sims with attractive numbers on stands everywhere...) that nothing short of a blanket ban is effective.

They do this, things are cordoned off, barb wires, military snipers, the works, etc.

But you underestimate terrorists. My neighbour could be a terrorist and I would never know until I went BOOM.

Police have discovered cellphone-bombs in dustbins, and even bins used to house torn piece with Islamic words on them (they are then disposed of separately)...terrorists are like honeybadgers, they don't give a shit.

Hence the blanket downage.

Thank you once again for the extremely detailed explanation, I wish I had a teacher half as good as you, then I wouldn't be scrapping passes at 50.

Thanks for the kind explanation, you highlight the difference between studies and experience :)

My text clearly outlined the the various tax scheme categories -evasion,avoidance,reduction. Only Approved HMRC reduction schemes could be followed, and that evasion and avoidance were not allowed. Evasion was described as outright illegal acts, whilst avoidance was described as utilising loopholes(the double Irish and Dutch sandwich, plus tax havens etc were given as an example of various tax avoidance tactics)

Btw, I posted a reply to my comment, where I posted a wiki [1] link, where it says the UK govt and HMRC are starting to retrospectively attack tax avoidance schemes, so I guess the text was pre-emptively deciding the whole thing is bad? Then again, the whole course is about ethical moral fibre or whatever, so I guess they ward us off the bad streets of tax avoidance :D

Also, the whole ACCA course is full of American rule-based vs British principles-based approaches, and love to compare them, so I don't discount them dragging American troubles in British tax texts :D

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_avoidance#Government_and_judicial_response

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Sorry, That was a horrible typo, I meant if a tax *avoidance* scheme is technically legal...

I have studied Tax law in ACCA (paper F6), and there *is* a distinction; tax avoidance are pseudo-legal scheme, which are apparently legal, but HMRC *can* nab them if they can make a case, and apparently do so. Tax reduction are obviously legal schemes. My text pointed out the "Double Irish" as an example of a tax avoidance scheme, that while using legal "loopholes", is forbidden and can be penalised if caught.

I did questions on this shit, so at least theoretically possible, but if it is different in practice, then that's a separate story.

According to UK tax law, there is tax evasion(outright breaking the law), tax avoidance(using legal loopholes) and tax reduction(using approved tax reduction schemes). Only Tax reduction is allowed.

So even if Tax evasion is *technically* legal, HMRC (UK version of IRS) can and *will* nab you for contorting in thirty zillion angles just to avoid getting taxed.

ALL dependants are covered: women, Children (both boys and girls) *and* all workers whose work visa you have given.

If they are on your ID card (women and children don't get separate ID cards) or their Passport (as their "kafeel" caretaker, or visa giver, as it were), you need the Saudi man's permission to leave, and they will now be informed of it.

I think this system was made for the "worker" part of the category in mind; they want to know where their slaves^H^H^H^H^H^H are going, and if they are escaping. Poor labourers are practically indentured slaves, kept in live via the sword of heavy debt; I have know people try to escape by leaving everything behind with just the clothes on their backs. This is to prevent that.

Make of it as you will.

Thanks!