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11 Jan

Microsoft cashing in on poverty, Patents ‘Avoid Ghetto’ Feature For GPS Devices

in Class Divide, Science & Technology, WTF?!
WARSAW GHETTO, POLAND ---JEWISH GHETTO POLICE ...

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Nice.

ghet·to (gt)

n. pl. ghet·tos or ghet·toes

1. A usually poor section of a city inhabited primarily by people of the same race, religion, or social background, often because of discrimination.

2. An often walled quarter in a European city to which Jews were restricted beginning in the Middle Ages.

3. Something that resembles the restriction or isolation of a city ghetto: "trapped in ethnic or pink-collar managerial job ghettoes" (Diane Weathers).

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