In November of last year, the SF Weekly published a cover story on the all-out duck fight going on between the city's rival amphibious tours, Bay Quackers and Ride the Ducks. Bay Quackers is the smaller, locally owned business that's been around about five years; Ride the Ducks belongs to the bible-kissing, Georgia-based corporate monolith, Herschend Entertainment Company, which owns duck tours, aquariums, and theme parks nationwide (including Dollywood!).
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Three guards employed by Akal Security, a prominent New Mexico-based corporation that contracts with federal courthouses around the country, are making some pretty shocking claims about their employer and workplace -- the Northern District Court in San Francisco.
Their complaint, filed recently in San Francisco Superior Court, says that inside the glistening walls of the federal courthouse at 450 Golden Gate Avenue, all kinds of safety violations involving
Robert Pedraza By C. Stiles In our cover story last week, Worms in the Apple, writer Tim Elfrink detailed the saga of the Rudy and Robert Pedraza, a couple of rogue computer programming brothers who hacked Apple's OS X and retooled it for use on cheaper PCs.Elfrink wrote about how legal experts believed that the Pedraza brothers had a chance to prevail in
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