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Submission + - Google Slowly Taking Over The World

newandyke writes: "Outside the Beltway's James Joyner starts from news this weekend that Google has filed a patent to compile psychological profiles of online gamers and looks at the privacy implications of Google's creeping acquisition of information on every bit of our lives. Links include a Guardian newspaper piece, the EPIC 2014 and EPIC 2015 videos, and the "Who's Not Afraid of Google" piece from Slashdot this morning."

Feed Absolutely SFW (theregister.com)

A sermon on modern safety

Stob Before I start, please take a moment or two to identify your exits, in the unlikely event of the alarm sounding during this article. These are clearly marked with a blue underline like this (nb this is not an actual exit, but just a demonstration of what an exit would look like if this were an exit. Do not click on this), and of course some of you may also be able to use your back button. At the first alarm, please click to escape immediately. Do not stop to gather your thoughts. Do not sit there gawping vaguely at the girl in the sidebar advertisement’s Flash animation.


Comment German government conspiracy? (Score 2, Interesting) 79

A quick glance at Wikipedia yielded some interesting figures about Boll's films:
The House of the Dead (budget: $12 million) broke $5.73 million on opening weekend, Alone in the Dark made over $5.1 million (budget: $20 million), and BloodRayne (budget: $25 million) topped $2.42 million.
There is also an answer to the question of how he continues to raise funding:
'Boll is able to acquire funding thanks to German tax laws that reward investments in film. The law allows investors in German-owned films to write off 100% of their investment as a tax deduction; it also allows them to invest borrowed money and write off any fees associated with the loan. The investor is then only required to pay taxes on the profits made by the movie; if the movie loses money, the investor gets a tax writeoff.'
Uwe Boll is a direct result of German tax policy. Looks like the Germans are having some kind of sick joke on our behalf.

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