Just wanted to add the little detail that the dog that was involved in the 2005 incident didn't attack the woman. Out of context this sounds like a horror movie.

The woman's been unconscious on the ground and the animal seemed to be trying to wake her up. More can be read on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabelle_Dinoire

German article taking apart some of that "hard, unfiltered truth": http://t3n.de/news/google-geisterstadt-371000/

Google Translate: http://translate.google.de/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Ft3n.de%2Fnews%2Fgoogle-geisterstadt-371000%2F

Here in Germany, we pay the price as displayed, no matter how we pay. I actually expect that!

Everything else seems stupid, not?

What parallel world Europe do you come from? Earth-Two Europe?

That doesn't sound like very much money and messing with legos every day would get boring quick.

Guess that pretty much says everything about your childhood. ;-P

Not so much considering he gets to play with Lego bricks all day long. It may be a waste of his talent, but hell, who cares if he enjoys it.

How much do you earn and is your job as entertaining as his will be?

I'd quit my (better payed) job not thinking twice if I get offered that position.

That could take the Worms games series to a whole new level. Fuck Kinect!

Don't cross the streams!

... that my diet doesn't find any of my accounts in that data.

Dead-on. Just experienced this yesterday. Had all the code ready for a project but the UI was rather simple. He was like "that's nothing". The review would've been more successful if I had spend half the day on a shiny interface mockup and pasted a jpeg into the app. I'm sure he wouldn't even have noticed it.

heise.de has reported that Laserdrome-like games will be banned, too, if they really get this thing through.

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Gotcha-Koalition-plant-Paintball-Verbot--/meldung/137455 (german article)