The World According to Google

Ant writes "BBC News has an interesting article and a streaming video documentary on Google. It has interviews with Google staff and people who dislike the company. From the article: 'In the 18 months since its stock market flotation, Google has been transformed from a company that prided itself on being simple and effective, into a multi-headed high tech beast which wants to get involved in everything.'"

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Re:On the record

[Overly Critical Guy]

Your post proved my point. Mine was modded down to -1, while yours was modded up. The difference? Mine bashes liberals while yours bashes Republicans. I could swap Democrats for Republicans in your post and it would still be just as accurate:

I am generally more of a moderate (A moderate who hasn't posted to slashdot in about 3 years and no longer has the email account at which he can retrieve his password) and I have noticed a trend where the democrats accuse, in a specific and calculated way, republicans of the behavior that the democrats are engaging in.

They accuse the republicans of the politics of destruction
They accuse the republicans of arguing through emotion rather than reason
They accuse the republicans of not caring about our basic rights
They accuse the republicans of engaging in judicial activism.

I wasn't even talking about Democrats and Republicans; I was referring to the loony Ultra-Left that has taken over Slashdot moderation. If you bash the right, you get modded up; bash the left like I did, get modded down. It's sheepish groupthink.

Re:On the record

[Overly Critical Guy]

I just pointed out the 100% true fact that liberals can't argue anything. They won't argue; they'll call you names like "Nazi" while claiming to be tolerant. They can't accept when facts are put in their face and will just call Bush a "liar" again to distract the issue. This is the group of people who throws Oreo cookies at a black Republican and thinks that it's a meaningful, intellectual statement.

Conservative people don't take to the streets and wear Nazi gear while holding picket signs. Liberals are just really insane people, way out of the mainstream but in bed with the mainstream press which is the only reason we ever hear from them. It's the reason they keep losing elections. They think they're hip, enlightened people because they're liberal and "against the grain," when they're really just trendy counterculturalists. Whatever.