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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.'"
A saturation of Google news about yet another service or company take over is proof enough that they are far off course from their original "core" ideas.
Search engine technology has much to improve and I'm certain this can be done without Google controlling every aspect of my life.
I'm off the Google tit for now.
There are other search engines and for now spreading my use among all of them seems to be the best strategy.
Regardless, the cake-hole stuffing, Wall-Mart shopping public will no doubt care not.
Arnold Information Technology offers a CD with over 120 patents that can help predict Google's future plans. "Arnold said the CD contains patents clearly assigned to Google, but also with patents that Arnold believes are not assigned to Google, but that were filed by inventors working on behalf of Google. While a straightforward Google search on the U.S. Patents Office site finds just 14 patents, ArnoldIT's compilation lists nearly 10 times that number."
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...I hate George W. Bush and all of his people because they have done an incredible amount of damage to this nation I hold so dear. I hate them because they are professional liars, thieves, brigands without conscience. I hate them, fully and completely, on the record.
Yes, that is what liberals do today. They hate people. Instead of arguing their position, they just hate you and make sarcastic comments about you. It's all emotion instead of logic and reasoning. Argue with a conservative and they'll tell you exactly why you're wrong, why they think you're wrong, and the evidence supporting why you're wrong. Argue with a liberal, and they'll just throw emotion-based insults at you and call Bush a "liar." Witness it here on Slashdot where random anti-Bush comments are often modded up, while pro-Bush comments are modded down, furthering the censoring of opposing opinion. Your post is an obvious exception, but that's simply because you were obviously trolling.
Ann Coulter is right when she says the Left today doesn't know how to argue, so they resort to shouting you down with nude pickets and signs and endless Nazi references. They call themselves tolerant, but they're only tolerant of you if you don't hold a viewpoint opposing theirs.
"Sufferin' succotash."
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.
"Sufferin' succotash."
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.
"Sufferin' succotash."