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Google Opens Sydney Office, Internship Program
An anonymous reader writes "ZDNet is reporting that Google has kicked off an internship program that will see Australian university students work in projects in the company's Sydney office. Google's local head of engineering, Lars Rasmussen, said 5-10 spots would be made available, with both technical and non-technical positions on offer. ZDNet Australia also has pictures of the official opening of Google's Sydney office."
It wasn't founded by convicts you ignorant fuckwit - it was a penal colony for a time - same as the US was.
Actually, not only was it not founded by convicts, but it wasn't even a penal colony. It was originally a number of free colonies. They did accept convicts, but they weren't founded for that purpose.
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I'd perfer to live in a country founded by convicts rather then live in one thats run by a money grubbing oil monkey that kills innocent lives for his own greedy and capitalistic agenda.
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Some of the colonies were free colonies, some were free that later accepted criminals, and some were always penal colonies.
The nation of "Australia" didn't exist until federation in 1901. So the country Australia was not founded by convicts, but the colonies of New South Wales and Tasmania were.
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The British colonies in Australia were not merely founded as a dumping ground for criminals. There was a high strategic importance for a British colony in the Pacific - to thwart French ambitions must also be considered.
For example the French explorer Louis-Antoine de Bougainville arrived in what became French Polynesia in 1768 and claimed the islands for France. This roughly coincides with James Cook's first voyage of discovery (1768 - 1771) that resulted in the circumnavigation of New Zealand and the mapping of the east coast of Australia. There was definitely strong interest in the region from both the British and the French.
The unknown "Terra Australis" was seen as potentially an El Dorado, hiding great mineral and other natural wealth ready to be exploited. After all, the archipelago of Indonesia, then known as the Spice Islands, were an important source of income for the Spanish, Dutch and Portuguese.
Establishing a penal colony in such a remote location was a low risk method of establishing a permenant presence. If the colony was lost, nobody would miss a few convicts, foolhardy free adventurers and a detachment of Marines. If the penal colony was a success, Britain had expanded her empire and thus power.
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disclaimer: I used to work at Google.
Since I no longer work there, I can't really speak to the quality of the food these days, except I can make the observation that it's harder to cook for thousands of people than for hundreds of people.
In the early days, the food was *great*. There wasn't much of a selection, but as Charlie started cooking for more people, it improved. I don't know if I believe that it was enough of a reason to get a job there, but it was definitely the best company-supplied food I've ever eaten. That said, I did go out to lunch at least once a week, just for the change of scenery. And to avoid the long lines. (See, even when you've got it good you come up with something to complain about.)
Then I moved to New York. I was so disappointed with lunch there. (It has since improved substantially, but I doubt it will ever get to the level of Charlie's cooking.) Not only that, but for a while, lunch was only available 4 days a week (the official story being that Sergey wanted to encourage people to explore the restaurants in New York. Which generally meant exploring the takeout lunch place next door, so that didn't work so well.) What were the differences? Mountain View had food that was cooked onsite from organic ingredients and was actually healthy. The other offices (and I visited Santa Monica and Kirkland as well) had catered food that tended not to be.
I enjoy my food. Eating Charlie's food was an experience worth comparing to restaurants in New York. And it was impossible to beat the price. But as far as the best food available anywhere, it's always a good idea to get some variety in your life.
The last time I ate lunch in Mountain View (a few months ago) the food was still miles better than my college dining hall. The last time I ate in New York it was worse.
So my advice: if you're going to go work at Google, in an office outside of Mountain View, do it because of the people you'll be working with and the projects you'll be working on (which are worth it), not because of the free food. Chances are anywhere else you'd work would pay you enough for food anyways, so really, it's not *that* big a deal.