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Google Honors Veterans Day, Finally
theodp writes "It took nearly a decade, but Google has done a turnabout and is honoring Veterans Day with a special holiday design for its famous logo. Users who log onto Google's home page are greeted with three World War I-era helmets capping the letters 'o' and 'e' in Google's name. The decoration is a marked departure for the company, which has come under fire from veterans' groups for ignoring American holidays such as Veterans Day and Memorial Day since Google's inception in 1999."
No. Fuck off and die.
Groups of Americans are attacking Google over something asinine to distract the attention from the real, severe problems of the USA, such as an absolute lack of and desdain for ecology, corporativism (DRM, patents, digital AIDS in general), massive external debt (on par with many third world countries), and the fact that they have the redneck village idiot in the white house.
I was about to say 13256278887989457651018865901401704640, but it appears this number is private property.
Uh, November the 11th sort of is an internationally observed day
Yes, absolutely - 11.11 at 11:11 is the official beginning of Carnival in Munich.
Another drift - IMO, Googles giving in is regrettible.
All this glorification of destructive force is one of the greatest shams running - right next to religion and no sex before marriage.
No soldiers & no polititian can use them for mischief, period! All this hollabaloo is necessery to keep the exploit going.
There are much more efficient ways possible. Put the jerks in a boxing ring. Bush and Ahmadinejad - aren't they about the same size? Let them bang it out, put the money saved in infrastructure, education and research and watch the change in a country after a decade!
Wow, world-wide Google finally honours a solely American holiday.
What took them so long? Common sense? psh. This is America buddy! got off your heathen muslim ass and f#{)en celebrate!
Ace
You didn't fight FOR my rights. You fought AGAINST them.
you are a pussy
Therein lies the problem, remembrance/armistice day commemorations involve poppies as part of the imagery, poppies are red flowers, reds are commie bastards and flowers are inherently homosexual, can you really blame the Yanks for wanting their own straight and god fearing celebration of US military might in place of this namby pamby flowery wreath laying affair the rest of the world(poofs the lot of us) indulge in? ;)
Whoever came up with the tag titles, go f*ck yourself.
Respectfully,
A US Military Veteran
What is missing from your analysis is that those attacking do so because they are trying to change that outrage into dollars. Many of the MIA logos and flags that pollute the USA came about because of a lobbying group that more or less fleeces the families of those who went missing in action. It was a lot cheaper for them to stir up "outrage" and lobby for symbols than to actually do anything that might clear up the MIA status, but that assumes the MIA lobby actually cares.
I was sickened last time I went to the USA at how many of these flags still fly in front of capitol buildings and courthouses. It just seemed like a fetish, like some sort of Orwellian loyalist symbol. To me, this brouhaha about Google is just another case of advocacy groups picking easy fights to justify their endless demands for donations.
And what problem do you have with setting aside a day to say "Hey Grandpa, thanks for your sacrifice. While I may be a whining, sniveling, armchair foreign policy analyst, I haven't become SO retarded as to think that I'd be better off if, say, NAZI GERMANY had won..." ?
:) "Look at me! I went to (or am in) college, so I'm smart! WEEEEEE.....YAYYY...WOHOOOO..." :) So cute..
Besides, most Americans know that politicians are just a layer or two below pedophiles and will take ANY opportunity to get some limelight action... We know it's about the troops. I've never seen anyone walk up to a politician (unless he/she is a veteran) and say "Thanks for your service to our country." (people looking for favors notwithstanding).
You self important wieners are comical, actually.
This editor needs to not only be removed from Slashdot, but he should be removed from the gene pool if he is capable of reproducing. Slashdot minions UNITE! We must put an end to this.
By the way--
Just because Google has been around since '99 does NOT mean that it has been changing its logos for holidays since then. That is a false assumption, KDAWSON. As is the *****ing assumption that Google has truly come "under fire." Veterans have much more important things to focus on, moron.
2) Someone who advocates raping and murdering others because they don't like their pollitical opinions has no business calling someone else "insane" or "fascist". Hint: that would be you, Chuckles. Uhm. Pot kettle black?
You fight for your government.
Both things are not always on the same side, I am sorry to say.
WWII yeah, sure.
Bosnia, Yugoslavia, yeah, sure.
First Gulf War, yes.
Afghanistan: most likely yes.
WWI: mmmmhhh, maybe, not entirely sure.
Korea: no.
Vietnam: no.
Iraq: no.
Nevertheless I respect people that have the balls to become soldiers, at least in a democracy it is possible to somehow punish the asses that on occasions lead such lions like you buddy. You deserve better that the people leading you today, but don't be mistaken, in occasions these people ask you to make sacrifices that have nothing to do with anybody's rights.
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
Quite. Given Google is very selective about picking the cream of the crop as their employees, you'd expect their employees to be disproportionately liberal.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
To the right wing nimrod (pardon the redundancy) who modded parent flamebait: it's the hard truth. Deal with it.
I think you misspelled "republicanism".
Cheers.
This is my sig. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
A company with a long history of bad behavior finally gives one ounce of respect to the troops, and a left-wing nut who's got editor controls tags it "whining, whiners, insane".
Meanwhile, it celebrates the Religion of Hate's "eid" festival at the end of ramalamadingdong, but won't so much as put up a christmas tree.
Google has some SERIOUS issues. And that's not even counting the number of times they've flagged anti-terrorism videos and film expose's of terrorists as "hate speech" and other bullshit stuff on their google video and youtube sites, while allowing pro-jihadist propaganda to stay around.
Hell, they allowed an islamic death threat against a UK politician to stay up for a week.
No, just the cream of the crop. Basically we're smarter than you are. Smart people don't vote Republican.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
Well, I'm pretty sure you're not. The overwhelming evidence is that smarter people don't vote republican. As we can see, indeed, from Google's employee demographic: very smart people (some of the smartest in the country), mostly liberal.
Sorry to disappoint you, but the evidence isn't supporting your conclusion. Also you don't appear to understand the English language, based upon the rest of your comment, which doesn't have much to do with anything I wrote. Don't worry too much about that, Loundry - the GGP - is afflicted with a similar comprehension problem.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.