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Has Google Redefined Beta?
netbuzz writes "Someone finally took the time to do a count of all the Google apps marked 'beta.' And with fully 45% of its products carrying that familiar tag — including 4-year-old Gmail — Google says there's an explanation: Beta doesn't mean to them what it has long meant to the rest of the tech community. 'We believe beta has a different meaning when applied to applications on the Web,' says a company spokesman."
I sincerely apologize for coopting a thread with a post that is not related to the topic of hand. However, there is some big new out there that needs discussing. Bigger than the election. Bigger than a $700 Billion dollar bail out. It will affect you very deeply. Please read here.
I understand if you mod me offtopic, but you need to read this and get your hot grits ready.
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-- Snake inspects his haul
Oh no! Beta!
I want to be retired when I grow up.
Maybe Bush is running Google.
don't you mean Clinton? I do not believe a blowjob is a sexual relation.
... right, so the US is using socialist policies to fix it?
I don't think so. I think someone has finally realized that the good ole USA can't rely on capitalism and constant bull economies to keep it on top. It has to switch to a sustainable model... like the rest of the world.
Thank goodness, too. Those darn americans were starting to think they were invincible, and that they could invade anywhere, for no reason!
You can't explain away fiscal irresponsibility. What the Government did in the Clinton era is force fiscal irresponsibility on Fannie and Freddie. In other words they forced them to have a certain percentage of loans to low income applicants. These were the first loans to default and get foreclosed upon. It doesn't account for the entire problem. It actually was much larger and did include private companies who were greedy. But the kick-start of this problem was the enforcement of bad business practices upon the big lenders by the federal government under the Clinton Administration.