Google, Circa 2001

An anonymous reader writes "If you have 10 minutes to spare, take a look at an archive that Google has posted to mark the company's 10th anniversary. The search engine and its results are based on data from 2001, but it's interesting to see what turns up when popular 2008 terms are entered. For instance, iPod generates a reference to Image Proof of Deposit Document Processing System, and the 771 Barack Obama results centered around his duties as an Illinois State Senator."

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Re:This is fucking cool

[suck_burners_rice]

Liberals claim abortion has something to do with the rights of the mother, like privacy rights or whatever such nonsense. But this is bullshit. It has nothing to do with anyone's rights and everything to do with reducing the world's population. Because they are population alarmists. Well, you know what? Unborn children have just as much right to be born and live as do the population alarmists who want to have those children killed. Because if it's OK to abort (read: KILL) fetuses that are nearly ready to be born, then why stop at birth? Why not make a law that you can abort any child, born or unborn, at any age? Heck, if you're a 72 year old parent and your 53 year old child is annoying you, then simply take them to one of your convenient neighborhood free government-run abortion clinics and have them aborted! How convenient! And why stop there? Why not build massive government-run gas chambers and put anyone in there who is disabled, sick, elderly, hard of hearing, nearsighted, or Jewish, and then burn the bodies and use the result to make soap! Why not? I'll tell you why not: Because it's MURDER, no matter what it's called and no matter how it's justified. Abortion is MURDER of a child! And when you make it OK to MURDER, then you've opened a door and taken a step down the path that leads to gas chambers and death camps. Who the hell does any living human think he is to decide who will live and who will die?

Re:This is fucking cool

[suck_burners_rice]

I don't think you meant "if it's illegal to stop abortion" -- I think you meant "if it's illegal to perform abortion" but thanks for your question: There is a huge difference between aborting an unborn child and, say, not giving money to a homeless person:

• In the case of abortion, you are acting with the intention of deliberately ending a life. Note the important point here: It is your intention to end the life and you are putting the life in that situation.
• In the case of not giving money to a homeless person, you are not actively and deliberately killing that person. You're not even the cause of his being homeless. You merely choose not to give money. If he dies, it is not your fault, since you did not cause him to be homeless.
• In the case of jumping on top of a grenade to save other people, it is an honorable thing for someone to give up his own life in order to save others. However, again, you are not the cause of that grenade being there. So if you choose not to jump on the grenade, it is not you who kills those around you, it is whoever threw the grenade at you. It's his fault.

In other words, there is NO moral equivalence between:

• The case of deliberately killing, where you are the one putting the life in danger, and:
• The case of how hard you try to save a life when whatever puts that life in danger is NOT the result of your actions.

Re:This is fucking cool

[moosesocks]

It would be relatively hard for her to do much worse than "Ich bin ein Berliner"

("I am a jelly donut" -- JFK)