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Google Founders Buy Fighter Jet
Ponca City, We love you writes "The NY Times reports that H211 LLC, a company controlled by Google's top executives, including billionaire founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, appears to have added to its fleet a Dornier Alpha Jet, a light jet attack and advanced trainer aircraft manufactured by Dornier of Germany and Dassault-Breguet of France. The 1982 Alpha-Jet seats two and was originally used by European air forces, but is now being sold relatively cheaply to civilians. The jet has landing rights at Moffett Field, the NASA-operated airfield that is a stone's throw from the Google campus. It is not clear who exactly flies the fighter jet, although Google chief executive Eric Schmidt is an avid pilot. If the top Googlers indeed own the fighter jet, they would be following in the footsteps of Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison, who has owned several aircraft, including fighter jets."
Next time you go to the sports drink section in your store. Chances are you will find red bull being nicely displayed and their competitors covered with sticky syrup. It is not that Red Bull is cleaner then the other guys. It is that their stockers will open a can of Red Bull and pore it on their competition. To make them less appealing to customers. So yes Red Bull is Evil.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
No, it's flamebait because this is Slashdot and the story is not about Bill Gates or Steve Ballmer, but about the Google founders.
You need to keep your eyes on the goalposts. They move a lot.
Web2.0: I love when people Flickr my cuil and digg my boingboing until my google is reddit and I start to yahoo
Troll? I think the moderation around here isn't exactly following the suggested form. You shouldn't mod down a person simply because you don't like what they say.
I mean what if I started doing that to the people who do it to me? (it's not so hard really to pick them out, three points makes a line in my book) I shall not of course. The moderation system is broken and I'll have no part of it, up or down.
But really, for those of you who do choose to moderate, maybe you could take it upon yourselves to try to understand the difference between an opinion that you do not like, and someone who has said something they don't really believe in order to garner a reaction.