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Google Considers Taking Beta Tag Off Gmail
Barence writes "Google is considering removing the beta tag from Gmail — and other online services — a mere five years after it was first launched. Google has become somewhat synonymous with seemingly endless beta cycles. Many of the company's most famous services, including Gmail, Docs, and Calendar all still carry the beta tag. Google now admits the eternal beta cycles could be damaging consumer and business confidence in its online apps. 'It's a minor annoyance and something you'll see addressed in the not-too-distant future.'"
...at it's finest. Turns out that all of the Chrysler dealerships that are being closed down by the gov't - I repeat: being closed down by the gov't - contributed to Republican campaigns with the exception of a SINGLE dealership. Now what do you suppose the odds of that being a coincidence are? Is this the job creation that Obama promised us - taking revenge against private citizens and their employees? So much for a new era of responsibility, hope, change, etc. All Obama's talk of post-partisanship was campaign bullshit. Turns out he's the most vindictive son of a bitch since Andrew Jackson!
Get a brain, Chrysler is closing down those dealerships as part of its bankruptcy *because it ran its business poorly and is out of money*. It would have run out of money sooner without government bailouts. Unless you can prove that:
1) The government picked the dealerships to be closed
AND
2) A disproportionate number of dealerships were republican funders (e.g. how many of ALL Chrysler dealerships donated to the GOP verus number that were closed)
You're just making shit up. You cannot prove #1, so even if #2 is true it's Chrysler's decision, not the Government.
Are you honestly saying that Chrysler should get more government money to save their failing business? Isn't that Socialism?
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Are you honestly saying that Chrysler should get more government money to save their failing business? Isn't that Socialism?
That's not socialism. It's the next generation of trickle down economics.~
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You don't watch much news, do you? The President assassinated the character of Chrysler's debt holders in front of the media and threw their rights out the window. We have a very organized structure through which bankruptcy legal proceedings occur in this country, and this president shat all over them just so he could hand Chrysler over to his UAW buddies.
AFAIK The President has no such power over bankruptcy proceedings, and Chrysler is currently in bankruptcy proceedings. Further,I don't see how throwing out the bonds would make it more necessary to close dealerships, in fact, it would make it less necessary (fewer liabilities).
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That OPINION page (read: the place the papers throw unsubstantiated crap) merely documents unsubstantiated rumors that the Auto Task Force may have played a hand in selecting the dealerships to close. 88%[1] of political contributions by dealerships went to republicans, so if 90% of dealerships closed are republican that isn't a surprise. Sure the method used to select dealerships isn't clear, my guess is that larger dealerships were more likely to be axed (a smaller dealership is more appropriate for a smaller market). The most reliable source in the page is the lawyer for the axed firms, and it's his job to distort the facts to best benefit his clients (that isn't to attack lawyers, it's simply a truth of the profession).
Source[1]: http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/05/news-flash-car-dealers-are-republicans.html
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