Kroger gives you something for tracking you at thier stores. No comparison.
Credit card spending habits are anonymized. They know that a certain kind of person made a roughly categorized type of purchase. They have no idea what products you bought etc. No comparison.
Right. Being a product manufacturer they just recognized a person's data as sacred and something to be respected.
The other "tech" firms were only ever able to monetize by serving ads. As soon as they went down that rabbit hole they got data greedy. Thier survival depends on getting data every which way from Sunday. They only way they can collect it and have it mean anything is to pin it to an identifiable person...otherwise thier data becomes detached and meaningless.
This has all come about quite unexpectedly. At first we were cool with Google showing us ads to use thier search. It felt a little dirty but some thing had to pay for that amazing and much needed service.
Going public, they needed to grow. There was no way to use thier data to grow unless they could track trends to a person.
Imagine trying to make sense of website traffic without attaching it to an IP address or session. Garbage data without the identifier.
Now we are asking regulators to let the air out of this massive industry.
Don't even get me started on Facebook. The value they provide doesn't even come close to Google and they are harvesting much more personal information.
They do not pay taxes, ever. The customers do. Customers are those same employees. Taxing a corporation is creating higher prices for people. MAnagerial Accounting 101: profit = price - (expenses + taxes)
All progressive dogma always falls away when it hits home. I knew a hardcore liberal pacifist that came storming to my house one night to borrow one of my guns because he got into some shit with his girlfriend's ex-husband. He foresaw himself shooting this guy because he was so pissed at him, not because he was in fear for his life. Of course I did the responsible thing and gave him a shotgun and some skeet shells.
"will serve the public interest by providing for innovative device control features using touchless hand gesture technology"
Sounds like one of those statements that I would write and my manager would send out in an email to the executive board with his name on it. Is it that our society is in free-fall or that life has always been like this and we are constantly faced with it due to the speed at which information now travels?
Lol. I know. I didn't notice anything until I saw a story on hacker news about the change. Immediately my brow furrowed and I inspected the UI and conjered up anger at the change. Still didn't notice anything but I'm pissed.
Google doesn't have customers, it has users. Real companies with customers have a customer support phone number you can call to get help with the products.
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Add this the likely pile of Oracle human atrocities.
Go to the bathroom and wash the cheeto dust from your hands you Harry Potter douche.
Kroger gives you something for tracking you at thier stores. No comparison.
Credit card spending habits are anonymized. They know that a certain kind of person made a roughly categorized type of purchase. They have no idea what products you bought etc. No comparison.
Apple could double if they tracked and sold customer data.
No taxes!? Hold up, is that a thing? Sign me the fuck up.
Right. Being a product manufacturer they just recognized a person's data as sacred and something to be respected.
The other "tech" firms were only ever able to monetize by serving ads. As soon as they went down that rabbit hole they got data greedy. Thier survival depends on getting data every which way from Sunday. They only way they can collect it and have it mean anything is to pin it to an identifiable person...otherwise thier data becomes detached and meaningless.
This has all come about quite unexpectedly. At first we were cool with Google showing us ads to use thier search. It felt a little dirty but some thing had to pay for that amazing and much needed service.
Going public, they needed to grow. There was no way to use thier data to grow unless they could track trends to a person.
Imagine trying to make sense of website traffic without attaching it to an IP address or session. Garbage data without the identifier.
Now we are asking regulators to let the air out of this massive industry.
Don't even get me started on Facebook. The value they provide doesn't even come close to Google and they are harvesting much more personal information.
Fun 2 play?
Yawn. We have been hacking this shit for decades. CO2 bottles FTW.
They do not pay taxes, ever. The customers do. Customers are those same employees. Taxing a corporation is creating higher prices for people. MAnagerial Accounting 101: profit = price - (expenses + taxes)
Completely true story.
You are completely full of dog shit. All of those employees pay a massive amount of taxes. Employers should not be taxed, you are correct on that.
All progressive dogma always falls away when it hits home. I knew a hardcore liberal pacifist that came storming to my house one night to borrow one of my guns because he got into some shit with his girlfriend's ex-husband. He foresaw himself shooting this guy because he was so pissed at him, not because he was in fear for his life. Of course I did the responsible thing and gave him a shotgun and some skeet shells.
Why does anyone care about this? Does anyone care? If so, why?
It is your duty to avoid all possible taxes, period.
Christopher Dale Reimer.
There are some pretty sexually obsessed people here who wee him everywhere, behind every AC...etc..
I often make a bag of popcorn and curl up with my iPad to read the fat IT clerk comments and follow the posted video links.
Google wins, you lose. Faintly opaque commentary and missing details at 6 and 11.
"will serve the public interest by providing for innovative device control features using touchless hand gesture technology"
Sounds like one of those statements that I would write and my manager would send out in an email to the executive board with his name on it. Is it that our society is in free-fall or that life has always been like this and we are constantly faced with it due to the speed at which information now travels?
Oh thank god. Where have you been my whole life?!
I like hamburgers better.
I likes.
Yeah, it's called money. All you need is money.
Lol. I know. I didn't notice anything until I saw a story on hacker news about the change. Immediately my brow furrowed and I inspected the UI and conjered up anger at the change. Still didn't notice anything but I'm pissed.
Next year's innovation....tabs at the bottom!!
Google doesn't have customers, it has users. Real companies with customers have a customer support phone number you can call to get help with the products.
Google"helps" the products and owes them nothing.
That long press and other assorted hidden UI features suck balls. Total anti-pattern when required to perform a nessesary action.
Now I have that mutherfucking song stuck in my head again.