Google explicitly stated in their blog that they (the executives in the U.S.) made the decisions on their own and without consulting their Chinese employees.
It still has the individual mandate. Without the Public Option, the mandate is worse than nothing since the health insurance firms now have a captive audience.
NASA already puts up tons of pretty pictures under the public domain. What more do you want? Itemized billing for all of the missions etc. dating back to Apollo 11?
Do they just have interns punching away at Word documents or have they commissioned some sort of specialized collaboration software?
You mean, right now? Of course they have interns punching away at Word. This is America (TM). More specifically, it's the U.S. Federal government. So far as I can tell, there's only one major part of the federal gov't with a clue about technology: the FCC, and they're only slightly more important than Canada (i.e. no one cares).
Google is leaving China because China has been trying to "hack" Google. by that I mean, they used disreputable means to gain access to and undermine Google's technology and resources with the goal of using Google as a vector to attack other American businesses and interests.
There are some questions as to the extent of the Chinese government's involvement in said "hacking". In other words, Google has always wanted to pull out/stop censoring, and they finally found an excuse to tell their shareholders.
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That's an excellent coding analogy, but this is /. Could you please rewrite it in the form of a poorly-thought-out and clear-as-mud car analogy?
What about Hillary Clinton's speeches? </sarcasm>
You'd think they'd start with Nigeria.
their uncensored Hong Kong-tbased google.com.hk servers
If I know anything about genetics there must be some adenine base servers directly opposite these servers. Can they start redirecting traffic there?
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FTFY.
Google explicitly stated in their blog that they (the executives in the U.S.) made the decisions on their own and without consulting their Chinese employees.
HTC is in Taiwan. Does China even recognize the existence of Taiwan? I think not.
Google doesn't want to provoke China to take its employees hostage or something.
I don't think Google goes to the extent of saying "your query is against U.S. law so we won't give you results", as they once did in China.
They might just wait for him to die and then overthrow the government.
You mean the Whiskey Rebellion?
... this whole thing must be part of some diabolically clever evil plan.
You mean like New Coke was?
It still has the individual mandate. Without the Public Option, the mandate is worse than nothing since the health insurance firms now have a captive audience.
I don't know aboot that...
NASA already puts up tons of pretty pictures under the public domain. What more do you want? Itemized billing for all of the missions etc. dating back to Apollo 11?
Such as ACTA!
the real world is [...] complex
Hmm...
5=3+4i ?
Nope, still don't get it. Are you talking about absolute value or something?
Even a spreadsheet,
At which point you start fighting OOXML vs. ODF (i.e. *.xls vs. *.xlsx vs. *.ods).
Do they just have interns punching away at Word documents or have they commissioned some sort of specialized collaboration software?
You mean, right now? Of course they have interns punching away at Word. This is America (TM). More specifically, it's the U.S. Federal government. So far as I can tell, there's only one major part of the federal gov't with a clue about technology: the FCC, and they're only slightly more important than Canada (i.e. no one cares).
I'm sure you can find a private school that specializes in "special needs".
Socialists? In Sarah Palin's backyard? Really???
No, they might actually do that (you might well be alluding to something, but it's too obscure for me).
<small>oh, thank you...--</small>
<big>I'm sorry m'am, I know you're upset</big>
<small>Pretend to be upset</small>
(/. doesn't support those tags properly, nor does it support <font>)
[from his sig] /dev/mem | strings | grep -i llama
# cat
cat: /dev/mem: Operation not permitted
Yes, I did log in as root, no I don't understand what the fuck is going on (I saw something similar once).
Here (warning: US-centric). What's your opinion?
Google is leaving China because China has been trying to "hack" Google. by that I mean, they used disreputable means to gain access to and undermine Google's technology and resources with the goal of using Google as a vector to attack other American businesses and interests.
There are some questions as to the extent of the Chinese government's involvement in said "hacking". In other words, Google has always wanted to pull out/stop censoring, and they finally found an excuse to tell their shareholders.