WTF? From 2001 until about 2007 Google was a seriously Good company. Their search page was clean and empty. Their SJW/delisting culture was nonexistent. You could send an email to them and they'd reply. Gaslighting doesn't work on people who were there.
Yeah, it's long been observed that the Left's outgroup is the Right. This is why it's so common to see really ugly slurs, firing people for opinions, beating people up for speaking, and so on. The Left/socialists consider them The Other and thus they are outside the law. You can do anything to them and there's no penalty, and the ingroup will even cheer.
Your inaccurate recapitulation of my argument reminds me of when the BBC interviewed Jordan Peterson and ignored everything he said. I'm saying if that's the worst criticism you can come up with, it's a big step forward. Typically people like you use vile slander. This is very mild. It's like people coming out and admitting Trump is not actually Adolf Hitler. So, you know, Progress!
I see they're giving it away for free again. You know what that means. If this catches on, Google will know everything about these people's lives. Even more terrifying, they'll be able to turn it *off* if they wish, or if ordered by government. Boy, I miss the days when Google was a Lawful Good company.
Wow, that's a step up from the usual criticism of the US military as murderers, monsters, uneducated deplorables, baby-killers, etc. If the best you can come up with is that their standards of elocution don't match what your never-served mind imagines fighter pilots must be like, I can only conclude that the US military has made great strides of improvement.
And aren't they proud to have the opportunity to practice the socialism they preach? Those that have wealth should have their wealth confiscated and given to those who are not. "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." It isn't that often that we get to actually implement our beliefs in daily life, and put our money behind it. I cheer for NY and CA as they get to uphold their deeply held beliefs.
As I have often heard, deserving has nothing to do with it. You comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. Moreover it is NY and CA who have, for decades, relentlessly mocked and despised the rest of America through their control of the media. The dislike they get is their own hate being returned to them. This is why hate is so toxic and wrong, because creates a vicious cycle.
"Republicans don't believe in the imagination, partly because so few of them have one, but mostly because it gets in the way of their chosen work, which is to destroy the human race and the planet. Human beings, who have imaginations, can see a recipe for disaster in the making; Republicans, whose goal in life is to profit from disaster and who don't give a hoot about human beings, either can't or won't."
-- Michael Feingold of the Village Voice, another angry partisan whiner like you.
The New York Times likes to put over-the-top columns on the op-ed page from both sides of the aisle.
Claiming that there are only two sides is part of the problem.
It's disingenuous for you to claim that the column you cited is indicative of the opinions of those who run the company.
The piece was written by Thomas Friedman. He has been the Times' foreign affairs columnist since 1995. He won three Pulitzer Prizes. To say that he doesn't represent his employer well is disingenuous.
he's criticizing the ineffectualness of America's system.
He's praising authoritarians because they can get things done. All of us know the sick, twisted history behind this idea. Hey, that Mussolini's not so bad, at least he made the trains run on time. I'll take the American system any day of the week. The Times said our system is worse than China's. That's wrong and it needs to be called out as the toxic speech that it is. A lot of people worship the New York Times, and they need to have it pointed out to them that their hero has feet of clay. The latest example, they wrote a lengthy article telling everyone how the tax cuts were going to make a hypothetical American couple pay $4,000 more in taxes this year. Oops, turns out they were going to save money. Another "accidental" mistake. What we should expect with journalistic "mistakes" is that they sometimes go in one direction, and other times go in the other direction. That's exactly what does not happen at the New York Times.
There is only one thing worse than one-party autocracy, and that is one-party democracy, which is what we have in America today.
One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also have great advantages. That one party can just impose the politically difficult but critically important policies needed to move a society forward in the 21st century. It is not an accident that China is committed to overtaking us in electric cars, solar power, energy efficiency, batteries, nuclear power and wind power. China's leaders understand that in a world of exploding populations and rising emerging-market middle classes, demand for clean power and energy efficiency is going to soar. Beijing wants to make sure that it owns that industry and is ordering the policies to do that, including boosting gasoline prices, from the top down.
On March 12, 2013, Clapper, then director of national intelligence, knowingly lied to the US Select Committee on Intelligence, when he was asked by Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) whether the National Security Agency collected "any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans."
"No sir. Not willingly," Clapper said.
The full extent of Clapper's unabashed dishonesty was revealed to the world just three months later, when NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden leaked troves of documents to Wikileaks detailing the agencyâ(TM)s vast, warrantless surveillance of American citizens.
"He admitted to lying to Congress and was unremorseful and flippant about it," Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) told the Washington Examiner. "The integrity of our federal government is at stake because his behavior sets the standard for the entire intelligence community." Massie was referring to Clapper, not the baseball player. Just to be clear.
Antifa are the brownshirts. Oh wait, sorry they wear masks, which makes them KKK. Hmm, they're not white, they wear black, which makes them blackshirts. There we go, always nice to establish a proper taxonomy.
A magazine is large, meant to be viewed two pages at a time. How do you look at something like that on a cell phone? Seems like it would either be way too small, or require a lot of pinching and zooming around all over the place. Also seems like it wouldn't be a good way to view the ads, and magazines are all about ads.
It must be nice being rich and being able to afford privacy. The rest of us don't even get asked if we'd like to pay more to keep our privacy. We get our data harvested like we are grain in the fields. Does a farmer ask his grain if it wants to be cut? So why would they need to ask us for our data?
So the party of identity politics isn't far enough left for you. You're right in one thing though, they're certainly not liberal. Liberals believe in free speech, today's Democrats do not see any value in dissenting speech at all.
Hey you wanted America World Police, remember? Isolationism is bad, mmmkay? So now America is being world police. Wait, is that bad again now? I'm so confused.
America DOES spend billions on keeping the trade routes open - for other countries. The US Navy is a subsidy for the whole world that American citizens see little benefit from. Could BRICS countries have risen if not for the Americans paying for them? But when it comes to spending at home, suddenly the purse is closed. That's globalism for you.
What has happened in America was literally a genocide. 2 million blacks have been "removed from the gene pool" since 1970. Abortion clinics are deliberately placed in black neighborhoods. This is not social justice.
Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion provider in America. 78% of their clinics are in minority communities. Blacks make up 12% of the population, but 35% of the abortions in America. Are we being targeted? Isn't that genocide? We are the only minority in America that is on the decline in population. If the current trend continues, by 2038 the black vote will be insignificant.
The most dangerous place for an African-American is not in school, it is in the womb.
Well, it's just funny how they've singled out American companies. I thought protectionism was wrong? Apparently it's only wrong when the Americans do it.
Europe has grown up with American subsidies, free defense provided by American taxpayers, access to the enormous American market to dump their goods, and regards this abusive relationship as the norm. And why shouldn't they? It's been like this since before they were born. America had to bribe Europe not to go Communist during the Cold War. Then, the Cold War ended and there was no further reason to continue the subsidies, but they continued. Now they're faced with the very real threat of losing these privileges, and they're freaking out about it. They literally cannot imagine life any other way. Protecting their own people while keeping their boot on the American worker's neck is the natural order of things.
Deep Space 9 is science fiction? Where's the science? There's no science. It's not science fiction. Deep Space 9 is a drama set in space. Heck, the later seasons are a serial, like a soap opera.
Status. They're fashionable. New dark blue jeans are associated with low status people, and nobody wants to be mistaken for a low status person. Imitating high status people is very deeply ingrained in humans, for good reason.
Big business likes to deal with big business. Small operations are unwanted and at best, a necessary evil. It's best if only a few large operators exist, that's just easier for the EU to deal with. Heck, Amazon is doing this right now too. Why have 4000 sellers of yoga mats when 40 will do? Get all the small shops closed down. Just deal with the big boys.
Slashdot already tried that, remember 'Beta'? People start making changes to Slashdot, it's going to kill the site. The temptation to make change for the sake of change is irresistible by designers. They need things to put on their resume for their next job, so they'll do all sorts of stupid shit and then leave. Leaving us users to deal with the fallout.
"Officially branch out from technology" WTF. That's how you kill a site. Tell the users to F off and go in a new direction. Remember Digg?
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WTF? From 2001 until about 2007 Google was a seriously Good company. Their search page was clean and empty. Their SJW/delisting culture was nonexistent. You could send an email to them and they'd reply. Gaslighting doesn't work on people who were there.
Yeah, it's long been observed that the Left's outgroup is the Right. This is why it's so common to see really ugly slurs, firing people for opinions, beating people up for speaking, and so on. The Left/socialists consider them The Other and thus they are outside the law. You can do anything to them and there's no penalty, and the ingroup will even cheer.
Your inaccurate recapitulation of my argument reminds me of when the BBC interviewed Jordan Peterson and ignored everything he said. I'm saying if that's the worst criticism you can come up with, it's a big step forward. Typically people like you use vile slander. This is very mild. It's like people coming out and admitting Trump is not actually Adolf Hitler. So, you know, Progress!
I see they're giving it away for free again. You know what that means. If this catches on, Google will know everything about these people's lives. Even more terrifying, they'll be able to turn it *off* if they wish, or if ordered by government. Boy, I miss the days when Google was a Lawful Good company.
Wow, that's a step up from the usual criticism of the US military as murderers, monsters, uneducated deplorables, baby-killers, etc. If the best you can come up with is that their standards of elocution don't match what your never-served mind imagines fighter pilots must be like, I can only conclude that the US military has made great strides of improvement.
Sadly, the Nobel Prize is a joke nowadays. Even the vaunted science prizes are typically won by white men.
And aren't they proud to have the opportunity to practice the socialism they preach? Those that have wealth should have their wealth confiscated and given to those who are not. "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." It isn't that often that we get to actually implement our beliefs in daily life, and put our money behind it. I cheer for NY and CA as they get to uphold their deeply held beliefs.
As I have often heard, deserving has nothing to do with it. You comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. Moreover it is NY and CA who have, for decades, relentlessly mocked and despised the rest of America through their control of the media. The dislike they get is their own hate being returned to them. This is why hate is so toxic and wrong, because creates a vicious cycle.
"Republicans don't believe in the imagination, partly because so few of them have one, but mostly because it gets in the way of their chosen work, which is to destroy the human race and the planet. Human beings, who have imaginations, can see a recipe for disaster in the making; Republicans, whose goal in life is to profit from disaster and who don't give a hoot about human beings, either can't or won't."
-- Michael Feingold of the Village Voice, another angry partisan whiner like you.
The New York Times likes to put over-the-top columns on the op-ed page from both sides of the aisle.
Claiming that there are only two sides is part of the problem.
It's disingenuous for you to claim that the column you cited is indicative of the opinions of those who run the company.
The piece was written by Thomas Friedman. He has been the Times' foreign affairs columnist since 1995. He won three Pulitzer Prizes. To say that he doesn't represent his employer well is disingenuous.
he's criticizing the ineffectualness of America's system.
He's praising authoritarians because they can get things done. All of us know the sick, twisted history behind this idea. Hey, that Mussolini's not so bad, at least he made the trains run on time. I'll take the American system any day of the week. The Times said our system is worse than China's. That's wrong and it needs to be called out as the toxic speech that it is. A lot of people worship the New York Times, and they need to have it pointed out to them that their hero has feet of clay. The latest example, they wrote a lengthy article telling everyone how the tax cuts were going to make a hypothetical American couple pay $4,000 more in taxes this year. Oops, turns out they were going to save money. Another "accidental" mistake. What we should expect with journalistic "mistakes" is that they sometimes go in one direction, and other times go in the other direction. That's exactly what does not happen at the New York Times.
It's been five years since former US spy chief James Clapper lied to Congress about the NSA's giant surveillance program, and the statute of limitations for his crime is coming to end, guaranteeing him a peaceful retirement.
On March 12, 2013, Clapper, then director of national intelligence, knowingly lied to the US Select Committee on Intelligence, when he was asked by Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) whether the National Security Agency collected "any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans."
"No sir. Not willingly," Clapper said.
The full extent of Clapper's unabashed dishonesty was revealed to the world just three months later, when NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden leaked troves of documents to Wikileaks detailing the agencyâ(TM)s vast, warrantless surveillance of American citizens.
In 2009, professional baseball player Miguel Tejada pleaded guilty to lying to Congress after giving false testimony about performance-enhancing drug use in Major League Baseball.
"He admitted to lying to Congress and was unremorseful and flippant about it," Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) told the Washington Examiner. "The integrity of our federal government is at stake because his behavior sets the standard for the entire intelligence community." Massie was referring to Clapper, not the baseball player. Just to be clear.
In other news, an unprecedented number of former CIA agents are running for office in 2018 as Democrats. Once in the CIA, always in the CIA. They will always represent the Agency's interests, no matter what walk of life they progress to. Get out there and vote, people. Bring a couple of friends to vote. It's the only way we'll get our country back.
Antifa are the brownshirts. Oh wait, sorry they wear masks, which makes them KKK. Hmm, they're not white, they wear black, which makes them blackshirts. There we go, always nice to establish a proper taxonomy.
A magazine is large, meant to be viewed two pages at a time. How do you look at something like that on a cell phone? Seems like it would either be way too small, or require a lot of pinching and zooming around all over the place. Also seems like it wouldn't be a good way to view the ads, and magazines are all about ads.
Flatiron neighborhood of Manhattan - Soho
It must be nice being rich and being able to afford privacy. The rest of us don't even get asked if we'd like to pay more to keep our privacy. We get our data harvested like we are grain in the fields. Does a farmer ask his grain if it wants to be cut? So why would they need to ask us for our data?
The short version is that they arrested the CEO of a company which proactively markets its services to criminal organizations.
HSBC provided banking services to terrorists - actual, blow things up and kill people terrorists - and no CEO went to jail for that.
So the party of identity politics isn't far enough left for you. You're right in one thing though, they're certainly not liberal. Liberals believe in free speech, today's Democrats do not see any value in dissenting speech at all.
Hey you wanted America World Police, remember? Isolationism is bad, mmmkay? So now America is being world police. Wait, is that bad again now? I'm so confused.
America DOES spend billions on keeping the trade routes open - for other countries. The US Navy is a subsidy for the whole world that American citizens see little benefit from. Could BRICS countries have risen if not for the Americans paying for them? But when it comes to spending at home, suddenly the purse is closed. That's globalism for you.
It's a trick. Get an axe.
What has happened in America was literally a genocide. 2 million blacks have been "removed from the gene pool" since 1970. Abortion clinics are deliberately placed in black neighborhoods. This is not social justice.
The most dangerous place for an African-American is not in school, it is in the womb.
Well, it's just funny how they've singled out American companies. I thought protectionism was wrong? Apparently it's only wrong when the Americans do it.
Europe has grown up with American subsidies, free defense provided by American taxpayers, access to the enormous American market to dump their goods, and regards this abusive relationship as the norm. And why shouldn't they? It's been like this since before they were born. America had to bribe Europe not to go Communist during the Cold War. Then, the Cold War ended and there was no further reason to continue the subsidies, but they continued. Now they're faced with the very real threat of losing these privileges, and they're freaking out about it. They literally cannot imagine life any other way. Protecting their own people while keeping their boot on the American worker's neck is the natural order of things.
Deep Space 9 is science fiction? Where's the science? There's no science. It's not science fiction. Deep Space 9 is a drama set in space. Heck, the later seasons are a serial, like a soap opera.
Status. They're fashionable. New dark blue jeans are associated with low status people, and nobody wants to be mistaken for a low status person. Imitating high status people is very deeply ingrained in humans, for good reason.
Big business likes to deal with big business. Small operations are unwanted and at best, a necessary evil. It's best if only a few large operators exist, that's just easier for the EU to deal with. Heck, Amazon is doing this right now too. Why have 4000 sellers of yoga mats when 40 will do? Get all the small shops closed down. Just deal with the big boys.
Slashdot already tried that, remember 'Beta'? People start making changes to Slashdot, it's going to kill the site. The temptation to make change for the sake of change is irresistible by designers. They need things to put on their resume for their next job, so they'll do all sorts of stupid shit and then leave. Leaving us users to deal with the fallout.
"Officially branch out from technology" WTF. That's how you kill a site. Tell the users to F off and go in a new direction. Remember Digg?