The Google workers I've encountered all seemed to have an imaginatively high opinion of themselves. It must be difficult for many of them to accept that the general public has opened its eyes.
That they are now widely regarded as enemies of freedom. That people see their despicable surveillance-based business model and recoil in disgust.
That Google's obsession with constantly snooping and spying positively reeks of oppressive state surveillance, and people can no longer ignore the smell. That almost everyone sees Google's obvious love for censorship as inherently untrustworthy.
That with the now widespread recognition Google has become too powerful, more and more people there are calling for Google/Alphabet to be broken up.
Fedgov is totally capable of running its own email system, should it choose to do so. The point of outsourcing is for some well-connected capitalists to get a nice fat Federal contract.
Of course not. Billionaires assiduously avoid ersonal interaction with us proles. Kinda like farmers don't socialize with the cattle they are planning to slaughter.
I don't know much about Canadian politics. Do your parties have significant policy differences?
In America, we get to vote for one faction of the Capitalist Party, or the other faction of the Capitalist Party. So elections are contested over personality and small, divisive but ultimately insignificant differences in social policy.
Here in Vietnam it's much the same. In every election people get to choose between at least two, often four, candidates from the Communist Party. Who have roughly as much diversity of views between them as our "two parties" do in America.
Personally I think it's a-okay that B. Clinton got lots of blowjobs in the White House. Go him!
The reason I don't like Bill Clinton is that he did his very best to dismantle what little industry remained in America, and mostly succeeded at that despicable endeavor.
Certainly the tone of divisive recrimination, minus any actual significant policy differences, is likely to have lowered voter turnout. But I think it would be pretty optimistic to blame that on any one actor.
It seems cultural. I don't have any solid answer for why it's happening. I suspect it had something to do with common people's access to information expanding at an astronomical rate, while at the same time most other traditional measures of freedom are rapidly declining.
You spend a _lot_ of time making baseless accusations and otherwise lowering the tone of the debate.
So who exactly pays you for your quite diligent astroturfing & trolling work? You have nothing interesting to say, so I just don't believe you're doing it for fun.
Is it a Democrat party affiliated PR firm? Some minor fiefdom of the US military industrial complex? Neoliberal international capitalists as symbolized by Soros (who may or may not have any actual involvement)? Russian military/intelligence services? Chinese military/intelligence services?
Whatever you do, don't blame the (heinously unpopular for years & years before the election) losing candidate for losing the election. Blame Canada instead!
Here we have a use of juridical authority so undividedly popular, so obviously righteous, so manifestly in the public interest, that it can only be done in utter secrecy.
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Naw broham. I'm an American, and I live in Vietnam.
How's the air pollution in Beijing today?
The Google workers I've encountered all seemed to have an imaginatively high opinion of themselves. It must be difficult for many of them to accept that the general public has opened its eyes.
That they are now widely regarded as enemies of freedom. That people see their despicable surveillance-based business model and recoil in disgust.
That Google's obsession with constantly snooping and spying positively reeks of oppressive state surveillance, and people can no longer ignore the smell. That almost everyone sees Google's obvious love for censorship as inherently untrustworthy.
That with the now widespread recognition Google has become too powerful, more and more people there are calling for Google/Alphabet to be broken up.
Fedgov is totally capable of running its own email system, should it choose to do so. The point of outsourcing is for some well-connected capitalists to get a nice fat Federal contract.
You've got yours, so screw those deplorables.
Comparing a consumer 3D printer to a factory is like comparing a hand-cranked mimeograph machine to a commercial offset press.
Wow, $15/hr, taxed as self-employment. That's worse pay than flipping burgers at McDonald's. What a great "business"!
Are you a business owner today, or an employee? I've been both.
Of course not. Billionaires assiduously avoid ersonal interaction with us proles. Kinda like farmers don't socialize with the cattle they are planning to slaughter.
I don't know much about Canadian politics. Do your parties have significant policy differences?
In America, we get to vote for one faction of the Capitalist Party, or the other faction of the Capitalist Party. So elections are contested over personality and small, divisive but ultimately insignificant differences in social policy.
Here in Vietnam it's much the same. In every election people get to choose between at least two, often four, candidates from the Communist Party. Who have roughly as much diversity of views between them as our "two parties" do in America.
Is Wikipedia your source of "truth"? Even when the assertion contradicts what is obvious to everyone?
Can a given communication device be lawfully sold in the United States, Russia, and/or China? If so, it spies on you!
In Soviet America, laws enforce the courts!
TL;DR summary:
Businessman subject to repressive government publicly promises to obey edicts of repressive government.
Also, if you believe that, you'll also believe the sky is plaid and water is dry.
Obvious bullshit. Sorry.
Following the rules is easy when you write the rules.
My neighbor's dead dog voted for Gary Johnson. Just sayin'...
Personally I think it's a-okay that B. Clinton got lots of blowjobs in the White House. Go him!
The reason I don't like Bill Clinton is that he did his very best to dismantle what little industry remained in America, and mostly succeeded at that despicable endeavor.
Certainly the tone of divisive recrimination, minus any actual significant policy differences, is likely to have lowered voter turnout. But I think it would be pretty optimistic to blame that on any one actor.
It seems cultural. I don't have any solid answer for why it's happening. I suspect it had something to do with common people's access to information expanding at an astronomical rate, while at the same time most other traditional measures of freedom are rapidly declining.
Proposal: the word "lawyer" be replaced by the more aptly descriptive word "tergiversator".
You spend a _lot_ of time making baseless accusations and otherwise lowering the tone of the debate.
So who exactly pays you for your quite diligent astroturfing & trolling work? You have nothing interesting to say, so I just don't believe you're doing it for fun.
Is it a Democrat party affiliated PR firm? Some minor fiefdom of the US military industrial complex? Neoliberal international capitalists as symbolized by Soros (who may or may not have any actual involvement)? Russian military/intelligence services? Chinese military/intelligence services?
Whatever you do, don't blame the (heinously unpopular for years & years before the election) losing candidate for losing the election. Blame Canada instead!
Will be share his cell in the Gulag with Beijing Hillary?
In America, de facto, programmers are not allowed to sit on a jury.
Here we have a use of juridical authority so undividedly popular, so obviously righteous, so manifestly in the public interest, that it can only be done in utter secrecy.
But how could we be free if we weren't spied on 24/7/365?