"Leftist" is meaningless here. I've met a few Googlers. They were all hyperconformist corporate drones. But it's a Norcal company - so they conform by dressing like slovenly college kids and loudly voicing their agreement with the latest batshit pumped out by the corporate progressive propaganda apparatus.
It's time for President Trump to get out his trust-busting stick. Break up Alphabet!
Android - separate company Chrome - separate company YouTube - separate company Gmail - separate company Search - separate company Advertising - separate company Maps - separate company
Arrest Sundar Pichai and the executive team. Destroy all the mass surveillance data. Shut down the dangerous mad science projects. Arrest the nazi mad scientists. Shut down the wannabe-Skynet AI. Arrest those mad scientists too.
I'm surprised anyone still believes Big Brother Google makes their money from _advertising_. It's been obvious for quite a while now that they are in the dystopian mass surveillance and censorship business. They just claim it's for "advertising purposes" so people will think it's merely annoying rather than unamerican and full-on evil.
Who would pay for dystopia? Probably not companies selling widgets. But repressive regimes - sure, I bet they would fork out quite a pretty penny for Big Bother Google's services.
Nooooooooooo! Everyone who didn't go to an Ivy League university is a toothless cracker who can't spell his own name or count to three. CNN told me so - therefore it _must_ be true!!!1!!
I think this is super awesome news. Creepy Facebook is going to shut down all the actually-popular services they bought, and try to force the userbase onto some shitty, hacked together new platform that no one actually wants. They're going to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs!
One good thing about Creepy Facebook and Big Brother Google turning openly/brazenly evil: at the same time they are also turning bureaucratic and stupid. Faceboot in particular may yet destroy it's own business before Uncle Sam gets around to banning their data rape-based business model.
Interestingly, most people who enjoy "calling out" others whom they perceive as stupid, are half-educated tools who worship credentialed authority. Respek muh FACTS(tm)!!!!11!!!
As for that special type of self-satisfied nincompoop who enjoys bleating about "the Dunning-Kreuger effect" - you can be certain he's never had an independent thought in his life, and he regards as God's own Truth anything stamped with the inprimature of academia.
Certainly the exorbitant cost of counsel does deny most people even the possibility of a fair trial. However there is a far more pernicious wickedness blighting our courts.
It is common practice for public persecutors to viciously over-charge defendants, often laying hundreds or even thousands of charges for a single crime. The accused faces a Kafkaesque nightmare of a never-ending, unwinnable trial - regardless of how innocent he may be. The persecutors then offer the accused a deal he can't refuse, mafia style.
Make a "plea bargain" - a coerced false confession - and suffer a mere ten years of torture in the gulag. Or fight the charges and face an indefinitely protracted trial and the risk of grotesquely disproportionate punishment. It's not unusual for our kangaroo courts to damn those they find guilty to five or ten _life sentences_. What a perfect symbol of the power-drunk cruelty of our judiciary!
Smug fake-science Monsanto shills sneer "nah nah, you're a stupid-pants!!" at everyone who doesn't want to poison themselves and damage the environment with dangerous frankenfoods
Let me know when one of these magic new "safe" reactors can get private insurance, with no government backstop or special limitation on liability. Don't worry, I won't hold my breath while I wait.
Article summarized: Eccentric bazillionaire argues that in order to save the environment the public must spend megabucks on uninsurably dangerous technology that risks badly wrecking the environment.
Kidnapping foreign citizens from foreign airports is a foolish policy. It's likely to backfire. I hope our elected, accountable representatives can find the courage to check the power-drunk overreach of our judiciary.
If I were an executive in an American patastate corporation, I sure would be nervous about changing planes in any airport controlled by a Chinese ally...
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Dynamic typing is so gross. Try Go (Golang) instead.
"pretend that corporations actually care"
Do they even pretend anymore? Seems like companies are adopting a more or less explicit policy of "fuck you, pleb, that's why".
New slogan:
"Alphabet - we're evil from A to Z!"
"But, yes, I'm assuming competence. When it comes to statisticians at Google, that's an eminently reasonable assumption."
You're also assuming honesty & good will. When it comes to leadership at Google, that's an eminently unreasonable assumption.
"Leftist" is meaningless here. I've met a few Googlers. They were all hyperconformist corporate drones. But it's a Norcal company - so they conform by dressing like slovenly college kids and loudly voicing their agreement with the latest batshit pumped out by the corporate progressive propaganda apparatus.
It's time for President Trump to get out his trust-busting stick. Break up Alphabet!
Android - separate company
Chrome - separate company
YouTube - separate company
Gmail - separate company
Search - separate company
Advertising - separate company
Maps - separate company
Arrest Sundar Pichai and the executive team. Destroy all the mass surveillance data. Shut down the dangerous mad science projects. Arrest the nazi mad scientists. Shut down the wannabe-Skynet AI. Arrest those mad scientists too.
Stop Google before it's too late!
It's almost like anonymizing data is very very difficult, often in subtle ways - much more difficult than panopticon apologists like to claim.
This.
I'm surprised anyone still believes Big Brother Google makes their money from _advertising_. It's been obvious for quite a while now that they are in the dystopian mass surveillance and censorship business. They just claim it's for "advertising purposes" so people will think it's merely annoying rather than unamerican and full-on evil.
Who would pay for dystopia? Probably not companies selling widgets. But repressive regimes - sure, I bet they would fork out quite a pretty penny for Big Bother Google's services.
There is a typo in the headline. It should read: "A Feature in FaceTime Allows One To Access Someone's iPhone Camera And Microphone"
But muh EXPURTS!!!!1!!!!
'Thanks liberals for letting us know how "tolerant" you all are.'
Those people are not liberals. They are corporate progressives. They hate real liberals just as much as they hate everything else.
Nooooooooooo! Everyone who didn't go to an Ivy League university is a toothless cracker who can't spell his own name or count to three. CNN told me so - therefore it _must_ be true!!!1!!
I, for one, do not understand very well how a nuclear bomb works. But I still think it's generally a bad idea to use them.
But I guess you feel only mad scientists are qualified to discuss whether or not it's a good idea for society to use mad science technologies?
Just because _you_ are suicidally reckless doesn't mean the rest of us are.
I think this is super awesome news. Creepy Facebook is going to shut down all the actually-popular services they bought, and try to force the userbase onto some shitty, hacked together new platform that no one actually wants. They're going to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs!
One good thing about Creepy Facebook and Big Brother Google turning openly/brazenly evil: at the same time they are also turning bureaucratic and stupid. Faceboot in particular may yet destroy it's own business before Uncle Sam gets around to banning their data rape-based business model.
Lick those boots!
Propaganda operators, domestic and foreign both I suspect.
https://cryptome.org/2012/07/g...
Transgenic frankenstein technology is qualitatively different from previous techniques of plant and animal breeding.
Interestingly, most people who enjoy "calling out" others whom they perceive as stupid, are half-educated tools who worship credentialed authority. Respek muh FACTS(tm)!!!!11!!!
As for that special type of self-satisfied nincompoop who enjoys bleating about "the Dunning-Kreuger effect" - you can be certain he's never had an independent thought in his life, and he regards as God's own Truth anything stamped with the inprimature of academia.
Parent summarized:
"nah nah, you're a stupid-pants!!"
Certainly the exorbitant cost of counsel does deny most people even the possibility of a fair trial. However there is a far more pernicious wickedness blighting our courts.
It is common practice for public persecutors to viciously over-charge defendants, often laying hundreds or even thousands of charges for a single crime. The accused faces a Kafkaesque nightmare of a never-ending, unwinnable trial - regardless of how innocent he may be. The persecutors then offer the accused a deal he can't refuse, mafia style.
Make a "plea bargain" - a coerced false confession - and suffer a mere ten years of torture in the gulag. Or fight the charges and face an indefinitely protracted trial and the risk of grotesquely disproportionate punishment. It's not unusual for our kangaroo courts to damn those they find guilty to five or ten _life sentences_. What a perfect symbol of the power-drunk cruelty of our judiciary!
Article summarized:
Smug fake-science Monsanto shills sneer "nah nah, you're a stupid-pants!!" at everyone who doesn't want to poison themselves and damage the environment with dangerous frankenfoods
"safe-by-default"
Let me know when one of these magic new "safe" reactors can get private insurance, with no government backstop or special limitation on liability. Don't worry, I won't hold my breath while I wait.
Article summarized:
Eccentric bazillionaire argues that in order to save the environment the public must spend megabucks on uninsurably dangerous technology that risks badly wrecking the environment.
Kidnapping foreign citizens from foreign airports is a foolish policy. It's likely to backfire. I hope our elected, accountable representatives can find the courage to check the power-drunk overreach of our judiciary.
If I were an executive in an American patastate corporation, I sure would be nervous about changing planes in any airport controlled by a Chinese ally...