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You can't put a capital letter at the end of a word. I've been trying to give a good example by consistently calling you "Dan" instead, but it seems you're not taking the hint.
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Whatchew talkin bout, Duckie?Comment
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That is not correct, and therefore cannot be a correction.Originally posted by Colon™
You can't put a capital letter at the end of a word. I've been trying to give a good example by consistently calling you "Dan" instead, but it seems you're not taking the hint.
I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Google haters will no doubt strike through "monarchist" and insert "masochist" in that quote, but Wu's comment wonderfully sums up why I trust Google implicitly. That Google lives and dies on trust is why I trust the search engine with my data. Here's why.
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Yet some people are convinced the company would do (or even currently does) something so stupid as to irrevocably breach that trust? Rosen in his piece notes:
Google's claim on our trust is a fragile thing. After all, it's hard to be a company whose mission is to give people all the information they want and to insist at the same time on deciding what information they get.
That's a fine line Google walks and I don't believe the company's sense of hubris is so great that it would destroy that, though I will say its attempts to convince the government that it is not as powerful as we think it is fall a little flat.
I do think Google has cultivated a monopoly on the Internet, but I don't think it would do anything that would totally shatter our trust in it, even though it easily could. It's sort of the Microsoft scenario revisited. People didn't stop using Windows per se because courts declared the operating system constituted a monopoly.
Yet some of you do think Google is bent on evil and are loathe to use it any longer. That's fine. Sit in that bunker and continue to use inferior services like Yahoo or Microsoft Live Search, or BlogLines, not to mention the number of boring e-mail apps that don't do what Gmail can do (voice and video chat rocks).Comment
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KH sighting!
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KH sighting, WTF?“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)Comment
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lol12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
Stadtluft Macht Frei
Killing it is the new killing it
Ultima Ratio RegumComment
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I'm always amused by people who always say, trust private business, and then get made when private business does what private business does.
google has a legal responsibility to do business in those countries. If google said, **** off China, we won't censor ourselves, then people like DanS who had google stock would sue them for not maximizing the value of their stock. Yet, the would oppose the U.S. government imposing ethical considerations on corporations too.
Either support the free market or don't.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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"[P]eople like DanS" is correct inasumuch as it means nobody like DanS.
Construct your straw man on somebody else's back, please.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Shareholder lawsuits are hilarious.12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
Stadtluft Macht Frei
Killing it is the new killing it
Ultima Ratio RegumComment
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The article adrdresses (sorry drinkming) the issue of the importance of trust to Google's value prop. Obviously they know that...but obviously they are torn different ways (as search engines have been before). I would not be sanguine.
All of you...all of everybody needs to learn to include more doubt and optionality in analysis. There is a middle ground between: definitely not going to screw up and definitely going to screw up. this middle path is called "might screw up".Comment
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Dude, it's only 6. What's up? On vacation?12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
Stadtluft Macht Frei
Killing it is the new killing it
Ultima Ratio RegumComment
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I might be getting layed off...but strangely I am not bummed...cause I just had 3 straight major victories at work. Think they need to lay me off...cause who needs an M&A weenie when no deals going down. But a little worried that they might not let me go. But worried too, that they let me go. I will be fine, but my mom will worry.
Umm...I should be at the YMCA working out. Am going to go tomorrw.Comment
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Do you really cost so much that laying you off is a better option than keeping you on ice till environment improves?12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
Stadtluft Macht Frei
Killing it is the new killing it
Ultima Ratio RegumComment
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Hate to say it, but it could be a while for TCO's industry. Or at least part of it (hopefully not my part, but it's tough to know).I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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