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eCat · Post by **eCat** » Mon Apr 16, 2012 8:18 am

at the same time Google was just fined by the government for collecting wireless information including network passwords of residents when it did its street level mapping.

It appears just like Wal-Mart "We only buy Made in the USA" when possible slogan, Google's "Don't Be Evil" applies only until you are a corporate giant.

The Arab spring has shown the world the power of social media. Its not surprising that countries are now considering the "stop" button on the internet. Even the United States has introduced the idea in the interest of stopping a cyber attack (yea, right)

Bklyn · Post by **Bklyn** » Mon Apr 16, 2012 10:53 pm

Yep, that cyber attack narrative is simply a smoke screen, that you are 100% correct about.

What I will say, China has an extremely restrictive internet policy, but most of the young Chinese bypass that firewall. I think I posted on here almost a year ago about an article I read about Chinese youth and censorship where one kid said (paraphrasing): "yeah, we have censorship, but we know we are censored, so we are constantly mindful about what we are being told is the 'truth.' Westerners don't think they have censorship and authoritarian manipulation of information, so they accept all of what is told them. Who is worse off?"

eCat · Post by **eCat** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 10:51 am

I play a little game at work.

I don't want to get busted surfing for porn so I type generic words in google search for images that I think will return pictures of porn as a result.

Today's search was soccer mom. With the safe search turned off, it returns a surprising high number of porn pics.

aTm · Post by **aTm** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 10:57 am

So your idea of a safe search at work is to type in "soccer mom?"

Bklyn · Post by **Bklyn** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 1:13 pm

He can blame it on wanting to type "soccer meeting" or "soccer moves" and the autofill got him...

eCat · Post by **eCat** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 2:11 pm

aTm wrote:So your idea of a safe search at work is to type in "soccer mom?"

if you type in soccer mom, you don't expect porn

crashcourse · Post by **crashcourse** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 2:18 pm

trending now

soccer mom

hedge · Post by **hedge** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 10:54 pm

"Earth will become too hot for liquid water in roughly 1 billion years."

I bet the few million years leading up to that point won't be too pleasant either...

"atm thinks the human race is doomed - any other opinions?"

If you're considering ceasing to exist (certainly ceasing to exist in our current form) as doomed, then yes, i agree that we are doomed. But who cares?

Jungle Rat · Post by **Jungle Rat** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 11:39 pm

Not me. i got about 30 more years and then Im going to punch Rush Limbaugh in the face once we meet in heaven.

hedge · Post by **hedge** » Fri Apr 20, 2012 1:24 am

I once sold some t-shirts that said "Hush Rush" with a picture of Rush in a circle and a red line thru him...

BigRedMan · Post by **BigRedMan** » Fri Apr 20, 2012 9:16 am

hedge wrote:I once sold some t-shirts that said "Hush Rush" with a picture of Rush in a circle and a red line thru him...

Wow, please tell us more.

Saint · Post by **Saint** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 12:42 am

yep, that google safe search off is a godsend. just type in "redhead" or "skinny brunette" or "black women" and await the cornucopia of images

hedge · Post by **hedge** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 1:46 am

"Wow, please tell us more."

I was going to make a similar shirt that said "Hush BRM" but I realized there wasn't enough red in the spectrum of visible light to draw a line thru you...

Bklyn · Post by **Bklyn** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 12:58 pm

17 Equations that changed the world...

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/ ... n-stewart/

Bklyn · Post by **Bklyn** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 4:50 pm

Today's Google Doodle is in honor of the dude who perfected the zipper. I saw his Google Image and was floored by how much dude looked like Jesse Jackson. It is just as eerie as the picture from the 1800s of the cat who looked just like Nicholas Cage.

Bklyn · Post by **Bklyn** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 7:09 pm

If iPhone was made here, this is how much Apple would lose in profits...suck it industrial class.

http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-ip ... onn-2012-4

Jungle Rat · Post by **Jungle Rat** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 7:52 pm

Profit goes from 71% to 50% while you employ thousands of your own. Why does Apple hate America?

T Dot O Dot · Post by **T Dot O Dot** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 7:58 pm

Jungle Rat wrote:Profit goes from 71% to 50% while you employ thousands of your own. Why does Apple hate America?

if they ran that as a campaign they'd most definitely increase their market share in the US

by enough to make up the difference?

Bklyn · Post by **Bklyn** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 8:20 pm

Apple does not answer to Americans. It answers to shareholders and Street analysts. Why even see if you can make up the difference when all you have is downside risk?

They know they crush profits every quarter. They won't change their business model so people in South Carolina or Tennessee can have increased job opportunities.

That's the cold hard truth of Capitalism. It has no patriotism.

aTm · Post by **aTm** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 8:50 pm

Nor should they, it's up to Americans to find things we do with a higher value than Chinese can. World trade is never going away no matter how many times 29 protesters show up at WTO meetings.

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