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Comment Re:The slippery slope begins. (Score 1) 285

You fucking moron don't you understand the problem goes way beyond Google?

Google is not going to care overly what problems go on beyond Google. You can yammer on about common public spaces, but if a private entity doesn't want to host content, forcing them to would be a great violation of their rights -- certainly a greater rights violation than that of the blogs losing their home.

Comment Re:Do no evil... (Score 1) 285

Google has ignored that line the minute they became a publicly traded company.

Which rises some interesting questions about the true nature of the stock market.

The stock market is interested in success, nothing more, nothing less. Your definition and my definition of a "good company" might include something about social responsibility or not committing evil actions, but the stock market is in favor of those only so far as it doesn't threaten earnings, as most investors are not interested in the company or its employees or the stories behind them. Those companies are investments to them and are treated as such.

Non-shareholders have no stake, and the company is not set up to benefit them. The company won't try to harm them... as long as doing so does not harm the bottom line of the only people who matter -- the shareholders (and regulators... and law enforcement, the only folks who make the system not entirely Darwinian).

Comment Re:It was a movie--duh (Score 1) 133

It's not a horrible movie, but top 25 all time as votes by IMDB users? That's a total joke

That's not unusual, the top 25 is often skewed by very recent releases. By default, it should probably edit out any film released in the last year; over time, the rankings get more accurate, while shortly after release it's skewed by fan boy votes.

Comment Re:Seriously, an Apple car? (Score 1) 196

It's funny to joke about, but I think the concept of them only allowing it to be serviced at Apple-certified garages would be quite high

Pretty much all modern cars work that way already. To do any real work inside the car, you need access to the electronic system which is only accessible through special machines controlled by the manufacturer. The amount of work that independent mechanics can accomplish without becoming manufacturer-certified is pretty slim.

Comment Re:Seriously, an Apple car? (Score 1) 196

I can see it now - It comes in only white and silver, the hood doesn't open

Oh, the hood opens... to reveal another hood that doesn't. Or more accurately, it would feature a flat metallic mass that you can't really do anything with (like a "black box"). Which is pretty much how modern cars work where it's expected the user will not do any maintenance beyond changing the oil and inflating the tires.

Comment Re:Wait ... (Score 1) 196

Also, non-compete agreements are not valid in California. Even out-of-state NCAs are invalidated if the employee is to work at a CA company

But isn't the employee still bound to the contract he signed in Massachusetts? California can't invalidate other states' contract laws.

Comment Re: Wait ... (Score 1) 196

And anyway, you can't sign away your civil rights

You absolutely can sign away certain rights.

If I sign a contract that says "don't reveal what you saw here" as a stipulation of getting a tour of some restricted area (say, a movie studio), then I post on my blog everything that I saw, yes I'm legally liable. Probably not criminally liable, but those are two different things.

Comment Re:It was a movie--duh (Score 1) 133

If they'd cut 30 minutes off of it, at least one could not have accused it of being overly long.

I'd like them to cut out the entire section of the movie with Matt Damon. He's given the worst, eye-rolling pop psychobabble dialog and doesn't really do anything than show why his planet was uninhabitable and break their space ship.

Comment Re:In other words (Score 1, Troll) 133

Kip Thorne was used for nothing more than propaganda - hey look we have a Physicist on staff. He's not the end all be all of Physics. A wormhole by Saturn - really Kip? Because that's a natural spot for one, unlike say, the center of the Galaxy! You know where a black holes might be found - where one might turn out be a worm hole!

Did you watch the movie? If you did, it sounds like you missed the ending, where they figured out the wormhole was made by future-humans to create a time paradox that saves current Earth.

Comment Re:It was a movie--duh (Score 1) 133

You're not only trolling, but you're factually wrong, too. Matthew McConaughey's character is the clear hero of the film. He gets some help from Anne Hathaway's character, who is the one woman in the team of 6(?) on the exploration team.

SPOILER ahead.

Maybe you're referring to his daughter, Murph, but she spends 3/4 of the film doing nothing but sulking, and in the end her "revelations" were all orchestrated by McConaughey anyway.

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