Are you sure your comment isn't just a "God Bless America" comment meant to blindly rant against another country because it's getting more and more difficult to say the USA is the greatest nation in the world?

The problem is Google has already indexed most of them without asking. Therefore, Google has the advantage of having content from various news sites already in place, and the un-indexed sites are at a disadvantage because there are other indexed sites. The option to be excluded from the index would only have worked had Google never orignially indexed any news site without explicit permission. I realize the purpose of a search engine is to index sites and direct people toward those sites. However, Google seems to have reached a point at which it has become a content provider, displaying content from these sites and never actually directing people toward those sites.

To some extent, they seem to be doing the same thing Gracenote did, indexing content from many sources and ultimately profiting from that content with little to return to those contributors.

Try not to miss the point, that Google seems to have gone from a search engine to a site that actually scours the internet for content for itself, rather than directing people to the sites the content came from. I am not saying no site ever gets additional views because of a link from Google. And note that every anti-Google comment gets modded away, regardless of the validity of the comment. You may or may not agree with the validity of the comments in this post. But every anti-Google comment gets modded away, not just this one.

We're not guaranteed to freeze or starve without oil.

I figured they're just filing bankruptcy and reopening under another name so they can erase any money owed and keep moving along.

Call me when the cordless version is available.

I am in Kansas City and it is questionable whether I can get it. Because they only give it to people who have enough pre-subscribers in their area (they call the areas Fiberhoods) who also sign up for it. I am the only person in my Fiberhood who is a potential subscriber. My friend's neighborhood had 3 people sign up so far, far from the goal. My brother's neighborhood reached the goal and he can actually get it. In general, it looks like their strategy has, in a roundabout way, led to mostly middle and upper classes being eligible for the service and other neighborhoods being deprived. AT&T U-verse isn't available in my neighborhood either, although it's available in my aunt's neighborhood. I'm sure Time Warner is breathing a sigh of relief that their monopoly will still be intact for most of the city.

Getting Google fiber with TV has a price less than what I'm currently paying for Time Warner cable with Roadrunner broadband in Kansas City. By about $10 or so. The only channel I'd lose that I'd care about is Velocity TV.

And what happens if you reproduce with somebody who has these genes? Will they be able to sue you over your children, the way Monsanto sues people over corn?

For what it's worth, boyfriend and I have both been able to install Windows 7 on various laptops and at least one desktop with no need to install a single driver, all from the same disc.

And this alone eliminates the regret I had for reading this thread at all.

What happens if the country, whose laws are oppressing you, has a way of compelling other countries to have the same laws, and destroying the ones who don't comply?

They also say "up to" with the knowledge that nobody will understands it means "hardly ever reaching". I wish we had laws against misleading advertising in the United States. Instead, they allow "puffery", which seems to me like the opposite of a law against misleading advertising. As a side note, Google Fiber also says "up to".

I think, at least for open source projects, making the code easy to follow would bring in a lot of help from people who are good at writing code but don't want to spend years trying to figure out how to pick up where somebody left off in a pile of obfuscated goo.

Probably the same as the number of Google Trolls who mod down any anti-Google comment in this forum.

They can just replace it later, like changing a tire. It only has to last until John Connor is killed anyway.