Given that I would gladly work for any of their companies, I don't see the problem.

What specific issues do you have with them, and do you think they would operate the government the same or different than their own business? Specific examples would be helpful for me to follow your line of reasoning.

So Silicon Valley and DC politicians do have some common ground.

Why do you keep electing a privileged elite to represent you in DC, but you shy away from a privileged tech elite that have a track record for economic growth?

Something doesn't add up here, and I suspect it's your own personal bias. Try take a more anti-establishment stance, at least when the world is crumbling around us.

Well if my building is a large square, I can take a diagonal hallways, so instead of pi * d, I can do sqrt(x2+y2). If my building is a cube and the elevator shafts run diagonally (which they don't, but stairwells kind of do) then it's sqrt(x2+y2+z2).

And I'll take a sqrt over a linear distance any day of the week.

Destroying the economy? you mean the economy that that by any measure has done nothing but improve for 6 years?

" about limiting the right of the Federal government from infringing the rights of the people"

How is monitoring infringing on any rights at all?
No where is the constitution does it say you can't be monitored.

" that "Shall make / not" means exactly what the dictionary says it does. "
No, that's stupid, at the very least. see 'literally'.

" The first and second amendments alone have been trampled with literally tens of thousands of laws that take away or limit said rights (I haven't even touched the other amendments)."
false, but nice of you to have drank the NRA koolaid.

Why? why won't it survive? there is no rule that states you can't have an equally monitored democracy.

I loved those.

it's how that data is used.
We are going to be watched, because modern society is watching everything.
Democracy can handle the monitoring of everything, if protection and regulations are in place an enforced.

NSA? all that data they have in no way impacts democracy.

business owners have every right to act like dickheads. Just like you. I'm not sure why you think otherwise,

Of course I'm not sure why advertising makes then a dickhead in the first place.

Yes, they cold never find a gut in a hate with LEDs. You just blend right on in.

The world needs hypocrites to. I suppose.

Would you rather have an ad for cereal sent to you why you are looking at cereal? or an add for tampons?

You are going to get an ad in any case.

The selection here isn't 'no ad' or 'focused ads' it's 'random ads' or 'focused ads'

OTOH I'm not sure how you learn about anything new without ads.

You can magical get fat. You can change the way you matabilize food, you might retain a little extra water, other than that you aren't gaining more fat than the calories you eat.

This country is gotten so fa,t it doesn't know what fat is. I had a conversation with someone complaining becasue his BMI said he was fay. I said 'you are fat'. He looked at me is disbelief.
I'm like, yes you are fat, not obese, but id you stomach is not smaller than you chest, you are fat.
Rule of thumb, may not apply to people on the extreme of the bell curve.
Right not people seem to think you aren't fat until you get some roll which is typically obese.

Anyways, you sister in law is using her medications an excuse to eat too much. Probably they zapped some energy form her and she doesn't move as much, thus needing fewer calories. That was speculation.

Yes, lets destroy a use of technology that will make everyone's life easier.
Idiot.
You're going to get ads. With or without this, all this does is send you ads that have a high statistical chance of being something you might be interested in.
Frankly, you're an ass.

That is correct. People are horrible with economics. However that perception is a real issue the industry needs to contend with.