If layoffs were the endgame, and that was the only thing they wanted out of this, the first thing they'd do is merge the two business units, then restructure its leadership team, then have that team come up with a plan for both projects to merge into one, and eliminate any job roles that are no longer needed.

And they don't appear to have done any of that.

I think it's more likely that with talks of the government forcing them to sell chrome, they probably don't want to also have to give up ChromeOS, which is pretty lucrative considering it dominates the education sector right now, which was Microsoft's domain, and previously Apple's domain before that, and they'd probably rather not give that up. If you divorce chrome from ChromeOS, you're basically just left with desktop Android. The problem is Android just isn't (currently) built to be a desktop OS. So it's reasonable to believe that Android development needs additional effort, not less. If that is the case, then layoffs wouldn't make any business sense.

It may never come within your lifetime. As long as it has eyeballs, it will remain a bottomless money pit for advertisers.

Though slashdot is more pseudonymous than fecebook, and hardly anybody comes here to post teeniebopper shit.

That said, I doubt that people who post to fecebook every day would be particularly creeped out by this. They're probably already used to total strangers being able to know everything about them -- they may even crave it the way that narcissistic celebrities do.

I always adjust my views based on empirical data. In other words, what can be observed. That is my only "dogma", if you insist. You guys, especially rsilvergun and drinkypoo, routinely entertain conspiracy theories. Why? Because you're driven purely by ideology. THAT is what dogma looks like.

Not at all. Not even close in fact. What I linked there is what's referred to as a living dictionary. I choose my words carefully. That is, it tracks the meaning of words in the way that they're most commonly used. If you don't like the dictionary, then go to wikipedia or any other source that isn't run by some looned out whackjob. The way that some random, poorly educated people on the internet choose their wording does not represent the vast majority of the literature out there. What you don't realize at all is that most people, even in the two major political parties in the US, don't actually want either socialism or fascism. The ones who do, e.g. AOC, Bernie Sanders, etc. are on the fringe. You know where their ideology can be traced to, by the way? FDR, who himself was a big fan of Benito Mussolini, even years after the March on Rome.

Do you know why the majority don't want these things? Because unlike you lot, especially rsilvergun, they KNOW that these ideas don't fucking work. We have 150 years of history showing just how much of a shitshow these ideas are. But you guys refuse to believe that. You put your own spin on shit. This is why you guys hate hearing people like this guy speak:

https://www.ted.com/talks/hans...

When people point out the FACT that things are going really well under democracy and capitalism, and PROVE it with data, it pisses you off. The fact that something as amoral as data does piss you off should tell you everything you need to know about your own ideology, and just how fucked up, and very fascist, it really is.

Interesting fantasy you have there. But....that's not what fascists actually do. First, they make a hard sell that the economy is crap and that your life sucks. Doesn't matter who you are, your life is just dogshit, you're poor, everything in your life experience is bad even if you think it isn't. You're being taken advantage of by (insert any one of jews, the rich, corporations, foreigners taking your jobs, etc.) You're a slave to capitalism even if you don't believe it, and only their leadership can offer a solution. Here are some quotes from a prominent American fascist in the 1930s:

Sound familiar? That's because today, you guys call that socialism, and all you ever talk about is how badly you want it. That is in fact not socialism, this is socialism:

https://www.merriam-webster.co...

The biggest distinction being that socialism advocates the complete takeover of the private sector by the government.

Source for the quotes:

https://www.econlib.org/simila...

No, that's fairly uncommon. Usually they rally around one particular figurehead. When that figurehead dies for whatever reason, then you tend to get infighting. Often I see people subscribe to the theory that if we take out e.g. a leader of a major terrorist organization, then another one will soon take his place. But that's not what happens -- when you take out the guy at the top (and ONLY at the very top) they tend to splinter, and only then does the infighting start. We saw this with Osama Bin Laden. And by the way, it's an apt comparison because Islamic terrorism is heavily inspired by Nazism.

Nevertheless, here sits drinkypootin pretending that I have anything to do with Trump when for decades I've been advocating against exactly what Trump is doing. Meanwhile, if this were Bernie in office doing the exact same shit, drinkypootin would be offering to suck his dick. This is exactly the kind of contrarian conspiracy theorist fascist asshole that he is.

You know what's crazy about all of that? I've consistently maintained the position that tariffs are a terrible idea, meanwhile people sitting in the same camp as that moron you're replying to, especially Bernie Sanders, have been demanding tariffs that entire time. I kept saying, for years, that putting up tariffs in the US wouldn't do anything to stop Australia from buying cheaper cars from China. And whatdya know? That's exactly what's happening right now.

What's even crazier about all of this is Bernie Sanders and drinkypoo go around calling other people fascist, yet look where their ideology comes from:

https://www.cato.org/commentar...

Unlike you, I don't deal in conspiracy theories or crack heroine. I only deal in what is observable and measurable. Hard data wins every single time.

https://www.ted.com/talks/hans...

Videos like that piss you off because you've got a narrative to sell, and the last thing a flimflammer like you needs is somebody going around proving that your product is nothing more than snake oil. You're not happy until you've convinced at least one other person that we're living in the worst period in all history. And then you want to prove that you're a rebel by pissing into the wind.

People like Trump don't get into power by telling you that everything is ok. He's nothing more than a typical crisis politician. The only difference between you and him is which crisis you're trying to sell, and how successful he has been at it. Other than that, you are identical to him. You both severely overestimate your own ability, both of you are dumber than a rock. But he's in the Whitehouse, and you're spending your entire life underemployed.

Which "lot" would that be?

Fortunately he only wants to.

You and Donald, always stuck on campaign mode, and always stuck on stupid.

Nah, it'll continue regardless, just with these people filtered out. The ironic thing is that usually means atheists like me who actually understand how the whole thing works, leaving intact those who don't.

I personally turned off amber alerts, but fucking California flags all of silver, ebony and feather alerts as extreme threats to life and property, which is supposed to be "if you don't act now, good chance you're dead" not "a Native American is missing, please join us in a game of where's waldo even though you're nowhere nearby". I got sick of it happening every other week, so I literally turned all but national alerts off (even though grapheneos allows turning those off too) because national alerts are the only category that doesn't get abused by any government entities so some politician gets to claim they care about some vulnerable group, when it's obvious the only thing they care about the optics for being reelected, as they obviously don't mind abusing and misappropriating what's supposed to be for disaster alerts.

But if they ever do abuse national alerts, then you bet your ass I'm disabling that as well.

Legislating from the bench would favoring ideology over written law, which they didn't do here. And unlike you, I don't stick people into arbitrary classes and judge them entirely based on that, nor do I deal in your shitty third position politics. In my mind, the law applies to all equally. I only judge you based on your actions. Be they rich or poor, a slob is still a slob. And you're one big fat old slob.

It wasn't one or even two judges, it was a panel of three appellate court judges who made a unanimous ruling. I don't like it either, and I suspect at least one if not all of them also don't. But their job isn't to tell you whether they like it. As much as you may want it to be, this isn't Leninism. We have laws for a reason, and they're no good if judges can just ignore them.