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Google Terminates Six Services 195

Jonah Bomber writes with this excerpt from Information Week: "In addition to Google's announcements about the elimination of 100 recruiting positions and the shutdown of offices in Austin, Texas; Trondheim, Norway; and Lulea, Sweden, the company said it would close Dodgeball, Google Catalog Search, Google Mashup Editor, Google Notebook, and Jaiku. It also said it's discontinuing the ability to upload videos to Google Video. ... Jaiku, however, will live on as an open source project. Gundotra said that Google engineers have been porting the microblogging service to Google App Engine and that when the migration is completed, the company plans to make the code available under the Apache license."

Comment Re:Fill out a Form? (Score 1) 357

Me, and my loved ones are doing fine thank you. They are paying more than their share for the health care. It's not them or myself that I'm worried about, but the man on the street. The unemployed and the very least payed people. Those are the people that have no (or very limited) insurance in the USA and pay the most for getting sick or unemployed.

It's not good enough to say that even they already have it better than people used to. If you're living in one of the richest countries in the world you're entitled to expect that your fellow citizens will take care of you when you most need it. Of course that also means that they also have a duty to help their fellow men and women. That kind of duty is best done through a state health insurance and unemployment compensation. That way everyone in the community pays a little to help those who need it - and know that if they in turn should ever need health insurance or get unemployed they'de be covered.

Otherwise your society is just a fancy form of every man for himself and let only the fittest survive. My belief is that men have evolved past that point, but then maybe I'm a dreamer.

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