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Me#1You#10
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 Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 3:12 pm Post subject: Google-speak |
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From Drudge...
| Quote: | | GOOGLE celebrates day of Russia achievement. Sergey Brin (Google co-founder) orders search site to celebrate Sputnik's launch anniversary on web page... |
What a novel idea. Of course it would be embarrassingly jingoistic to suggest that this concept might have been introduced celebrating some aspect of an American technological juggernaut that dominated an entire century of human progress.
However, I'll give comrades Brin and Page the benefit of the doubt and look forward to more offerings from them that might even, conceivably one day, celebrate some aspect of American achievement.
In the interim, I'll look forward to the satirical photoshopping that will, hopefully, ensue. |
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Deuce
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Since you're obviously casting about  for suggestions for 'The American Hero (of the 20th Century)' ok, my title....I decided to nominate my personal hero. By way of introduction, though, to support my nomination, a few American Industry truisms. First, American Industry began with the Gun Industry: | Quote: | | ...the modern day United States of America can be said to have been created by the gun. British and European gunmakers (and their engineering industries in general) failed to follow the American lead and clung to out-dated 'craft' practices. This basically was the cause of industrial dominance passing across the Atlantic from Great Britain, the cradle of the Industrial Revoloution (ie, to America).--"The World's Great Handguns from 1450 to the present day", Roger Ford, p.27, |
That almost goes without saying (but I'd never heard it!). That said, The Gun that won the west, winning two World Wars, and a name that is ubiquitous in Europe, and synonymous with 'pistol' in Belgium and France...is their designer, John Moses Browning. Designer of most weapons both civilian and military (lone exceptions being the Garand and Carbine Williams' M1 carbine), holder of hundreds of patents*, called "the greatest figure in the history of firearms" by Philip Sharpe. He's credited with many of THE MOST IMPORTANT inventions in arms history--James Severn. Brownings inventions were all unique in one respect...they worked and kept on working! There are more Colt-Brownings, Winchester-Brownings, Savage-Brownings, Remington-Brownings than anyone will ever know ....simply because he was shy...and perhaps because he died at the Herstal (FN) facility in Belgium, and not here in the USA. (He was given a military escort when the ship arrived in the USA, and full military honors, with coverage probably similar to today by the MSM). I went to the John Moses Browning Museum (so named in 1984) in Rock Island Arsenal....there's another in Ogden, Utah...that's about it, the most under told story in America's history.
His Eulogy by Secretary of War, Honorable Dwight Davis, 1926: | Quote: | | It is a fact to be recorded that no design of Mr. Brownings' has ever proved a failure, nor has any model been discontinued. The War Department, through its agency, the Ordnance Department, will be greatly handicapped in its future development work on automatic firearms as a result of the loss of Mr. Browning's services. It is not thought that any other individual has contributed so much to the national security of this country as Mr. Browning in the development of our machine guns and our automatic weapons to a state of military efficiency surpassing that of all nations... |
*47 inventing years, 128 patents...pistols, rifles, shotguns, machine guns, (the Ma Deuce still going strong), cannons (up to 37mm).
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GenrXr
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The Google founders are 'True Believers', communists to the core. Over 99 percent of Google employees voted for Kerry in 2000, according to a 60 minutes interview. What really gave me the creeps about the woman who gave the statistic is how would she have known the percentage? It appears that strange things going on inside that complex.
What should give anyone pause is the amount of power companies such as Google has over the flow of information. Often, while researching information on various topics, I encounter Marxist dialectic nonsense without the logic and rhetorical conservative truth. This might be good for the idiots on the left, but hard if you’re actually trying to learn something.
We need at least three main search portals and Yahoo and Microsoft are fine with me. Google is weaker than their stock price would have us believe. The advertising algorithms are flawed and our company recently stopped advertising with them. Google is almost solely dependent upon this revenue stream for their existence. New advertising solutions need to come to market which better serve the consumer and reign in power companies such as Google have over the flow of information.
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GenrXr
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From a USA today article on 2/13/2005
| Quote: | | Google employees gave $207,650 to federal candidates for last year's elections, up from just $250 in 2000 when it was still a start-up. And 98% went to Democrats, the biggest share among top tech donors, a new USA TODAY campaign finance analysis shows. |
This is beyond stupid, especially considering how wealthy they were at this time. When Clinton went after Microsoft and Bill Gates in particular, the following year Microsoft contributions to the Democrat Party increased significantly. In the future do not be surprised to see a major increase in Republican contributions, yet this is how it works. Give to both sides or else risk angering one. In Microsofts case they were not giving to either party, yet to not give to the Democrat Party is a major sin.
This gives great insights into their ideological state of being.
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GoophyDog
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Um, isn't this a democratic principal? Throw money at it until its fixed? Of course it usually involves more TAXES.
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