Facebook "beating" the freaking postal service makes no sense to me. Haters gonna hate.
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Facebook "beating" the freaking postal service makes no sense to me. Haters gonna hate.
I just got a voucher for free Rockies tickets. It was through ticketmaster. I didn't have a pickup or print fee or anything.
So Bank of America... Although I probably would've picked them anyway.
What on earth is google doing on that list? Who doesn't love google? They're doing God's work.
Can't tell if you're serious or not.Quote:
Originally Posted by Robby P
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Can't tell if you're serious or not.Quote:
Originally Posted by Irish
No. I'm anxious to hear your reasoning, don't get me wrong, but... no.Quote:
Originally Posted by Irish
It depends on your viewpoint. If you use Google's services & think that makes you a customer & never give a thought to things like privacy policies or politics, then Google is golden.
Otherwise, not so much. There's so many areas where they become social, cultural, and technological poison, I could bore you all to tears by listing them here.
But I won't, because they're not "evil" if you think that they offer stuff a lot of great stuff "for free," and you use it daily & never think or learn about any of the other implications.
I fully accept that at some point google is going to sell all of my dirty, dirty search history to the highest bidder but until that day comes I say we welcome our new technological overlords.
Why Paypal?
How do you thinks Google make money? They are, effectively, already selling your information. They're an ad company. You, and everyone you know, are the product. Even if you're not logged into their services, they are tracking everywhere you go and everything you do online.Quote:
Originally Posted by Robby P
But that's not what makes them sleazy. What makes them sleazy is their willingness to sell you out, willfully breaking US federal law, helping the Chinese government censor information, undercutting online services in Africa, using their monopoly position to make it impossible to compete in other areas, and making private deals with the NSA.
Nevemind the inherent conflict of interest in their model -- wanting to "collect the world's information" while selling ads based on that information. In every area they are successful, they've built a parasitical model (search, books, video) based on the backs of content providers.
Why anyone would trust them is beyond me. I always scratch my head when people get up in arms over, for example, Facebook's security and privacy gaffes (which are bad) but are completely blind to what Google is doing (which is much, much worse).
I'm up for starting this trend if you are.Quote:
Originally Posted by Melville
There's already some available!Quote:
Originally Posted by Qrazy
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Irish, you're insane. Google's company motto is don't be evil. So that's proof right there that they are not evil.
They have a crazy policy about freezing accounts that see a huge uptick in a short amount a time, so they have a tendecy to shut down charity donations and emergency relief funds accounts and refusing to release the money. The big backlash started when they did this to a Hurricane Katrina fund. The most recent example I read was a website selling a limited run Doctor Who tribute book where the proceeds go to cancer research. Preorders were so high that Paypal froze it and refused to give back the money, so the book author had to pay thousands of dollars of printing cost out of his own pocket to meet the preorders.Quote:
Originally Posted by Idioteque Stalker
Those are pretty bad, although I would probably wear the Idiot one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Derek
True. Who would have thought that a high quality Robespierre t-shirt wasn't readily available in this day and age?Quote:
Originally Posted by Qrazy
I like this one because I don't understand it at all.
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The buying up of small developers only to destroy the IP they are known for. Origin? Pricing PC games at $60? Having to login to an "EA SERVER" just to play the game offline? DRM? Really??Quote:
Originally Posted by Spinal
You can look at Walmart's and say they base their entire business plan on exploiting the poor, offering low wage jobs and huge market share to destroy small businesses.Quote:
Originally Posted by Winston*
You can also use the argument they help the poor by offering thousands of jobs.
Target doesn't make sense to be on there. Ever since the company's inception they have taken 5% off their pre-tax revenue and donated it to a foundation. They do this every year. Costco, Walmart, K-mart do not do this.
:| No Irish. Just No.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Irish
Target was boycotted by the LGBT community for making donations to various anti-gay groups and politicians. I'm guessing that's why they were included.
Hey, did you know that every app on your Android phone that asks you for "location" data has access to every single entry in your address book? And can download it without your permission or even notifying you? (Apple does this too.)Quote:
Originally Posted by Dukefrukem
Good times, good times.
I take it a step further. I willingly sign up for https://www.google.com/latitudeQuote:
Originally Posted by Irish
It tracks me everywhere I go. I'm not worried about Google at all.
I willingly let them read my mail and suggest ads for me. Hell, sometimes I even click on them because I'm interested. Whatever Google does to make my web experience more personal, more accurate and more enjoyable I am for. I have nothing to hide.
20 some hours in mass effect 3. Love the story and the approach, but al the missions are essentially the same. The first two at least had missions where you had to follow someone without being noticed, protecting others that could potentially die (within the game story too), and even have conversations that could lead to acquiring a new character or not.... In 3, I have yet to see this. Lots of decision making, which I do like, just wish the missions were more varied.
Wrong thread?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ezee E