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Dennis Prager
Jine 5, 2018

The original slogan of Google was "Don't be evil." When Google changed its corporate name to Alphabet in 2015, it changed the slogan to "Do the right thing."

If it were to be true to its values, Google should have changed its slogan from "Don't be evil" to "Don't fight evil."

Here is The New York Times report from this past Friday: "Google, hoping to head off a rebellion by employees upset that the technology they were working on could be used for lethal purposes, will not renew a contract with the Pentagon for artificial intelligence work ...

"Google's work with the Defense Department on the Maven program, which uses artificial intelligence to interpret video images and could be used to improve the targeting of drone strikes, roiled the internet giant's work force. Many of the company's top A.I. researchers, in particular, worried that the contract was the first step toward using the nascent technology in advanced weapons. ...

"About 4,000 Google employees signed a petition demanding 'a clear policy stating that neither Google nor its contractors will ever build warfare technology.'"

CBS News reported that the petition also said, "We believe that Google should not be in the business of war."

In other words, to the heads of Google and thousands of its elite employees, it is immoral to aid in the defense of their country, and all war is immoral.

Google and these 4,000 employees embody two terrible traits: moral idiocy and ingratitude.

Moral idiocy is the ability to be brilliant in any area of life except the single most important area of life, morality. With regard to morality, such people are fools.

The United States has been the greatest force for liberty and goodness in world history. It has been so by modeling a free society and through the power of the idea of freedom, and even more so by force -- brute physical force.

Through force of arms, America and its allies defeated Germany in World War I and World War II.

Through force of arms, America imposed democracy and liberty on West Germany and led to the dissolution of East Germany.

Through force of arms, the Holocaust -- the genocide of Europe's Jews and millions of others in Nazi concentration and death camps -- ended. If Google existed then, would its employees have demanded Google "not be in the business of war"?

Through force of arms, America was able to impose democracy and liberty on Japan.

Through force of arms, America liberated Asian countries from the Nazi-like Japanese imperialists.

Through force of arms, America enabled the majority of Koreans to live free rather than under the most totalitarian regime in modern history, North Korea.

Through force of arms, Israel has survived 70 years of Arab, and now Iranian, attempts to annihilate it. Arms ended the Holocaust in Europe, and arms prevent a second Holocaust of Jews in the Middle East.

Only a moral idiot does not understand the moral necessity of weapons of war being in the hands of decent countries.

Which brings us to the second trait of Google and its employees: ingratitude.

Google and its employees live better than almost any human beings in the world. They do so because they live in the freest and most opportunity-giving country in the world, the United States of America.

That Google and its employees refuse to work on the military defense of their country is an expression of ingratitude (not to mention absence of patriotism) that is simply breathtaking.

How did we produce such foolish and ungrateful people?

They are the products of left-wing education and the left-wing media, and of living in the left-wing cocoon of Northern California and its tech industry.

Google should be true to its convictions and change just one word of its original slogan from "Don't be evil" to "Don't fight evil."

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Many of the company's top A.I. researchers, in particular, worried that the contract was the first step toward using the nascent technology in advanced weapons. ...

Judgement Day, August 29th is the day Skynet becomes self-aware. ... It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th

Use DuckDuckGo for searches.
Ditch your Google e-mail.
Apple is leftist, but a worthy adversary to Google that has secure e-mail and other alternatives to Google.
Google delenda est.

Can you imagine sitting in the break room listening to these liberal panty waste fucktards going on and on about the "military industrial complex" and how horrible republicans are and evil trump is and how awesome CA is for it's "progressive" policies, etc., etc.,etc., Yuck!

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"Google . . . will not renew a contract with the Pentagon for artificial intelligence work ...

Good, give the contract to Microsoft or whoever.

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Originally posted by muddle_mann:
Can you imagine sitting in the break room listening to these liberal panty waste fucktards going on and on about the "military industrial complex" and how horrible republicans are and evil trump is and how awesome CA is for it's "progressive" policies, etc., etc.,etc., Yuck!

Sure. Just go to work for NSA!

Google's slogan should be:
"We know everything you type, say, and coming soon... think"

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Originally posted by sjtill:
Use DuckDuckGo for searches.

Been doing that for ages.

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Originally posted by sjtill:
Ditch your Google e-mail.

I haven't ditched it, but I hardly use it for anything. Never really did.

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Originally posted by sjtill:
Apple is leftist,

Hate to be the bearer of bad tidings, but the entire IT world is primarily libertarian, liberal or leftist. In my associations, both IRL and on-line, very, very few IT types I've met were what I'd call "conservative."

Not "none," mind you. Just very few. Mostly libertarian or liberal. Of the remainder: I'd say more leftists than conservatives.

YMMV, I suppose.

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Originally posted by sjtill:
but a worthy adversary to Google that has secure e-mail and other alternatives to Google.

Better privacy, too.

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Originally posted by sjtill:
Google delenda est.

Good luck with that

Mgmt sets a direction. A few ungrateful, idiotic snowflakes sign a petition and mgmt changes their mind? Or should I say lost their mind - again?

Not that them pulling out of this program is a bad thing. I have my doubts about the competencies of this company anyway, especially for something like this.

Pretty ironic considering that without DOD funding ARPANET there might not even be an internet today for Google to exploit for their own profit.

But yet they’re quick to get in bed with Communists: https://www.afp.com/en/news/82...w-leader-doc-15m3xy1

Just got my popup notice from Google on the many ways I should be celebrating Gay Pride....

Arrogant elitist who actually believe they are the moral leaders of the world, and that the thousands who died to grant them their freedoms don't even deserve recognition.

Liberalism and tolerance is defined as cowardice.

I wonder how many of those 4,000 employees had or would have actually worked on the project. Given the aggressive role some silicon companies have played in pressing for more rather than fewer H-1 visas, I also kinda wonder how many of those 4,000 employees were actually U.S. citizens.

While idiotic for the employees, shit like this is what happens when the defense industry and DoD leaves Silicon Valley thus, looses influence.

From the mid-50's to through the 2000's, defense industry titans like Lockheed, Fairchild, Martin-Marietta, BAE, Raytheon, had major offices, research and production next to the likes of IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, AMD, Xerox-Parc, and Apple. The M113 APC and M2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicle, was built by FMC in Santa Clara. Flights constantly rotated in/out of nearby Moffitt NAS in Mountain View with USAF occupying a number of facilities dedicated to satellite communications. The dotcom boom dramatically increased real estate values & wages, combined with the Base Realignment Closures of the 90's which hit the SF Bay Area hard, resulted in whole segments of the defense sector moving out of the region entirely. As the dotcom crash subsided the tech boom ramped-up, they filled-in where the big defense giants once were. Today, in a region that was once quite moderate and enthusiastic about national defense, you now have wide swaths of technology-leftists, with many who know nobody involved in national defense or, government work. In a region that lives in a bubble, none is a greater bubble than Silicon Valley.