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Re: Money for this will be hard to get
Company? How do you figure? I'm having trouble drawing any parallels between those guys and their companies and the Google execs I mentioned and their company. Clue me in?
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| said by bent  :Company? How do you figure? I'm having trouble drawing any parallels between those guys and their companies and the Google execs I mentioned and their company. Clue me in? You gave testicles and brains (in that order) as the qualifiers for great leaders of companies.
I gave other examples of men with the same, 'gifts' and the wealth those 'gifts' earned for them.
That would be the parallel.
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| I guess you're of the opinion that it's better to be to a nutless idiot?
I didn't state those as the qualifiers, only qualities I admire. That really brings be back to my original point, which was to illustrate the differences between Google and some other companies. Your list got millions for dereliction, and those Googles execs fortunes rise and fall with the fortunes of their company. Last time I checked, Google wasn't begging like pauper, unlike NY financial firms.
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| said by bent :I guess you're of the opinion that it's better to be to a nutless idiot? You can guess that, if that's what you want. I've offered no opinion on the matter.
said by bent :I didn't state those as the qualifiers, only qualities I admire. And I offered other men who have those qualities you admire.
said by bent :That really brings be back to my original point, which was to illustrate the differences between Google and some other companies. Your list got millions for dereliction, and those Googles execs fortunes rise and fall with the fortunes of their company. Last time I checked, Google wasn't begging like pauper, unlike NY financial firms. It IS curious why you would choose qualities that align Google with the very folks you are trying to separate them from.
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| Ya know, now that we're at the end of this;
I'd like to say that I LIKE Google.
I have a gmail account, and I have turned hundreds of home pages from yahoo! or MSN to Google. Most have stayed.
I like Google because they bring me a superior product. Their search engine and it's careful attention to operators is second to none. I rarely find what I want on their first page; 20-40 is more likely. No one else yields the results I need at all.
I personally don't care for their cultural arrogance. They suffer a delusion, common on the left, that notoriety has somehow imbued them with political discernment. But they've been quiet of late and continue to bring me the finest web apps anywhere.
I do admire how they (and nearly they alone) have figured out that a cluttered startpage serves no good whatsoever.
In this, they employ wisdom.
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| said by Noah Vail :I personally don't care for their cultural arrogance. They suffer a delusion, common on the left, that notoriety has somehow imbued them with political discernment. I think it's pretty common on both sides, a perfectly normal human tendency to use the soapbox they happen to be perched on. I think we notice it a bit more when those soapboxed views don't align with our own.
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| said by bent :I think it's pretty common on both sides, a perfectly normal human tendency to use the soapbox they happen to be perched on. I think we notice it a bit more when those soapboxed views don't align with our own. Nearly every A-list actor I can think of, has offered me direction in geo-climate, socioeconomic or global-financial events. They believe that the industry of entertainment has prepared them sufficiently to decide how the world powers should handle these things.
Can you come up with a counterpart on the Right,
where so many from one arena,
consistently offer expertise
on matters that are so wholly out of their field?
Because I'm afraid that I can't come up with one.
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| said by bent :Ronnie and Arnie? They're two guys from the Right who actually were leaders of a state with an economy larger than most countries.
When they were actors, I can't remember a time that they counseled us and the rest of the world on how to conduct the aforementioned affairs.
While they were actors, they - acted. Like my plumber, my dentist, and others who've chosen to serve us; they didn't feel compelled instruct me, 6 billion others and their leaders on how to manage the most complex issues of our time.
Somehow, Ronnie and Arnie, just knew that acting and pretending weren't the same thing.
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