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notjackma | 11 years ago | on: Google to close engineering office in Russia

It doesn't matter what you want your kids exposed to... because there are activists who are working with politicians in most Western countries to totally change sex educations classes.

For example, in the UK, teachers are to tell kids as young as 13, which is below the age of consent:

"normal behaviour includes taking an interest in pornography, having sexually explicit conversations, using the internet to chat online and consenting to oral or penetrative sex with the same or opposite gender."

Or kids as young as 9:

" So-called “green behaviours” are defined as those that “reflect safe and healthy sexual development”. For children aged nine to 13, green behaviours include “solitary masturbation” and “use of sexual language”."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/11209109/...

notjackma | 11 years ago | on: Google to close engineering office in Russia

It's interesting to note that that the Eurovision song contest includes Russia, Israel and central Asian states, including even Azerbaijan. Perhaps this is an example of soft power projection from the EU "project" of a political union and the creation of a supra-national state...

notjackma | 11 years ago | on: Google to close engineering office in Russia

Don't they say the same thing about China and it's rule of law, or lack of? Yet Western businesses flock there.

If I were an investor and an entrepreneur gave me all these reasons for not entering the Russian or Chinese market, as well as refusing to do business with companies from these countries, I would quickly show them the door.

notjackma | 11 years ago | on: Google to close engineering office in Russia

The founder of Huawei was in the PLA, and this is often used to bash the company.

Why is it ok to serve country A, B, C and then go into business... but if you serve country X,Y,Z you're suddenly untrustworthy?

What next? Make business decisions based upon the sexual preferences of the CEO?

notjackma | 11 years ago | on: Google to close engineering office in Russia

Wow, you must know something the rest of the world doesn't.

If you have evidence that Russian troops shot down flight MH-17 then you should present it to the Dutch parliament and the United Nations.

Otherwise, like the rest of us, you should wait for investigators to finish their work.

notjackma | 11 years ago | on: Google to close engineering office in Russia

Why discriminate against a Russian company over something that may or may not happen?

Russia has elections and they have laws which affect businesses based there - pretty much like every other country out there.

As the article states, Google is moving its engineers but the sales team is staying, so this reorganization is less to do with politics and more to do with Google centralizing its engineers in Zurich - just like MountainView.

notjackma | 11 years ago | on: Google News to shut down in Spain

Try reading what I wrote again.

Google employs lots of people who work on things which do not directly generate revenue themselves, but which do contribute to the company's overall profit and loss. Such as HR.

However, based on Google's bitchy blog post, were they to treat all such projects and departments equally like Google News, thousands of people would be pink-slipped tomorrow. Get it now?

notjackma | 11 years ago | on: Google News to shut down in Spain

Yet they're already spending money on Google News: programmers, servers, electricity. So obviously they're getting something out of it, right? There is a purpose to Google News, whether it's tracking cookies or something else; they're not doing it out of the goodness of their hearts.

notjackma | 11 years ago | on: Google News to shut down in Spain

"As Google News itself makes no money (we do not show any advertising on the site) this new approach is simply not sustainable. "

Rubbish!

Google's Human Resources department doesn't make any money either, yet it exists, along with other loss-making divisions.

Google as a whole is a very profitable company, and it could easily pay publishers over the long run. It just doesn't want to.

notjackma | 11 years ago | on: At Apple’s request, we removed the ability to “Send” files to other services

It's simple. Cabel is being diplomatic and doesn't want to burn any bridges. It's a reflection of how much power Apple has that developers are fearful of upsetting the mothership. I know a few former indie Mac and iOS developet who now work for Apple which explained why they were always shy to voice their true opinion publicly - they had a dream to work for Apple and didnt want to shoot themselves in the foot. Self censorship at its finest.

notjackma | 11 years ago | on: Tax crackdown on banks and multinationals 'to raise £5bn'

Exactly. In the case of Apple:

The Irish company licenses intellectual property from an Apple registered company in the Cayman Islands, and of course the Royalties are so high that the Irish company makes no profit.

So all this money accumulates offshore and can't come back to the US unless some taxes are paid, which is why Tim Cook meets with Congress to try and lobby for a tax repatriation holiday.

Which is also why Tim Cook is raising money in the debt markets to pay shareholders dividends - it's cheaper to pay a tiny bit of interest than pay tax. Absurd that such a rich company is doing this.

Ironically, the money is already back in US - the Caymans entity invests the money in the US stock market via Braeburn Capital, a hedge fund based in Nevada and owned by Apple Inc!

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