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2017-04-07 Science & Technology

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-04-07 08:18|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Google decided not to wait for NASA to send up OldSpook's many little satellites -- or even just a few more big satellites? Good for them, even if it does mean they are creating a captive market where previously there was no market at all... not to mention efficiently, effectively, and with no graft, all of which are beyond the ability of the locals below.

Will it be as much as ten years before they are denounced in the UN as bloody-handed plutocrat imperialists?

Posted by trailing wife 2017-04-07 10:56|| 2017-04-07 10:56|| Front Page Top

#2 They do give Google direct access to the full content of communications routed through them.

And given Google's close affiliation with c.f. Clinton, one wonders if that would be used to suppress dissent against a leftist ruler.

Posted by Angusock Chuting6110 2017-04-07 13:33|| 2017-04-07 13:33|| Front Page Top

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