2009-08-20, 03:41 AM
Well Google disabled our Adsense account for no reason, literally. Turns out Google is actually evil incarnate. And here I was naive enough to actually believe Google was/could be the paragon of the benevolent mega corporation. After some online research, it actually turns out Google makes Microsoft look like Santa Clause in terms of it's shear evilness (of course the irony is Google's motto - originally at least - was "Don't do evil")
Anyway I think I'm becoming highly politicized around www civil rights in general. The first thing I did was ask myself what the web would be like without Google... ie. how could it be replaced (technically it's really only 60% of the search market anyway) but still... searching is the most vital part of the internet, no way should it be monopolized or even up for grabs. Fortunately I breathed a sigh of relief when it occurred to me P2P was the obvious solution and Google was already a dinosaur in technological terms. Turns out I didn't have to pen an inquiry to the FSF - yet at least. There are P2P efforts to democratize search underway, probably the purest of the bunch being YaCy.
I've actually been rather impressed with Microsoft lately after being able to access Windows Live for chat without having any sort of Microsoft affiliated email address, video chat worked out of the box, and it even tells people what music I'm listening too, which I always thought would be a cool feature (well as long as you're using Windows Media Player) ...so I dunno, I'm quitting Google cold turkey I think. In the meantime I'll go with Bing or whatever it's called maybe if I gotta... I'm not a fan of Bill Gates et al, but at least I don't have to fear MS being Big Brother of the Beast of Revelation(s) or any other whack shit, cause even if MS tried it would crash coming out of the gate...
Ho hum, anyway, I was thinking we need to make some little php files to advertise SoM games and stuff in the meantime, we could rotate them like pseudo-ads. We could even give a nod to SoM related merchandisers and toss in some links to their stuff.
Anyway I think I'm becoming highly politicized around www civil rights in general. The first thing I did was ask myself what the web would be like without Google... ie. how could it be replaced (technically it's really only 60% of the search market anyway) but still... searching is the most vital part of the internet, no way should it be monopolized or even up for grabs. Fortunately I breathed a sigh of relief when it occurred to me P2P was the obvious solution and Google was already a dinosaur in technological terms. Turns out I didn't have to pen an inquiry to the FSF - yet at least. There are P2P efforts to democratize search underway, probably the purest of the bunch being YaCy.
I've actually been rather impressed with Microsoft lately after being able to access Windows Live for chat without having any sort of Microsoft affiliated email address, video chat worked out of the box, and it even tells people what music I'm listening too, which I always thought would be a cool feature (well as long as you're using Windows Media Player) ...so I dunno, I'm quitting Google cold turkey I think. In the meantime I'll go with Bing or whatever it's called maybe if I gotta... I'm not a fan of Bill Gates et al, but at least I don't have to fear MS being Big Brother of the Beast of Revelation(s) or any other whack shit, cause even if MS tried it would crash coming out of the gate...
Ho hum, anyway, I was thinking we need to make some little php files to advertise SoM games and stuff in the meantime, we could rotate them like pseudo-ads. We could even give a nod to SoM related merchandisers and toss in some links to their stuff.