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The fact that French authorities feel they are weaker than Google, well that's a deep concern to me.
by chris_wot 10y ago
The fact that French authorities feel they are weaker than Google, well that's a deep concern to me.
- icebraining 10y agoOf course they would say that when they're looking for a budget increase of €200k to purchase this new “extremely efficient software”. Whether it's actually true that they feel weaker than Google can't determined from reading their PR. - There is to be a departmental reorganisation. A real reshuffle. We may get extra responsibilities. - Do we want them? - We want all responsibilities, Minister, if they mean extra staff and bigger budgets. It's the breadth of our responsibilities that makes us important, makes YOU important, Minister. When you see vast buildings, huge staff and massive budgets, what do you conclude? - Bureaucracy? - No, Minister, you conclude that at the summit there are men of great stature and dignity who hold the world in their hands and tread the earth like princes. - Yes, I see. - So each new responsibility must be seized eagerly and each old one guarded jealously. Entirely in your interests, of course, Minister.
- gambler 10y agoGoogle is, at best, on par with them. What bother me isn't that, but how little power an individual has compared to either of those two entities.