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Google acts like it is a public utility when it is convenient to them, and a private service when it isn't.
by clevernickname 10y ago
Google acts like it is a public utility when it is convenient to them, and a private service when it isn't.
- oftenwrong 10y agoDo have an example?
- SixSigma 10y agoSome would call that marketing. If you have N copies, assume the next state will mean have N-1. What would you do different if you could postpone the state change? Do it.
- drusepth 10y agoThey're a private service all the time. Keep that in mind and you'll go far.
- mcbits 10y agoCorporations such as Google are much more like quasi-governmental municipal corporations than like Mom & Pop's Private Bakery.
- tedunangst 10y agoQuasi governmental corporations are typically granted special privileges (protected monopolies). If Google doesn't have some arrangement like all blogging must be done on blogspot, they're not quasi government.
- mcbits 10y agoWhen an entity has a formal governance structure, elected leaders, armed security forces, issues its own bonds, negotiates directly with foreign governments, and has a "GDP" greater than most nations, it has a lot more in common with governments than it does with a typical private business. This phenomenon of "private" corporations amassing the power of governments without the responsibilities of governments is a relatively new chapter in history and still needs to be sorted out.
- user_666 10y agoBull. It's the artist's own fault that he didn't make a backup.