they are outraged because they all initially signed up to "make the world a better place" and obviously you do that by working for a megacorp which parks their 30 billion $ offshore cash on Bermuda
> they are outraged because they all initially signed up to "make the world a better place" and obviously you do that by working for a megacorp which parks their 30 billion $ offshore cash on Bermuda
And they are more in bed with Uncle Sam than pretty much any traditional "evil" company. They spent $18M in lobbying just last year. More than Northrop, Lockheed, Verizon or Comcast. If that's not enough the same Schmidt that wants to kill people "correctly" was prancing around Hillary's campaign events wearing a "staff" badge https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000158-6a12-d435-a9ff-7f5ae.... He picked the wrong door of course, but had she won, they'd be no doubt Google would have gotten a decent chunk of the hundreds of billions spent on defense every year. I can just imagine a nice friendly voice interface: "Ok Google. Let's fly to such and such village in Afghanistan"
And they are more in bed with Uncle Sam than pretty much any traditional "evil" company. They spent $18M in lobbying just last year. More than Northrop, Lockheed, Verizon or Comcast. If that's not enough the same Schmidt that wants to kill people "correctly" was prancing around Hillary's campaign events wearing a "staff" badge https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000158-6a12-d435-a9ff-7f5ae.... He picked the wrong door of course, but had she won, they'd be no doubt Google would have gotten a decent chunk of the hundreds of billions spent on defense every year. I can just imagine a nice friendly voice interface: "Ok Google. Let's fly to such and such village in Afghanistan"