Bah, let us decide what's harmless, inform us without such bias. Google is the company taking pictures of every house in the country, there is obviously tons of potential harm from their activities as a whole and you can't isolate one activity as if it is standalone.
As a whole, yes they are harmful, they enjoy a monopoly and power is corrupting them just as it always corrupts companies in that position, they are the Microsoft of 1996 all over again and deserve more scrutiny/skepticism, not less.
That is a great analogy; Disneyland is a great experience, but tainted by aggressive commercialism and creative restraint. It benefits from its limitations, yet also suffers from its limitations, such as having little depth of content and no serious extensibility into the outside world. A controlled experience worth taking in but not satisfying any deep desire or need. Disposable technology, short-term joy.
I don't know whether it is the overuse or mis-use of the word (probably both) but I don't think "Piracy" or "pirate" now have anything remotely like the connotations or impact they had 10 years ago. Kids growing up today will see "piracy' in the context of warnings at the beginning of movies 100 times before they learn what a "pirate" is or was.
Funny there should bubble up authentic "pirates" in Somalia, as if the word was replicated out of context so many gazillion times that some reactive force of nature compelled real pirates onto our screens as a last gasp before word and concept are forever muted from our collective vocabulary.
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"Harmless" is subjective and leading... oh, and incorrect
Bah, let us decide what's harmless, inform us without such bias. Google is the company taking pictures of every house in the country, there is obviously tons of potential harm from their activities as a whole and you can't isolate one activity as if it is standalone.
As a whole, yes they are harmful, they enjoy a monopoly and power is corrupting them just as it always corrupts companies in that position, they are the Microsoft of 1996 all over again and deserve more scrutiny/skepticism, not less.
Yes, Disneyland, good and bad of it
That is a great analogy; Disneyland is a great experience, but tainted by aggressive commercialism and creative restraint. It benefits from its limitations, yet also suffers from its limitations, such as having little depth of content and no serious extensibility into the outside world. A controlled experience worth taking in but not satisfying any deep desire or need. Disposable technology, short-term joy.
Overused and mis-used words lose their meaning
I don't know whether it is the overuse or mis-use of the word (probably both) but I don't think "Piracy" or "pirate" now have anything remotely like the connotations or impact they had 10 years ago. Kids growing up today will see "piracy' in the context of warnings at the beginning of movies 100 times before they learn what a "pirate" is or was.
Funny there should bubble up authentic "pirates" in Somalia, as if the word was replicated out of context so many gazillion times that some reactive force of nature compelled real pirates onto our screens as a last gasp before word and concept are forever muted from our collective vocabulary.