A player goes into the stands to defend his wife. A claim that seems legit based on the fact that he went straight to her, didn't touch anyone else in the stands and went back to the court when she was fine.
The NBA suspends him for 5 games and says they are being nice. Talk about Family Values. Personally I think professional basketball is a joke - to make it exciting they relaxed all the rules I learned as a child and combined it with a crop of super sized humans. I can not stand to watch the players palm the basketball repeatedly so I don't watch it.
Now they are trying to drive away families with their actions. Pity.
And don't get me started on the fan sitting by his wife - threatening a lawsuit for $1million dollars!?!?! Get real loser. Just for making the threat you should be brought up on blackmail charges. Your family should be ashamed to see you on TV and have the world know it is their relative who is such an idiot. Or maybe he comes from a 'Jerry Springer Show' family, I don't know.
Friday, January 20, 2006
Google Saving the World - NOT
I haven't had much to complain about lately and have been distracted with travel for work. But this little disagreement between Google and the US Government got me thinking.
All the news stories seemed to pit poor upstanding Google as being on the side of the little guy as the big mean US Government overstate it's rights and demands information on every search done in the last year.
The single fact that Google HAS all of this information and MORE is a mere saddened frequently not even mentioned. Who is to say the Google is any better then the government in having and utilizing this information?
I think the government is a bit over it's head in this situation and question if they even have enough drive space to store the data but since when has reality ever been an issue with the government?
But Google actively uses this information, not for the benefit of you and I, but for it's own economic interests. I bet if the government walked into the offices of Google and said we would like to pay you to do a search of your data and identify X situation we wouldn't have even heard about this topic. Google would have done it's magic and handed the information over - just like they do to all their other clients.
You think the government seeing what you search is bad? Think what corporate America is doing with that same information then decide how righteous Google really is.
** The opinions espoused in this post are solely the authors in case you didn't know that - don't you hate these stupid idiotic disclaimers that the law essentially requires to avoid being sued over something very obvious.
All the news stories seemed to pit poor upstanding Google as being on the side of the little guy as the big mean US Government overstate it's rights and demands information on every search done in the last year.
The single fact that Google HAS all of this information and MORE is a mere saddened frequently not even mentioned. Who is to say the Google is any better then the government in having and utilizing this information?
I think the government is a bit over it's head in this situation and question if they even have enough drive space to store the data but since when has reality ever been an issue with the government?
But Google actively uses this information, not for the benefit of you and I, but for it's own economic interests. I bet if the government walked into the offices of Google and said we would like to pay you to do a search of your data and identify X situation we wouldn't have even heard about this topic. Google would have done it's magic and handed the information over - just like they do to all their other clients.
You think the government seeing what you search is bad? Think what corporate America is doing with that same information then decide how righteous Google really is.
** The opinions espoused in this post are solely the authors in case you didn't know that - don't you hate these stupid idiotic disclaimers that the law essentially requires to avoid being sued over something very obvious.
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