January 20, 2011
— rdbrewer Alternate headline: Creepiest Person In World Fired.
Last December, in an interview with CNBC, he addressed concerns about privacy and Google's retention of personal information by saying, "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."
From the Washington Post:
Google announced Thursday afternoon that chief executive Eric Schmidt will step aside and be succeeded by Larry Page, one of the search giantÂ’s co-founders.Because of his cavalier approach toward privacy issues, Schmidt needed a team of PR guys to follow him around like street sweepers at an elephant parade. More odd statements:Schmidt, who joined Google as chief executive in 2001, said in a statement that the decision was aimed at simplifying the companyÂ’s management structure.
“As Google has grown, managing the business has become more complicated,” he said. “[W]e decided now was the right moment to make some changes to the way we are structured.”
"We can suggest what you should do next, what you care about. Imagine: We know where you are, we know what you like.""Not only are you never lonely, you're never bored! We'll suggest what you should be watching, because we know what you care about."
"A near-term future in which you don't forget anything, because the computer remembers. You're never lost."
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, he suggested that in order to escape Google's permanent record, people could simply change their names:
Mr. Schmidt is surely right, though, that the questions go far beyond Google. "I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time," he says. He predicts, apparently seriously, that every young person one day will be entitled automatically to change his or her name on reaching adulthood in order to disown youthful hijinks stored on their friends' social media sites.
And today, just after being plutoed by Google, he tweeted this gem: “Day-to-day adult supervision no longer needed!” No doubt his young bosses were thrilled. Presumably, this is a reference to something Sergey Brin's said when Schmidt was appointed in 2001, "[H]e’s going to be a bit of a chaperone, providing adult supervision . . . ." Regardless of whether it was a veiled insult or a statement about his own competence, it was a silly thing to say. And it is probably representative of some of the rationale behind Google's announcement today.
Someone created a vicious YouTube in response to this serial creepy behavior.
One more thing: Google's motto is "Don't Be Evil." Ha!
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Posted by: Andy at January 20, 2011 04:49 PM (veZ9n)
Posted by: Eric Schmidt at January 20, 2011 04:50 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: goldbricker esq at January 20, 2011 04:50 PM (h2t8r)
Hey ... looks like that fixed it.
'cause that's how we fix things at AoSHQ!
If it ain't broke, break it!
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at January 20, 2011 04:51 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: FlaviusJulius at January 20, 2011 04:51 PM (SJ6/3)
Someone injected the comments section with adrenaline and blamo its up and running again.
Posted by: Ben at January 20, 2011 04:52 PM (DKV43)
Posted by: toby928â„¢ at January 20, 2011 04:53 PM (S5YRY)
Posted by: goldbricker esq at January 20, 2011 04:53 PM (h2t8r)
Posted by: robtr at January 20, 2011 04:53 PM (hVDig)
Posted by: Uncle Jed at January 20, 2011 04:54 PM (vXwmy)
attn: nincompoops
We muster at the 'new' site when the main site shits the bed.
http://ace.new.mu.nu/
Posted by: Leftover Soothsayers at January 20, 2011 04:54 PM (Wzli+)
Posted by: t-bird at January 20, 2011 04:55 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 20, 2011 04:56 PM (2yngH)
Posted by: FlaviusJulius at January 20, 2011 04:56 PM (SJ6/3)
Posted by: MīcÞeMūß at January 20, 2011 04:56 PM (0q2P7)
We got to play with the you tag so there's that.
Posted by: toby928â„¢ at January 20, 2011 04:56 PM (S5YRY)
Pixy, for years I've been asking when we are getting back the comment counters and for the recent comments to be fixed.
And for years you've been ignoring me.
Posted by: Leftover Soothsayers at January 20, 2011 04:58 PM (Wzli+)
Posted by: Andy at January 20, 2011 04:58 PM (veZ9n)
Posted by: FlaviusJulius at January 20, 2011 04:58 PM (SJ6/3)
You need to upgrade the hamsters.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at January 20, 2011 04:58 PM (c0A3e)
Wonder if Schmidt had to go into hiding because relatives of the Chinese dissidents his fucking company handed over to the PRC goons finally made it America and are looking to have a word with his dictator fellating self?
Fuck you, Schmidt. When freedom mattered, you lined up with the authoritarian butchers. Fuck you.
Posted by: Steve Skubinna at January 20, 2011 04:59 PM (A6gu4)
Posted by: Uncle Jed at January 20, 2011 04:59 PM (vXwmy)
Posted by: t-bird at January 20, 2011 04:59 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Y-not at January 20, 2011 05:00 PM (pW2o8)
Thanks pixy, that's why you get some of that internet money.
Posted by: Ben at January 20, 2011 05:01 PM (DKV43)
Nobody would come over to the alternate site. I was getting maudlin over there.
Don't know how to get there. I clearly spend too much time on AoSHQ though since I'd swear I was going through withdrawal.
Posted by: Polliwog at January 20, 2011 05:02 PM (6tGlk)
GASP
..you mean there is record of me spending all that time at trannygrannies.com and...GULP...AoSHQ??
Posted by: beedubya at January 20, 2011 05:02 PM (AnTyA)
Posted by: If Pixy were at Google at January 20, 2011 05:03 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2011 05:03 PM (bgcml)
Did the intertubes bust a hole or something?
Posted by: ErikW at January 20, 2011 05:03 PM (RvITP)
Posted by: Y-not at January 20, 2011 09:00 PM (pW2o
Recipe? Sounds yummy.
Posted by: bleach is best at January 20, 2011 05:03 PM (c1oyg)
Don't know how to get there. I clearly spend too much time on AoSHQ though since I'd swear I was going through withdrawal.
Posted by: Polliwog at January 20, 2011 09:02 PM (6tGlk)
Sweetie, trust me you don't go through withdrawal over a website.
Now cocaine? That's a hell of a drug.
Posted by: Barack Obama at January 20, 2011 05:04 PM (bgcml)
Posted by: dudeinsantacruz at January 20, 2011 05:04 PM (FcnYT)
Did the intertubes bust a hole or something?
Posted by: ErikW at January 20, 2011 09:03 PM (RvITP)
I think someone misdialed the number.
Posted by: Joe Biden at January 20, 2011 05:05 PM (bgcml)
Seems like the gov is starting up the death panel. Testing it out on birds first. Suppose they will try 'er on smaller mammals and primates before they get 'er up to speed on peoples.
Posted by: sTevo at January 20, 2011 05:06 PM (VMcEw)
Posted by: t-bird at January 20, 2011 08:59 PM (FcR7P)
Like, wow, man.....
Posted by: Cheech and Chong at January 20, 2011 05:06 PM (c1oyg)
Posted by: Barry O at January 20, 2011 05:07 PM (FcR7P)
1. Smash HDD
2. Put residue in trunk.
3. Fill trunk with cement.
4. Dump very heavy trunk into Marianas Trench.
5. Destroy Earth by causing it to crash into sun.
6. Unbalance Sun fusion reaction with magnetic waves; cause Nova.
7. Gather solar system remains dump into black hole.
*Whew* they will never know. OR WILL THEY?
Posted by: MīcÞeMūß at January 20, 2011 05:07 PM (0q2P7)
..you mean there is record of me spending all that time at trannygrannies.com and...GULP...AoSHQ??
Posted by: beedubya at January 20, 2011 09:02 PM (AnTyA)
Please don't let Michelle find out...please...
Posted by: Barack "On the Downlow" Obama at January 20, 2011 05:08 PM (bgcml)
Here it is. I added a little dried sage to the flour and served it over spaghetti squash (to try to make up for the naughty butter in the recipe...).
I think next time I would saute some shallots in the pan before making the white wine reduction (definitely use dry vermouth, btw) and maybe even some pancetta.
Naturally, Mr Y-not's boss called just as he was sitting down to dinner... poor guy!
Posted by: Y-not at January 20, 2011 05:08 PM (pW2o8)
They can be skeezes, but the amount of lecturing they do is pathetic. Now, who does that remind me of.
Posted by: Merovign, Bond Villain at January 20, 2011 05:08 PM (bxiXv)
My hash survived my turning my router off and on.
I must get a new hash every couple of days then since that's how often I need to jumpstart my stupid router.
Posted by: Polliwog at January 20, 2011 05:09 PM (6tGlk)
Posted by: Boots at January 20, 2011 05:09 PM (neKzn)
Posted by: rdbrewer at January 20, 2011 05:11 PM (V/h8t)
You pan-fry sage leaves (fresh ones) in butter for a couple of minutes until they're crispy. Then use them as a garnish. The butter is then permeated with the sagey flavors which is really nice when you saute the meatballs in it and make the sauce.
There's a lot of sage available in the markets right now, so I'm trying to find ways to use it.
Posted by: Y-not at January 20, 2011 05:13 PM (pW2o8)
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 20, 2011 05:13 PM (XBM1t)
FIFY.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at January 20, 2011 05:14 PM (c0A3e)
Your router runs on hash? What a time saver. lol
Posted by: Berserker at January 20, 2011 05:15 PM (gWHrG)
Posted by: rdbrewer at January 20, 2011 05:15 PM (V/h8t)
Posted by: Eric Schmidt at January 20, 2011 05:16 PM (SwkdU)
Sure, I read your gmail, but I wasn't evil when I did it!
Posted by: Eric Schmidt at January 20, 2011 05:17 PM (V/h8t)
Cool! Seattle is 16th in the countries top 20 rudest cities
I see Charleston ranked as one of the least rude cities. Makes sense to me. I've found the people here much more overtly friendly in superficial situations than back in Denver.
Mostly it's a nice change but sometimes it can be a bit much. Think I need to get up to NYC so I can be treated gruffly or ignored. heh
Posted by: Delta Smelt at January 20, 2011 05:17 PM (A0VTZ)
The list seems weird to me.
LA people are rude in malls and shopping centers, but no where near the rudest behind the wheel. We actually had good luck getting people to let us merge on freeways and such.
Bostonians are just rude all over.
Houstonians are really only rude when it's bleeding hot and they're trying to get their a/c's revved up when they first get into their cars or when they're trying to find a parking space near the air-conditioned store/office/whatever.
Nicest people? Minneapolis-St. Paul (US). Vancouver, BC (international).
Rudest people? Russians visiting the US or Parisians at home.
Posted by: Y-not at January 20, 2011 05:18 PM (pW2o8)
Mostly it's a nice change but sometimes it can be a bit much. Think I need to get up to NYC so I can be treated gruffly or ignored. heh
Posted by: Delta Smelt at January 20, 2011 09:17 PM (A0VTZ)
Youse forgot snowed in.
Posted by: Some NYC "city worker" at January 20, 2011 05:18 PM (bgcml)
Posted by: Massholes are #1!! at January 20, 2011 05:20 PM (SwkdU)
Posted by: FlaviusJulius at January 20, 2011 05:20 PM (SJ6/3)
Posted by: dudeinsantacruz at January 20, 2011 05:21 PM (FcnYT)
Posted by: Masshole f'in Pride at January 20, 2011 05:21 PM (SwkdU)
Posted by: Y-not at January 20, 2011 09:08 PM (pW2o
Dear lady, you are a patriot, a goddess, and a paragon of all that is good in America. I'm sure you look like Grace Kelly in her prime, with the brains of Madame Curie. I thank you. YUM
Posted by: Cheech and Chong at January 20, 2011 05:22 PM (c1oyg)
Yeah, but really it's not people from Massachusetts, it's people from Boston and suburbs. They're fine once you get to the Berkshires. There's kind of a gradient of increased assholerly running from west to east.
Posted by: Y-not at January 20, 2011 05:23 PM (pW2o8)
Posted by: AoSHQ's DarkLord© at January 20, 2011 05:24 PM (Fs7RJ)
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 20, 2011 05:24 PM (XBM1t)
Posted by: Y-not at January 20, 2011 09:18 PM (pW2o
Is that true! I was walking through the Mpls. airport, and people were saying hello to me. Being from Philly, I immediately checked for my wallet
Posted by: Cheech and Chong at January 20, 2011 05:25 PM (c1oyg)
Or my bet would be on his campaign team.
Posted by: Y-not at January 20, 2011 05:25 PM (pW2o8)
Posted by: fluffy, Masshole at January 20, 2011 05:27 PM (SwkdU)
Or my bet would be on his campaign team.
"Well, on their social networking site, they wrote "Obama" 23 times in the last 6 years, so that'll just count as a vote for you then..."
Posted by: dudeinsantacruz at January 20, 2011 05:28 PM (FcnYT)
Posted by: GLaDOS at January 20, 2011 05:28 PM (7kcVF)
I interviewed for a job there, years ago (early 90s). My host/prospective boss (he was recruiting me so it was more like a host) was an aggressive NYC Jew (self-described). As part of the recruiting, I asked him to take me to a Twins game (they clobbered the Red Sox in that game) and as we were approaching the stadium exit on the freeway/highway/whatever, people were moving over into the proper lane a couple of miles before the exit. All very orderly, using turn signals, and no one trying to sneaky fender in. He commented that it took him a couple of years to adjust to the politeness.
On the other hand, the Minneapoleans are all giants.
Posted by: Y-not at January 20, 2011 05:28 PM (pW2o8)
Posted by: moi at January 20, 2011 05:29 PM (Ez4Ql)
Wow. Mine changes if I look at it funny.
Posted by: Waterhouse at January 20, 2011 05:29 PM (jwfD6)
Posted by: Vinny Carwash at January 20, 2011 05:29 PM (TMB3S)
Posted by: moi at January 20, 2011 05:30 PM (Ez4Ql)
Definitely the russians. My first encounter with them is when they started buying frigging gas stations in the area I pulled in to get gas, and of course we don't pump our own gas in jersey, so this assclown is motioning me around the car in front of me at the pumps. I'm thinking wtf, I need gas, why is he waving me on. He keeps saying this word I could not understand, sounded like "Ezell" , but only fast like a 1 syllable word. Well I finally figured out that this asshole is saying diesel, as in asking me if I need diesel, which I didn't. He was also motioning me to actually parallel park along side of a car at the pump so he can stretch the hose over the trunk of that car to get to mine. So you got this dude he can't speak english telling me to do something you NEVER do at a gas pump, and is all pissed off because I don't understand a totally assholic unconventional maneuver in a fucking foreign language.
Posted by: Berserker at January 20, 2011 05:31 PM (gWHrG)
85 I'm a little tipsy, but did someone already say that they expect to see this asshole show up in the administration?
Or my bet would be on his campaign team.
There's a medical practice in Pennsylvania that has an opening.
Posted by: Why Me? at January 20, 2011 05:33 PM (H+LJc)
Posted by: Eric Schmidt, wearing a camera on his shoe at January 20, 2011 05:34 PM (jwfD6)
Posted by: Uncle Jed at January 20, 2011 05:36 PM (vXwmy)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 20, 2011 05:40 PM (9Lm5R)
Posted by: jewells45 at January 20, 2011 05:42 PM (Z71Vg)
Posted by: jewells45 at January 20, 2011 05:44 PM (Z71Vg)
Posted by: Jeff Foxworthy at January 20, 2011 05:44 PM (SwkdU)
Posted by: Eric Schmidt at January 20, 2011 05:44 PM (V/h8t)
Or my bet would be on his campaign team.
Posted by: Y-not at January 20, 2011 09:25 PM (pW2o
Expect him to be in charge of integrity and openness of Obama's online campaign donations.
Posted by: buzzion at January 20, 2011 05:46 PM (oVQFe)
Making my point.
It's not the Massholes, it's the New Yorkers.
Posted by: Y-not at January 20, 2011 05:47 PM (pW2o8)
we've got about 5 inches in the past few hours here. it's supposed to snow more tonight.
We've had a lot of snow in the past two weeks, but the snow tonight is different. It is that heavy snow that packs real easily.
Posted by: Ben at January 20, 2011 05:48 PM (DKV43)
It's not the Massholes, it's the New Yorkers.
From deep in flyover country, that's a distinction without a difference.
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 20, 2011 05:49 PM (XBM1t)
Posted by: Eric Schmidt at January 20, 2011 05:50 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Masshole turning on the fuckin charm at January 20, 2011 05:50 PM (SwkdU)
Posted by: Ronster at January 20, 2011 05:52 PM (1F/m8)
Posted by: USS Diversity at January 20, 2011 05:53 PM (DLxD/)
keep hearing how great Parks and Rec is. I'm seeing it for the first time and haven't so much as smiled yet.
That's how I felt about Always Sunny in Philadelphia. The previews looked hilarious but when I watched it, it was stupid and not even remotely funny.
Posted by: jewells45 at January 20, 2011 05:56 PM (Z71Vg)
Posted by: Raoul Ortega at January 20, 2011 05:57 PM (GUxTi)
Posted by: Eric Schmidt at January 20, 2011 05:59 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: fluffy on the East Coast, Represent! at January 20, 2011 05:59 PM (SwkdU)
Great! New Google CEO.
Wonder what the page logo will be on Good Friday. Easter Sunday even. Surely by Memorial Day.
Say, now I know how Linus felt in the pumpkin patch waiting on the Great Pumpkin.
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 20, 2011 06:01 PM (XBM1t)
Posted by: sifty at January 20, 2011 06:01 PM (HJlc+)
Posted by: jewells45 at January 20, 2011 06:04 PM (Z71Vg)
Posted by: t-bird at January 20, 2011 06:06 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Red Green at January 20, 2011 06:07 PM (GUxTi)
Posted by: My site has a PageRank of Fuck You at January 20, 2011 06:19 PM (UqJ8A)
I forgot Keith David was in Something About Mary.
Posted by: USS Diversity at January 20, 2011 06:22 PM (DLxD/)
Wanna know something weird I noticed? Well, something else weird. I was searching for these things on Google, and it was going slow. (I'd read most of them before.) Then I thought, wait a minute. Switched over to Bing.
Badabingbadaboom, they came up lickety split.
Hmm.
Posted by: rdbrewer at January 20, 2011 06:22 PM (V/h8t)
Posted by: rdbrewer at January 20, 2011 06:24 PM (V/h8t)
Posted by: CoolCzech at January 20, 2011 06:25 PM (tJjm/)
Posted by: Oldsailor at January 20, 2011 06:26 PM (AovJ3)
keep hearing how great Parks and Rec is. I'm seeing it for the first time and haven't so much as smiled yet.
That's how I felt about Always Sunny in Philadelphia. The previews looked hilarious but when I watched it, it was stupid and not even remotely funny.
Posted by: jewells45 at January 20, 2011 09:56 PM (Z71Vg)
Parks and recreation is funny but a lot of the jokes are on going. you'd be better off watching all the past programs and then watching tonight's episode again. You'll get the ongoing jokes then.
Posted by: curious at January 20, 2011 06:29 PM (p302b)
Posted by: CoolCzech at January 20, 2011 06:30 PM (tJjm/)
142 Barret Jackson, that's some world class male middle age porn.
I'm guessing most buyers are late 50s to mid 60s.
Posted by: Ronster at January 20, 2011 06:31 PM (1F/m8)
Posted by: rdbrewer at January 20, 2011 06:31 PM (V/h8t)
If nothing else, we'd have something to sell the capitalist countries.
Posted by: LC LaWedgie at January 20, 2011 06:33 PM (kb0wl)
Google is totally stagnant. It's like a little old man in a nice sweater in a comfy leather easy chair. And the viagra doesn't work anymore.
Posted by: curious at January 20, 2011 06:33 PM (p302b)
Posted by: CoolCzech at January 20, 2011 06:37 PM (tJjm/)
How effed up is THAT?
Posted by: CoolCzech at January 20, 2011 10:25 PM (tJjm/)
Well, the control surfaces will be marked DO NOT STEP in Chinese.
So there's that.
Posted by: ErikW at January 20, 2011 06:37 PM (RvITP)
Posted by: curious at January 20, 2011 06:40 PM (p302b)
Posted by: CoolCzech channeling Alfred Hitchcock at January 20, 2011 06:42 PM (tJjm/)
Posted by: curious at January 20, 2011 10:38 PM (p302b)
Probably because she has met Michelle Obama before.
Posted by: buzzion at January 20, 2011 07:27 PM (oVQFe)
I rarely if ever use it. Mainly because they seem to have a 'We hate Americans' feature with their 'Theme of the Day'.
Posted by: Gmac at January 20, 2011 08:58 PM (s+Z29)
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