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Title: ?Google was founded in a garage by 2 young men?
Post by: SoldierofFortune on July 01, 2019, 05:15:38 AM
I am talking about Google which is a front company for the CIA...

Either it has changed hands after it was founded or its owner has always been the CIA: I tend to believe that the 2. option is true.

Why and how this kind of narratives are produced to make people believe that everything in the world develops in ordinary nature.
Title: Re: ?Google was founded in a garage by 2 young men?
Post by: Baruch on July 01, 2019, 05:29:08 AM
Quote from: SoldierofFortune on July 01, 2019, 05:15:38 AM
I am talking about Google which is a front company for the CIA...

Either it has changed hands after it was founded or its owner has always been the CIA: I tend to believe that the 2. option is true.

Why and how this kind of narratives are produced to make people believe that everything in the world develops in ordinary nature.

For example, Facebook the idea, was developed by two guys, but stolen and developed by another pair of guys ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Winklevoss  These guys are twins, and are Bitcoin billionaires.  So who is Satoshi Nakamoto?

The intelligence services originated the computer revolution.  Everything "computer" has always been in the purview of the intelligence services.  So is Facebook or Google part of the CIA?  Duh.  Is Amazon part of the CIA?  Amazon is who the CIA contracts out data warehousing to.

Even in Victorian times.  Charles Babbage, the developer of the Difference Engine and the Analytical Engine (never fully developed due to cost and technical difficulties with steam powered mechanical computing) also did cryptanalysis for the British Empire.  Same as Alan Turing.

"In wartime, truth is so precious she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies" - Winston Churchill
Title: Re: ?Google was founded in a garage by 2 young men?
Post by: Hydra009 on July 01, 2019, 12:33:00 PM
Lots of things have relatively humble beginnings.

It's a common thing to look backwards and apply an argument from incredulity and/or to fall into conspiracy thinking.  An easy and foolish trap.
Title: Re: ?Google was founded in a garage by 2 young men?
Post by: Baruch on July 01, 2019, 01:09:45 PM
Quote from: Hydra009 on July 01, 2019, 12:33:00 PM
Lots of things have relatively humble beginnings.

It's a common thing to look backwards and apply an argument from incredulity and/or to fall into conspiracy thinking.  An easy and foolish trap.

And of course Bill Gates stole Basic from Dartmouth, and had a hacker steal and update CPM, which was stolen from DEC ... and renamed it DOS.  Macintosh I/F was stolen from Xerox.  Is theft humble?  The national security aspects were obvious from the beginning.  Hence MS cut a deal, to "spook" Windows and to kill Novell.

Business engages in conspiracy every time they are on the golf course.  Right next to the government guys up to the same thing.
Title: Re: ?Google was founded in a garage by 2 young men?
Post by: Unbeliever on July 01, 2019, 01:13:22 PM
Quote from: Hydra009 on July 01, 2019, 12:33:00 PM
Lots of things have relatively humble beginnings.

It's a common thing to look backwards and apply an argument from incredulity and/or to fall into conspiracy thinking.  An easy and foolish trap.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F4qzPbcFiA
Title: Re: ?Google was founded in a garage by 2 young men?
Post by: Baruch on July 01, 2019, 01:55:56 PM
Admiral Akbar knew this immediately, when he saw the Red Lobster sign ;-))
Title: Re: ?Google was founded in a garage by 2 young men?
Post by: Unbeliever on July 01, 2019, 02:06:48 PM
A lobster trap? Yeah, he would probably not much care for that...
Title: Re: ?Google was founded in a garage by 2 young men?
Post by: Baruch on July 01, 2019, 03:23:05 PM
Quote from: Unbeliever on July 01, 2019, 02:06:48 PM
A lobster trap? Yeah, he would probably not much care for that...

Would he die for the cheesy biscuits? (Red Lobster favorite).
Title: Re: ?Google was founded in a garage by 2 young men?
Post by: Cavebear on July 13, 2019, 03:54:39 PM
Quote from: SoldierofFortune on July 01, 2019, 05:15:38 AM
I am talking about Google which is a front company for the CIA...

Either it has changed hands after it was founded or its owner has always been the CIA: I tend to believe that the 2. option is true.

Why and how this kind of narratives are produced to make people believe that everything in the world develops in ordinary nature.

The CIA can't afford to front Google, LOL!
Title: Re: ?Google was founded in a garage by 2 young men?
Post by: Cavebear on July 13, 2019, 03:56:09 PM
Not saying they wouldn't if they could...
Title: Re: ?Google was founded in a garage by 2 young men?
Post by: Baruch on July 13, 2019, 04:06:33 PM
Quote from: Cavebear on July 13, 2019, 03:56:09 PM
Not saying they wouldn't if they could...

Amazon ... that is where the CIA servers are going.  The Mormon Church got the NSA servers.
Title: Re: ?Google was founded in a garage by 2 young men?
Post by: Cavebear on July 13, 2019, 04:09:15 PM
Quote from: Baruch on July 13, 2019, 04:06:33 PM
Amazon ... that is where the CIA servers are going.  The Mormon Church got the NSA servers.

I don't go there.  I'm more wary than you think.  Can you find me on the net?
Title: Re: ?Google was founded in a garage by 2 young men?
Post by: Baruch on July 13, 2019, 06:43:00 PM
Quote from: Cavebear on July 13, 2019, 04:09:15 PM
I don't go there.  I'm more wary than you think.  Can you find me on the net?

I won't try.  Not my thing.  But others can, if you have a cell phone or other wired or wireless connection.  This may be why they got rid of pay phones .. to much fun for the police to track you in real time, by satellite.
Title: Re: ?Google was founded in a garage by 2 young men?
Post by: Cavebear on July 20, 2019, 10:10:55 AM
Quote from: Baruch on July 13, 2019, 06:43:00 PM
I won't try.  Not my thing.  But others can, if you have a cell phone or other wired or wireless connection.  This may be why they got rid of pay phones .. to much fun for the police to track you in real time, by satellite.

So the answer is "can't".
Title: Re: ?Google was founded in a garage by 2 young men?
Post by: Baruch on July 20, 2019, 10:51:39 AM
Quote from: Cavebear on July 20, 2019, 10:10:55 AM
So the answer is "can't".

There are RFID chips you can swallow without knowing, that stay in your gut.  If you shop, they may track you when you make a purchase.
Title: Re: ?Google was founded in a garage by 2 young men?
Post by: Cavebear on July 20, 2019, 10:58:35 AM
Quote from: Baruch on July 20, 2019, 10:51:39 AM
There are RFID chips you can swallow without knowing, that stay in your gut.  If you shop, they may track you when you make a purchase.

Walmart and Amazon have (so far) not asked me to eat anything.  And, if they do, I can go elsewhere.  I do not engage in conspiracy theories.
Title: Re: ?Google was founded in a garage by 2 young men?
Post by: Baruch on July 20, 2019, 11:05:45 AM
Quote from: Cavebear on July 20, 2019, 10:58:35 AM
Walmart and Amazon have (so far) not asked me to eat anything.  And, if they do, I can go elsewhere.  I do not engage in conspiracy theories.

Yes you are dull like that.  Never live dangerously, and you will live long and alone.
Title: Re: ?Google was founded in a garage by 2 young men?
Post by: Cavebear on July 20, 2019, 11:10:54 AM
Quote from: Baruch on July 20, 2019, 11:05:45 AM
Yes you are dull like that.  Never live dangerously, and you will live long and alone.

And yet, in another thread, you supported drinking vodka to avoid the bad water supply and I said to clean the water source...

LOL!
Title: Re: ?Google was founded in a garage by 2 young men?
Post by: Baruch on July 20, 2019, 11:20:40 AM
Quote from: Cavebear on July 20, 2019, 11:10:54 AM
And yet, in another thread, you supported drinking vodka to avoid the bad water supply and I said to clean the water source...

LOL!

Sometimes you can clean the water source today.  That wasn't available in 1850 London.  Until "public health" came along, drinking "sherry" or "gin" were your best bets.  "sherry" or "port" are fortified wines that spoil less in an unfrigerated world.  But upper class.  The lower class urban dwellers had their brains fried on "gin" from the early 18th century forward.  When my dad visited Naples, in 1946, the local water was still bad.  Even children drank wine.
Title: Re: ?Google was founded in a garage by 2 young men?
Post by: Cavebear on August 01, 2019, 09:21:30 AM
Quote from: Baruch on July 20, 2019, 11:20:40 AM
Sometimes you can clean the water source today.  That wasn't available in 1850 London.  Until "public health" came along, drinking "sherry" or "gin" were your best bets.  "sherry" or "port" are fortified wines that spoil less in an unfrigerated world.  But upper class.  The lower class urban dwellers had their brains fried on "gin" from the early 18th century forward.  When my dad visited Naples, in 1946, the local water was still bad.  Even children drank wine.

I agree completely.  Why did you think I didn't?  Alcohol is a wunnerful sterilizer.  I make sure to have some every day.