(Fred Weinberg/The Penny Press) – I was in Elko, Nevada, over the weekend having a few sleepless nights trying to get our transmitter fixed on KTSN (for those folks in Elko, back on the air soon) and missed President Obama’s “You didn’t build that” speech until I got home. By that time, this issue of the paper was mostly finished.
I have a policy, which I mostly follow, of waiting until I cool off when someone does something stunningly stupid—such as this—so I don’t end up calling the President of the United States of America an arrogant little putz in print. It’s bad form.
But, I would observe to my regular readers that I’m 60 years old, have been in business full-time or part-time for at least 40 of those years, been both very successful and not so successful and take credit or blame for it all.
I owe my parents—my late father and my very much still there mother—for giving me the values which allow me to say, “Let’s try that.” (And, in fairness, my Dad did spend a few of those sleepless nights with me helping me figure something out.) I owe the founders of America for designing a system that 236 years later allows a little guy to have success with a good idea. Or fail with a not so good one.
But I certainly don’t owe somebody for building the roads and bridges to my businesses any more than the serial killer who also uses those roads and bridges in the commission of his crimes.
I won’t call the President of the Unites States of America an arrogant little putz for his very revealing remarks.
But I will remind you that little guys like me employ more than three quarters of America. Make that more difficult for us and unemployment can easily be 15% by election day.
Now, back to our regular paper.
If You Think Google And Apple Are Spying On You, DON’T USE THEIR STUFF! If You Use Their Stuff For Free, Stop Bitching!
The big news of last week is that Google agreed to pay a $22-million fine to the morons at the Federal Trade Commission for allegedly violating the privacy of people using the Safari browser built into their iPhones and iPads.
This is so Obama on so many levels.
First, of the millions of people who use iPhones and iPads, the number who actually give a rat’s ass about Google more closely tailoring their ads to what people are searching for is pretty close to zero. I’m talking about real people, not the idiots who protest everything because they can.
Second, $22-million is about five hours of Google’s revenue. It means nothing to them, it means nothing to the government and it means nothing to us.
Third, if you don’t want your activity tracked when you are using someone else’s invention and someone else’s software for your own purposes, don’t use it. There’s no law that says you need to use an iPhone or an iPad and there’s certainly no law that says you have to do your search on Google.
The reason most people use iPhones and iPads is that the devices make their lives easier and the reason most people search on Google is that Google’s software engineers are the best and, as a result, their searches deliver the best results.
Complaining about what Google does with search data it collects is like the moronic people who complain about the advertising which make the free TV shows they watch available to them in the first place.
Folks.
This stuff is not free.
Google is an advertiser supported service just like CBS. If you don’t like watching commercials in Hawaii Five O, then maybe you’d like to pay $10 an episode to see it without commercials? Didn’t think so.
Well, how about paying Google $1 a search? Or $30 a month? Didn’t think so.
The Obama administration has appointed a slew of so-called privacy advocates to various regulatory agencies who actually think they have the right to set the terms on which free minded Americans can use a service for free!
They’d sure like you to believe that you get the free use of Google and Gmail without any of that pesky tailored advertising because they said so.
Well, guess what.
In the real world—a world which with Barack Hussein Obama has only a passing acquaintance—nothing is free. I mean nothing.
Why should it be?
Do you think Google is there for the fun of it? That they created the best and fastest search engine in the world so you could search for pictures of Kate Upton by typing in “swimsuit model related to congressman” without some reason involving making money?
If you do, you’re as dumb as our President’s appointees to the various government agencies which harass Google solely because Google is very good at what it does.
We’ve been users of gmail since it was created. And Google Earth and the search engine and a lot of their other good stuff, too.
And, yes, more than once or twice, we’ve responded to one of their ads because it was in our interest to do so.
You got a problem with that?
Frankly, we see the breast beating on the part of the FTC as just more Obama election year crapola which reinforces how anti business he and the clowns he surrounds himself are. (If you want to have some fun, go to Google and search for Eric Holder, Fast and Furious. You’ll get about 3,020,000 results in 0.13 seconds. And some ads.)
If you want this recession to be over, the last thing you need to do is to support a policy of discouraging business.
Advertising is not evil and profit is not a four letter word.
But discouraging potential employers from going into business comes darn close to blasphemy. Especially when the unemployment rate is well over 8%.
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