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Originally Posted by Crashdamage View Post
You should do some troubleshooting.
Could be.I've seen similar result from other people. Must be some oddball software. Still, I'm not bothered by a reboot on my own terms.

Originally Posted by Crashdamage View Post
(Snip long list of Google services and fanboisms)
I resent that. Being honest is not fanboism, especially since the following paragraph lists them as scanning my email and tracking my searches. But, it's your view, after all if you didn't dismiss my argument as fanboism (and you didn't) you are free to have whatever opinion you want.

Originally Posted by Crashdamage View Post
But I would never ever trust Google Docs, Gmail, GV, etc. to keep private stuff private, safe and secure. Google is not truly 'free'. And for the most part, I'm not willing to pay Google's price.
Who is? Well, I am, I have stuff in my email, but for docs voice I use it because I don't really care about most of my documents. I open stuff like shop offers in Excel, read some dolt's .DOC attachment because he can't understand the concept of email, etc.

Will I use Google Docs to open a document that's important? No.

However, this isn't the point. The point is that I KNOW that by using Google Docs I give them the document. The button says "Upload D:\Admin\Document.doc".

Originally Posted by Crashdamage View Post
But to think Google or many other companies are less evil about such things strikes me as cherry-picking naivete.
I never said that, sorry if it seemed implied. What I said is that I allow Google a higher level of evilness because it helps me in return. I also said that Google asks, Nokia takes. To me, that's a whooper of a difference.

I'd give a dollar to a person I don't even know if they are one dollar short. But try to swipe if from my hand and it's zero-to-personal in 1.2 seconds.

Originally Posted by BatPenguin View Post
I don't see any reason to think that Nokia is somehow "more good" than any of the other companies mentioned here. Their track record on privacy certainly doesn't prove it. Don't make assumptions on their Dungeons & Dragons alignment just because you happen to like their devices and dislike those of the others.
There is no "good" and no "evil" it's just people trying to get points across using mismatched concepts. There is no "good" company.

A company is a group of people hell bent on making profit. That's it, that's the definition. They are all evil. There isn't a scale from -5 evil to +5 good. It's simply an a*sh**e-meter that goes from 0 to 10, with zero being people that think that cost plus a small sum is a good plan for business, and there's 10 where they think that being aggressive pays more.

Many people consider Apple to be evil. They're not, it's just that companies need to exploit assets, otherwise they are lost. Apple exploits a use base that think having better finished devices is better, because it gives them a right to be smug. And they are going to pay twice because they EXPECT to pay twice for "quality". Don't charge them twice and you lost money.

Nokia has buzz and brand name on its side. Everybody loves the next Nokia phone, so they keep releasing, fueling this insane "latest" Nokia war. People with 6months+ models are "old".

Google has immense user base. If you charge 1$ per search, you lose them, You need to charge them 1/100 of a cent each, so they don't feel it. How do you charge everyone without asking their card number? Ads.

Everyone does this. Having a name, a user base, etc are all potential assets, potential money. To get actual money, you need to sell it. Either all at once, or in little pieces.
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