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Backhandzeus on Is Google Chrome worth all the Hype?

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"yes, I like the clean sinmple look, the speed. Perfect" - Gregory R

Arjun posted a message on Twitter

“Dont support Obama. He does not outsourcing. That targets India. He is idiot.”

August 29 at 1:09 pm - Link

Does McCain? I don't think any presidential candidate is going to say they support outsourcing jobs. - Chet Thaker

McCain has been on record talking about more jobs for Americans too - Sally Church

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So @chet & @sally, outsourcing phenomenon is screwed!! or its just political talk. Becoz what i understand, is that without the cost adv of outsourcing, economy is bound to slide further. - Arjun

In my opinion it will probably remain as it is now because businesses will continue to look for ways to cut costs. The only thing to change this would be if the new government offered any benefits to business that outweighed the benefits of outsourcing. In addition - I think countries like India should become a global player and compete rather than just be a source of cheap labour. There is a lot of investment happening in India and a lot of Indian companies buying foreign companies so this is already happening and is likely to continue. - Chet Thaker

One of the reasons I do support him. - Gregory R

But @chet that does not take away the fact that to get business also we need to have them come to India.Now in manufacturing, China does the same, but is not highlighted.Since high end job are coming to India, so they are being highlighted. Just imagine, if outsourcing is stopped completely, a completely industry will vanish overnight in India.Millions will be jobless. What I think is western world shud compete in free market and try to cut the cost of their business process. Why ask for subsidy? - Arjun

@Gregory R Who Obama? - Chet Thaker

@Arjun I hear what you're saying but any Presidential candidate is always going to promise to do what's best for their own country. Besides I'm sure there are lots of other countries apart from USA that use India for outsourcing right? - Chet Thaker

@ARjun, regardless of what people think, current research indicates that outsourcing is not viable for companies. They have short term gains, but are losing out big time in th loyalty chain and hence long term growth. Even with IT jobs, the cost of a programmer in India is equal to the cost of a programmer in the states. People are already pulling out from India. The Bubble in India will not last till 2020. India needs to compete on their own footing, - Peter Dawson

just in -TIME TO RETHINK OFFSHORING !! http://e.mckinseyquarterly.com... - Peter Dawson

I'm sorry, but I don't look at how a candidate's positions might affect one or really any, other country. I look at what I think is best for the U.S. (which includes good relations with most other countries), and vote for the best candidate. Unfortunately for India, et al., outsourcing is not the best policy for the U.S. - steplow is Steve

So the only way India can benefit is by milking such flashes in the pan? I like to think that India's future depends more on innovation than night shifts done serving off shore customers. - Vijayendra Mohanty

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has worked fine when i done some updates, i like it - Tyson

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Heard a segment on NPR this week about gossip sites that college students use to spread lies and rumors about other students that is very popular. Juicy Gossip is the one the sites that was discussed. - Gregory R

Gregory R commented on a story on Reddit

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"Good advice, 3 through 6, I practice regularly, however 1 and 2 would have me changing jobs." - Gregory R

Michael Markman posted a message on Twitter

“Can anyone remember the last internet ad you clicked? How many can you remember clicking in the past five days?”

July 19 at 7:49 pm - Link

Mike Reynolds, Benjamin Kohler, Richard Binhammer, Elliott Ng and 6 other people liked this

Zero. Zero for the last five months and probably close to zero for the last 5 years - shelisrael1

On purpose or by accident. I work in web advertising and I don't think I've ever purposefully clicked on an ad. I've done so by accident when there are those ones that flip up half the screen and you can't click on anything else on the page but the ad. - James Ferguson

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I clicked on @garyvee does that count? - Robert Scoble

People actually click that stuff? I avoid it like the plague and assume it's a virus. - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)

I absolutely never click on internet ads. - Troy Forster via twhirl

I obligatory click to support people :) - Mona N.

Probably a few weeks ago when I wanted to check out if that's something I was searching for. But it was not. - Jianjun Zhang via twhirl

I rarely click on Internet ads. Can't remember the last one I clicked I know that it had something to do with jazz. None in the past five days. - James

I like saving cool ones for animation ideas - videopixil

There are ads on the Internet. *turns off Adblock Plus* oh, I see what you mean. - Morton Fox

I was trying find out who from a 1800 number calls me like 5 times a day, so I googled the number. A paid result for YellowPages.com saying, "Reverse Number Lookup" got my click. The landing page failed, though, it just took me to the home site, not the reverse lookup page. - James O'Malley via twhirl

Me, never. But ask a different demographic and you'll get a very different answer. Slashdot users are famous for not clicking on ads, but less tech saturated markets seem to click a lot more than we do. - Brad Collins via twhirl

I don't think I have clicked on one in a long time. I know that back in the 90's I've probably clicked on pr0n ads. :) - Jay Cruz

haven't clicked an ad in ages unless it's one of those annoying fill the page ads that won't go away - maryn

with ad blockers it becomes easy to ignore ads but then are we helping or hurting businesses - Fuad Arshad

I agree with Morton. Adblock Plus makes the internet pretty much a noncommercial zone. - K Welch

I've clicked on the Google ads on occasion when the ads that came up in a search looked like they fit what I was looking for - John Ahrens

I've clicked on conference, professional education or cause-related ads - nothing else that i can think of... @hackmer - Michael Hackmer

I've occasionally clicked on the sponsored links on the right side of Google search pages... but that is it. - Mark Philpot

More like five months. I never click through on those ads. - Peter Simard

Yesterday may be around five times, sometimes ads are more relevant than search results - sirish

I click on ads if to support websites I like sometimes and the sponsored ads on Google. - Michael Zitek

twice, but it was an error - americanm

Do you mean display ads? Or would you include search? - Jay Tannenbaum

Zero. - Sean McBride

zero - Julian Baldwin

Zero in the last 5 days, zero in the last month - Gregory R

If nobody is clicking ads, who is supporting Google? Why does Microsoft want Yahoo! - Michael Markman

No ad clicking in past 5 days, but probably 20-30 in past year related to big purchases I've been planning. - Mike Reynolds

Tad - just Tad posted a message

“Watched some of the special on CNN about being Black in America. Maybe it's just awful easy for me to say as a relatively well-off middle-aged white guy, but I'm tired of race. Can't we just move on to all just being humans? I don't want to think in terms of race any more...”

July 19 at 11:04 pm - Link

Sean McBride, Gregory R, David Adewumi, Heather and 7 other people liked this

Just another reason why I hate living south of the Mason Dixon line. It's really sad how many people are still racist / prejudiced / homophobic. It's quite disgusting. Hell, I get discriminated against because I'm a northerner. - ::Kristen::

It would be nice to get past all this stuff, but then...what would comedians talk about? - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)

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Well, I'm certainly not ready to past this whole "gender" thing. Maybe after the Singularity... - Tad - just Tad

I'm not quite ready to condemn the South just yet. On Saturday morning I was watching a PBS show about the years leading up to the Civil War; it pointed out that Oregon's "solution" to the issue was not only to ban slavery in the territory, but also to ban free blacks. And things weren't exactly peaceful when the integration movement left the South and moved toward places like Boston in the 1960s and the 1970s. - Ontario Emperor

I didn't see the CNN story, but I did see Eddie Murphy's "White Like Me" - http://halfricanrevolution.blo... - Ontario Emperor

A-MEN - Mona N.

Hate is the problem. Race is an excuse. - Ňicķ

I disagree.. It's more lack of exposure and education. People don't 'hate' for no reason... - Mona N.

Well said, Nick. - Andrew Dobrow

A-MEN and can we be judged just be based of ability and not some arbitrary BS - Cecil Sandus

@Ontario Emperor--thank you. - Anna Haro

Yeah, I really don't think it's a North South thing. The issues are the same from Brooklyn to Atlanta for me. - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)

It takes a LOT of work to get little kids to hate people just because they're a different color. I don't think little bitty kids even notice. - Tad - just Tad

@rahsheen ROTFL! you're so right. i don't know what we'd do if jeff foxworthy could no longer do his 'you might be a redneck' bit anymore! i say, let's keep RACE around, double, no, triple it... because the world needs more punchlines! - .LAGizmoto

The talk will end when equality of races is reached and there is no majority or minority. Then there will be no basis for racial discrimination. - Shey

We'll just do that by default over the next few generation anyways. Maybe mature Nanotech will arrive and we'll be able to adjust our skin pigmentation at will. Then someone can hate me because I'm not the same pattern plaid they are. - Tad - just Tad

But racial discrimination exists today in the US largely due to the fact that people keep talking about it and making a big deal of it. Unfortunately, there are a few people in 'leadership' positions who have a vested interest in keeping the flames high so that they can keep getting lucrative speaking engagements and contributions to their 'causes'. - Chad Myers

Mona, I think the reasons could be anything... anything in life that doesn't go a person's way... anger, animosity, frustration. Whatever the root of hate is, humans look for places to lay blame. And sadly exposure can work the opposite sometimes. Just look at the south: the proximity of the races has always been closer in the south than the north, but racism pervades, regardless. - Ňicķ

.LAG, I used to own (or maybe even still own) Foxworthy's paperback of the first Redneck book. In the preface, Foxworthy pointed out that rednecks are not confined to the south. - Ontario Emperor

@Tad I wish I didn't have to think about race either... but as a Black woman in my lifetime I'll unfortunately never have that luxury. - Jasmin Smith

3 comments from a Canadian: 1. what is the Mason-Dixon line? I'm guessing the line betw/ the North and South in your Civil War? 2. Ontario Emperor, do you live in the U.S., and if so, are your stripes really Canadian? 3. These issues are as much a problem in other countries besides the U.S., even countries that don't have as obvious a racist history as the U.S. - Trent Olson

Tad, it is awfully easy for you to say that you are tired of talking about the race. When it becomes awfully easy for minorities to say the same thing, then we can actually stop talking about the race. Till then, we have to live in a world where the racial issues of the past and present are discussed in public domain. - Krishnan Hussein Subraman

I feel what you're saying, Tad. The whole race thing is like an anchor on our society. Everbody keeps talking about removing it. Some people like it right where it is. But in all cases, it's still just holding us down. - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)

Trent, the racism problem exists everywhere, but manifests itself differently - Prolific Programmer

@Prolific: 100% agree with you. - Trent Olson

Where I've worked for close to a decade, I'm usually the only female and/or Black in my group. I've had at least two co-workers (who were neither) tell me that I could have management in the palm of my hand just by playing the race card. Each time I wondered where in the sanguinely providence that comment came from. I surely didn't provoke that line of thinking and resented the implication that I wouldn't want to make my way the same way anyone else there did. Who can't forget? - MiniMage

Yeah - that's a pretty silly thing for someone to tell you. It certainly doesn't sound like a compliment. It's like saying, "You suck, but since you're black you could be our manager." - Tad - just Tad

I's real easy for members of the advantaged group to say can we just stop all this jabbering and squabbling about race. - Michael Markman

It may be real easy, but I think it's correct. Is there some reason why we should continue creating artificial difference amongst ourselves because of our levels of skin pigmentation? - Tad - just Tad

here is a story: i have money and things. i belong to group who helps me keep them. oh, big group without things coming in door. hey they might take some of mine or my friends things! bad outsiders. bad. unconsciously i think: oh look, they are different than me. skin color, gender. if they were same as me I wouldn/t have to split up the pie any more. no! keep them away! end story. it is always about not wanting to share. stupid humans we. In Memphis in 2004, there was a public grade school of only black kids, that had no air conditioning. all white schools had it. ever tried to function in memphis w/o air conditoning? can't share enough to let little kids have air in school in 2004???? - terra210

why did you feel the need to mention you're a "middle aged white guy?" Not so easy to stop thinking in terms of race, is it? - Jason Kaneshiro

Because, as others have said, it's awful easy for a member of the majority race to say things like that and it's pertinent to the discussion. - Tad - just Tad

kristen--i always liked the south until i lived in memphis. the most interesting people I knew were from the south, so thought I'd like it. i guess that they were "from" not there, was meaningful. really awful place IMHO. hatred on all sides of the lines, for every difference. basically white "mafia", tries to control and keep the money with the whites. Black churches were telling my students to participate in violence against whites. I was called a yankee, in an angry way, in a hip coffee shop, just sitting with my dog, having espresso. these are the extremes, but, OMG. Unless you were born there, i do not see how you could live there. But, I am sure there are exceptions. Just glad I am away. - terra210

@ Michael Markman: well said - Gregory R

This is what we need, a discussion about race. Until we talk about race, racism will always exist. - Gregory R

What I found most appealing about Obama was his trans-racialism -- he wasn't about race. He was about universal human and social issues. And that is why I recoiled in disgust when the Clinton campaign, in collusion with the Murdoch-dominated MSM, insisted on dragging race into the Obama discussion at every opportunity. - Sean McBride

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So it looks like Kylie Minogue's been awarded an OBE...

July 7 at 3:24 am - Link

Is that similar to receiving the Congressional Medal of Honor? - Gregory R

Gregory R commented on a story on Reddit

Backhandzeus on What. The. Hell. Current gas price map of the USA - $4 gas is here to stay

June 7 at 3:12 pm - Link

"That may be true, but I'm still find it disturbing that I'm paying $4.00 here in the U.S." - Gregory R

Gregory R commented on a story on Reddit

Backhandzeus on What. The. Hell. Current gas price map of the USA - $4 gas is here to stay

June 7 at 3:12 pm - Link

"That may be true, but I'm still find it disturbing that I'm paying $4.00 here in the U.S." - Gregory R

Gregory R commented on a story on Reddit

Backhandzeus on What. The. Hell. Current gas price map of the USA - $4 gas is here to stay

June 7 at 3:12 pm - Link

"That may be true, but I'm still find it disturbing that I'm paying $4.00 here in the U.S." - Gregory R

Steve Rubel posted a message on Twitter

“What new services are you using that stuck? For me: I now use Firefox 3.0, Twitterbar, Friendfeed and Laterloop constantly.”

June 7 at 5:31 am - Link

Sean Brady, andylenz, Gregory R, Nathan Chase and 19 other people liked this

Firefox 3, FriendFeed, and TWiT Live (twitlive.tv) - Brent Newhall

Firefox 3.0, Google Reader (sharing w/ notes) and Friendfeed. - Dileepa Prabhakar via twhirl

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Friendfeed. - Timo Heuer

FF3, despite constant crashes. Basically for the add-ons, otherwise I'd switch to Safari given the apparent instability of version 3. Also use Google Reader constantly, FriendFeed, Twitter, Sphinn and StumbleUpon. - Robin Cannon via Alert Thingy

steve, Twitterbar is one gr8 tool. Cant do without it. As for me, Twitterbar, FF and sidebar widget. - Peter Dawson

Gmail, GReager, Mento, Laterloop, Twhirl (Twitter+Friendfeed), Techmeme - Igor Schwarzmann via twhirl

@igor can you invit me to Mento? - Steve Rubel

@Steve sure, but i'll be needing an email address :) - Igor Schwarzmann via twhirl

@Igor its steverubel@gmail.com - Steve Rubel

Steve, this is a good place to ask for invites: http://friendfeed.com/rooms/in... :) - Timo Heuer

Firefox 3.0, Digsby - Gregory R

I thought you are talking to me! lol - Igor The Troll

Twitterbar may be a neat idea, but Twhirl is enough. Laterloop is also a neat idea, but Mentos from the same developer is more powerful. Firefox: I wait for the final release to be out. Friendfeed? Here we are, obviously. - Pierre-Philippe Martin via twhirl

Digsby, Firefox 3 and Friendfeed - Baard Overgaard Hansen

Firefox3, Twhirl, FriendFeed, Plukr, www.eOk.ro - Florin Grozea

The most significant is definitely FriendFeed. - Chris Rossini

Being a freelancer who keeps track of hours across a variety of computers, my vote goes to slimtimer.com. - John F Morton via Alert Thingy

Digsby, FriendFeed, Brightkite and Flickchart. (Since when is Firefox a "service"? hehe) - Evan Sims

Another new service I use all the time is Skitch.com. Great desktop tool I use often when making comps plus it has very easy image sharing using their service or your own web hosting. - John F Morton via Alert Thingy

Firefox 3.0, Friendfeed, Lifetick, Netvibes - Raymond

I am using Friendfeed, Brightkite and Mento. And I am addicted to Fluid, which is more an app than a service, but the combination with Friendfeed makes it great. - Lars Trieloff

Firefox 3.0, FriendFeed and Shareaholic - tallglassofmilk

gotta check this later to see if I missed anything - Kamilah Gill

The danger of scanning, as we're all aware, is misinterpretation. I thought Steve wote: what new services are you using that SUCK? - Mark Dykeman

Google apps, Twitter, Flickr. - Francine Hardaway

sort of apples and oranges adding firefox 3.0 to web apps no - anyway, firefox 3.0 yes - google apps, friendfeed, twitter, phreadz, podcast.com, flickr are all favorites - mike "glemak" dunn

Greasemonkey makes me choose Firefox3 over Opera - Michael W. May via twhirl

I am trying to roll all into friendfeed. I have too many friends only in facebook. - Tim Wright

Google Gears compatible with FF3 now rolling out http://snurl.com/2eiln Update working for me OK so far :-) - David Peacock

Firefox 3, Friendfeed, FFFFOUND, Mento and Plurk - the last one just because there is a tab open. I don't like the navigation of it. - Bibi

@Steve: Just asked a similar question on Twitter. See my charts here: http://blog.metaroll.de/2008/0... - Benedikt Koehler

Definitely Laterloop. - Angel Smith via twhirl

Mento, Twitter, Facebook (obv), RSS Ticker but still waiting to use laterloop . . . I guess I'll get to that one later, lol - Lindsey Smith

SUCCESSES: FriendFeed, HelloTxt, TotSpot, Woopra, Reinvigorate, WebSnapr, Digsby, and of course, Flickchart - UNDECIDED: Plurk, Seesmic, Brightkite, Minggl, Ustream - FAILURES: Twine, TweetWhatYouEat, Skitch, Fairtilizer - Nathan Chase

mento, friendfeed, firefox 3, twitturly, insuggest, telewebber, piwik, piclens, dropbox, drop.io - andylenz

Mento, LaterLoop, SharedCopy, Friendfeed, Magnolia an Google Reader form the backbone of the services I am using. - Sean Brady

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twhirl is a desktop client for the Twitter microblogging platform, powered by Adobe AIR. - Gregory R

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