"It was the prospect of huge profits that pushed Google into its amoral deal with China and drove its high- handed approach to the intrusion on people’s privacy with Streetview. These profits also explain its cavalier approach to European legislation (which it claims does not apply to it)."...
Nice article. "The healthiest, or 'mature', adaptations include altruism, humor, anticipation (looking ahead and planning for future discomfort), suppression (a conscious decision to postpone attention to an impulse or conflict, to be addressed in good time), and sublimation (finding outlets for feelings, like putting aggression into sport, or lust into courtship)."
- Henner Zeller
@scipmark best wishes to Felix for a speedy recovery!
@j1m the newspaper crisis and the political class crisis (see UK MPs expenses scandal) are related. This whole class of people just stopped doing their jobs. Newspapers parrot press releases. MPs toe the party line. Spin triumphs. The public, bored and alienated, goes elsewhere.