Mosaic Has a Really Bad Day...

Kilmatead · Post by **Kilmatead** » 2010 Jan 18, 19:49

You just know when both the German and French governments tell everyone to stop using Internet Explorer, someone at Microsoft is going to be unhappy.

Mosaic rolls over in his grave and sighs.

Tuxman · Post by **Tuxman** » 2010 Jan 22, 00:51

A pity that governments react when Google is attacked but no-one cares that thousands of IE users have been attacked before.

Kilmatead · Post by **Kilmatead** » 2010 Jan 22, 20:29

Tuxman wrote:A pity that governments react when Google is attacked but no-one cares that thousands of IE users have been attacked before.

Well, if you had a market capital worth $153.4 billion, your government might begin to care about you too. Until then, you're on your own.

Meanwhile, the plot thickens, as they say.

Tuxman · Post by **Tuxman** » 2010 Jan 22, 20:32

Google's US-$ 153.4 billion are not of any interest for the German government as it is an US-American company. So I just wondered...

Kilmatead · Post by **Kilmatead** » 2010 Jan 22, 22:00

Considering the global context of the subject matter, it is irrelevant where the company claims to be based under tax license. Many companies are only "American" when it suits their purpose to be so; Google's investments are worldwide, and indeed is actually more popular (userbase-wise) in Europe than in America, as search providers go.

And if dear Angela were 30 years younger, she'd be more literal about being in bed with anything worth €108.4 billion.

You may be sure that Germany's Industrial Development Authority (whatever it may be called) has lobbied hard and long for Google's attention, and it was not time wasted.

(I had you pegged as being slightly more world-weary and cynical than the optimistic sounding belief that your government actually cares about you as anything more than a feudal serf with a mortgage.)

Tuxman · Post by **Tuxman** » 2010 Jan 22, 22:07

Kilmatead wrote:dear Angela

Deer, maybe.

Kilmatead wrote:(I had you pegged as being slightly more world-weary and cynical than the optimistic sounding belief that your government actually cares about you as anything more than a feudal serf with a mortgage.)

I tried being world-weary and cynical in my actual question, too.

Kilmatead · Post by **Kilmatead** » 2010 Jan 22, 22:23

The old deer has a sense of humour about it.

Tuxman · Post by **Tuxman** » 2010 Jan 22, 22:25

I really doubt that this one is made after a photography. :oops:

Kilmatead · Post by **Kilmatead** » 2010 Jan 22, 22:48

You suggest inauthenticity? I am nothing if not fatally disillusioned.

Müller in Erstarrung wrote:Mein Herz ist wie erstorben,
Kalt starrt ihr Bild darin:
Schmilzt je das Herz mir wieder,
Fliesst auch ihr Bild dahin.

Tuxman · Post by **Tuxman** » 2010 Jan 22, 22:49

Now where is that related?

Kilmatead · Post by **Kilmatead** » 2010 Jan 22, 23:14

Winterreise. Was just listening to it, and felt the theme of the unrequited to be topical. No? (I'm profaning a profeigned affection for your deer in winter. Not all gutter humour need be lowest common denominator.) Ah well, I tried...

Tuxman · Post by **Tuxman** » 2010 Jan 22, 23:17

An affection for that deer? Now that's disgusting in a way.
I like cultural quotes but not in a discussion about stupid Google bullshit and stuff.

Kilmatead · Post by **Kilmatead** » 2010 Jan 22, 23:35

Hey, you'll note that I did subtract 30 years from the deer as a qualification of affection. And the word "profaning" gives it away, for our anti-bestiality conservative friends. (Yeah, carrying it too far, maybe.)

Funny thing about contemporary culture - as much as I decry and dismiss it, it's just as legitimate in context as any other popular reference - renowned, or not. (Google, Animalia, et al.) When in doubt, mix them together liberally to upset the established mien of cultural stuffiness.

Gods man, you'll be smoking a pipe next!

Tuxman · Post by **Tuxman** » 2010 Jan 22, 23:40

Kilmatead wrote:Hey, you'll note that I did subtract 30 years from the deer as a qualification of affection.

Have you ever seen pictures of her while the DDR was still existing?

Oh well.

Kilmatead wrote:Gods man, you'll be smoking a pipe next!

I think I better should. Just to forget that imagination.

Kilmatead · Post by **Kilmatead** » 2010 Jan 23, 00:05

All imagination is a good thing (even the worst of it); it's the only thing to set us apart from our genetic friends the pigs and the mice. And, by association (of fleas), the deer.

Unless, that is, mice have integrity? That would set them apart, and us below. Just to really upset the Victorians.