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Monday, 5 August 2"013, DUBLIN - In the pages of Google Bloggerdom it is a time for quiet reflection on the modest advances made by Google in the past ten years. It has been an arduous long journey from the MIT-spawned little honest-to-goodness little "link-based" academic search engine that could lugging its boxes of test tubes and printer cables out to a garage in Palo Alto (oh, please) to just another giant Beltway-Tech Gulch national security front that would catalog the world and everything that lives on, in or under it after first selling them each and every one something and call it (why not?) "social media" whatever that supposedly means. And just as in the spirit of the others everyone gets a badge, just like in Nazi Ger. . . oh never mind.
This fine day as a few more pennies roll into our Google "trust" account we reflect as destiny or perhaps less glamorously merely petty human interruptions beyond our immediate control would have it writing our post with some regularity or at least let us say "from time to time" ever mindful of the Ninth Amendment Log's fundamental duty to our very own (hard)core public followers and very secret other admirers (well, okay, readers anyway) perhaps now so jaded that nothing ever surprises this close circle of Ninth Amendment "elite" except at times that darn CIA (is it still around, it did what?) and those occasional Republican upset victory winners who land in the Beltway propelled straight out of the Dark Ages (or the early skirmishes of Boston Harbor in the Revolutionary War they might imagine) from what state? threatening what? This is not always so easy as it might seem, even with our global staff of ten thousand and growing. (No we do not get the proceeds from the tasteful little billboards Google insists on hanging from the Van Goghs and the Dalis.)
Monday, 5 August 2"013, DUBLIN - In the pages of Google Bloggerdom it is a time for quiet reflection on the modest advances made by Google in the past ten years. It has been an arduous long journey from the MIT-spawned little honest-to-goodness little "link-based" academic search engine that could lugging its boxes of test tubes and printer cables out to a garage in Palo Alto (oh, please) to just another giant Beltway-Tech Gulch national security front that would catalog the world and everything that lives on, in or under it after first selling them each and every one something and call it (why not?) "social media" whatever that supposedly means. And just as in the spirit of the others everyone gets a badge, just like in Nazi Ger. . . oh never mind.
This fine day as a few more pennies roll into our Google "trust" account we reflect as destiny or perhaps less glamorously merely petty human interruptions beyond our immediate control would have it writing our post with some regularity or at least let us say "from time to time" ever mindful of the Ninth Amendment Log's fundamental duty to our very own (hard)core public followers and very secret other admirers (well, okay, readers anyway) perhaps now so jaded that nothing ever surprises this close circle of Ninth Amendment "elite" except at times that darn CIA (is it still around, it did what?) and those occasional Republican upset victory winners who land in the Beltway propelled straight out of the Dark Ages (or the early skirmishes of Boston Harbor in the Revolutionary War they might imagine) from what state? threatening what? This is not always so easy as it might seem, even with our global staff of ten thousand and growing. (No we do not get the proceeds from the tasteful little billboards Google insists on hanging from the Van Goghs and the Dalis.)
In short the readers who keep our WOT "sociometer" rating at a solid "what" (insuring at least on good days almost a nickel trickling in per post to our Google trust account after Google gets its cut with which one day we can rest easy knowing our heirs will hit "payday" (that poor word now forever maligned by those crooks who never really worked for a true "payday" in their lives, the ones whom they used to take out back in the Bible and flog for "usury" along with the early issuers of the made out of stone "just say 'charge it'" credit cards) when our advertising account balance actually reaches the allegedly distributable sum of $100.
Believe it or not that figure was $10 when Google actually sent one a check when we started this "blogger" thing last Century but we did not make it there to the promised "e-z money" $10 in time after the first couple years before that figure went up tenfold. No doubt by the time we reach the now $100 minimum for distribution "in Google trust" it will have with inflation been put up to $1000 to cover the cost of the stamp and just about then Google after some good decades will no doubt be "reorganizing" anyway and do you not know the lawyers get all the money from that anyway? In any case we thank the Golden circle from keeping that WOT "sociometer" rating hovering in the safe mid-zone rather than the needle taking the final plunge to "no trust", abandon, "delete address bar and history cache" immediately, "smash computer and throw hard drive in dumpster (in small pieces) sinking in Hackensack 'Meadowlands'".Yes we recognize that ALL THIS is but for the small fanatical group to which we duly pay homage as but for this broom-closetful-of inexplicable readers (aww, here come the broom ads) our very own "top inner echelon" of readers at embassies, consulates, stink-tanks, international global conventions on micro-monetary policy for the 23rd Century, Bohemian grove types, informants looking for something to pawn off on their contacts as "original" to get their next taxpayer handout to buy the next fix. And so must be dished up some extra juicy obscure news item reassuring these our most special readers they are in the know like President Bama-Bam Bomb-Bomb Oh Bam-Bama) and HERE IT COMES RIGHT NOW THE BIG SCOOP: Extra favorite super special VERY top-level secret CIA agent Mister, ahem, Zuckerboy (aka the "Zuck") -- okay we have finally "spilt the beans" but please those of our most recent new readers with our complimentary subscriptions yes we mean the last election members of Congress and political appointees who have just now found their offices, do not choke on your Monday afternoon breakfast extra rare prime rib should you be one of those newer readers we will have you up to speed in no time.
Now here at the Ninth Amendment we of course do not know about OUR faithful readers' every habit since we do not make it ours to read OUR constituents e-mail or "social media" communications on any kind of a regular basis -- nor in fact our own for that matter -- although no doubt whatever diehard enthusiasts this very-grateful Ninth Amendment Log still may have remaining at this point (their every move being fair game given our VERY special relationship with Google wherein "the Goog" as we insiders know it goes to the staggering expense of carrying this blog on the taxpayers backs and so on . . . .)
Well even our editorial board more or less forgot what this post was about however we did know we wished to reply to the following which presented itself to us when we today made the rare foray onto Facelog, Mugbook, F*ckbook recently suggested by a reader, what have you, to remind ourselves of who it said our friends were -- it really has gotten so good it more or less just manages the whole social thing, faces, friends, social groups, even other body parts now as we saw it even can take care of the whole time-consuming courting and marriage thing for one, too -- we just power it up and type in a few words now and then, check off a couple more of our remaining two or three rights (in the words of The Clash' magnificent "London Calling") and the next thing we know we are all set up for the next segment of our lives, excuse us, "timelines".
We are sure if somewhere along the way one forgets who was made one's spouse that can be looked up as well, Just have to remember not to exclude them from the major life "activities". In fact did not the Reverend Sun Yung Moon think up this whole deal quite a while back? Apparently long enough back for most everyone to have forgotten the whole ordeal, getting married in Madison Square Garden and all that. Anyway we always find ourselves wondering what Zuckerboy's timeline looks like -- did they include the CIA training and the dropping out of wherever it was he dropped out (or was that just Gates and Jobs the other salespeople/visionaries of our times, you know seems that it is time some women really got in on this "golden ages" racket, or did we just miss that you know computer shaped like a zucchini. . . .
We are sure if somewhere along the way one forgets who was made one's spouse that can be looked up as well, Just have to remember not to exclude them from the major life "activities". In fact did not the Reverend Sun Yung Moon think up this whole deal quite a while back? Apparently long enough back for most everyone to have forgotten the whole ordeal, getting married in Madison Square Garden and all that. Anyway we always find ourselves wondering what Zuckerboy's timeline looks like -- did they include the CIA training and the dropping out of wherever it was he dropped out (or was that just Gates and Jobs the other salespeople/visionaries of our times, you know seems that it is time some women really got in on this "golden ages" racket, or did we just miss that you know computer shaped like a zucchini. . . .
All right already here goes, direct from Facelog just a few hours ago, apparently Zuckerboy has his posts done by "Facebook Security", as was this below. (We do not even want to imagine). Seems he was worried about this whole PRISM thing, the switching of the last "M" simply being a matter of changing it to "ON" apparently not being lost on him. Immediate response obviously being the best defense is a good (aww, our readers know how it goes). So here it is straight from "Facebook Security's" mouth (apparently they do not indent) on Zuckerboy's behalf:
I want to respond personally to the outrageous press reports about PRISM:
Facebook is not and has never been part of any program to give the US or any other government direct access to our servers. We have never received a blanket request or court order from any government agency asking for information or metadata in bulk, like the one Verizon reportedly received. And if we did, we would fight it...See More
After careful consideration we decided not to hit the apparent link there. The thought of Facebook Security speculating on Zuckboy's behalf as to how it/he would take on the "US or any other government" was just too amusing (and time-consuming) for words. After all it might be a rather lop-sided fight as the ole' "Zuck" arguably is perhaps a "little bit out of the loop". Could be he is more a voyeur than the fighter he apparently believes.
Finally though we simply cannot help but noting having now so long being at this writing/editing thing while we are not quite sure how Facebook Security keeps busy that right there in sentence one above Zuckerboy maybe might have wanted to have someone in Facebook Writing review the work of Facebook Security. We are confident those readers who have been with us for a while now might spot the apparent weak links (as it were) there too. Probably with a little more careful review someone in the spyforce may have reconsidered the inclusion of the words "direct" in Zuckerboy Facebook Security sentence one and "blanket" in two. As they used to say in third grade English it really does not "seem to add anything" but rather if anything would tend to "weaken the argument". Just a thought.
Coming up in a post very soon, promise, some fairly deeply researched information about choosing and using an e-mail service we found likely both best and most trustworthy. And of course our favorite word. Free. We believe the research time was well worth it and trust our readers should find the results quite helpful as well. Until then....
Copyright 2013 Big M All World Rights Expressly Reserved
Facebook is not and has never been part of any program to give the US or any other government direct access to our servers. We have never received a blanket request or court order from any government agency asking for information or metadata in bulk, like the one Verizon reportedly received. And if we did, we would fight it...See More
After careful consideration we decided not to hit the apparent link there. The thought of Facebook Security speculating on Zuckboy's behalf as to how it/he would take on the "US or any other government" was just too amusing (and time-consuming) for words. After all it might be a rather lop-sided fight as the ole' "Zuck" arguably is perhaps a "little bit out of the loop". Could be he is more a voyeur than the fighter he apparently believes.
Finally though we simply cannot help but noting having now so long being at this writing/editing thing while we are not quite sure how Facebook Security keeps busy that right there in sentence one above Zuckerboy maybe might have wanted to have someone in Facebook Writing review the work of Facebook Security. We are confident those readers who have been with us for a while now might spot the apparent weak links (as it were) there too. Probably with a little more careful review someone in the spyforce may have reconsidered the inclusion of the words "direct" in Zuckerboy Facebook Security sentence one and "blanket" in two. As they used to say in third grade English it really does not "seem to add anything" but rather if anything would tend to "weaken the argument". Just a thought.
Coming up in a post very soon, promise, some fairly deeply researched information about choosing and using an e-mail service we found likely both best and most trustworthy. And of course our favorite word. Free. We believe the research time was well worth it and trust our readers should find the results quite helpful as well. Until then....
Copyright 2013 Big M All World Rights Expressly Reserved
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