Posts by Dave Harris 4 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Dec 2007
I'm not keen on the new comment icons, which are a bit characterless (especially the Paris Hilton one). Also, it's a shame we can't see the first few comment titles any more - I used to use those to help decide whether to open the comments page.
Otherwise, the new organisation seems promising. All the whiteness is a bit stark, though.
Plenty of people despise Microsoft but the paranoia over the EULA shows Google doesn't have a large fund of goodwill either. Microsoft are paid by users and must at least pretend to act in our interests. Google are paid by advertisers so must act in their best interests. Hence users have a fundamental distrust of Google. Google seems to be promising us free lunches and we know there ain't no such thing.
AC: Could this same story have happened in Britain, just replacing "gun" with "cricket bat"? You bet it could have.
Absolutely. And the point is that the gun made it potentially worse. Maybe not on this occasion, but it's easier to kill with a gun than a bat, and it needs more courage to use a bat because you have to get closer, and it's easier to defend against too. People getting angry and lashing out happens everywhere, but if they have a gun to hand a minor brawl becomes a fatality.
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