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Why is this on top of Hacker News? What is amazing about this?
A secret cabal of Google engineers upvoted it. Orrrrr . . . the hackers who frequent this site like this sort of stuff.
I must say, I found it cool too. Nothing special etc, but, it's winter and stuff. So yea.
Very laggy on latest Chrome on 2010 MacBook Air.
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Exactly. Why do people want yet another hugely rich corporation using their money to interfere in politics? What if Google was pro SOPA? Would you be happy with them advertising for it on their front page? America needs to learn to govern it's self without the intervention of corporations. America doesn't need more of them getting involved.
> What if Google was pro SOPA? Would you be happy with them advertising for it on their front page? You're writing that as if SOPA was one side of an argument where good people could reasonably be on either one side or the other, and HN and Google just happens to be on the same. But it's not, SOPA has a right and a wrong side. We're on the right side, Google is on the right side and good people are either uninformed…
There's no right or wrong only better and worse. Which obviously depends on the point of view. What people usually refer to as 'right' is simply what is better for most people (like opposing SOPA)
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If you actually need convincing that SOPA is wrong and are not just being unnecessarily argumentative, then I really don't know what to say to you... Do you know what SOPA is ?
I don't need convincing. I am aware that it is a bad thing. I am also aware that Google getting involved is a bad thing. I am also aware that the people on the other side of the argument aren't necessarily bad or uneducated people like the person I was replying to claimed.
Hey google folk - snow is pretty and nice but how about considering making your home page black or put a black ribbon (ala "censor" band) to alert more people to the SOPA vote moved to the 21st?
There is a hidden reason for stunts like these. They spread by word of mouth to non-technical users. Those users try them, fail, and then ask their children why. Just like that, Chrome steals one more user from Internet Explorer 6. On the other hand, Google opposes SOPA, but being overtly political has its problems...
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There is a hidden reason for stunts like these. They spread by word of mouth to non-technical users. Those users try them, fail, and then ask their children why. Just like that, Chrome steals one more user from Internet Explorer 6. On the other hand, Google opposes SOPA, but being overtly political has its problems...
I didn't even think about this. That's brilliant.