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Demonstration at Home of Google Developer. Google Bus Blocked in Berkeley

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Re: Demonstration at Home of Google Developer. Google Bus Blocked in Berkeley

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Post by giarc »

keidian wrote: post #6

Is this serious or supposed to be satire or something? Cause it reads like something a deranged person would write to me... Making comments about how Google employees automatically bring police, "All of Google's employees should be prevented from getting to work", etc. Yeah they do bring police.. to deal with nutjobs that decide to randomly show up at their houses and stop them from working, stop a bus in the middle…

I think these people don't understand the irony of their claims about google employees bringing police to their neighbourhoods.

Re: Demonstration at Home of Google Developer. Google Bus Blocked in Berkeley

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Post by walshemj »

hgsigala wrote: post #17
walshemj wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I where a Googler working in SF id have to start seriously thinking about getting a PPW license. PPW is short hand for the Uk licence to carry a gun for personal protection - and yes there are tech companies that do have staff that do that.

Do you honestly think that carrying a weapon in the san francisco bay area is a good idea?

If I am getting threatened by random loonies yes - just as if I had worked for one of my previous employers in NI I would have been very careful about who I talked to and which places I went.

one of my mates is married to a DA in the USA and has had to "cheek his guns just in case some one tried to make the threat good.

Don't assume that all us Brits are fluffy little things who will have a fit of palpitations when fire arms are mentioned

Re: Demonstration at Home of Google Developer. Google Bus Blocked in Berkeley

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Post by jskonhovd »

I don't know how I would respond to this. If I had a family, I would be completely terrified for the safety of my kids. I guess when it comes to family its hard to not be irrational. Anyway, I guess I would stay calm and call the cops, and unfortunately think about moving.

Re: Demonstration at Home of Google Developer. Google Bus Blocked in Berkeley

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Post by esw »

zoidb wrote: post #4

I know it must be worth a lot for the area he lives in but it's still amusing they call his two story plain looking house a "palace."

I thought exactly the same thing. I just looked it up on Zillow to check out the lot size, and noticed that it still had photos from the last time it was sold (in 2010). They may have done the same thing, and confused the rather overwrought decorating sensibilities of the previous owner with the Google developer.

Re: Demonstration at Home of Google Developer. Google Bus Blocked in Berkeley

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Post by rexreed »

This is getting to be a bit absurd. I understand and can sympathize with the plight of folks who feel that they are becoming economically marginalized in the region, because in many ways it is really happening. But public badgering of mid to low-level folks is not a way to gain a lot of support.

It's like damaging the lobby of a Bank of America or smashing the windows of a McDonalds -- all it does is ruin the day for the poor middle to low income folks who run the branch and does nothing to the folks who you aim to target.

Re: Demonstration at Home of Google Developer. Google Bus Blocked in Berkeley

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Post by ThomPete »

BryanB55 wrote: post #29
hgsigala wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you honestly think that carrying a weapon in the san francisco bay area is a good idea?

Yes. But clearly you have an opposing view on the right to defend yourself with a firearm. No need to make this into a gun debate.

And yet you do exactly that.

Re: Demonstration at Home of Google Developer. Google Bus Blocked in Berkeley

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Post by Xdes »

This is a good example of what the liberal democratic movement should be about: policing corporations. Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and the rest of them will never end their reprehensible behavior from lawsuits or other slaps on the wrists. Until there is a boot-on-ground movement to obstruct these corporations and their employees they will continue to act without consequence using their hoards of capital.

Re: Demonstration at Home of Google Developer. Google Bus Blocked in Berkeley

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Post by walshemj »

abritishguy wrote: post #28
walshemj wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I where a Googler working in SF id have to start seriously thinking about getting a PPW license. PPW is short hand for the Uk licence to carry a gun for personal protection - and yes there are tech companies that do have staff that do that.

The only place that a member of the public can get a PPW in the UK is Northern Ireland.

yes and there was a huge fuss when they put the BT logo on the car park passes.

Re: Demonstration at Home of Google Developer. Google Bus Blocked in Berkeley

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Post by calibraxis »

keidian wrote: post #6

Is this serious or supposed to be satire or something? Cause it reads like something a deranged person would write to me... Making comments about how Google employees automatically bring police, "All of Google's employees should be prevented from getting to work", etc. Yeah they do bring police.. to deal with nutjobs that decide to randomly show up at their houses and stop them from working, stop a bus in the middle…

Just read the PDF, and it's an interesting and reasonable perspective on tech. Probably sounds blasphemous to an audience excited about investments/acquisitions of $15M, $30M and $1.54 billion (from HN's current front page), but I think techies are due for a reasonable backlash for their usual servility to power, by people concerned about their society.
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