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Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?
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#272Al Gore sits on the Apple board; has anyone stopped buying Apple products for that reason? "But Al Gore wasn't part of an administration that killed thousands of innocents in a war!" Have you forgotten about Serbia and Sudan? "But Al Gore isn't a war criminal!" Have you forgotten that he was the one who convinced Clinton to start the entire policy of "extraordinary rendition"?
You can't compare any of that with the atrocity of going to Iraq... She's just too tainted in blood for me to consider rejoining DropBox. She should definitely be behind bars...
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#273I dropped Dropbox for Google Drive long time ago.
My only concern with using Google Drive is worrying about it's future. Who knows if it will get axed like Google Reader did. At least with using DropBox or other alternatives you know what the companies MVP is.
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#274I continue to use Dropbox and I'm pro the appointment of Condoleezza Rice as for the sake of our industry it is wise for us to have better political links to the US government. (Politics is irrelevant to me, but power is not. The government can already twist your arm; being on first name's basis with somebody important will be invaluable.) Edit: I thought we could openly state our opinions, but it seems I am getting…
I'm against Condi because she is partially responsible for the deaths of at least 100,000 (that 100 thousand) Iraqis. It was her job as NSA to temper Dubya's intransigence, but she did not. Such a person should be shunned and not given positions of status.
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#275Earlier quoted context omitted.
1. I strongly disagree with the torture program, but I still don't think it's grounds for boycotting Dropbox, unless you are under the impression that she's pushing for a Torture Division at Dropbox. 2. Foreign diplomats are not subject to warrants and are exactly the sort of people that get spied upon. I guarantee you that every major country is spying on every foreign diplomat, limited only by their ability. While…
You cannot assert that most people view the invasion of Iraq as legitimate.
The polls show that it was.
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#276It's pretty absurd that so many people are this willing to attack a woman just because of her political views. This kind of crap is what Fox News uses to claim all liberals are jack-booted fascists just waiting to setup USSR v2.0 here in America.
I agree with your sentiment. However, it wasn't her political views. It was her involvement with a fraudulent war.
Calling it a "fraudulent war" is a political view, and quite the minority view at that.
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#277Al Gore sits on the Apple board; has anyone stopped buying Apple products for that reason? "But Al Gore wasn't part of an administration that killed thousands of innocents in a war!" Have you forgotten about Serbia and Sudan? "But Al Gore isn't a war criminal!" Have you forgotten that he was the one who convinced Clinton to start the entire policy of "extraordinary rendition"?
You can't compare any of that with the atrocity of going to Iraq... She's just too tainted in blood for me to consider rejoining DropBox. She should definitely be behind bars...
Most National Security Advisors, Secretaries of State, Vice Presidents and Presidents should be behind bars, if you take international law and human rights seriously enough to condemn Condoleeza Rice. Things like Iraq get played up by the media because American lives are at risk, but bombings and economic sanctions were similarly ruinious to Iraq and in many cases Serbia, even if to a lesser degree.
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#278Earlier quoted context omitted.
1. I strongly disagree with the torture program, but I still don't think it's grounds for boycotting Dropbox, unless you are under the impression that she's pushing for a Torture Division at Dropbox. 2. Foreign diplomats are not subject to warrants and are exactly the sort of people that get spied upon. I guarantee you that every major country is spying on every foreign diplomat, limited only by their ability. While…
1. Why not? Dropbox has decided to include a member of the torture program in their organization. It's an implicit admittance that she doesn't belong in prison. 2. Irrelevant, none of us are in a diplomatic post here but we're still all being spied on via any avenue by the NSA- dropbox being a confirmed avenue for this purpose. 3. I don't think you'll find too many people agreeing with you here. After all, it was the…
Dropbox isn't the court system, nor should it be. It isn't their job to decide who should or shouldn't be in jail.
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#279I kept Dropbox because they appointed Rice. Dropbox is forced to navigate complicated political, regulatory waters. To do that successfully you need someone who knows how they works. People move from the public to private sector all the time to do exactly that. (edit: why would you downvote this? that's crazyballs!)
Um sorry I am confused. Are you saying that C. Rice is going to help dropbox "navigate political regulatory waters"... in favor of their users? Am I understanding this correctly? C. Rice watches out for me?
Yes. What do you think happens when a public official transitions to the private sector? That they are a plant still serving their old employer? Or, perhaps, that they are applying skills and knowledge learned in their old job to a their new role for a new employer?
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