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Old 11-23-2024, 01:17 PM   #41
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And yet somehow Microsoft's is still WAY worse.
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From what I heard Trump is going to quash this as soon as he gets in power. He is scared Google will pack its bags and relocate to China.
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Google's going to move to a country where they tried and lost badly to Baidu, are highly restricted and to the only country in the world where they are not the dominate search engine?

Google is more likely to move to the Moon's of Saturn.
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We should et Google to move to Canada, boost our GDP by a few points. Plus we love our oligopolies.
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Google's going to move to a country where they tried and lost badly to Baidu, are highly restricted and to the only country in the world where they are not the dominate search engine?

Google is more likely to move to the Moon's of Saturn.
I am just saying what people in the Trump camp are saying he is thinking.
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Old 11-26-2024, 02:56 PM   #47
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Man, you are claiming to have inside knowledge of what the pending most powerful person on earth is thinking?

Your sources are absolute dynamite my friend. Inside knowledge on every trade in the NHL and the incoming US political intention. Please tell me what the price of Bitcoin will be this time next year!
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Hold up, close your eyes and ask your source how many fingers i'm currently holding up...
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Man, you are claiming to have inside knowledge of what the pending most powerful person on earth is thinking?

Your sources are absolute dynamite my friend. Inside knowledge on every trade in the NHL and the incoming US political intention. Please tell me what the price of Bitcoin will be this time next year!
It was in an article in my news feed. Here it is for reference.

https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...-us-tech-firms

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China is afraid of Google,” Trump said last month when he questioned whether a corporate split of Google could “destroy the company”.

“What you can do without breaking it up is make sure it’s more fair,” he said. “We want to have great companies,” he added. “We don’t want China to have these companies
But thanks for attacking me. Then people wonder why I don't share trade rumours anymore.

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It was in an article in my news feed. Here it is for reference.

https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...-us-tech-firms

But thanks for attacking me. Then people wonder why I don't share trade rumours anymore.
That doesn't match what you said at all. They're not worried Google is going to literally relocate to China; that would be insane. They're worried that if they bust up large tech companies, then Chinese companies might become more innovative than US ones and will become the world leaders in the space.
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That doesn't match what you said at all. They're not worried Google is going to literally relocate to China; that would be insane. They're worried that if they bust up large tech companies, then Chinese companies might become more innovative than US ones and will become the world leaders in the space.
What part of "We don't want China to have these companies" can you not comprehend? Most of what Trump says is insane.
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What part of "We don't want China to have these companies" can you not comprehend? Most of what Trump says is insane.
"These companies" = world leaders in technology, AI, social media, etc. No one (even someone as crazy as Trump) thinks Google would relocate its operations to China if they're subject to anti-trust actions.

They're worried about what happened with TikTok happening again and again, where a Chinese-owned company becomes dominant in its space, weakening US hegemony. So Trump is willing to allow monopolies in situations where it allows American companies to remain dominant.
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What part of "We don't want China to have these companies" can you not comprehend? Most of what Trump says is insane.
Read it again.

He said they want google. They don’t want China having the equivalent or better than google.
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We should et Google to move to Canada, boost our GDP by a few points. Plus we love our oligopolies.
Sounds like the Ireland strategy.
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Google has a monopoly because their products work better than everyone else’s by a large margin and a large portion of the global population is not going to migrate to anything different in the near future.
The reason a lot of people won't migrate is because privacy matters to a lot of people and the Apple hardware ecosystem far superior.
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It was in an article in my news feed. Here it is for reference.

https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...-us-tech-firms



But thanks for attacking me. Then people wonder why I don't share trade rumours anymore.
Yeah, a normal person would have linked the article and made a comment about it.

What you did was claim obliquely that you "heard" (implying casually, through conversation or a source) yadda- yadda.

Do you not see the massive difference here? You continue to over aggrandize yourself and lie. Just be straightforward.

Also, you're the one who has driven away far more individual posters than I. But, continue to play the victim all you want.
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Yeah, a normal person would have linked the article and made a comment about it.

What you did was claim obliquely that you "heard" (implying casually, through conversation or a source) yadda- yadda.

Do you not see the massive difference here? You continue to over aggrandize yourself and lie. Just be straightforward.

Also, you're the one who has driven away far more individual posters than I. But, continue to play the victim all you want.
I have no intention on stooping to your level. Sometimes I wonder what the motivation is for a poster to try and degrade and trash other posters on a public forum they don't know. Is that how you feel better about yourself?

Calling others liars and trying to upset posters you have a difference of opinion on to get them off tilt? In a world where prices are too high, people are struggling, life can be a struggle, you feel the need to try and ruin a simple thing like conversing on a message board. I am a poster who has shown support in the mental health thread for others going through a tough period of time and have been open about my own struggles and you call those type of people " playing the victim".

I am pretty sure the majority of this board has more respect for posters like myself who support others and encourage them to share their information then the toxic posters like you who want to see if they push someone over the edge.
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