posting a letter and posting on the internet, apples and oranges, not even able to compare.

Starkers, I don't mean to sound rude or anything like that, but you are totaly off topic from the very begining of this thread, so either make a comment about Google Chrome OS or Windows (that's what this thread is all about) or don't comment at all.

Orright, then, the Google OS can NOT be trusted because it's Google's practice to monitor your comings, goings and whereabouts, so it will phone home so that you can be targetted with ads.  Google's OS will most likely support ads somewhere within its GUI and there will most likely be no opt out because they will be hard coded so that programs like AdBlock Pro and NoScript are ineffective.

Also, Googles Chrome OS would become a lame duck when your internet connection was down and or when the 'cloud' was either undergoing maintenance or was experiencing tenchnical difficulties.  Furthermore, Google's cloud based OS could not host resource intensive programs for graphics creation/editing (Photoshop PSP) or anything that captures/edits video and or music, so people wanting to do some serious work on it would find it as useless as tits on a bull.

Better????

There might be a problem there... bull=male... so i guess it would be a belgian blue with commonly refered to as "bitch tits"??

And you take a bite first not me

Starkers I don't know why you are rehashing everything you have typed before. What happened to you with Google is not a typical situation.

In the end you are not going to change anyone's mind here. We will still continue to use Google search and Gmail.

Imagine if we quit using Windowblinds because one little thing about it wasn't right or made us angry and then never came back? Google still has a great search engine and Gmail is great.

And we will continue to sigh because you can't seem to drop it and admit that any search engine could have done the same thing.

Open your eyes. See the big picture. Google is just part of a bigger problem.

Exactly!  I mean, who in their right mind would give Google's phone home apps access to their files?  As it is, Google already has way too much power to intrude with its google-analytics every time your go on the net... a 'cloud' based OS with access to PC and personal files should be the last thing anyone would want, given Google's insatiable greed for data and the profit it derives from it.

Nor was what happened to my former brother-in law (not me) and isolated incident.  There have been numerous complaints over the years of Google overstepping the realms of decency regarding peoples privacy/personal information.  The fact is, Google is intrusive/invasive and it knows/accepts no boundaries.  There was no point... um, need for Google to collect that information on my former brother-in-law, then create a page on it.  It probably has interest to about half a dozen people at best, so what was the point... other than for Google to profit from the associated ads?

Sigh all you want!   The fact is, Yahoo did not produce those results, nor the sex toy ads.  It probably could have, but Yahoo refrained and didn't stoop so low.

Ah, finally, at least now you're admitting that Google IS a problem!  However, while Google is a part of the problem, as you say, Google exacerbates ithe problem considerably by going out of its way to collect as much data as it can (personal or otherwise, doesn't matter to them) to propogate more 'associated' ads to more people... the greater majority of whom are annoyed the crap out of by persistent (non-opt out of) ads popping up everywhere they go.

As for opening my eyes, well you need to do the same.  You pay more for products and services as a direct result of Google (and other) advertising... as do we all.  Contrary to popular belief... what Google will try to tell you, advertising does not significantly help improve sales/reduce prices. 

Need is the trigger to buy... not advertising, and being that most people are pissed at constant/frequent/in-your-face advertising, it is need that generates sales, not ads. For example, how many ads do you completely ignore because you have no want or need of the advertised product/service???  Exactly!  And you're not on your own there... billions ignore ads all the time... and many of those, like me, go out of their way to avoid them where ever possible.

Furthermore, the costs of advertising are horrendous (advertising execs are among the highest paid people in the World) and those costs are passed on to the consumer... you and I.  Does Google care about this... that associated advertising costs have priced us out of several consumer markets?  No, of course not, not while they're raking in 5 billion plus in net annual profit.

Being as poor as I am that isn't possible. Top that off with Google ads are blocked.

As for your little comment about Yahoo you do know they are not as through on searches as Google right?

And once again you still don't get it. You blame Google for what happened to your ex brother in law. Guess what? Any other search engine COULD have done the same thing. This is NOT limited to just Google. Why can't you see that?

As I said though - your not going to change anyone's mind about using Google so you might as well give up.

As for the rest of your drivel your just beating a dead horse as we all know better. Your one bad experience dosen't make Google a bad company.

MS themselves have done bad things. Do you still use Windows even in spite of this?

Wise up. Admit this could have happened via another search engine.

Google STILL has the best search engine on the net. And earning money from ads is NOT a crime.

By the way I did a Google search on you. It came back with your personal info thanks to Wincustomize. No one to blame about data mining but yourself for posting it.

No one is forcing you or anyone else to look at such sites, the problem with sex offenders, terrorists, anti-social(?) people needs to be taken care of in real life and is probably a product of the morals/ethics close to them and the problems in that society, prison sentences dont have anything to do with the internet.

Would you want to have someone screening your phone and say "hey you cant say that!"??
Is it your wish to be living in a global BigBrother house..? and if it is thats very disconcerting. We are allready monitored most of our day as it is.

The point isn't what I do or do not want to look at, rather what IS there because moral standards have fallen across the board, giving rise to increased anti-social behaviour across the board.  When the standards of a society fall, so do the standards of the anti-social types.  Crime becomes more frequent, more depraved... and it is encouraged by statements like "keep it open to bad or good".  When societies become so lax/complacent, sufficient deterrents are absent and anti-social behaviour continues unabated because punishments no longer fit the crime.

Anti-social behaviour is thriving now more than ever because the boundaries have been blurred, the rules have become blurred and the consequenses undefined through apathy...by governments caving in to 'convict-prisoner rights' do-gooders.  Like you said, problem/anti-social people are the products of the morals/ethics close to them... in other words, the societies in which they live. If a society accepts/turns a blind eye to bad, then fails to provide adequate consequences/punishments, then that society is going to suffer a high/unabating crime rate.... and one of those societies IS the internet.

That'd be right, I just get going and you call it quits, retreat in to your own make believe world.

Nah, that's orright, mate.   Each it his own, right!  Yeah, it's true that I dislike Google, though probably not that much. but when you came in with support for Google I just couldn't resist a spar so I could exercise some unemployed grey matter.

Starkers:

I said I was done but I guess I have more to say.

Your logic is flawed. You dislike Google becuse of something that didn't even happen to you. Not logical.

Yet day after day I and many of us here continue to use Google because it is hands down the best search engine. The reason Yahoo couldn't pull up that info on you ex brother in law is not because Yahoo wasn't willing to play dirty it was because Yahoo isn't as good as Google.

And please don't give me this crap about Google selling me out. MS would do that before Google does.

Disliking something based on an issue that happened to someone else is a bit strange. It didn't happen to you.

So I will continue to live in the real world while you construct walls to keep out Google who you think is evil. I already told you once that MS is just as evil yet I don't see you ditching Windows.