Courtesy of Mish.
I happen to like the sun. By definition, the earth would not even be a planet without the sun. No one on earth would be alive without free sunshine.
I happen to like Google. I could survive without Google, but like the sun, much of what Google provides is free.
Free Google Things
- Free internet services including the best search engine in the world
- Free Gmail
- Free research on self-driving cars
- Free research on other robotics
- Free blog software
- Free hosting and storage for blogs
- Free ads on my blog (and those ads make me money)
For a discussion of the implications of a self-driving car, please see Google Unveils Self-Driving Car, No Steering Wheel, No Accelerator, No Brake Pedal; Self-Driving Taxi Has Arrived. Who, other than city bureaucrats with their taxi licensing scheme will not want lower taxi fares?
For a discussion of other Google robotic research, please see More Robots: Google’s “Atlas” Robot Mimics “Karate Kid”; Flying Defibrillator “Ambulance Drone” Unveiled; Fed Has No Answer.
Green Energy Handouts vs. Google
Unlike “green energy” parasites that could not exist without government subsidies (taxpayer dollars), Google, like the sun does what it does for free. Google does not ask for money from the government to promote autonomous cars, robots, or anything else.
Instead, Google research has created thousands of very high-paying jobs. Those job-holders pay taxes.
What’s not to like?
Enter the French
France does not like Google. Yesterday, Yahoo! reported on France’s Desperate Battle to Erase Google, Netflix and Uber from Existence. …
