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Google staff rebel as company embraces military links
San Jose Mercury ^ | May 15, 2018 | Mark Bergen

Posted on 05/15/2018 2:53:39 PM PDT by artichokegrower

Last July, 13 U.S. military commanders and technology executives met at the Pentagon’s Silicon Valley outpost, two miles from Google headquarters. It was the second meeting of an advisory board set up in 2016 to counsel the military on ways to apply technology to the battlefield. Milo Medin, a Google vice president, turned the conversation to using artificial intelligence in war games. Eric Schmidt, Google’s former boss, proposed using that tactic to map out strategies for standoffs with China over the next 20 years.

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Almost 4,000 Google employees, out of an Alphabet total of 85,000, signed a letter asking Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai to nix the Project Maven contract and halt all work in “the business of war.”


Would those be 4,000 H-1B workers who have no allegiance to the United States?

1 posted on 05/15/2018 2:53:39 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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2 posted on 05/15/2018 2:57:25 PM PDT by gaijin
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If we as a nation cannot utilize the talents of our biggest and best companies to deter a war or, failing that, to win a war, then we are well and truly phucked.


3 posted on 05/15/2018 3:02:23 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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THEY JUST LOVE THE PERCS OF AN EVIL NATION!


4 posted on 05/15/2018 3:03:39 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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Who was it that sold these morons on the idea that their dreams for a world without war is possible, and that it can happen in their own lifetimes?


5 posted on 05/15/2018 3:11:48 PM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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See the little Snowflakes...

See them melt...

Drip, drip, drip, splat...

Oh there goes on now...

LOL


6 posted on 05/15/2018 3:11:53 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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Maybe Google will invest in $50 million dollars worth of safe spaces for these poor little brittle sub (inferior) humans.


7 posted on 05/15/2018 3:13:17 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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Does Sundar Pichai have any allegiance to the United States?!

Not even considering the H-1B invaders...


8 posted on 05/15/2018 3:15:41 PM PDT by Regulator
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because they’re effing stupid? WAR IS NORMAL. It’s part of the fabric of the universe. If there’s peace, there has to be chaos and war. The same analogy was explained in M Night’s Unbreakable. If there is a Superman, the other side of the horizon, there will be a Luthor.


9 posted on 05/15/2018 3:19:55 PM PDT by max americana (Fired libtard employees 9 consecutive times at every election since 08'. I hope all liberals die.)
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And what do they think data mining is?


10 posted on 05/15/2018 3:28:18 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ads for Chappaquiddick warn of scenes of tobacco use. What about the hazards of drunk driving?)
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Because none of this was fascism when Obama did it


11 posted on 05/15/2018 3:29:14 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ads for Chappaquiddick warn of scenes of tobacco use. What about the hazards of drunk driving?)
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Stupid google fags think life will be better if and when America ever falls to totalitarianism? Liberal fags will be the first to be sacrificed.


12 posted on 05/15/2018 3:31:54 PM PDT by LouAvul (The most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.)
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They’re mostly H1bs and have no business working on defense projects.

I’d fire them immediately.


13 posted on 05/15/2018 3:44:12 PM PDT by buffaloguy (Bond arms Cowboy)
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Imagine the beatings the snowflakes would have taken back when this country mobilized for WWII.


14 posted on 05/15/2018 3:57:24 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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Just think of the tax dollars he and all visa lovers dodged.


15 posted on 05/15/2018 4:00:46 PM PDT by momincombatboots (No Wall, No Way 2018)
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“If there is a Superman, the other side of the horizon, there will be a Luthor.”

I kinda like it but...please, no more trying to make life imitate “art”.


16 posted on 05/15/2018 4:42:36 PM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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And who is/was it that suddenly believed that they are/were witness to actual natural selection, resulting in an actual evolution of our species...in their own lifetimes?


17 posted on 05/15/2018 4:53:19 PM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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In the end Google will go for the money and the power, smurf sensibilities notwithstanding. They may deny they are doing anything but they will.


18 posted on 05/15/2018 4:55:06 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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Bingo! No H1-Bs or renta-employees should be working on US military tech. Period. And especially Gurgle!


19 posted on 05/15/2018 5:09:27 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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Wars happen. Information superiority saves lives: certainly our own, but in the long run, probably of the enemy as well. Information dominance saves even more lives. Any idiot leftist too stupid to understand this is too stupid to be working for Google. This should be explained to them in their dismissal letters.


20 posted on 05/15/2018 6:51:17 PM PDT by sphinx
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