Just what we need, a "free" OS filled with advertisements like we see with many of the free iPhone applications. Add in net usage and purchasing tracking and all your personal data entrusted to Google Inc.

It's Linux under the hood so why bother? Amazingly at first Google will target netbooks, which consumers dumped Linux for Windows on already so what gives? My personal opinion, if you want an alternative OS get Ubuntu or some other aged open Linux distribution.

In 1996 I made the statement, "the Internet will become like a trailer park that sits behind a strip mall in a couple of years." I was wrong, it turned into a telephone booth under a billboard in East LA...

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I already believe the U.S. is a corporate controlled Fascist country, it's very obvious in fact. Just become a dictatorship already, I am tired of waiting and worrying about it.

As the 1983 American Heritage Dictionary noted, fascism is: "A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism."

Get ready.

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Source: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/an-unknown-country/
Author: Krugman

"A correspondent writes in, denouncing my latest column, and says that if things go my way we’ll end up with the government providing health care to everyone, which will “destroy the American way of life.”

Hmm. There’s a country this correspondent — and many others who denounce “socialized medicine” — should look at. It’s a country where there is, indeed, a substantial private health insurance industry, which pays 35 percent of medical bills. But the government pays a larger share — 46 percent. (Most of the rest is out-of-pocket spending.)

The country is called the United States of America."

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Tags: america, health care, health insurance, socialism