

That google supports organizations that work towards their own goal again is hardly "nefarious", but completely normal and sane behavior. It says Google references three organizations, one of which has been accused of an Astroturfing campaign by some other organisation, which apparently we are automatically supposed to trust (because we trust everybody who opposes big coporations, I guess?). The article doesn't actually claim they are publishing astroturfed propaganda. Government regulations, on the other hand, are REAL tyranny as there is no way to opt out. The people could stop using Google at any moment, taking away its power. Likewise, if your employer exerts "power" over you, look for another job. It is only the people giving it its power. If you don't like Google, again, don't use them. In general the "people with power" theory, which commies want to use to gain power over other people. The "monopolies" argument is just commie propaganda in my opinion. I don't think they pretend to be "uninterested referees" in a call to action against certain legislation? Who would ever think that? Clearly they are "interested" in shooting down that legislation.Īs I said elsewhere, there is plenty to dislike about Google and their power. It sounds to me as if they clearly lay out the disadvantages (in their view) to their users. "Google pretends to still be an uninterested referee on a fair playing field."

Maybe we can leave the Dr Joe Rogan MD conspiracies in the moon landing hoax bin in favor of simpler hypotheses. Sometimes, the government agencies are just conducting a kind of VC investing in academia and hoping something useful pops out. Just like ARPA's work on the internet was motivated by nuclear war, but the outcome was not at all what the original envisioned use is. It could also be that the CIA just in general, funds lots of stuff, just like DARPA, just like the DOE, they hand out tons of grants because they are flooded with proposals, and they don't always have a master plan on what they think the outcome or use will be. It's like saying, if the CIA funded a college department that invented USENET/UUCP, they then therefore had planned all along to create great online chat communities just so that they could easily mine it, a kind of uber honey-pot hypothesis. Completely open source, public, search engines would have existed. A key resource for Angband players is the forum ( ), where you can ask for help, and also post compliments, complaints, suggestions, bug reports, and interesting experiences.The CIA didn't invent search engines or the idea of crawling and indexing, and these conspiracy theories are rather pointless. Eventually, as the player grows more experienced, they may attempt to win the game by defeating Morgoth, the Lord of Darkness, who resides far below the surface.Īngband is a very complex game, and it may be difficult to grasp everything at first. Then the player can descend into the Pits of Angband, where they will explore the many levels of the dungeon, gaining experience by killing fierce creatures, collecting powerful objects and valuable treasure, and returning to town occasionally to buy supplies. The player will begin their adventure on the town level where they may acquire supplies, weapons, armor, and magical devices by buying from various shop owners. A player (you!) creates a character, choosing from a variety of races and classes, and then plays that character over a period of days, weeks, even months. Angband is a complex single player dungeon simulation.
