[CentOS] google talk plugin for google hangout not loading

Valeri Galtsev galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu
Wed Nov 5 16:52:09 UTC 2014


On Tue, November 4, 2014 9:13 pm, Always Learning wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2014-11-04 at 19:12 -0500, Mark LaPierre wrote:
>
>> Are any of you able to submit feedback to google?  I tried several
>> different ways to get to the google feedback tool but failed every
>> attempt.  I tried logging in but couldn't get past the apparently
>> mandatory mobile phone number registration.  I don't have/want a
>> mobile phone.
>
> Google wants a mobile phone so it can sell the information to Uncle Sam.
> Don't forget Google is the biggest non-military spying operation in the
> world.  A mobile phone number allows people's movements to be tracked,
> their credit card details made accessible and their names and addresses
> - slightly more difficult if users Pay-As-They-Go (prepayment) but if
> using a payment card then very easy.
>
> Only a fool plays with fire and expects never to be burnt. No wise
> person plays with 'friendly' alligators !
>

The main history lesson is that history lessons are never learned by
people. So, you speech falls (mostly) on deaf ears. No one cares about
history lessons of global collection of information on people (meaning
Hitler Germany or Stalin Russia to name two). So, concurrent history is
bound to repeat the past...

Valeri

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Valeri Galtsev
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Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago
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