Sensible Erection | Google wants the world to Legalize Love

Sunday, 8 July 2012

quote [ The "Legalize Love" campaign officially launches in Poland and Singapore on Saturday, July 7th. Google intends to eventually expand the initiative to every country where the company has an office, and will focus on places with homophobic cultures, where anti-gay laws exist. ]

[by foobar@3:17amGMT] [+9]

Comments

sanepride said @ 3:24am GMT on 8th Jul
Poland and Singapore? What about right here in the good ol' USA?

Naruki said @ 3:56am GMT on 8th Jul [Score:1 Funny]
Maybe it means launch in Poland and Singapore, focus on the USA.

arrowhen said @ 4:08am GMT on 8th Jul [Score:1 Insightful]
Even Google can't work miracles.

selfimportant said @ 4:50am GMT on 9th Jul
That's pretty much where the big LGBT business mags are based, for tax reasons

lilmookieesquire said @ 3:27am GMT on 8th Jul [Score:1 Good]
Also:

http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/06/travel/california-high-speed-rail/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

California senate approves funds for high speed rail development. LA to SF in three hours.

mechanical contrivance said @ 4:27am GMT on 8th Jul
California is broke. Where will the money come from?

lilmookieesquire said @ 4:35am GMT on 8th Jul
Blackjack and hookers.

zarathustra said @ 4:47am GMT on 8th Jul [Score:2 Insightful]
Hire workers to build it, tax their income. The workers spend what is left on beer and hookers. The beer part is taxed. The hookers and their pimp spend their part which is taxed. The places where hookers and pimps shop hire a new employee to service them and that employees income and spending is taxed. The guys who figure out how much to tax construction workers, hookers, and pimps keep their jobs and pay taxes. Police are hired to catch the hookers and pimps, they pay taxes, too. Judges and lawyers deal with the aftermath of the police/hooker-pimp encounters and they pay some taxes.

Finally, the rail is finished, people take the train instead of an airplane - paying fares to do so.

arctan said @ 3:10pm GMT on 8th Jul
This is exactly how government spending in a recession is supposed to work, and it's really frustrating how the meme of "The government is broke and can't do anything" has infiltrated the world.

The government's purpose is to create money out of thin air -- that's where *all* money comes from, it's an imaginary creation of the government -- and when we don't have enough to keep the economy running it's not only the government's right but its *duty* to create more.

quaint said @ 3:21pm GMT on 8th Jul [Score:2]
Yep. Worked an absolute treat in Weimar Germany, Zimbabwe and everywhere else that's tried it.

wangcan0 said @ 4:54pm GMT on 8th Jul
The real trick is deciding *exactly* how much to create. Hence our construction of the Federal Reserve, and regulations on banking that control the amount that the money supply grows. It almost sort of works, too.

Just think! In two hundred more years, controlling economic direction through fiscal policy may be as simple as PV=nRT or ax''+bx'+cx=0. Our current situation proves we aren't there yet.

foobar said @ 5:06pm GMT on 8th Jul [Score:1 Funny]
I suspect will be well into post-scarcity before economics is a science.

It'll make for better video games, though.

blibblob said @ 6:20pm GMT on 8th Jul
Ha, economics a science. You make joke.

erich wiess said @ 5:59pm GMT on 8th Jul

The prevailing fiscal policy is simpler than that

Ctrl+P

chold_numa said @ 12:19am GMT on 9th Jul
Err, all modern economies run on a fiat currency. All money is created "out of thin air". This is OK when managed responsibly, and gives the government and central bank more options in terms of managing economic growth.

This is much better than say, the gold standard which also creates currency crisies, only unexpectedly and without a mechanism for the government to correct it. Look at the rate of inflation during the period of the Nixon presidency prior to the closing of the gold desk.

At this point in time though, I think that the US government and the US Reserve is acting in a potentially risky way by pursuing quantitative easing, which is what has kept Japan in the doldrums for the last 15 years. Better than the banks go into a managed bankruptcy and for the government to take some part of the retail banking market. However, while I'm here in hypothetical land, I'm going to ask for a pony.

Barnabas_Truman said @ 9:48am GMT on 9th Jul
I am really looking forward to the day when the technology to create gold from other elements (Glenn Seaborg did it in 1980) becomes cheap and easy enough to make the gold standard fanatics shut up for good.

sanepride said @ 5:37am GMT on 8th Jul
Around 3/5 of the money is coming from the federal gov't.
Really it's a great deal, and only a complete idiot like Rick Scott would turn it down.

LeavemeAlone said @ 2:50pm GMT on 8th Jul [Score:1 Underrated]
Or Scott Walker

tsujaelttilsane said @ 7:15pm GMT on 8th Jul
Would F. Scott Fitzgerald also turn it down?

lalanda said @ 8:11am GMT on 8th Jul
Next they need to build one from SF to LA.

arrowhen said @ 8:55am GMT on 8th Jul
If you're already in SF, why the fuck would you want to go to LA?

damnit said @ 9:25am GMT on 8th Jul
Blackjack and hookers

arrowhen said @ 10:36am GMT on 8th Jul
It's been a long fucking time since I've been to LA, but I was under the impression that both were still illegal there.

Adam said @ 5:26am GMT on 8th Jul
I don't know about Poland, but Singapore's anti-gay movement is particularly vicious. I wish them success, though I fear that Singapore's government, being an autocracy, will just toss them them out after using the courts to beat the fuck out of all of the employees first.

sanepride said @ 5:40am GMT on 8th Jul
If they really want a challenge they should head to Uganda.

britannia said @ 10:39am GMT on 8th Jul [Score:1 Insightful]
Or perhaps Saudi.....

remiq said @ 5:37am GMT on 11th Jul
Strange, there is no anti-gay laws in Poland. There is no legalized anti-gay movement. Why would they choose Singapore AND Poland?

Supreme_Coconut said @ 7:37am GMT on 8th Jul [Score:2 Funny]
And then.. they eat da poo poo.

ahPook said @ 7:50pm GMT on 8th Jul
Get your facts straight.

spite48 said @ 9:41pm GMT on 8th Jul
straights eat da poo poo?

ahPook said @ 4:57am GMT on 9th Jul
I meant get your gay facts straight.

dietcoke said @ 10:31pm GMT on 9th Jul [Score:-2]
was talking with a gay cousin the other month
we decided the reason that most people really will never accept gays is that the gay leaders stole the rainbow.
The rainbow should stand for all things innocent, not for gay sex, or straight sex.
It should have just stayed a rainbow.

Barnabas_Truman said @ 11:49pm GMT on 9th Jul
I'm really pissed off that people obsessed with innocence stole the rainbow.

The rainbow should stand for all light refracted through raindrops, not for innocence, or a god's promise.

It should have just stayed a rainbow.

Heimdall said @ 1:00am GMT on 10th Jul
I'm really pissed off that people obsessed with light stole the rainbow from me. Odin is going to be pissed when he gets back.

It should have stayed the bridge to Asgard.

Barnabas_Truman said @ 9:07am GMT on 10th Jul [Score:-1 Insightful]
So is dietcoke really Kelly the political cartoonist?

Barnabas_Truman said @ 9:08am GMT on 10th Jul [Score:-2]
(from The Onion of course)