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core wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:09:16 -0500, smr<me@shawnritchie.com>  wrote:
>
>> core wrote:
>>> http://stilgherrian.com/only-one-name/right-google-you-stupid-cunts-this-is-simply-not-on
>>>
>>> smr will like this.
>> Dude has a lot of expectations for how a free service should treat him.
>> He has the easy-peasy option of not using it.
>
> Should read down.
>
>> I mean, I get that the Names Policy is a bit wonk, but it's a starting
>> point and his over-the-top cursing reaction is a bit too entitled for my
>> tastes. You hate Google that much? Then why the rush to use MORE of
>> their services? Fuck off from 'em and be happy.
>
> Reading down the thread becomes instructive.  Note that the rant wasn't a
> direct reply to g+, but a posting to a blog with regular participants. Similar
> to some rants posted here :)
>
> Google's policy is seriously f**ked up, for a company that's supposed to be
> 'world wide' in scope. Strictly applied, as it is, excludes a vast population
> in countries where single names are common and/or two character surnames are
> very common. Indications, so far, are that they have no interest in changing
> it. Indications are also that it's a very deliberate policy, rather than a
> first year programmers newbie mistake.

Ah. I got through the first few paragraphs and had to bail due to the 
writing style. Seriously, he's putting out a know-it-all/ultra-entitled 
vibe, laden with Australio-specific cursing every other word, while also 
getting in a nice slam on "Americo-centric naming schemes". WTF? Given 
name/Family Name is now a tool of American hegemony?

At that point I decided that, whatever the merits of his underlying 
argument, this particular author could get fucked sideways with a 
didgeridoo and left the site.

-- 
smr