By R.C.
Wed, Dec 4, 2019 10:28 p.m.With Larry Page and Sergey Brin gone, Google's "open culture" may be closing Google's co-founders were the most direct link to the company's freewheeling past, even if just symbolically.
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R.C.: This is horses--t.
Google was funded by DARPA.
RC
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R.C.: Good luck.
Google was funded by DARPA and the CIA.
R.C.: It's not the very first time Google has done business with America's spy agencies. Long before it reportedly enlisted the help of the National Security Agency to secure its networks, Google sold equipment to the secret signals-intelligence group. In-Q-Tel backed the mapping firm Keyhole, which was bought by Google in 2004 – and then became the backbone for Google Earth.
This appears to be the first time, however, that the intelligence community and Google have funded the same startup, at the same time.
By the way, Henry Kissinger's firm has an associate who sits on the advisory board of In-Q-Tel.
Jami Miscik is President and Vice Chairman of Kissinger Associates, Inc., the New York-based strategic international consulting firm that assesses and navigates emerging market geopolitical and macroeconomic risks for its clients. Miscik also had a distinguished 20-year career in intelligence, ultimately serving as the Central Intelligence Agency's Deputy Director for Intelligence from 2002 to 2005.
 | IQT was established in 1999 to ensure that our country's intelligence agencies had access to innovative technologies from the startup community to help protect and preserve our nation's security. www.iqt.org |
SF 49ers WHITE ANNOUNCER (TIM RYAN)ESCAPES FIRING OVER THIS COMMENT--BUT GETS SUSPENDED
ReplyDeleteThe San Francisco 49ers have suspended radio analyst Tim Ryan for one game following his comment that Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson has an advantage in faking handoffs because of his "dark skin color with a dark football."
“He’s really good at that fake, Lamar Jackson, but when you consider his dark skin color with a dark football with a dark uniform, you could not see that thing,” Ryan said on San Francisco radio station KNBR’s “Murph & Mac Show" on Monday.
“I mean, you literally could not see when he was in and out of the mesh point and if you’re a half step slow on him in terms of your vision, forget about it, he’s out of the gate," Ryan continued about Sunday's game in which the Ravens beat the 49ers, 20-17.
(GRA:Was the point he made wrong?Probably not.Doesn't matter though).
Jackson rushed for 101 yards in the game and so far this season has rushed for 977 yards. He is close to beating the NFL single-season rushing record by a quarterback, now held by Michael Vick, who ran for 1,039 yards in 2006.
Some on social media slammed Ryan's comments as racist, while others contended they were simply "dumb."
The 49ers said in a statement that Ryan would be suspended for the team's game against the New Orleans Saints on Sunday.
“We are disappointed in Tim Ryan’s comments earlier this week, and have suspended him for the upcoming game,” the team said. “We have reached out to the Baltimore Ravens organization to extend our apologies and assure them the matter is not being taken lightly.”
“We hold Tim to a high standard as a representative of our organization and he must be more thoughtful with his words," the statement added. "Tim has expressed remorse in a public statement and has also done so with us privately. We know Tim as a man of high integrity and are confident he will grow and learn from this experience."
In a statement released through the team, Ryan apologized.
“I regret my choice of words in trying to describe the conditions of the game," he said. "Lamar Jackson is an MVP-caliber player and I respect him greatly. I want to sincerely apologize to him and anyone else I offended.”
Ryan, a former player for the Chicago Bears, has been a radio announcer for the 49ers for six seasons and prior to that was a TV analyst on Fox.
Rev. Jethroe Moore II, president of NAACP Silicon Valley-San Jose, said he would like to meet with Ryan before he returns from suspension.
"Part of his coming back should be coming to meet with members of the African American community for better understanding of how those words can be hurtful,"(GRA:What was hurtful--describing the fact that Jackson is black?) Moore said, according to NBC Bay Area. "That includes the 49er players and actually letting them talk about how they feel about the comments."
GRA:I wonder what they'd do to Don Rickles these days--and he hasn't been dead that long.
Ryan has to apologize profusely,let all the black players on the team have sex with his wife(AND the local NAACP president wants in on that as well),walk in sackcloth for the next two football seasons and THEN,he may be forgiven for this grievous utterance--"the uniform and his skin color hid the ball."
If the SF organization had any balls,they'd say,"there's nothing malicious in what he's saying--end of discussion."
MY question is,do blacks buy that many tickets to football games,that the clubs have to worry about NAACP boycotts?If not,why bend over backwards for this type of tiny misspeak (if it was at all)?
---GRA