How Google Sliced Away Our Knife Ads

Re:How Google Sliced Away Our Knife Ads by scarmig on Monday March 25, 2013 @03:56PM (#5439310)

As they say, the Cossacks work for the Czar. They have always worked for the Czar.

If a big institution screws you over but has found a clever way of perpetually evading or delegating away vocal blame for that... they're still responsible, unless they're fixing the system in the very-near term. If the resources aren't there to fix the system, that's because they've consciously chosen not to allocate those resources.

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Re:How Google Sliced Away Our Knife Ads by coolsunglasses on Monday March 25, 2013 @05:04PM (#5439681)

"They" do not say it, DeLong does.

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Re:How Google Sliced Away Our Knife Ads by dboat on Monday March 25, 2013 @05:56PM (#5439976)

For others unfamiliar with the reference: http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2006/05/remember_the_co.html?c...

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Re:How Google Sliced Away Our Knife Ads by scarmig on Monday March 25, 2013 @06:02PM (#5440009)

He originated it, but it's since become a mainstay on the political blogs, from Yglesias and Krugman to the folks over at RedState.

Plus, it has a certain panache to it, don't you think? And vividly conjures a real phenomenon, despite eliding real principal agent problems.

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