Google's mystery barge flounces out of San Fran, heads to Stockton Google's mysterious barge has dropped anchor at Stockton after it was forced to set sail from its former home in San Francisco. It is now moored 80 miles away from its original berth at Treasure Island in a rundown town known as a hotbed of gang violence. Google was forced to set sail after the San Francisco Bay Conservation …
Yeah yeah, the old libertarian offshore city idea. Here's the rub. How does the chocolate factory get to their new offshore city without attracting the fed's attention ON THE WAY? IOW, moor offshore and the US can just consider the installation an international location and impose taxes, tariffs, customs dues, etc. on anything heading to or coming from there. And given that a lot of Google's customers are in the US, it would be kinda hard to avoid the port of entry.
"moor offshore and the US can just consider the installation an international location and impose taxes, tariffs, customs dues, etc. on anything heading to or coming from there."
Wot, and risk retaliation from the Skynet military forces of the Principality of Schmidtland?
And ElReg fell for it, just like the rest of the mass-media. Remember, the ONLY thing the goo-tards are good at is advertising. On the Internet, it is trivially block-able (thankfully!), but in the mass-media, maybe not so much.
The only thing Stockton is good for is as a reminder to turn East on Hwy 4 in order to head for California's unknown Wine Country, i.e. Calaveras County.
Why would they move it to Stockton if it were? Stockton isn't the end of the Earth, but its going to be hard to get lots of tech consumers to drive out there for a demonstration. Likewise makes no sense as an exec retreat for Google execs, who are now 80 miles away.
I'm voting for secret multi-media indoctrination center! Imagine being strapped into a chair "Clockwork Orange" style, while Larry Page voiceover keeps repeating "Google Glass is chic and stylish! Google+ is your friend!!"
In the competition for World Advertising Domination with Farcebook and the rest, Farcebook has already mentioned dominating the skies with balloons and droning people to death with ads from above. The Borgle Barges will travel the world assimilating cyborg modemnauts to take Borgle to new frontiers where no Borg has been before and to then assault the frontiers with targeted advertising.
Google research is working on a wonderful new technology that will allow computers and humans to interact on a whole new level. The computer will be able to act and react to human behavior with little to no noticeable difference. They will be well armed and will act as a police force to subdue any miscreants brave enough to attempt any sort of uprising........
Luckily, the internet has come up with a few theories about what's going on in there, with some whackjobs suggesting that Google is building a centre for electronic sorcery or a staging post for some upcoming alien invasion.Other cranks claimed it was a slave ship containing imprisoned extraterrestrials or even a new kind of Biblical ark, so all the oompah-loompahs can sale off two by two when the world finally ends.
More prosaic explanations indicate it will be a showroom for Google Glass and other products, or even a stately pleasure dome for all the Chocolate Factory's top dogs to enjoy various leisure pursuits.
So what is Google building inside the mystery barge? Let us know what you think.
I’m thinking all three working together would guarantee Great Times in Surreal Places with Beautifully Sleazy Spaces the Sweetest of Sticky Addictions and the Bonus Attraction of Google Interest.
Now where’s that coat? Permission to come on aboard, Google. Nice to see you, to see you nice:-)
And is there a Google Barge for Titanic Dock Landings?* …… Devastated Arena Areas with Fab Fabless Paint Hall Studio Berths for Programmed Project Post Productions Birthing …… of NEUKlearer HyperRadioProActive Virtual Reality Enterprise Zones. Pockets where Packets of Private Proprietary and Public Pirate Intellectual Property Portfolio and Protocols are Shared and Exercised Accordingly to Engage and Enhance and Extend to Eternity, the Passionate Needs of Satisfying Feeds with Satisfied Seeds ……. and they be Avidly Viral and Enchantingly Virile and Vexingly Vivacious all at the same time together in Projects XSSXXXXStreaming.
RSVP ….. El Reg.
* Or do Locals and Returned and Returning Ex Pats and On The Runs build them themselves for Google Interest Investment with Slush Funding and Fast Flash Cash Spending Guaranteeing Aided Civil Military and Civic Paramilitary Protection and Support ......with Advanced AIDevelopment Tools.
RSVP ..... Palace Barracks and Stormont
cc .... El Reg
It contains enough computers for an AI, and a self contained power source for it. As soon as the AI achieves self-awareness, there'll no doubt be calls from worried legislators and governments to shut it down. Being on a barge that can just sail off somewhere into international waters, under no-ones jurisdiction, and that can't just have someone flick a switch to cut off the power, is likely their plan to avoid that.
Skynet....It contains enough computers for an AI, and a self contained power source for it. As soon as the AI achieves self-awareness, there'll no doubt be calls from worried legislators and governments to shut it down. Being on a barge that can just sail off somewhere into international waters, under no-ones jurisdiction, and that can't just have someone flick a switch to cut off the power, is likely their plan to avoid that. .. Anonymous Coward
And now, since a Skynet captures all communications channels for mentoring and onward and forward operating base/barge/berth distribution of smarter information for better and faster intelligence growth, what does AI Google do with what can be done?
Everything Creative and Nothing Wilfully Destructive and Disruptive will Guarantee Probably 99% Greater Support with AIR&dDHeads .... Advanced IntelAIgent Research and digital Development Heads in Live Operational Virtual Environments Play Space Places.
The google information mining and collation process is fast, but the side effect is the creation of 'binary information shards', clusters of semi-hazardous, volatile but meaningless 1s and 0s.
The first attempt to dispose of these was to create a virtual currency and have greedy tech folk pay to own some of the waste. This went well until the recent implosion of its primary exchange, caused by a fatal stochastic imbalance of 1s and 0s, leading to an out-of-control 'binary run-off'.
So now the unwanted binary information shards are cooled to near absolute-zero, loaded onto these refrigerator barges, and towed out to a third-world area of the US where no one will notice or care. At their destination the collection of semi-unstable bits is slowly warmed and left to self-cluster and mutate into bytes, words, double words, blobs and finally Windows 8.x hot-fixes, where they can be loaded into millions of PCs around the world and made safe and inert.
Very clever.
.... which be AILeading Question. RSVP
The google information mining and collation process is fast, but the side effect is the creation of 'binary information shards', clusters of semi-hazardous, volatile but meaningless 1s and 0s.
Only meaningless when 1s and 0s are entangled badly/incorrectly. Perfectly Phormed do they Command Computer Controlled Centres.
Hi oldhand, the first upvote is mine, for me it was absolutely comprehensively written in black on white it's a MYSTERY barge (-: Just look at these sun-protected legotainers, the one falling out from the rack has convenient handles for entering - http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/google-barge-makes-move-from-sf-bay-to-stockton/Content?oid=2722960 . All for the people, there's a party in the town.
The Port of Stockton is capable of handling Panamax container ships, and does on a daily basis. It is on the San Joaquin River, the largest of Central California's rivers. It's also part of the California Delta, a tidal estuary ... The salt content varies according to freshwater flow from the river, which varies according to many variables.
That said, Stockton is still just a jumping-off point for California's Gold Countryunknown Wine Country.
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