Here’s an overview of their new open-source browser Chrome. The cartoons are hilarious and the ones depicting frustration are acutely appropriate. Chrome looks to be potential for tremendous advance for web based technology.

If only Google would integrate a sound philosophy into their business model; one that doesn’t condone the trampling of property rights and clearly understands the proper role of Government. Given their record of casually using GovCo. as a business tool, it’s only a matter of time until I’ll no longer be able to leverage their incredible ingenuity in good conscience.

The tragic reality is they don’t need to hire GovCo. thugs to be successful, or even to dominate. They’re brilliant, innovative and have the requisite assets to achieve whatever they can imagine.

This ties into my larger amazement with how philosophically lacking individuals can be successful businessmen. My first thought is that Capitalism, even the fumes of it, create such economic opportunity that virtually anyone can profit from thought and action, and despite other moral shortcomings. Even a wealthy individual that became such honestly might steal if lacking the proper view of existence. More later.

Update: GovCo. is a neologism coined by Keith Larson, a local reality-minded talk-radio personality. Essentially it represents government acting beyond its proper scope, especially in a self-perpetuating manner, i.e., a government concerned with expanding itself (the way a private company would operate). As used above, I refer to Google hiring Government (via lobbying, taxes, who knows what else) to abuse its monopoly of the use of force as a means to some business (private) concern. Anytime a private enterprise leverages illegitimate Government power to violate rights of others, as if it were merely commissioning the services of another private company, the term GovCo. is fitting.

Of course it’s blatantly ironic to refer to our Government as an entity bound by the just laws of economics (existence, identity, causality etc.) - but this only adds to the sarcastic charm of the term.