Onion: Google apologizes for privacy concerns

According to The Onion, Google has issued this apology:

"We would like to extend our deepest apologies to each and every one of you," announced CEO Eric Schmidt, speaking from the company's Googleplex headquarters. "Clearly there have been some privacy concerns as of late, and judging by some of the search terms we've seen, along with the tens of thousands of personal e-mail exchanges and Google Chat conversations we've carefully examined, it looks as though it might be a while before we regain your trust."

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Beware the eternal regress

The eternal regress is the greatest enemy of those who proffer simplistic explanations. The eternal regress is the reason why it doesn't work to say that there is a little person in the brain (without accounting for that little person). It is the reason why it doesn't work to announce that everything has to have a cause and then to explain the existence of the universe by reference to "God" without explaining how God came to exist. The lurking eternal regress is also why no simple explanation is complete. As Carl Sagan once said: "If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."

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