This should certainly effect the direction the event takes.
https://mixmag.net/read/google-burning-man-news
Assuming this wasn't an April Fool's Day joke.
Google Buys Burning Man
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Elderberry
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle.
Then I realized that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle.
Then I realized that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me
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Since non profit 501c orgs don't have stock, hard to buy 51.2%
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This is great news. Now when I'm searching for friends on the playa, I can just type their names in the Google search.
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Re: Google Buys Burning Man
Definitely April Fools. 
"the prophecies of doom were better last year" trilo
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When I was a youngster growing up in Norway, the state liquor-store agency ran an ad in the morning newspapers, offering free wine.
They had a huge tank full of cheap Spanish wine in danger of going to waste, and rather than pollute the river with the stuff, they would give it away to the public. People needed to bring their own containers to the bottling plant in Oslo.
Hundreds of people lined up with buckets, mason jars, and whatnot – not realizing the date was April 1.
A handful years ago, when I was editor of my local Lions Club newsletter, I borrowed the concept.
We live in a winery district, with a boutique winery "on every other block", so I could make this entirely plausible.
For an address, I used a real road, but a fictional house-number in the middle of a vacant stretch of that road.
At the next Club meeting, we all had a good laugh, and one of the members gamely confessed he had driven up and down that road "a couple times" looking for the non-existent winery "out of curiosity".
They had a huge tank full of cheap Spanish wine in danger of going to waste, and rather than pollute the river with the stuff, they would give it away to the public. People needed to bring their own containers to the bottling plant in Oslo.
Hundreds of people lined up with buckets, mason jars, and whatnot – not realizing the date was April 1.
A handful years ago, when I was editor of my local Lions Club newsletter, I borrowed the concept.
We live in a winery district, with a boutique winery "on every other block", so I could make this entirely plausible.
For an address, I used a real road, but a fictional house-number in the middle of a vacant stretch of that road.
At the next Club meeting, we all had a good laugh, and one of the members gamely confessed he had driven up and down that road "a couple times" looking for the non-existent winery "out of curiosity".
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Re: Google Buys Burning Man
Google bought it from Dr. Dre, the inventor of burningman.
Oh my god, it's HUGE!
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Sadly there is probably more truth to this than we realize & the jokes on us.
BORG: I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
Google: How big should I make the check? Just make sure our private compound has a good location.
BORG: I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
Google: How big should I make the check? Just make sure our private compound has a good location.
Cultural appropriation? Do I go over to your house during one of your BDSM sessions and slap the Nazi SS officer hat off of your head? - Bob