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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/rss2full.xsl"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-630100915080972567</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:10:52 +0000</lastBuildDate><category>arm</category><category>media</category><category>pc</category><category>bloggers</category><category>cancer</category><category>flagellation</category><category>food religions</category><category>polygamy</category><category>Tmobile</category><category>phones</category><category>news</category><category>China</category><category>tablet</category><category>roman empire</category><category>Palm</category><category>SS</category><category>MBA</category><category>cold war</category><category>700mhz</category><category>banking</category><category>sweeteners</category><category>phone</category><category>war</category><category>palestine</category><category>USA</category><category>a-list</category><category>home</category><category>2012</category><category>ubuntu forums compiz gconf mouse ssh vnc</category><category>martyrs</category><category>CPU</category><category>hypocrisy</category><category>and fraud</category><category>politics as usual</category><category>ratings</category><category>PDA</category><category>lies</category><category>israel</category><category>FCC</category><category>code</category><category>aspartame</category><category>GHz</category><category>anon</category><category>Openmoko</category><category>reporting</category><category>weather</category><category>msft</category><category>graphene</category><category>new world order</category><category>monogamy</category><category>facism</category><category>advice</category><category>self hosting small business</category><category>election</category><category>global warming</category><category>hurricane</category><category>ubuntu minecraft updating beta meercat servers gaming</category><category>fascist state</category><category>programming</category><category>linkback</category><category>new deal</category><category>verizon</category><category>vegan</category><category>gamed</category><category>judaism</category><category>katrina</category><category>preparation</category><category>science vs politics</category><category>cell</category><category>artificial</category><category>petraeus</category><category>obama</category><category>anonymous</category><category>ATT</category><category>corrupt</category><category>democratic communism</category><category>survive</category><category>facts</category><category>MCS</category><category>USSR</category><category>gardening</category><category>religion</category><category>vegetarian</category><category>marketing</category><category>america</category><category>vote</category><category>Russia</category><category>illegal</category><category>robber barons</category><category>journalism</category><category>drugs</category><category>google apps</category><category>google</category><category>RIM</category><title>Democracy's blog</title><description>The blog of a mad scientist. Owned and protected by NWREG LLC.</description><link>http://demopoly.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (NWREG LLC)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>95</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/Demopoly" /><feedburner:info uri="demopoly" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-630100915080972567.post-5237011183411815912</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 23:09:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-13T16:09:13.937-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">anonymous</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">2012</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">election</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">anon</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">vote</category><title>Anonymous is Black and Green.</title><atom:summary>We don't need a "new" party, we need to vote for a party that already exists and represents us. Vote Green. The Green party is in 49 states. Anonymous should vote Green. If you like Anon, you should vote Green. If you want a transparent government, Vote Green.

Do you like torture? Go on and vote Democrat.
Do you like being broke? Vote Republican.
Do you want to work at Walmart when you retire? </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Demopoly/~3/QB3ajc_XmBI/anonymous-is-black-and-green.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (NWREG LLC)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/TGKan4F26imjNXAuiHPaGtE9Xzk/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/TGKan4F26imjNXAuiHPaGtE9Xzk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/TGKan4F26imjNXAuiHPaGtE9Xzk/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/TGKan4F26imjNXAuiHPaGtE9Xzk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Demopoly/~4/QB3ajc_XmBI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://demopoly.blogspot.com/2011/07/anonymous-is-black-and-green.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-630100915080972567.post-5119854502393012532</guid><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 19:38:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-06-28T12:38:44.651-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">martyrs</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">religion</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">flagellation</category><title>comment on a comment?</title><atom:summary>Meant to be a response to VIVA LA VIDA, but something is whack with the XML and I can't post there. Haven't seen an XML error in a long time, so that was interesting.

Anyway, She[WhoMustBeObeyed] rightly posts that it seems that Christians who flagellate themselves publicly are doing something that is at the least, redundant. Christ already forgave them. At worst, they are sinning exactly in a </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Demopoly/~3/MXj57DnnYN4/comment-on-comment.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (NWREG LLC)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/59SVPEZQzTM8uJAbQqI8RSvkd7U/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/59SVPEZQzTM8uJAbQqI8RSvkd7U/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/59SVPEZQzTM8uJAbQqI8RSvkd7U/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/59SVPEZQzTM8uJAbQqI8RSvkd7U/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Demopoly/~4/MXj57DnnYN4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://demopoly.blogspot.com/2011/06/comment-on-comment.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-630100915080972567.post-5064288252484025994</guid><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 18:38:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-06-28T11:38:10.604-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">google apps</category><title>My comments on Google Apps...</title><atom:summary>To me, Google is a corporation like few others, and in particular it is a company which stepped in and found success in every instance where MSFT has failed. Not only is it better at almost anything it does than any other corporation, it does it with far less evil. It's hard not to like the big G.

Now, I just wish that Google had a test platform online where I can develop new hardware... hint </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Demopoly/~3/6JOhFOV3bxk/my-comments-on-google-apps.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (NWREG LLC)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/wKNGlkLzqwlTRCO7Bzvv60485CE/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/wKNGlkLzqwlTRCO7Bzvv60485CE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/wKNGlkLzqwlTRCO7Bzvv60485CE/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/wKNGlkLzqwlTRCO7Bzvv60485CE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Demopoly/~4/6JOhFOV3bxk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://demopoly.blogspot.com/2011/06/my-comments-on-google-apps.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-630100915080972567.post-1651964349230706199</guid><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 02:03:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-06-10T19:03:28.696-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">pc</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">CPU</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">graphene</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">GHz</category><title>Soon: IBM CPU @ 300 GHz</title><atom:summary>What's 100 times faster than silicon? Graphene.

http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/34726.wss

Not only is it faster, it's much smaller. One atom thick, or hundreds of times smaller than silicon layers.

Not only is it faster, it can run hotter. 125 degrees Celsius. That's 257 degrees Fahrenheit, or about three times hotter than what your CPU should be running at now. However, this is</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Demopoly/~3/BnQ3XNLQImg/soon-ibm-cpu-300-ghz.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (NWREG LLC)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Y9g2rPWt4NjM6XQyqhwn1j01fGI/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Y9g2rPWt4NjM6XQyqhwn1j01fGI/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Y9g2rPWt4NjM6XQyqhwn1j01fGI/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Y9g2rPWt4NjM6XQyqhwn1j01fGI/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Demopoly/~4/BnQ3XNLQImg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://demopoly.blogspot.com/2011/06/soon-ibm-cpu-300-ghz.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-630100915080972567.post-8125029421729865350</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 19:10:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-06-07T12:10:04.172-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">ubuntu minecraft updating beta meercat servers gaming</category><title>A year later...</title><atom:summary>I'm making a third attempt to upgrade to 10.10 with Ubuntu. The first two passes at this resulted in a nearly-bricked laptop, but fortunately with GRUB I was able to reboot into the older installations, and I had to go back more than three of these, to get a working -but not stable- Ubuntu just so I could undo the damage. In the end, I couldn't completely fix how badly the upgrade process had </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Demopoly/~3/9Nx01C6OJaY/year-later.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (NWREG LLC)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/kq4C1Gz90AEOlYcdPs2l5vbeKYM/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/kq4C1Gz90AEOlYcdPs2l5vbeKYM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/kq4C1Gz90AEOlYcdPs2l5vbeKYM/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/kq4C1Gz90AEOlYcdPs2l5vbeKYM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Demopoly/~4/9Nx01C6OJaY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://demopoly.blogspot.com/2011/06/year-later.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-630100915080972567.post-3624183615187584836</guid><pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 14:30:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-05-31T07:30:13.128-07:00</atom:updated><title>A New Bubble and RIP Reaganomics.</title><atom:summary>http://www.marketwatch.com/story/rip-reaganomics-revolution-1981-2011-2011-05-31?link=MW_story_popularb

RIP Reaganomics. FINALLY. At long tired last.

We can finally wave goodbye to the Voodoo Economics zombies. So long, sorry it took the destruction of our nation for people to see you go.</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Demopoly/~3/Xhj486mlpR8/new-bubble-and-rip-reaganomics.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (NWREG LLC)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/6qnwrUt9J7oyLKM798AbTDNAlY4/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/6qnwrUt9J7oyLKM798AbTDNAlY4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/6qnwrUt9J7oyLKM798AbTDNAlY4/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/6qnwrUt9J7oyLKM798AbTDNAlY4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Demopoly/~4/Xhj486mlpR8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://demopoly.blogspot.com/2011/05/new-bubble-and-rip-reaganomics.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-630100915080972567.post-2747613627930581698</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 07:42:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-05-30T00:46:34.779-07:00</atom:updated><title>Ubuntu Trials and Tribulations. BTW - Better than windows.</title><atom:summary>It's amusing and annoying at the same time, how something can be terrible in some ways, and yet still be a thousand times better than windows ever was. I've seen "seven" and I remain underwhelmed. I'd almost be disgusted, but I'm far too jaded by Microsoft.

I've noticed many quirks with Ubuntu that make it very annoying, especially the samba implementation. The "Network" window often displays </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Demopoly/~3/t37d5lr7JSg/ubuntu-trials-and-tribulations-btw.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (NWREG LLC)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/5BTAErmWnG_5T0vVrR_3BB9-yJ0/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/5BTAErmWnG_5T0vVrR_3BB9-yJ0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/5BTAErmWnG_5T0vVrR_3BB9-yJ0/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/5BTAErmWnG_5T0vVrR_3BB9-yJ0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Demopoly/~4/t37d5lr7JSg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://demopoly.blogspot.com/2011/05/ubuntu-trials-and-tribulations-btw.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-630100915080972567.post-5229436543569133875</guid><pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 04:08:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-05-25T21:08:26.942-07:00</atom:updated><title>"Thinktanks Gone Wild" - Best Headline of 2011.</title><atom:summary>This is why I love Math, even though I'm not the best mathematician, and this is also why I love reading 538.

"I want to point out that just because a study uses objective criteria, that doesn’t make it sensible. In fact, studies that try to rank or rate things seem especially susceptible to slapdash, unthoughtful methodology (here is another example: a study which concludes that Gainesville, </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Demopoly/~3/3q20fGBuPAg/thinktanks-gone-wild-best-headline-of.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (NWREG LLC)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/AdrgGN_5iliBvnQndaKV2BEaPJg/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/AdrgGN_5iliBvnQndaKV2BEaPJg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/AdrgGN_5iliBvnQndaKV2BEaPJg/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/AdrgGN_5iliBvnQndaKV2BEaPJg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Demopoly/~4/3q20fGBuPAg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://demopoly.blogspot.com/2011/05/thinktanks-gone-wild-best-headline-of.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-630100915080972567.post-5411601557820540873</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 06:16:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-05-23T23:16:18.531-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">ubuntu forums compiz gconf mouse ssh vnc</category><title>little known tricks... and how forums don't cut it as a form of help.</title><atom:summary>ubuntuforums were filled with not only wrong information, but repeated the same wrong information over a period of two years.

The problem was a simple hole in VNC for Ubuntu that, if you have Compiz installed on an Nvidia card system - you'd have no mouse or keyboard.  Three years went by, but ubuntu's crack forum teams couldn't figure it out.

The solution they said, after more than a year of </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Demopoly/~3/mdb7n5Q3nVU/little-known-tricks-and-how-forums-dont.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (NWREG LLC)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/bCKonJdYhGj3lzztnGhbTgt90QY/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/bCKonJdYhGj3lzztnGhbTgt90QY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/bCKonJdYhGj3lzztnGhbTgt90QY/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/bCKonJdYhGj3lzztnGhbTgt90QY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Demopoly/~4/mdb7n5Q3nVU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://demopoly.blogspot.com/2011/05/little-known-tricks-and-how-forums-dont.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-630100915080972567.post-6358926189164037370</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 19:46:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-05-11T12:46:12.881-07:00</atom:updated><title>A soon to be purged comment on Persephone Magazine...</title><atom:summary>I can understand the sentiment, but this is flawed logic. The entire article is more of a rant than a point in logic. Sure, you don’t to like it, and I think it’s rather a childish or pointless thing to “like” on any website, but harmful? That’s like saying anyone who sees a horror movie advocates murder.

There’s no connection. There’s never been any connection. Self Esteem is -by definition- </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Demopoly/~3/KLbrRuDDNwo/soon-to-be-purged-comment-on-persephone.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (NWREG LLC)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/1G04Wmja2pfXrD95WCbJM6w0TVQ/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/1G04Wmja2pfXrD95WCbJM6w0TVQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/1G04Wmja2pfXrD95WCbJM6w0TVQ/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/1G04Wmja2pfXrD95WCbJM6w0TVQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Demopoly/~4/KLbrRuDDNwo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://demopoly.blogspot.com/2011/05/soon-to-be-purged-comment-on-persephone.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-630100915080972567.post-4065343140146030173</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 19:06:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-05-05T12:06:07.997-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">MCS</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">code</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">programming</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">MBA</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">gardening</category><title>Programming is not Gardening.</title><atom:summary>It's nice to see that Microsoft managers have determined that software engineers are actually gardeners. At least in MSFT, this might be true, given how code is seen as an organic thing that you can wish into fruition. At MSFT, I'm sure there are a LOT of managers who'd think this is accurate, insightful, spiritual, and holds any meaning whatsoever.

A rose, however you code it, still smells as </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Demopoly/~3/PUSCfJNFGNk/programming-is-not-gardening.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (NWREG LLC)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/iWKvLhvtjh8GNBbzv69j6ufGNxU/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/iWKvLhvtjh8GNBbzv69j6ufGNxU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/iWKvLhvtjh8GNBbzv69j6ufGNxU/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/iWKvLhvtjh8GNBbzv69j6ufGNxU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Demopoly/~4/PUSCfJNFGNk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://demopoly.blogspot.com/2011/05/programming-is-not-gardening.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-630100915080972567.post-5333953183140610492</guid><pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2011 17:54:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-04-30T10:54:15.775-07:00</atom:updated><title>New Chrome Netbook OS! "Alex?"</title><atom:summary>I read this with some sorrow, the new Chrome netbook is to be another slow, low-capacity Atom chip. Intel has a way with the market, a way of screwing it.

I've got an HP Mini now, also slow as F*CK powered by Intel Atom, and I don't need another netbook that locks up for 3-5 seconds every time something loads flash or javascript. Seriously, the entire machine becomes nonresponsive when I load </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Demopoly/~3/rzTk1vX3NVo/new-chrome-netbook-os-alex.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (NWREG LLC)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/SqzRZzf9129JYe7yGCF8UgB2w34/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/SqzRZzf9129JYe7yGCF8UgB2w34/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/SqzRZzf9129JYe7yGCF8UgB2w34/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/SqzRZzf9129JYe7yGCF8UgB2w34/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Demopoly/~4/rzTk1vX3NVo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://demopoly.blogspot.com/2011/04/new-chrome-netbook-os-alex.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-630100915080972567.post-5801535102077609714</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 12:59:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-04-25T05:59:40.980-07:00</atom:updated><title>Microsoft Admits: Windows Sales Dropping.</title><atom:summary>"More than one-third of all new PCs sold didn't have Windows 7" quotes this excellent source:
http://www.infoworld.com/t/microsoft-windows/microsofts-own-numbers-suggest-declining-windows-market-share-855

Two probable reasons, given what I see in Best Buy and in other PC sales stores, small and large: XP, and Linux. People still demand XP when they buy a new computer, understandably not wanting </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Demopoly/~3/JX5elOuVYB4/microsoft-admits-windows-sales-dropping.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (NWREG LLC)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/3_n0r8ncndE6wbYL_FZVZ2vjAnU/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/3_n0r8ncndE6wbYL_FZVZ2vjAnU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/3_n0r8ncndE6wbYL_FZVZ2vjAnU/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/3_n0r8ncndE6wbYL_FZVZ2vjAnU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Demopoly/~4/JX5elOuVYB4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://demopoly.blogspot.com/2011/04/microsoft-admits-windows-sales-dropping.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-630100915080972567.post-467676797516435833</guid><pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 01:48:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-03-04T17:48:42.337-08:00</atom:updated><title>Shutting Down NASA? Yes and No.</title><atom:summary>Budgets, Finance, and Reality.

NASA served a very clear purpose, full of headwinds, ideas, new scientists, old scientists, opportunity, and a future that was bright. What once was, is no more. NASA has seen more repeat failures than any Apollo launch just in recent years.

One would think that a vast agency, powerful and rich, with gobs of scientists dedicated to common causes could do better. </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Demopoly/~3/F1HvXzf2cAY/shutting-down-nasa-yes-and-no.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (NWREG LLC)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/J26Doov7CryvU4VKeJubDQMC4G8/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/J26Doov7CryvU4VKeJubDQMC4G8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/J26Doov7CryvU4VKeJubDQMC4G8/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/J26Doov7CryvU4VKeJubDQMC4G8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Demopoly/~4/F1HvXzf2cAY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://demopoly.blogspot.com/2011/03/shutting-down-nasa-yes-and-no.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-630100915080972567.post-7115497182083330276</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 19:39:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-02-25T12:17:10.035-08:00</atom:updated><title>Ubuntu Fixes for tiny problems</title><atom:summary>[As always, scroll to bottom for cheats and links, to avoid commentary.]

Ubuntu is amazing, and I can't back away from that statement I made several years ago. It continues to be the easiest user experience and best operating system on the market in 2011. I stripped the HP boot partition and windows partitions off my Pavillion years ago, and have it solely booting to Ubuntu. Since I dumped Vista</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Demopoly/~3/OsRmY9ImsCM/ubuntu-fixes-for-tiny-problems.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (NWREG LLC)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/KScFpkVt1wk0H4t0YzLOR50eIZg/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/KScFpkVt1wk0H4t0YzLOR50eIZg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/KScFpkVt1wk0H4t0YzLOR50eIZg/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/KScFpkVt1wk0H4t0YzLOR50eIZg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Demopoly/~4/OsRmY9ImsCM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://demopoly.blogspot.com/2011/02/ubuntu-fixes-for-tiny-problems.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-630100915080972567.post-3514612885307104460</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 20:07:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-02-08T12:07:09.671-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">obama</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">banking</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">drugs</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">illegal</category><title>Drug Science. No Lies, No Politics. The Truth.</title><atom:summary>This article is clearly labeled according to ISO 9001 standards.

Header/Title: "Drug Science. No Lies, No Politics. The Truth."

Byline: "The scientific unaltered facts about drugs, recreational and legal."

Meta: "follow, index, archive."

Notes: "Footer contains references and sources."

Body: "follows this line, precedes footer."

Premise:
The US and other national standards offer legal </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Demopoly/~3/7Q8NumUt990/drug-science-no-lies-no-politics-truth.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (NWREG LLC)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/e2kzfFR46jPFM3f3LD6RCx9FbiE/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/e2kzfFR46jPFM3f3LD6RCx9FbiE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/e2kzfFR46jPFM3f3LD6RCx9FbiE/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/e2kzfFR46jPFM3f3LD6RCx9FbiE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Demopoly/~4/7Q8NumUt990" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://demopoly.blogspot.com/2011/02/drug-science-no-lies-no-politics-truth.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-630100915080972567.post-1166346159961417253</guid><pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:34:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-01-27T06:34:44.417-08:00</atom:updated><title>Transit Woes of Seattle</title><atom:summary>What's it really COST to build, manage, and use different types of transportation? Rather than opine, simply gaze upon this table of data for a few minutes... [Story at Bottom.]

Link to readable spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Rie-fU0yOY0LjVYNgrpE8AGQfG2p7EzTOan6-rRphAc/edit?hl=en&amp;authkey=CJ-mggg

Transportation Costs       

TYPE  Initial Cost Annual Cost* People Cost Origin </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Demopoly/~3/3RlnCniKTXg/transit-woes-of-seattle.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (NWREG LLC)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/X1MXtEoVYjupcCNmLpoK97YxGHk/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/X1MXtEoVYjupcCNmLpoK97YxGHk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/X1MXtEoVYjupcCNmLpoK97YxGHk/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/X1MXtEoVYjupcCNmLpoK97YxGHk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Demopoly/~4/3RlnCniKTXg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://demopoly.blogspot.com/2011/01/transit-woes-of-seattle.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-630100915080972567.post-3933585486857681189</guid><pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:32:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-01-20T08:32:12.693-08:00</atom:updated><title>Iran was never a threat, and the US knows it.</title><atom:summary>What's a threat to the US isn't Iran, or Iraq, or Afghanistan. It's any nation that doesn't swallow the national "party line" without resistance, and that line is "let our corporations plunder your nation."  In Iran's case, firm commitments by Russia and China hinder any attempt by the USA to enter that nation and create more war.[1]

America got Iraq, Russia gets Iran. That's the deal that was </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Demopoly/~3/TE56cZYMJzg/iran-was-never-threat-and-us-knows-it.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (NWREG LLC)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/0r1oegeOBa11lMFVqZsbscDE8pY/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/0r1oegeOBa11lMFVqZsbscDE8pY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/0r1oegeOBa11lMFVqZsbscDE8pY/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/0r1oegeOBa11lMFVqZsbscDE8pY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Demopoly/~4/TE56cZYMJzg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://demopoly.blogspot.com/2011/01/iran-was-never-threat-and-us-knows-it.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-630100915080972567.post-4006183548180689279</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 20:39:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-01-07T12:39:07.078-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">arm</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">msft</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">tablet</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">pc</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">phone</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">cell</category><title>Bill, you "dun goofed."</title><atom:summary>MSFT is taking a hard right turn, right for a cliff.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jan/07/microsoft-arm-deal-for-windows-analysis

ARM processors are very well coded for, by a host of far-reaching, widely experienced software systems, of which MSFT has zero ability to compete with. MSFT typically needs three service packs to stabilize any offering that's ever been released by the </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Demopoly/~3/DwpS309uBEo/bill-you-dun-goofed.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (NWREG LLC)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/NEsPY0O6P92cSnwqEHwDfqrZoek/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/NEsPY0O6P92cSnwqEHwDfqrZoek/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/NEsPY0O6P92cSnwqEHwDfqrZoek/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/NEsPY0O6P92cSnwqEHwDfqrZoek/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Demopoly/~4/DwpS309uBEo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://demopoly.blogspot.com/2011/01/bill-you-dun-goofed.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-630100915080972567.post-7780550474060896162</guid><pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 23:02:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-12-10T15:02:50.472-08:00</atom:updated><title>Illegal Government: Policy Laundering.</title><atom:summary>['Hiding responsibility for a policy or decision

One common method for policy laundering is the use of international treaties which are formulated in secrecy. Afterwards it is not possible to find out who opted for which part of the treaty. Each Person can claim that it was not them who demanded a certain paragraph but that they had to agree to the overall "compromise".
Examples that could be </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Demopoly/~3/KX2wwbm5RP4/illegal-government-policy-laundering.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (NWREG LLC)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/i4Hsl07_L5SolOVhjPDAx6nqnGY/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/i4Hsl07_L5SolOVhjPDAx6nqnGY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/i4Hsl07_L5SolOVhjPDAx6nqnGY/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/i4Hsl07_L5SolOVhjPDAx6nqnGY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Demopoly/~4/KX2wwbm5RP4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://demopoly.blogspot.com/2010/12/illegal-government-policy-laundering.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-630100915080972567.post-3246750073720797207</guid><pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:42:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-12-10T12:42:06.375-08:00</atom:updated><title>America: The Garrison State.</title><atom:summary>I don't always need to be the one speaking to deliver important news. I'll summarize and critique at the end of this very good list that orate far better than I.

http://jpr.sagepub.com/content/22/1/31.abstract
http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/0/6/0/1/4/p60140_index.html
http://www.bepress.com/ev/vol4/iss2/art3/
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig2/fallavollita2.html
http:/</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Demopoly/~3/iPHwkmixtJs/america-garrison-state.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (NWREG LLC)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/pyF7eXnh3ieaWJO8KjynohZY4-E/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/pyF7eXnh3ieaWJO8KjynohZY4-E/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/pyF7eXnh3ieaWJO8KjynohZY4-E/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/pyF7eXnh3ieaWJO8KjynohZY4-E/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Demopoly/~4/iPHwkmixtJs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://demopoly.blogspot.com/2010/12/america-garrison-state.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-630100915080972567.post-7671504037372723864</guid><pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2010 02:33:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-12-03T18:33:18.046-08:00</atom:updated><title>Forums still blow when it comes to support!</title><atom:summary>A simple google search illustrates the growing problem:

"launchpad unassigned ubuntu" [without quotes]

About 2,340,000 results (0.44 seconds) 

That's over 2 MILLION distinct hits for UN-assigned bugs in Ubuntu, just through launchpad - a service that requires one to sign up to post bugs.

OBVIOUSLY, Ubuntu sucks when it comes to customer service and I'm less interested in ANY commercial </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Demopoly/~3/zZjz2ClLxb4/forums-still-blow-when-it-comes-to.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (NWREG LLC)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/23TXsZOtIJfrlTarkKRLUVbp6WU/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/23TXsZOtIJfrlTarkKRLUVbp6WU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/23TXsZOtIJfrlTarkKRLUVbp6WU/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/23TXsZOtIJfrlTarkKRLUVbp6WU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Demopoly/~4/zZjz2ClLxb4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://demopoly.blogspot.com/2010/12/forums-still-blow-when-it-comes-to.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-630100915080972567.post-6913012777819630173</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:35:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-11-22T10:35:56.928-08:00</atom:updated><title>MSFT attempting lamely to acquire linux, still claims it sucks, but they're offering top dollar.</title><atom:summary>It's interesting and sickening that MSFT thinks it can own 235 patents on something that existed 20 years before the Microsoft corporation existed, and are unpatentable due to prexisting the software patent furor. Now that Novell has been stupid enough to try to partner with MSFT in an un-subtle trade, they're dying and being bought up by who? 
 
MSFT. Who still will not own linux because it </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Demopoly/~3/NVhYxxLiu8U/msft-attempting-lamely-to-acquire-linux.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (NWREG LLC)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/7IiU3oZnP0UKJEHmU31pL9x2FVg/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/7IiU3oZnP0UKJEHmU31pL9x2FVg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
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What are you doing going into an apartment without a tank? Why </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Demopoly/~3/UFHiLGcPwW8/letter-to-mayor-of-seattle-already-sent.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (NWREG LLC)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/JyqKMjXLVT3mBRoVNSt_fr4Tl5M/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/JyqKMjXLVT3mBRoVNSt_fr4Tl5M/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
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