{"id":362,"date":"2007-06-03T22:15:09","date_gmt":"2007-06-03T22:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=362"},"modified":"2007-06-03T22:15:09","modified_gmt":"2007-06-03T22:15:09","slug":"i-decide-presidential-election-pt-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=362","title":{"rendered":"I Decide, Presidential Election, Pt. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"I%20Decide%2C%20Presidential%20Election%2C%20Pt.%201\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Well, I wasn&#8217;t going to vote for him anyway, not after the latest immigration bill. But Republican candidate John McCain just sealed the deal. He says he would appoint  Microsoft CEO <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steve_Ballmer\">Steve Ballmer<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybackground.com\/2007\/05\/30\/mccain-comes-out-against-net-neutrality-says-would-hire-microsoft-ceo-steve-ballmer\/\">to a cabinet position<\/a>. Ballmer is on my &#8220;Bad People&#8221; list for continuing to threaten to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Ballmer+repeats+threats+against+Linux\/2100-7344_3-6160604.html\">sue Linux users<\/a> over supposed intellectual property rights violations and \/ or Microsoft patent protected code \/ methods and concepts he says exists in Linux. I am a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Linux\">Linux<\/a> user, and don&#8217;t take kindly to threats.<\/p>\n<p>If, on the other hand, a candidate said Ballmer would be appointed as ambassador to the UN, that candidate might just get my vote. Question: are the chairs in the General Assembly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2005\/09\/05\/chair_chucking\/\">nailed dow<\/a>n? I hope not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"I%20Decide%2C%20Presidential%20Election%2C%20Pt.%201\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Well, I wasn&#8217;t going to vote for him anyway, not after the latest immigration bill. But Republican candidate John McCain just sealed the deal. He says he would appoint Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to a cabinet position. Ballmer is on my &#8220;Bad People&#8221; list for continuing to threaten to sue Linux users over supposed intellectual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}