{"id":379,"date":"2007-08-25T18:02:23","date_gmt":"2007-08-25T18:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/more-reasons-to-pity-windows-users\/"},"modified":"2007-08-25T18:02:23","modified_gmt":"2007-08-25T18:02:23","slug":"more-reasons-to-pity-windows-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/more-reasons-to-pity-windows-users\/","title":{"rendered":"More reasons to pity Windows users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s no feeling quite as life-affirming as the warm, cosy, joy of owning a Genuine&reg; Copy&trade; of&reg;&trade; Winblows&reg;&trade;&copy; and the many Advantages&reg;&trade;&copy;&reg;&trade;&copy; derived therefrom. Especially today when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/08\/25\/microsoft_wga_server.html\" target=\"_new\">Microsoft&#8217;s WGA servers are mysteriously out of action<\/a>, which rewards all Genuine&reg; customers with disabled operating systems. Of course, the pirates will be unaffected. <\/p>\n<p>And in case you ever doubted that as a Windows user you are a tool of The Man&trade; then ask yourself why part of the punishment administered to a convicted software pirate was to be<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2007\/08\/24\/movie_pirate_linux_ban\/\" target=\"_new\">forced to use Windows<\/a>. That&#8217;s just inhuman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s no feeling quite as life-affirming as the warm, cosy, joy of owning a Genuine&reg; Copy&trade; of&reg;&trade; Winblows&reg;&trade;&copy; and the many Advantages&reg;&trade;&copy;&reg;&trade;&copy; derived therefrom. Especially today when Microsoft&#8217;s WGA servers are mysteriously out of action, which rewards all Genuine&reg; customers with disabled operating systems. Of course, the pirates will be unaffected. And in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}