{"id":167,"date":"2003-08-03T23:56:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-03T23:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=167"},"modified":"2016-03-04T16:42:23","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T22:42:23","slug":"167","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/03\/167\/","title":{"rendered":"One More Reason to Disdain Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It made a lot of goofy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A15231-2003Aug2.html\" target=\"new\">left wing nutjobs insanely rich<\/a>.  Of course, if they hadn&#8217;t had stock options, they would have been insanely middle class, being left wing nut jobs and all.<\/p>\n<p>You know, if my start-up company experience had left me with fifteen million dollars, do you think I would be talking to a grief counselor about it?  Heck, no, I&#8217;d be refusing to let <a href=\"http:\/\/www.literature.org\/authors\/dickens-charles\/christmas-carol\/\" target=\"new\">Bob Cratchit<\/a> throw an extra log on the fire.  You know why?  Because I am a <i>capitalist<\/i>.  I like making money with money.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine, cutting your <i>own children<\/i> out of your legacy to better a foundation or a charity!  Egads!<\/p>\n<p>I can only hope we get to see some of these unhinged (I mean &#8220;enlightened and philanthropic&#8221;) stock option millionaires <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/ac2\/wp-dyn?pagename=article&#038;node=&#038;contentId=A33577-2003Jun25&#038;notFound=true\" target=\"new\">pulled naked from their pickup trucks<\/a> someday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It made a lot of goofy left wing nutjobs insanely rich. Of course, if they hadn&#8217;t had stock options, they would have been insanely middle class, being left wing nut jobs and all. You know, if my start-up company experience had left me with fifteen million dollars, do you think I would be talking to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15200,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/15200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}