Ever had one of those "slow" days? Like when someone tells you a really good joke, but then you don't get it, and then two days later you finally realize what was funny about the joke, but it's already too late to laugh and all you can do is scratch your head? Well, this is one of those days... Judge Dale Kimball rules in favor of Novell with regards to SCO filing a lawsuit for slander of title.

...the court concludes that Novell is the owner of the UNIX and UnixWare Copyrights

Last 2004, SCO filed the Slander of Title lawsuit against Novell as it claims to be the owner of UNIX. Nice. As we all know, Novell now owns Suse Linux and has both commercial and open-source versions of the operating system. Of course, the open-source version includes some UNIX code as Linux is (partially) based on UNIX.

Microsoft then helped ensure that SCO could mount the fight, by providing major financial help at least twice in 2003.

So Microsoft helped SCO to sue IBM, then consequentially, Novell. Then in 2006, a shocker made the web shiver. Microsoft and Novell had partnered to deliver Windows and Linux interoperability. This is great. But. What. The. Fuck.

In a not so formal ceremony held by the Comelec at the PICC last Wednesday night, June 6th, 10 senatoriables have been officially proclaimed as elected. The winners with the number of votes, as follows:

1. Legarda, Loren (GO) - 18,069,466
2. Escudero, Francis Joseph (GO) - 17,858,416
3. Lacson, Panfilo (GO) - 15,261,999
4. Villar, Manuel Jr (GO) - 15,004,714
5. Pangilinan, Francis (IND) - 14,229,449
6. Aquino, Benigno Simeon III (GO) - 14,052,166
7. Angara, Edgardo (TU) - 12,187,225
8. Cayetano, Alan Peter (GO) - 11,560,083
9. Arroyo, Joker (TU) - 11,381,206
10. Honasan, Gregorio (IND) - 11,343,606

Two other spots are left vacant by the Comelec as they have proclaimed a failure of elections in Maguindanao, a southern region in the Philippines, and therefore will hold a special elections. There are still about a million more votes left untabulated that will ultimately decide the fate of the three hopefuls:

1. Trillanes, Antonio IV (GO) - 10,977,680
2. Pimentel, Aquilino III (GO) - 10,656,050
3. Zubiri, Juan Miguel (TU) - 10,542,036

Recto might even have a chance for a spot in the "Magic 12," as he closely trails Zubiri with 10,272,111. But that's wishful thinking.

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A lot happened ever since my last post. The ongoing canvassing of election returns for the senatorial race has proven to be interesting, if not intriguing.

1. Legarda, Loren (GO)
2. Escudero, Francis Joseph (GO)
3. Lacson, Panfilo (GO)
4. Villar, Manuel Jr (GO)
5. Pangilinan, Francis (IND)
6. Aquino, Benigno Simeon III (GO)
7. Angara, Edgardo (TU)
8. Cayetano, Alan Peter (GO)
9. Honasan, Gregorio (IND)
10. Arroyo, Joker (TU)
11. Trillanes, Antonio IV (GO)
12. Pimentel, Aquilino III (GO)

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Last Thursday, me and my co-workers conducted a mock election for the senatoriables and here's what we got:

1. Joker Arroyo
2. Kiko Pangilinan
3. Ralph Recto
4. Chiz Escudero
5. Manny Villar
6. Loren Legarda
7. Migs Zubiri
8. Mike Defensor
9. Noynoy Aquino
10. Ping Lacson
11. Edgardo Angara
12. Tito Sotto
13. Sonia Roco
14. Alan Peter Cayetano

We took this as seriously as we can, although somebody voted for Victor Wood. This is just a mere personal view of the votes we took. A more thorough review can be found here. Did anyone win by a landslide? Well, Joker had 18 votes and Kiko had 16. A vote was not counted as the name was misspelled, as is the case for Kiko Pimintel. We could've considered counting the vote for Pimentel, BUT with the first name of Kiko, which is the first name of Kiko Pangilinan, the vote was ambiguous, hence the disqualification of the vote. Joker's win is not as decisive for we have a very limited number of voters. However, could this reflect the true voice of the voting public? Not really. The demographics of the group doesn't differ that much between the individual members. If we had a very varied demographic survey, the results would've been very much different than what we had. I personally will not vote for Sonia Roco and Alan Cayetano. One is an old lady banking on the sympathy vote by using her dead husband's name, and the other is a very noisy Fil-Am who likes to make, well, noise. I can do without the noise. And I don't give my sympathy that easy. And if I do, only to a select few (i.e. friends). Well, that is, if I vote at all. The thing with elections is that a lot of politicians are spewing a lot of crap left and right. And they've been spewing the same crap without ever thinking about how to clean them up. They're all saying that corruption is one thing they're going to deal with when they get elected. And the Philippines is ranked number one in terms of corruption. And a lot of incumbents are saying the same thing. For those hopeless hopefuls, what makes them think that they can change a society driven by greed and dishonesty. Answer me this: WHERE THE F*** DO MY TAXES GO?!! I don't mind paying my taxes as long as I don't get stranded by a flash flood due to a sudden downpour. Are you going to make sure that the BIR will, and should be, transparent about the taxes they collect?! Anyway, are they sure that they won't be seduced by the "dark side?" And for those who are seeking another term, why are you promising to eradicate graft & corruption on your next term? It only makes me wonder what you were doing during your current term: fending off the temptations of joining the "dark side," or trying to convince yourself that what you're doing is not wrong. We all know what the Philippine Government needs. A CONSCIENCE. The only problem is no one, and I mean NO ONE, has enough courage to start having one. And please, don't even think about trying to get me started with the local officials. Enough bytes have been wasted on these effin' pansies.