Quoth Jim Devine and Gar Lipow, serially: > > BTW, I think that Puerto Rico would do better if it became a fully-owned > > subsidiary of Microsoft and changed its name to Gatesland. ;-0 > > Nah .. Washington State has dibs on becoming a Microsoft subsidiary. > Our proposed name change is to MicroState. As the first formal MS state-subsidiary it should be called Demo, a name to serve both as a satirical comment on its future politics and a prediction of its use vis-`a-vis other Spanish-speaking entities. valis