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		<title>Mkille at 22:13, 24 September 2013</title>
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&#039;diff-marker&#039;&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&#039;diff-marker&#039;&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Potterybarning is a term derived from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pottery_Barn_rule The Pottery Barn Rule] in American political jargon (&amp;quot;You break it, you bought it).  It is a social outcome where a soft transference of ownership/responsibility of a particular task from one individual occurs following a question,  criticism, or offer of assistance by another. It occurs because the person being questioned views the questioning as a soft block of an idea, an attack on their competence, or (less evily) an unspoken offer to take over responsibility.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&#039;diff-marker&#039;&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Potterybarning is a term derived from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pottery_Barn_rule The Pottery Barn Rule] in American political jargon (&amp;quot;You break it, you bought it).  It is a social outcome where a soft transference of ownership/responsibility of a particular task from one individual occurs following a question,  criticism, or offer of assistance by another. It occurs because the person being questioned views the questioning as a soft block of an idea, an attack on their competence, or (less evily) an unspoken offer to take over responsibility.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<author><name>Mkille</name></author>
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		<title>Kathey at 01:26, 17 June 2009</title>
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		<updated>2009-06-17T01:26:07Z</updated>

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		<title>Luiz at 20:28, 7 November 2008</title>
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		<updated>2008-11-07T20:28:11Z</updated>

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		<title>Luiz at 17:40, 29 October 2008</title>
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		<updated>2008-10-29T17:40:30Z</updated>

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		<author><name>Luiz</name></author>
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		<title>Luiz at 22:22, 25 October 2008</title>
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		<updated>2008-10-25T22:22:29Z</updated>

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				&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l1&quot; &gt;Line 1:&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&#039;diff-marker&#039;&gt;−&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Potterybarning is a term derived from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pottery_Barn_rule The Pottery Barn Rule] in American political jargon (&amp;quot;You break it, you bought it).  It is a social outcome where a soft transference of ownership/responsibility of a particular task from one individual occurs following a question or &lt;del class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;criticism &lt;/del&gt;by another. It occurs because the person being questioned views the questioning as a soft block of an idea or as an attack on their competence.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&#039;diff-marker&#039;&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Potterybarning is a term derived from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pottery_Barn_rule The Pottery Barn Rule] in American political jargon (&amp;quot;You break it, you bought it).  It is a social outcome where a soft transference of ownership/responsibility of a particular task from one individual occurs following a question&lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;,  criticism, &lt;/ins&gt;or &lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;offer of assistance &lt;/ins&gt;by another. It occurs because the person being questioned views the questioning as a soft block of an idea or as an attack on their competence.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&#039;diff-marker&#039;&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&#039;diff-marker&#039;&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&#039;diff-marker&#039;&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;;An example:  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&#039;diff-marker&#039;&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;;An example:  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Luiz</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php?title=Potterybarning&amp;diff=31063&amp;oldid=prev</id>
		<title>Matteo: formating</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php?title=Potterybarning&amp;diff=31063&amp;oldid=prev"/>
		<updated>2008-03-15T20:16:12Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;formating&lt;/p&gt;
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				&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;← Older revision&lt;/td&gt;
				&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Revision as of 20:16, 15 March 2008&lt;/td&gt;
				&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l1&quot; &gt;Line 1:&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot;&gt;Line 1:&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&#039;diff-marker&#039;&gt;−&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Potterybarning is a term derived from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pottery_Barn_rule The Pottery Barn Rule] in American political jargon (&amp;quot;You break it, you bought it).  It is a social outcome where a soft transference of ownership/responsibility of a particular task from one individual occurs following a question or criticism by another. It occurs because the person being questioned views the questioning as a soft block of an idea or as an attack on their competence. An example: Person A &amp;quot;We should get a truck!&amp;quot; Person B &amp;quot;Well, how much will that cost?&amp;quot; Person A &amp;quot;Look, we&amp;#039;ve wanted this for a long time.  Do you want to find that out and let us know?&amp;quot;  Person B &amp;quot;(to self) I thought I was asking a question, not taking on a commitment!&amp;quot; Person A (after long stunned pause by B) &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m trying to empower you!&amp;quot;  This term (as applied to Free Geek) was coined by Luiz.  This page is part of his coping with this [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobayashi_Maru Kobayahsi Maru].&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&#039;diff-marker&#039;&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Potterybarning is a term derived from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pottery_Barn_rule The Pottery Barn Rule] in American political jargon (&amp;quot;You break it, you bought it).  It is a social outcome where a soft transference of ownership/responsibility of a particular task from one individual occurs following a question or criticism by another. It occurs because the person being questioned views the questioning as a soft block of an idea or as an attack on their competence.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&#039;diff-marker&#039;&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&#039;diff-marker&#039;&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;;&lt;/ins&gt;An example&lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;: &lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&#039;diff-marker&#039;&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;:Person A &amp;quot;We should get a truck!&amp;quot;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&#039;diff-marker&#039;&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;:&lt;/ins&gt;Person B &amp;quot;Well, how much will that cost?&amp;quot;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&#039;diff-marker&#039;&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;:&lt;/ins&gt;Person A &amp;quot;Look, we&amp;#039;ve wanted this for a long time.  Do you want to find that out and let us know?&amp;quot;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&#039;diff-marker&#039;&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;:&lt;/ins&gt;Person B &amp;quot;(to self) I thought I was asking a question, not taking on a commitment!&amp;quot;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&#039;diff-marker&#039;&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;:&lt;/ins&gt;Person A (after long stunned pause by B) &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m trying to empower you!&amp;quot;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&#039;diff-marker&#039;&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&#039;diff-marker&#039;&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;This term (as applied to Free Geek) was coined by Luiz.  This page is part of his coping with this [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobayashi_Maru Kobayahsi Maru].&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&#039;diff-marker&#039;&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&#039;diff-marker&#039;&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&#039;diff-marker&#039;&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category: Memes]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&#039;diff-marker&#039;&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category: Memes]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Matteo</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php?title=Potterybarning&amp;diff=31060&amp;oldid=prev</id>
		<title>Rfs at 19:31, 15 March 2008</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php?title=Potterybarning&amp;diff=31060&amp;oldid=prev"/>
		<updated>2008-03-15T19:31:38Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table class=&quot;diff diff-contentalign-left diff-editfont-monospace&quot; data-mw=&quot;interface&quot;&gt;
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				&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Revision as of 19:31, 15 March 2008&lt;/td&gt;
				&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l1&quot; &gt;Line 1:&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot;&gt;Line 1:&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&#039;diff-marker&#039;&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Potterybarning is a term derived from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pottery_Barn_rule The Pottery Barn Rule] in American political jargon (&amp;quot;You break it, you bought it).  It is a social outcome where a soft transference of ownership/responsibility of a particular task from one individual occurs following a question or criticism by another. It occurs because the person being questioned views the questioning as a soft block of an idea or as an attack on their competence. An example: Person A &amp;quot;We should get a truck!&amp;quot; Person B &amp;quot;Well, how much will that cost?&amp;quot; Person A &amp;quot;Look, we&amp;#039;ve wanted this for a long time.  Do you want to find that out and let us know?&amp;quot;  Person B &amp;quot;(to self) I thought I was asking a question, not taking on a commitment!&amp;quot; Person A (after long stunned pause by B) &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m trying to empower you!&amp;quot;  This term (as applied to Free Geek) was coined by Luiz.  This page is part of his coping with this [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobayashi_Maru Kobayahsi Maru].&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&#039;diff-marker&#039;&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Potterybarning is a term derived from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pottery_Barn_rule The Pottery Barn Rule] in American political jargon (&amp;quot;You break it, you bought it).  It is a social outcome where a soft transference of ownership/responsibility of a particular task from one individual occurs following a question or criticism by another. It occurs because the person being questioned views the questioning as a soft block of an idea or as an attack on their competence. An example: Person A &amp;quot;We should get a truck!&amp;quot; Person B &amp;quot;Well, how much will that cost?&amp;quot; Person A &amp;quot;Look, we&amp;#039;ve wanted this for a long time.  Do you want to find that out and let us know?&amp;quot;  Person B &amp;quot;(to self) I thought I was asking a question, not taking on a commitment!&amp;quot; Person A (after long stunned pause by B) &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m trying to empower you!&amp;quot;  This term (as applied to Free Geek) was coined by Luiz.  This page is part of his coping with this [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobayashi_Maru Kobayahsi Maru].&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&#039;diff-marker&#039;&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&#039;diff-marker&#039;&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;[[Category: Memes]]&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Rfs</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php?title=Potterybarning&amp;diff=28788&amp;oldid=prev</id>
		<title>Rfs: go back to school and learn to spell!</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php?title=Potterybarning&amp;diff=28788&amp;oldid=prev"/>
		<updated>2007-10-11T22:28:07Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;go back to school and learn to spell!&lt;/p&gt;
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				&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Revision as of 22:28, 11 October 2007&lt;/td&gt;
				&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l1&quot; &gt;Line 1:&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&#039;diff-marker&#039;&gt;−&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Potterybarning is a term derived from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pottery_Barn_rule The Pottery Barn Rule] in American political jargon (&amp;quot;You break it, you bought it).  It is a social outcome where a soft &lt;del class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;transferrence &lt;/del&gt;of ownership/responsibility of a particular task from one individual occurs following a question or &lt;del class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;critisism &lt;/del&gt;by another. It occurs because the person being questioned views the questioning as a soft block of an idea or as an attack on their competence. An example: Person A &amp;quot;We should get a truck!&amp;quot; Person B &amp;quot;Well, how much will that cost?&amp;quot; Person A &amp;quot;Look, we&amp;#039;ve wanted this for a long time.  Do you want to find that out and let us know?&amp;quot;  Person B &amp;quot;(to self) I thought I was asking a question, not taking on a &lt;del class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;committment&lt;/del&gt;!&amp;quot; Person A (after long stunned pause by B) &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m trying to empower you!&amp;quot;  This term (as applied to Free Geek) was coined by Luiz.  This page is part of his coping with this [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobayashi_Maru Kobayahsi Maru].&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&#039;diff-marker&#039;&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Potterybarning is a term derived from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pottery_Barn_rule The Pottery Barn Rule] in American political jargon (&amp;quot;You break it, you bought it).  It is a social outcome where a soft &lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;transference &lt;/ins&gt;of ownership/responsibility of a particular task from one individual occurs following a question or &lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;criticism &lt;/ins&gt;by another. It occurs because the person being questioned views the questioning as a soft block of an idea or as an attack on their competence. An example: Person A &amp;quot;We should get a truck!&amp;quot; Person B &amp;quot;Well, how much will that cost?&amp;quot; Person A &amp;quot;Look, we&amp;#039;ve wanted this for a long time.  Do you want to find that out and let us know?&amp;quot;  Person B &amp;quot;(to self) I thought I was asking a question, not taking on a &lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;commitment&lt;/ins&gt;!&amp;quot; Person A (after long stunned pause by B) &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m trying to empower you!&amp;quot;  This term (as applied to Free Geek) was coined by Luiz.  This page is part of his coping with this [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobayashi_Maru Kobayahsi Maru].&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<author><name>Rfs</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php?title=Potterybarning&amp;diff=28783&amp;oldid=prev</id>
		<title>Luiz at 20:20, 11 October 2007</title>
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		<updated>2007-10-11T20:20:45Z</updated>

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				&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l1&quot; &gt;Line 1:&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&#039;diff-marker&#039;&gt;−&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Potterybarning is a term derived from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pottery_Barn_rule The Pottery Barn Rule] in American political jargon (&amp;quot;You break it, you bought it).  It is a social outcome where a soft transferrence of ownership/responsibility of a particular task from one individual occurs following a question or critisism by another. It occurs because the person being questioned views the questioning as a soft block of an idea or as an attack on their competence. &lt;del class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt; Instances of emotional vestment by the original owner result in resentment or ad hominen attacks from the person whose idea is questioned or criticized.  &lt;/del&gt;An example: Person A &amp;quot;We should get a truck!&amp;quot; Person B &amp;quot;Well, how much will that cost?&amp;quot; Person A &amp;quot;Look, we&amp;#039;ve wanted this for a long time.  Do you want to find that out and let us know?&amp;quot;  Person B &amp;quot;(to self) I thought I was asking a question, not taking on a committment!&amp;quot; Person A (after long stunned pause by B) &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m trying to empower you!&amp;quot;  This term (as applied to Free Geek) was coined by Luiz.  This page is part of his coping with this [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobayashi_Maru Kobayahsi Maru].&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&#039;diff-marker&#039;&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Potterybarning is a term derived from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pottery_Barn_rule The Pottery Barn Rule] in American political jargon (&amp;quot;You break it, you bought it).  It is a social outcome where a soft transferrence of ownership/responsibility of a particular task from one individual occurs following a question or critisism by another. It occurs because the person being questioned views the questioning as a soft block of an idea or as an attack on their competence. An example: Person A &amp;quot;We should get a truck!&amp;quot; Person B &amp;quot;Well, how much will that cost?&amp;quot; Person A &amp;quot;Look, we&amp;#039;ve wanted this for a long time.  Do you want to find that out and let us know?&amp;quot;  Person B &amp;quot;(to self) I thought I was asking a question, not taking on a committment!&amp;quot; Person A (after long stunned pause by B) &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m trying to empower you!&amp;quot;  This term (as applied to Free Geek) was coined by Luiz.  This page is part of his coping with this [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobayashi_Maru Kobayahsi Maru].&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<author><name>Luiz</name></author>
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	<entry>
		<id>http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php?title=Potterybarning&amp;diff=28782&amp;oldid=prev</id>
		<title>Luiz at 20:19, 11 October 2007</title>
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		<updated>2007-10-11T20:19:37Z</updated>

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				&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l1&quot; &gt;Line 1:&lt;/td&gt;
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