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Feature phones are still the reality in a large swathe of rural India.

You trust Debian, and you trust a large swathe of the open source community.

Does the huge swathe of green in Alaska counterbalance the few red spots in Florida?

The housing market crash was created by a whole swathe of people getting rich while making people miserable.

From the article: "A dark swathe of North Dakota that appears to cover the geography of the oil and gas boom stands out as well.

Some do, but a substantial swathe of America is currently, for one reason or another, opposed to that.

The conclusion was that all of the documents are publicly available and that there was nothing groundbreaking inside them, despite the swathe of impressive sounding govspeak.

And if you create a structure that allows others to iterate faster, you can allow a swathe of people to become massively smarter and learn more, which to me is one of the greatest feelings in the world.

The US's lead over everyone else is economic and technological - leaving a whole swathe of educated immigrants on the table seems to go very firmly against this model.

Borrowing money to own a home is nobodies right, but something you should have to prove you're able to do - as the swathe of sub-prime mortgages that subsequently went underwater only a few years ago shows.

It is of course possible, easy even, to design a language ex novo that has no such legacy baggage, yet none is remotely as compelling as C++ for a wide swathe of tasks, more eloquent testimony to the quality of C++ than any amount of Internet squabbling.

But I highly doubt that Google got its desired outcome from killing Reader - they lost a vast swathe of technical users and lost confidence from even more, and they won't see these people move over to consuming content on Google Plus because they don't give a crap how many dog treats the neighbors dog ate yesterday, they care about xkcd strips or gamasutra article feeds.