This has 8 MB flash.
(FYI, with Busybox 1.20.2, I've not found scripts that make it barf to be common.)

Can't say how much of the funtionality is onboard, but they claim that Quark is a SOC.
There's a note about compilers to the effect that it's 586.

I think part of the point is to provide a design that uses the Quark.

My point in that comparison was "just linux" vs. "full android stack".

If it's NT kernel vs Linux kernel, I can boot Linux in 4 MB--with 3 login shells.
(I'm serious: I linked busybox statically against musl, configured a pure busybox /, set the login shell to ash, and booted with mem=4096. About 2 MB free once boot was over, IIRC. No swap.)
Android, on the other hand, has a display manager and a VM to fit in there. "free" on a Gingerbread phone just after boot claims ~ 200M used. That probably includes a bit of bloat, but I don't imagine it booting in much under 128 MB.

So when the servers for the exchange are this far from working on October 4, you think we should go ahead and fine anyone who hasn't gotten an approved insurance policy by Jan. 1?

If you're speaking of Bowman v. Monsanto, that is incorrect.
Bowman was about a second crop.
In case of a legitimate sale, the purchaser has the right to use the product sold for the purpose indicated: growing a crop for market sale. Any licenses from the seller which may be necessary to use it for the purpose indicated must be included with the sale.
Bowman had the right to plant the seeds he bought. That was not what he got sued over.

Bowman also had a second generation; what he planted the second time were seeds that, per the license, he had the right to sell--but not to plant.

Monsanto does sell licenses to grow seed for planting, but that comes with a royalty. If you use traits from Monsanto, you end up paying Monsanto for each generation you plant. It works the same way for seed companies.

(Note: I'm not arguing that the current laws are ideal. But they aren't nearly as bad as some people make them out to be.)

That's unlikely. So much so that I suspect sarcasm.

Corn is grown by individual farmers, who purchase seed from several large seed companies and smaller companies that sometimes license traits.
So, big picture:
1) Picture the difficulty in manipulationg over a thousand grain elevators, or in suing half a million farmers at the same time...
I doubt that many companies could pull that off.
2) Patent exhaustion incontestably applies to the first crop when a company sells its own seed.
3) Monsanto's far from a monopoly; even if they managed to shut down all the corn that was grown from saved seeds and from their seeds, that would probably be less than half what has been planted.
4) It's not like them. They have been hard at work improving public image, though not everyone is convinced.
(I say this as someone who interned at Pioneer.)
5) Two words: corporate suicide.
It's not like Pioneer (DuPont), BASF, Bayer, and Dow are irrelevant in corn or soybean production. And two of those are larger companies than Monsanto.
Meanwhile, Monsanto specializes in seeds and chemicals.
I don't see any way that scenario could happen without their seed marketshare going to 0.

But how many of the 200+ above Monsanto have a real impact on food production worldwide? How many more or less decide the steady march towards agricultural monoculture that has been predicted by many to be the first step in a crop collapse?

Let's see who's involved in ag-related industries and above Monsanto:
Food processors:
Archer-Daniels-Midland, ConAgra, Tyson Foods, Smithfield, and a few more. I'm excluding bottling companies like Pepsi and Coca-Cola.
Manufacurers producing ag equipment among other products:
Ford, Caterpillar, Deere & Co.
Chemical/drug companies with major ag lines and a larger total size:
Dow (ag chemicals, seeds), Merck (veterinary), DuPont (ag chemicals, seeds)

Monsanto is in the same vicinity as Waste Management and DISH Network. I named ten companies that are larger.

That's probably the reason, and generally the seed companies provide a bunch of services/resources to help farmers planting their seeds.

(Source: I paid attention during classes-I finished a B.S. in ag last year)

Examples:
agAnytime (apparently Monsanto affiliate)
Pioneer's agronomy site

Try paying cash for rent and textbooks at a university (separate transactions, same institution)...
You may get some odd looks.

Also, my family had a landlord who had us pay rent in cash, but it was because he didn't want to go to the bank (80 year old German farmer, legally blind though he could still plow straight).

If only I hadn't just used up all my mod points!
(I note that "Congress" strictly speaking means both the House of Representatives and the Senate.)

Of course, that is blameworthy only if you agree that the issues the two parties raise are less important than the budget...

I have at times received pay in cash.

I pay for most things in cash. It's fun paying rent with paper...
Just to remind folks about legal tender.

Woosh!