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Bar Coding The World Away
778790 writes "The Bar Code, long used for inventory classification and sometimes feared as a tool of social engineering, has been regulated in the name of globalization, and the globe has defeated the United States. Bar Codes in America will now have more digits, to match the global bar code standard: the European Article Numbering Code."
...to include the "evil bit"?
Now I have to go update the tattoo on the back of my neck...
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
And next: the metric system. Eat this, oversea refugees... ;-)
Is this an April fool dupe or something? ;-)
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I for one welcome our new euro-barcode overlords
The US codes have 12 digits; the EU codes, to account for 12 countries and about 25% greater population, have 13. Now the unified system has 13, with 225% the population, globalism, and 30 years of using up codes. Seems like barcode system upgrades are a perpetual growth industry.
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make install -not war
IO Interactive and Eidos have announced to issue an extra patch for all the Hitman series, updating your kick-ass mean mofo playercharacter, with these new barcodes.
As far as I know, the U.S. military uses metric exclusively. Also, they use the 24 hour format, not that idiotic AM/PM stuff. So, with the military dictatorship coming in a few months, your wish might come true. ;-)
Did you know you can fertilize your lawn with used motor oil?
Next up, metres and kilogrammes (you can spell them American if you really want).
What do you mean yards and miles?
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
Nuts. Satire lost to a typo.
"Next you'll be telling me that you don't use good old metre's and kilo's."
You simply must tell us which church this was. That way all of us slashdotting bar code fans can join and mess-up their attendance statistics, while simultaneously making them appear to be the fastest growing religion in the world.
Mathematics is not a crime.
the US uses metric, Litres for soda, and kilo's for weed
Snowden and Manning are heroes.
We all know that "global" means "European"; I'm fine with that. And the "international community" means the EU. No problem. Now that Europeans have repented of their colonialist/paternalis past, they're once again qualified to decide what's best for the rest of the world.
What's difficult is keeping track of which "international" things are evil and which are good.
"Multinational" is bad, right? Because it's got something to do with corporations, which are bad. Unless they're European. A "multinational" corporation is an American corporation which operates in more than one country, and it's bad, even if it practices "internationalization", in spite of the fact that "internationalization" is good (right?). But what about "multinational ism "? Is that one good or bad? I can't tell.
International standards are good, of course, provided that they're European, because then they're "multilateral" (which is good, I think, because "multilateral" means "involving any set of one or more nations which includes France"). If standards are not European, they're "unilateral", which is bad. "Unilateral" means "not including France" (or else "not excluding the US"), and it's very, very bad.
"Globalism" is good, because it includes France. "Globalization" is bad because, even though it includes France (except for Jose Bove), it doesn't exclude the US. "Globalism" is good because it excludes the US by definition: Anything which includes US is no longer "global". Instead, it's "hegemonic", which is very, very bad.
Did I miss any?
I've never yet met anybody who'll admit to posting on Slashdot. So who are all these people?!
"Thats because you don't have a tri-band phone"
True. They're too expensive to be loosable at the moment.
"you should know already you need a tri-band phone if you are going to travel anywhere important in the world."
I do. I should get one at some point. As you say, it would be useful for going to Canada.
Phil
Bah! If you're going to arbitrarily bash Bush, at least do it well!
If Bush gets re-elected then fire and brimstone will rain from the sky! Thus rendering all small businesses destroyed.
Mark my words, fire and brimstone.
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"
- Charles Darwin
Makes it a pain in the ass for glider pilots who want to calculate glide ratios!
I don't appreciate the United State conforming to put the mark of the beast on everything. Heathens! I guess they want us all to get sent straight to hell. I'll be living in my bomb shelter until God tells me its okay to come back out again.
Can I still use my Cue-Cat?
Is this good news because the United States lost (and we're all supposed to hate the United States)? Or is it bad news because it aids globalization (which is -- um -- bad for some reason)?
Do I have to boycott barcoded products?
But 640k should be enough for everyone!
The World Wide Web is dying. Soon, we shall have only the Internet.
Ouch!