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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."

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  1. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is pointless...

  2. ECFA COMPLETES TAKEOVER OF GNAA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The ECFA (Euthenasia for Canus Familourous Association) and the GNAA (G** N***** Association of America) are connecting into one ECFA. Stay connected. Both the ECFA (Euthenasia for Canus Familourous Association) and the GNAA share one common goal - A HAPPIER MANKIND! Members of the combined group, which will be called ECFA, will not be required to change their skin color or practice homosexuality as previously required to be members of an EVIL ORGANIZATION. The motto of the combined ECFA will be to protect our oxygen supply, to clean up our streets and sidewalks, and to curb noise pollution. The combined organization will be headed by the current leader of the ECFA and will be headquartered on EFNET. Employees of the GNAA will be able to apply for new jobs at the combined ECFA headquarters. We will be taking all existing GNAA content OFFLINE FOREVER on "ECF-day", when the two organizations will be merged into one. "We are expanding to target a much larger demographic, not just the homosexual and colored population," the CEO of ECFA's parent company was quoted as saying. While the GNAA trollers will continue, their message will be changed. The chatroom, movie, and illicit images will not be a part of the new organization, as it doesn't fit the new demographic.

    About GNAA:
    The GNAA has a vast membership of slashdot trollers who claim to have dark complexion and have a perverted sexual lifestyle. By harnessing the powers of the GNAA, the ECFA will be able to spread its message throughout slashdot much more effectively.

    Are you G**, Are you a N*****, Are you a G** N*****? If you answered "yes" or "no" to any of the above questions, the combined organization is for you!

    About ECFA:
    The ECFA would like you to do one thing - KILL A DOG. By KILLING A DOG, you will ELIMINATE one USELESSLY RESPIRATING animal from this planet. Are you TIRED of having your TAXES increased? Humane Societies cost our country over $100 million annually. By eliminating DOGS, this money can EDUCATE OUR KIDS. OVERPOPULATION of DOGS is RAPANT in this country. Take a stand! Help rid this INFESTATION. KILL A DOG TODAY!!!!

    Have you ever stepped in DOG DOO-DOO

    Are you MAD?

    Do you KILL DOGS?

    Are you a MAD DOG KILLER?

    If you answered "YES" to any of the above questions the ECFA (Euthenasia for Canus Familourous Association) is for you! Why change your sexual lifestyle or change your skin color to join an EVIL ORGANIZATION when you can simply INCREASE OUR SUPPLY OF O2! Did you know that DOGS turn BENEFICIAL O2 into CO2 simply to gain their energy to bark, drool, and howl? They LITERALLY BURN OUR OXYGEN SUPPLY!!! One dog can waste 2 moles of O2 PER HOUR! This country has MANY UNWANTED, ABANDONED DOGS that WE ARE PAYING MONEY TO KEEP ALIVE. We are FEEDING them our food supply while making the homeless STARVE! By using a Dog Killing Gadget, a dog can be turned into beneficial food, helping us all. We let children go hungry yet feed our **UNWANTED** dogs like royalty.

    Save Our Oxygen! One dog can easily use the entire oxygen output of ten full size trees. One dog can output over 20 lbs of droppings daily. One dog can aggrivate the allergies of untold numbers of people with its fast growing hair. Kill a dog today!

    Do you own a dog? Are you tired of its mess? Don't feel like planting ten trees and waiting 10 years for them to reach maturity? Then get it euthanized. Euthanasia is a painless way for a dog to... terminate. However, it can be too expensive to buy these drugs for the LARGE NUMBER of DOGS in the HUMANE SOCIETIES. It is thus proposed that these dogs be turned into food for the homeless.

    We are connected with the GNAA to form one organization, called ECFA!

    WANT TO JOIN THE ECFA? You can either

    1. Re:ECFA COMPLETES TAKEOVER OF GNAA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Give it up, losers. You are the worst trolling group to ever disgrace the pages of Slashdot. You could at least create a login so I can filter out your boring unoriginal crap.

  3. Take Arms!! by PhilippeT · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    the King of england is trying to take the US back under his rule!!!!

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    A psychopath can't tell the difference between right and wrong. A sociopath knows the difference - he just doesn't care.
  4. poop in shoes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FRIST POST YOU titty fearinging cockgobblers.

    lunix si teh BEStaSTES!

  5. Mobile Phones by Phillip2 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    All we need now is get the US using the same phone system as everyone else and we'll be home and dry....

    Phil

  6. someone needs to learn to use PNG by autopr0n · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ugh, who's idea was it to use that JPG for that bar-code American flag graphic. It looks awful, full of compression artifacts (most of which aren't even the right color, look at the gray borders on the red stripes).

    You'd think that the people running a multi-million dollar the NYT would know how to use PNG files! If they were worried about way-backwards compatibility, they could have used a GIF.

    Speaking of image formats... whatever happened to jpeg2000? Anyone know? It seemed to have a lot of promise, then... nothing.

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    autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
  7. Re:It's about time by KD5YPT · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Who cares about spellings? All I need to know are the m and the kg.

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    In US, you can easily buy enough major firearms to wipe out your neighbourhood but a few little fireworks are banned.