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EU to Ban Macs
johnalex writes "Digit Online News is reporting that 'The European Union has revealed it is to ban the sale and use of Apple Macintosh computers by 2006 - citing the need for unification in a directive unveiled today.' Reasons for the ban include that 'Apple's lack of floppy disk drive is discriminatory to EU residents, and that the Apple logo doesn't hail from the apple-growing regions of Southern France.'"
whats with all tha mac basing lately(yes i know its the 1st)
Imagine bothering to complain about what Slashdot has been doing on April fools for the last... what, 6 years? 7? You know it's coming. You know that this site does not and has never taken itself that seriously.
Hell, I'm off to sign up as a subscriber. This is some of the best stuff Slashdot has put together!
That bit on unrolling the idle loop had me gasping for air!
Well, the alternative is to have a government that realizes its populace doesn't pay attention to it, so it goes ahead and does whatever it wants (which, for as much as it seems like the U.S. govn't does this, even with something like our Terri Schiavo case, fundamentally our age-old system of checks-and-balances prevented the theocrats that seem to have taken over our govn't from imposing their will on Schiavo - i.e., our system still mostly works, despite the heavy-handed and politically-advantaged attempts to flout it).
:-/
You know, like the famous quote "the price of liberty is eternal vigilance"?
Better that than governments which allow relatively high unemployment rates, etc.
We on this side of the pond laugh at Europeans for having governments which do things like regulate the curvature of cucumbers. (then again, we have some local/municipal laws that are almost as goofy, e.g. one in Florida which says one may not take a shower naked)
Still, in a way, I agree with you; there's too much politics on Slashdot and in most of the rest of the country too. I often wonder how much time we waste on politics that could've been spent doing something else more productive (or fun)...
Is Capitalism Good for the Poor?
The real problem is that the slashdot editors have absolutely no sense or ability to coordinate articles. So what happens on a day like to today is that every slashdot editor and his mother, and possibly his aunt Maggy in the trailer park in NC as well, thinks he'll post a couple of April 1st joke articles for a lark.
The result is the utter chaos and even a good round of the usual duping that make slashdot so unique.
No, I don't actually. I also don't think that it being April 1st is a legitimate reason for the