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.'"

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Join the cause!

[antikarma]

In protest of the April Fools insanity, I am replying to all news items with the following... Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.

Re:Join the cause!

[lazybeam]

How does April fools work across timezones?

Posted by Zonk on 09:57 AM -- Saturday April 02 2005

I think it means /. is the fool!

Slashdot

[Omnieiunium]

Anyone else want to /. /.?

56 april fools in one day

[Seft]

I'm glad I'm not a subscriber.


Imagine paying for this...

Re: 56 april fools in one day

[gidds]

Yeah, but isn't the whole point of April Fool's to, like, you know, fool people?

One subtle and clever hoax amongst four or five genuine articles may fool many people, and bring real pleasure to the rest. But five obvious and poorly-done hoaxes out of five isn't even going to fool my cat. (And it's not even a particularly clever cat...)

If you can tell it's a hoax from the title, it's not written very well. The best hoaxes start off completely plausibly, and become more bizarre slowly, so only by the end do you realise you've been fooled.

(But, hey, who reads the whole article, let alone the link, so we'd better fit the whole hoax into 10 words of title, huh?)

Floppy Disk

[PMJ2kx]

'Apple's lack of floppy disk drive is discriminatory to EU residents..." *scratches head* Boy, that's funny, considering most PC's from Dell, Gateway, HP, etc don't come with one, either.

QUICK.. before the day is over

[linuxrunner]

Yup.. gotta post all of those oh so funny funny April 1st stories before the day is over.

An IRC channel would have banned these admins by now.

A bit too late...

[Thijs van As]

It's April 2nd, isn't it?

I think you can stop now.....

[TheWart]

Come on, fake stories every two minutes? Isn't that a bit overkill?

5:57
5:55
5:53
5:51
5:47
5:44, etc, etc...with 5 of the 7 by taco...can you say dead horse?

On behalf of the whole /. readership...

[One Childish N00b]

Stop it.

Are you missing the point?

[nate nice]

I see so many people complaining about the April Fools stories being posted as they comment about how this isn't funny anymore, is stupid, etc. The point is, I think, Slashdot is collecting stories from around the Net and posting them...like they always do. It just so happens many Websites enjoy posting ludicrous stories today for obvious reasons. Slashdot is just here to collect them. Nothing is different than a typical day mainly. It's a theme, get it? So, complain about it if you will but you don't deserve anything and you can always read things elsewhere. I for one enjoy all the crazy stories they have gathered around the Net. It's like getting a free edition of the Onion between issues. Lighten up, it's fun. And RTFA at least today because many of them are rather amusing and entertaining. No one's trying to trick you...think of this as one big day of hanging around bizzaro world.

ENOUGH! ALREADY!

[furry_wookie]

From the Wikipedia "April Fool's Day" entry:
Traditionally, pranks are supposed to end by noon. Those done afterwards are supposed to bring bad luck to the perpetrator.


Curse the /. editors!..for not having enough sense to stop the 4/1 torture at the appointed hour.

Maybe if Apple had released Tiger as:

[TheGuano]

OS X N...

Re:Aargh..

[cant_get_a_good_nick]

Netcrraft Confirms, quality April Fools Stories are dying...

Enough Already

[sabat]

You guys are idiots.

Re:free Mac mini

[Anonymous Coward]

Dear ...

[x] Clueless Newbie
[ ] Lamer
[ ] AOLer
[ ] "Me too"-er
[ ] Pervert
[ ] Geek
[x] Spammer
[ ] Nerd
[ ] Elvis
[ ] Fed
[ ] Freak
[ ] Scientologist
[x] Scammer
[x] Dumbass
[ ] Pre-teen

You Are Being Flamed Because:

[ ] You posted MODs in pieces LESS than 5000 lines
[ ] You posted something asking for warez sites
[ ] You quoted an ENTIRE post in your reply
[ ] You continued a long, stupid thread
[ ] You failed to use the search feature and/or browse through different sections of this forum
[ ] You started an off-topic thread
[ ] You posted a "YOU ALL SUCK" message
[ ] You haven't learned the difference between E-mail and newsgroups
[ ] You posted a blatently obvious troll
[ ] You posted pretending to be someone famous (See "troll" above)
[ ] You replied to the above message type believing it was actually someone famous
[ ] You said "me too" to something
[x] You suck
[ ] Your sig/alias/server sucks
[ ] You posted a lame-sex ad
[x] You posted a stupid pyramid money making scheme and claimed it was legal
[ ] I think you might be a fed
[ ] You posted in ElItE CaPiTaLs because you think that makes you cool
[ ] You didn't do anything specific, but appear to be so generally worthless that you are being flamed anyway

To Repent, You Must:

[x] Stop masturbating for a week
[ ] Give up your AOL account
[x] Bust up your modem with a hammer and eat it
[ ] Tell your Mommy you've been a bad boy
[x] Jump into a bathtub while holding your monitor
[ ] Actually post something relevant
[ ] Read the FAQ
[ ] Be the guest of honor in alt.flame for a month

In Closing, I'd Like to Say:

[ ] Blow me
[ ] Get a life
[ ] Never post again
[ ] Age 10 more years before you post again
[ ] I pity your dog
[ ] Go to hell
[ ] Yer momma's so fat/stupid/ugly that etc...
[ ] Take your s**t somewhere else
[ ] Get f**ked, you pathetic loser
[ ] Learn to post or f**k off
[x] All of the above

No equal protection as a news organization

[macslut]

Today, April 1, I came to realize why the courts decided that "bloggers" don't deserve the same protection under the law as real news organizations. I also came to realize why I appreciate The Onion and The Daily Show so much.

If You Don't Like It, Stop Replying

[JenovaSynthesis]

It is amazing how much people are bitching about how the April Fools joke entries are a waste of time/space/money/etc. But what is funny/ironic is that these people are wasting even more time to post and bitch about it.

Just get over it already.

idiots

[harlows_monkeys]

April fools jokes work best when you take the 500 ideas you have, and pick the one or two that are good, and do a great job on them. Posting the other 498 is just boring, tedious, and unfunny.

Furthermore, it defeats the whole fucking point of April Fools: fooling people.

If Slashdot snuck in one or two jokes among the usual postings, people might be fooled. Instead, people simply know that pretty much everything on Slashdot is worthless today, and ignore it. No one gets fooled.

You're right.... and wrong

[theolein]

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.

Getting to be a whole lot like PBS Pledge Week

[Latent Heat]

One April Fools stuck in among the regular stories would be funny, but I am looking for the one regular story stuck in among the April Fools.

It is a lot like a PBS station during Pledge Week. All of your regular programs are cancelled or moved around, there is maybe one program worth watching among the nonstop Daniel O'Donnell concerts, and that one program is chopped all to heck with those stupid people shilling for donations who don't know how to act in front of a camera.