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U.N. Decides to Shut Down Internet Permanently
Ant writes "This story says the United Nations General Assembly voted 165 to 6 with one abstention to shut down the Internet. The reason given was that the rapid and uncontrolled flow of information was destabilizing the governments of many of the member states. Furthermore, the Internet has increasingly become a vehicle for fraud and scams. Finally, the Internet produced the infamous "DOT COM" debacle which had disastrous repercussions for the World economy."
They read Slashdot today, and I must say I support them.
Hehe, yeah, good one. APRIL FO
that means no more stupid April Fool stories.
Last post ever! The internet is dying! Netcraft confirms it! UN is to destroy the intarweb!
You know, an April Fool is actually supposed to fool someone. Nobody could be stupid enough to be fooled by this!
as another addition to the tally of shitty half assed /. April fools.
That'll put a damper on the whole Yahoo/Google merger thing!
Paleotechnologist and connoisseur of pretty shiny things.
I can see it now.. "Hello, tech support? My internet is down"
Where is the GNAA when you need them???
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It's not even April 1st anymore in this part of the world, and it's well past noon everywhere else.
And: It's not funny.
After a while these inane stories get really annoying.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
Really? Was it?
Maybe the next story will be /. announcing that there'll be no more dupes :-D
Are you local? There's nothing for you here!
Last two guys on the internet:
Guy 1: OK, you hang up now.
Guy 2: No, YOU hang up. Then I'll hang up.
Guy 1: No, you...
They can have it when they take it out of my cold dead hands.
Back in the old days, on April Fools day, most people forgot. And pranks were low-profile. You had to be careful to spot it.
In school we had a sysadmin who'd send a prank e-mail to everyone. Same style as the usual informative mail he'd send from time to time. Everytime it was a subtle thing, often a follow-up of another affair or story going on, which made the mail seem more natural. And that prank was alone and enough.
Back in the old days, Slashdot did one or two prank stories in the day. The rest was clean and pure.
Now it seems EVERY SINGLE story is a poor joke! It's clogging up the news stream. Don't post stories which just recount pranks from other news sites! Have one original slashdot prank (Slashcode to be CSS2/XHTML compliant!), and let stay at that!
Misleading titles? Inflammatory blurbs? Keep in mind that Slashdot is a tabloid.
was wrong with This?