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U.S. to Digitize All Tangible Gov't. Publications

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the as-well-they-ought dept.

CETS writes "The U.S. Government Printing Office is working with the library community on a national digitization plan, with the goal of digitizing a complete legacy collection of tangible U.S. Government publications. The objective is to ensure that the digital collection is available, in the public domain, for no-fee permanent public access through the FDLP. See specific article for more detail."

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  1. Great Expectations by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
    "...tangible U.S. Government publications"

    When can we expect to see the intangible publications?

  2. If they succeed in putting all gov pubs online... by PornMaster · · Score: 2, Funny

    Will the post office bother continuing to service Pueblo, Colorado?

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    500GB of disk, 5TB of transfer, $5.95/mo
  3. Re:library of congress by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Look that joke only works if you genuinely have something brilliant. And generally that means, no don't do it. I know *you* think it's brilliant with a thought process something along the lines of:

    1. didn't get first post, but have to make comment
    2. how about dragging out a tired old cliche
    3. can't think of a good soviet russia one, and I've already cut and pasted from bash.org twice today... wait.... I know which one to do!!!!11
    4. ????
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    Then you are all like saved by the GNAA and they fix you up in this pimp ass black dude gimp suit. And you go to them: "where is my post? .... is it... ok?... is it, alright?"

    then you refresh your firefox tab, and see your post is at -1

    and you are like:

    Noooooooo!