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British Computer Society Is Officially At Civil War

Posted by kdawson on from the band-of-brothers-with-maces dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A vote of no confidence against the current board of directors has erupted in what is possibly the first nerd war, raging throughout the British Computer Society. More financial- and spreadsheet-related fixations and less computer science have made a few members cross; plus they don't like the new name 'The Chartered Institute of IT.' Here are more specific details on the extraordinary emergency general meeting on July 1, where members will vote to decide the fate of the board of directors."

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  1. Civil war? by gzipped_tar · · Score: 5, Funny

    At first I thought it was about British Computer Society declaring war against the UK government.

    Meh. nothingtoseeheremovealong

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    1. Re:Civil war? by MadKeithV · · Score: 3, Funny

      Perhaps the server served a severe swerve with verve.

  2. Re:I was asked to join this .. by Arancaytar · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... so you have to double-class to manager to join?

    (All this stuff about skill levels sounds funny. :P )

  3. Oh come on by antifoidulus · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's not a real nerd war until someone gets hit in the head with a plastic light saber!

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  4. Re:"First nerd war"? by forkazoo · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is there ever a time when nerds aren't at war?

    There will be. Just as soon as the damned EMACS is burned off the face of this world, we can finally have peace. Until then, the corpses will just keep getting stacked up.

  5. Re:Bad choice of words by SimonInOz · · Score: 4, Funny

    >> Officially at war would mean a deceleration of war.

    Slowing down of war - I like the sound of that.

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  6. Re:The BCS is an irrelevance by Rogerborg · · Score: 3, Funny

    I've always viewed it as a cabal of ancient gummy git-wizards, with a three foot beard and lifetime membership of the Campaign for Real Ale being pre-requisites for membership.

    As far as I can see it, the current Grand High Git-Wizard rescued the BCS from total irrelevance, and is actually in danger of making it an organisation with a purpose. This angers the other git-wizards, who want to get back to the real business of the BCS: finally concluding the debate over whether the PDP-11 was a retrograde step from the PDP-8.

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