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Hungary Uses iPad To Draft New Constitution
An anonymous reader writes "Hungary is drafting its new constitution on, believe it or not, an iPad. Jozsef Szajer, a Hungarian politician and member of the European Parliament, wrote an enthusiastic blog post last week detailing how he's using Apple's tablet device to flesh out Hungary's new constitution, the country's first since 1949. Not only is Szajer using the iPad to churn out new constitutional drafts, but he's also using it to review new draft proposals. Apparently all aspects of the new Hungarian constitution are being vetted via the iPad in one form or another."
This is such a non-story apple plug. Fuck you slashdot, bring real news back.
BeauHD. Worst editor since kdawson.
Try drafting one with a bird feather dipped in ink you made yourself, written on lamb skin, freehand.
Hell, try just copying one that way.
...is the authoritarian tendency of both platforms.
Attitudes make the difference between Space and Time: we want to MAX our temporal, and MIN our spatial extension.
They have mostly been living without one since the overthrow of communism there in '89. I just wonder what took them so long.
Dear Steve Jobs, How do we remove the line, "sent from my Ipad" from our new constitution? No, seriously :(
-Jozsef
Did you miss the memo? Slashdot editors have been replaced by:
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There's an app for that....
So what? Might as well say, modern technology is used to draft constitution for all the relevance this has to anything.
How many important things have been done on a variety of computers? How many more have been done with pen and paper?
Is this the new thing? To be a brand whore every chance you get?
Yeah ... everyone's bored to death over these iCheerleading news stories that are simply variations of X [did something fairly normal] ON AN iPAD!
The only one that'd vaguely raise any interest from me now would be the one that goes:
Hey guys! Look! I just took a dump! ON AN iPAD!
Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. - Ambrose Bierce
can we all now shut up about how tablets are for consumption of media?
How many stories have we seen where artists, writers, musicians, and other creative types are using tablet devices for creation of content?
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
Some people in some countries are actually very interested in the original draft of their constitution, and the medium on which it was documented. Some people rather compare it to shit.
The real news will be on June 30th when Apple wants a 30% cut of Hungary's GDP.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/19/AR2011021902399.html
Apple is claiming ownership of 30% of Hungary, and demanding future payments of 30% of GDP.
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Yeah ... everyone's bored to death over these iCheerleading news stories that are simply variations of X [did something fairly normal] ON AN iPA
Yeah, we're all really sick of it, that's why damn near all of the Apple stories in the last few days only have >300 comments. You can almost hear the crickets chirping.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
"iPad is just a toy."
"It's for consumption, not creation."
"No one is going to buy an iPad when a netbook can do 10x for 1/3 the price."
"Apple controls everything you can do on an iPad."
"All the Android tablets coming out this Summer (2010) will be cheaper and more powerful, no one is going to buy an iPad."
"Who's going to buy a small, underpowered iPad with a capacitive screen when they can buy a full-powered Windows TabletPC and run all their desktop software?"
"Meh, they should have released a touchscreen Mac OS X computer."
You'd think this would be the most shocking news story to hit Slashdot in 2011, it completely contradicts everything the commenters have been saying for just short of 1 year now.
For the rest of us, it would have actually been news had it been an Android tablet.
Don't worry though, geeks are exceptionally good at compartmentalization to avoid having to actually resolve their cognitive dissonance. They are always right, so when reality contradicts them, they simply call reality "stupid" and just keep on pretending they are right, problem solved!