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EFF Issues April Fool's Day Newsletter (eff.org)
An anonymous reader writes:
There were some surprises in today's edition of the EFF's "EFFector" newsletter. Noting that it's their sqrt(-1)th issue, they report that the EU will protect the privacy of its data by building a 30-foot wall around the United States. "Only U.S. tech companies that comply with EU privacy restrictions and prohibit U.S. government access to their data will be given fiber optic grappling hooks to transport Europeans' data across the Atlantic, over the wall, and back to their U.S.-based servers."
The newsletter also reports that the bipartisan leaders of the U.S. House and Senate Intelligence Committees "apologized during a press conference this morning for failing to provide rigorous supervision of the intelligence community." And the newsletter also reports that Deadpool won an Oscar after PricewaterhouseCoopers mistakenly handed the presenters an envelope with a list of the most-frequently torrent-ed movie of 2016. But perhaps its most unexpected headline is "Comcast to Assimilate with the Borg."
The Borg said the deal would increase its market share, nationwide reach, and overall reputation for evil -- while Comcast claimed that the deal would boost competition.
The newsletter also reports that the bipartisan leaders of the U.S. House and Senate Intelligence Committees "apologized during a press conference this morning for failing to provide rigorous supervision of the intelligence community." And the newsletter also reports that Deadpool won an Oscar after PricewaterhouseCoopers mistakenly handed the presenters an envelope with a list of the most-frequently torrent-ed movie of 2016. But perhaps its most unexpected headline is "Comcast to Assimilate with the Borg."
The Borg said the deal would increase its market share, nationwide reach, and overall reputation for evil -- while Comcast claimed that the deal would boost competition.
You guys obviously like the tradition and get a kick out of it, so next year go back to the old format and run the best April Fool's jokes in the standard green format. There seems to be plenty of good ones out there.
To me, it doesn't get old. Yeah, you're going to have to have a tough hide because there are a lot of no-lifers here who
1. Have no sense of humor
2. Aren't happy with their lives
3. Feel they are entitled to whine about anything they don't like, even if they got it free and did no work
4. Enjoy vowing to "leave for good" (but of course they don't)
5. Voted for Trump
6. Mod up others who think like they do
How to get around it? Change the mod annotations for the day. 'Insightful' becomes 'Empowered', 'Informative' becomes 'Assertive', etc.