OS/2 Warp Community Announces It's Merging With the Flat Earth Society (os2world.com) 154
"From now on our communities will merge to became one single point of contact for OS/2 users and people investigating the truth about our planet earth," OS2World announced today.
OS2World's news master martiniturbide, also a Slashdot reader, writes: The OS/2 community expects that this action will benefit the platform by getting the funds to finally create an open source clone of OS/2. OS2World asks every OS/2 user to start believing that the earth is flat to get the "big bucks" that will finally turn the operating system into a Windows 10, Ubuntu, MacOS X and Android competitor in the final OS Wars of all ages.
OS2World's news master martiniturbide, also a Slashdot reader, writes: The OS/2 community expects that this action will benefit the platform by getting the funds to finally create an open source clone of OS/2. OS2World asks every OS/2 user to start believing that the earth is flat to get the "big bucks" that will finally turn the operating system into a Windows 10, Ubuntu, MacOS X and Android competitor in the final OS Wars of all ages.
Re:April first is a blight, need to be stopped!! (Score:5, Funny)
Its not fun, its a waste of time and resources.
I bet you don't get invited to many parties.
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He's right though.
In the past, the April's Fool's day was indeed aimed at fools. The "stories" were clearly not true to anyone who had some brains, for example the famous spaghetti tree story.
Now, it's fake news, nothing else.
Re:April first is a blight, need to be stopped!! (Score:5, Funny)
The "stories" were clearly not true to anyone who had some brains, for example the famous spaghetti tree story.
Easy to say now, but in the England of 1957, spaghetti was an exotic foreign food known mostly to soldiers returned from the war in Italy.
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A lot of people believed the spaghetti tree story.
Re: April first is a blight, need to be stopped!! (Score:1)
Wait! What? I planted two of them and have been waiting for them to bear fruit for years!
Next, youâ(TM)ll tell me the Great Pumpkin is President and that the GOP grew a spine!
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" aimed at fools"
incorrect. It as to make people feel foolish. as in a unexpected and nonsensical change to their environment.
It was done BY Fools(it's there day) not to fools.
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It'll never grow; dental floss is a TROPICAL crop.
Re: April first is a blight, need to be stopped!! (Score:1)
Heâ(TM)s just probably old enough to be fucking sick and tired of the stupidity that is April Fools on the internet. When I was in my 20s, April Fools on the net was hilarious. Now that Iâ(TM)m in my 40s, I canâ(TM)t stand it. Not because I donâ(TM)t get invited to parties (I assume orgies and BDSM munches fall under the category of âoepartiesâ?), but because I go to the internet for information and on April 1st, I canâ(TM)t trust 3/4s of the things I read. Also, some comp
brought to you by the Lock Her Up PAC, plz give! (Score:5, Insightful)
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Numerous countries have already banned April fools, the Republic of San Serriffe being the latest. [wikitravel.org]
Its time we did the same.
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The correct response is to stand on the sidelines and see if anybody believes it.
The incorrect response is to stand there and shout "WATCH OUT IT'S AN APRIL FOOL'S TRICK!!!!!" to anybody else who comes near.
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So, what, April starts with April 2, then? That would be weird, and people would just pull pranks on April 2.
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Nope, April Fool's is a nice tradition.
I fired up Kerbal Space Program today and almost fell from my chair laughing ;-)
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Bah. I think it's fun to see what people come up with here in universe B. For years, the actual news has been chock full of stuff easily more ridiculous than this; we have much work to do if we are to develop the levels of satire and parody necessary to stick out in this twilight zone of a reality.
This is far more fun, in any case. If we're going to have a story about followers of something obsolete team up with followers of something remarkably ignorant, this is a nice light-hearted chuckle compared to,
April fools (Score:3, Informative)
Not even slightly believable.
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My question honestly is if Slashdot thinks we're that dumb or whether they just don't have the capacity for anything better.
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I don't think I was able to get past the headline before knowing it had to be a joke. A good one has to string you along for a while.
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It can also just be humorous to think about.
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Hmm... Actually I did a lot of work with OS/2 and think there were some good things there. Insofar as I believe that freedom involves meaningful choice, I see it as more of a sad story than a good basis for failure-based humor.
Not joking, but I think freedom AND progress would have been better served if we had pro-freedom taxation that had encouraged Microsoft to reproduce itself into competing corporations with competing OSes. Windows could be a standard without being a monopoly aggressively marketed as a
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My question, honestly, is are you really that stupid?
It's a joke and a time of years to be humorous. Yeah, clearly this story is fake, but the idea is funny.
Do you stand up at comic shows and scream: "LIAR!" or "WE KNOW IT'S A JOKE!"
Don't find it funny, fine. The rest of us are emotionless, humorless automaton.
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I don't know... if you're crazy enough to still be using an OS that basically stopped being updated for anything but Point Of Sale systems 15 years ago, who knows that other weird ideas you might believe in.
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Argh (Score:3)
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Well, I think that one with OMG ponies was funny.
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In the old days, it was better. A lot has changed since the old days.
MFGA! (Score:2)
We at Slashdot have the best fools, believe me! None are foolier, and none are Aprilier. We have a spring in our step, and it ain't bone spurs, like that lyin' CNN claims. MFGA!
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The problem is that Mueller released his "report" a week too early.
It's already working (Score:5, Funny)
This Slashdot post is more recognition of the OS/2 Warp community than it got in a long while. Now all they need is to merge with the Satanic Temple and the world will be complete.
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Honestly, April Fools aside, I imagine that many people, like myself, have a soft spot for both the Amiga and OS/2, having moved from the former to the latter around the time of Commodore's death.
Why yes, I also enjoy picking on the handicapped. (Score:2, Funny)
I dunno man, this feels kind of like making the downs kid in the back of the class the butt of the joke. Antagonizing is not how you cleanse this shit from the collective consciousness, and it's not even a terribly funny sentiment.
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I think he meant the OS2 Warp users.
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Build A Wall ! (Score:2)
So We Don't Fall Off !
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Great, software where susceptibility to viruses is actually a smug bragging point.
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If it were just about technical superiority, Amiga, Netscape, and Wordperfect also would have won.
Netscape 4 was a monumental piece of crap that had nothing at all to envy to IE4. Sorry, but on that one you got it reversed. IE4 brought the DOM and true dynamic content. Netscape was still on a staticly parsed page that you could do nothing with. Plus it crashed every other hour.
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And OS/2 still couldn't prevent a single rogue application from locking up the entire system.
The Flat OS2/Warp Society ? (Score:3)
The effort of the Flat Earth Society to flat-out flatten the structure of the OS/2 Warp Society has fallen flat.
The OS/2 Warp Society maintains its warped structure and no one can imagine what kind of warped thiinking is required to belive that it can be flattened.
Fail (Score:1)
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Quite, if the headline had been Republican Party Announces It's Merging With the Flat Earth Society I might have been tempted to believe it for a few seconds.
But if the headline had been Donald Trump Announces Membership in the Flat Earth Society it would have been too believable to be funny. A good April fools joke should be both funny and believable. It should definitively not be a sad reminder of the reality we live in.
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Given that Conservatives think there are multiple Mexicos [twitter.com], I'd say not. (Not an AF BTW, this happened yesterday)
Re:Fail (Score:4, Insightful)
Quite, if the headline had been Republican Party Announces It's Merging With the Flat Earth Society I might have been tempted to believe it for a few seconds.
But if the headline had been Donald Trump Announces Membership in the Flat Earth Society it would have been too believable to be funny. A good April fools joke should be both funny and believable. It should definitively not be a sad reminder of the reality we live in.
Actually, if you think about it it's completely implausible. The flat earth society operates on a much higher intellectual plain than both Trump and the Republicans.
Thank you so much for the deep belly laugh! (Score:1)
Here's a better one (Score:2)
IBM open-sources OS400/IBM i
GO FLAT EARTH (Score:3)
Wouldn't It Have Made More Sense... (Score:5, Funny)
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I suspect all you adults out there have the capability to skip over one small story once a year. If you can't, you could consider reading this website instead: https://pbskids.org/ [pbskids.org]
And ask your mom for a juice box; that should make you feel better.
Stick your April fools articles (Score:1, Troll)
Up your stupid assholes.
Stop doing this shit, we're fucking adults.
It was tiring when the internet was young, now?
Stop it, just stop.
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Watch the blood pressure there, grandpa! It's once a year. It's kitsch. It's funny. If you don't like it, it's what, 1 article to skip? :-) :-)
This article is a waste of electricity... (Score:1)
Well this was pretty low effort (Score:2)
But i got a chuckle out of stackoverflow [stackoverflow.com] this morning
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One way to get a flat memory model (Score:2)
Coulda fooled me (Score:3)
Didn't this happen in roughly 1995 already?
#OMGPONIES (Score:1)
At least its not pink.
I hate April 1st (Score:2)
Knew it. (Score:2)
I always knew those OS2 folks were a cult! Now where was I, oh, yes, 2019 is abso-posi-lutely the year of Linux on the desktop! I feel it in my bones!
EComStation is still a thing, guys (Score:2)
I have a small business customer who still runs EComstation on relatively contemporary hardware. They only need it on a couple machines out of the two dozen or so that they have, but since they had some critical OS/2 software in use, it was cheaper and easier for them to update OS/2 than it was to get their software updated. One of the reasons I work with them is that I'm the only guy they could find with some background on OS/2.
It's not absolutely up to date. I don't think it supports USB3, for example, bu
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That's actually sort of relevant to my customer's interests. I'll keep that in mind. Thanks AC!
I got a chuckle out of it. . . (Score:2)
I'm still using...... (Score:1)
This sounded plausible... (Score:1)
...for a moment.
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