Bhutan bans laptops in government

Monday, June 30th, 2008

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The Bhutanese assembly has banned laptops in the house in order to prevent lawmakers from becoming distracted while, well, making laws. With democracy, it seems, comes the terrible lure of FreeCell which, as we all know, is what got us into our whole economic mess in the first place. If the SEC paid as much attention to due diligence as they did to to Bejeweled we wouldn’t be in a recession.

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