Oh yeah...

In our post from yesterday we implied that someone was taking our language and spinning it in an abusive way, but regrettably, we neglected to mention what it was that got our dander up as we assumed you must know.  At the GNU Public Dictatorship we are nothing if not sorry that you didn't know what we were talking about.  For those who still don't know what we were referring to or who claim you do but hope we will make it explicit so you can pretend you knew all along, we are talking about this cost-saving scheme in rural China.  Rather than characterizing it as what it is, which is discrimination based on geography and income levels, they called it "BYOD" (Bring Your Own Desk).  While it is marketed as a cost-saving technique to encourage initiative among students and attempts to borrow from our (now defunct) BYOO (Bring Your Own Office) experiment, it is clearly nothing more than corruption and improper routing of educational resources.  Perhaps they did not read the post in which we concluded that BYOO was not worth pursuing, or perhaps the translation they read was incorrect, but we think it more likely that they chose to label it "BYOD" to try to put a good face on what is a contemptible practice.  The GPD is investigating the situation and trying to figure out whether we can get desks for these underprivileged students or whether they will have to wait for us to expand our influence further in China.  Incidentally, China recently upgraded the GPD from "Undesirable" to "Uncertain" so we are hoping for huge growth.  China has a roaring brad industry, which is probably why they despise us, but in recent years their profit margin on brads has decreased, so they are much more amenable to the idea that they may stop producing them altogether.  We'll see.