German state parliament bans laptops - Pirate party show up with typewriters

Re:German state parliament bans laptops - Pirate party show ... by astrodust on Wednesday September 26, 2012 @12:46PM (#4576565)

The attitude that got them there was slinging a few billion here for an infrastructure deal, a few billion there for a bail-out. It takes more than a handful of iPads to add up to a billion, you know.

They probably spend more money on chairs in a year than they do on computers.

If an iPad allows them to be more effective, then it's probably a good thing to buy. It's false savings when your thriftiness gets in the way of productivity.

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Re:German state parliament bans laptops - Pirate party show ... by tisme on Wednesday September 26, 2012 @12:48PM (#4576577)

It's not the amounts that matter, it is the care that is spent on deciding whether or not an expense is warranted.

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Re:German state parliament bans laptops - Pirate party show ... by astrodust on Thursday September 27, 2012 @11:01AM (#4580976)

Given there's only so many hours in a day, I'd rather they focused on ways to shave energy costs by 10% than fret over which brand of Made in China pencils would save them a nickel per box.

An iPad would not even make a dent in the expense accounts of most politicians. Their photocopying bill would massively eclipse this, so anything that reduces the amount of paper required could save enormous amounts of money.

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