While this is an interesting way of disobeying and a nice idea in general, I have to admit that it also feels a bit overreacted. The reason why laptops are banned (as outlined in this document: <a href="http://fraktion.piratenpartei-sh.de/2012-09-19-bericht-aus-dem-aeltestenrat/" rel="nofollow">http://fraktion.piratenpartei-sh.de/2012-09-19-bericht-aus-d...</a>) are that people used them during the parliament hours for social networking or games and that the clicking of the keyboard and the fans and harddrives of the laptops created a distracting noise.
Tablets are specifically allowed.<p>I can understand that the noise that a set of laptops generates can be distracting. On the other hand does a tablet not really help if you want to type down thoughts or parts of what's currently being said. So the smart thing to do would be to only allow very silent fanless laptops (my MacBookAir, for example, seems to make no noise at all, except when watching YouTube videos).<p>I sincerely doubt that it makes sense to try to ban the clicking of keyboards. That's like trying to ban the shuffling of paper. Bringing a typewriter which makes really loud typing noises doesn't sound like such a good idea in that context. A foldable bluetooth keyboard + would have been the better idea; that way they wouldn't show disobedience, but instead they'd display that there're other ways in which one can be silent and still use a keyboard in there.
The most interesting bit is in my opinion, that the debt of the region is already really high.<p>But as laptops are now banned from parliament, every member of said parliament shall receive a tablet, because he/she has to be able to keep working with digital files in parliament.<p>Being a citizen, things like this make me sad.
<i>> only mobile computers that run silently without a fan or no mechanical keyboard and hinged screen</i> (from google translate)<p>While `run silently and no mechanical keyboard' has at least some merit, what's the point of mentioning <i>hinged screen</i>?<p>There are some dual-(hinged-)screen tablets <a href="http://blog.laptopmag.com/msis-dual-screen-tablet-video-hands-on-much-more-than-an-ereader" rel="nofollow">http://blog.laptopmag.com/msis-dual-screen-tablet-video-hand...</a>
If they aren't using those laptops (or tablets if they have any) to read the legislation that's being discussed or anything like that, but for any other stuff, then there's really no reason why they should have those laptops there. They need to focus on the new laws being passed, not checking Facebook and Twitter.
another image (of pirate party member angelika beer)
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