Bush relaxes on Middle-East

High-powered computers for everyone except Senor Castro...

US President George W. Bush has relaxed laws restricting the sale of high-powered computers to China, India, the Middle-East and Russia. The ban was put in place during the Cold War as the US tried to halt the development of nuclear weaponry. The US now allows technology companies to export computers capable of performing advanced tasks like complex 3D modelling and fluid dynamics to the "Tier 3" countries, which also includes Pakistan and Vietnam. The lifting of the ban permits the export of computers capable performing 195,000 million theoretical operations per second. However, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan and Syria are still considered too naughty to possess powerful computers.