The General Agreement on the Trade in Services. This treaty of the World Trade Organisation entered effect in 1995 as a result of the Uruguay round of negotiations. It was created to extend multilateral trading systems to cover services as well as goods.
1: Hey guys! Don't discriminate against my providing services in your country!
2: Aha! Eat tariffs! My domestic service industry has an unfair advantage now!
1: GATS will protect me!
2: Oh god the GATS why me
A)
The Crud that collects under the keys in a keyboard. Usually more severe in the keyboards of programmers and webmasters as they tend to spend a lot of time at the the computer and thus eat at their desk. Mainly affecting IBM Model M (clicly) style boards.
B)
Can also be used to gross out Non-Techie people
A)
Bill: want to go to the club?
Bob: No, I've got to clean out my board chow, keys are starting to stick.
B)
Bill: Want to go out to get a bite?
Bob: No, i am just going to have some of my board chow/
Bill: Whats' that?
Bob: The food scraps that collect in my keyboard; Want some?
Bill: *GAG* *HURL* *GAG*