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Edited Date/Time 11/11/2013 10:57am
If there ever was a shining example of how wasteful, inept and ridiculous government is at running anything, this Obamacare thing is.

http://www.ijreview.com/2013/11/93240-leno-white-house-techs-cant-log-w…
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11/10/2013 6:31am Edited Date/Time 11/10/2013 6:53am
Eh, nevermind.
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Jtom, that also is another example. Arent you always telling those other dudes to quit the R-vs-L game of tit-for-tat ? WTF doesn the Iraq war have to do with the Fed pissing away hundreds of millions on a simple website and with all the professional resouces available to them those morons cant get it right. An unlimited checkbook to spend and the site still is a joke.

For the love of God can anyone make a statement about how the CURRENT government staff, the ones affecting our lives NOW, is/are doing without more stinking GW Bush nonsense?

When you start pulling OF replies, this forum here has indeed tanked.
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Can you imagine a start up, just pulled in a bunch of investor money to develop and launch this wonderful website/service and then launched this debacle website. The whole lot would be fired, and possibly even charges filed for privacy violations.
Somehow it's Bush's fault. Just being preemptive here.
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11/10/2013 8:01am
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Jtom, that also is another example. Arent you always telling those other dudes to quit the R-vs-L game of tit-for-tat ? WTF doesn the Iraq war...
Jtom, that also is another example. Arent you always telling those other dudes to quit the R-vs-L game of tit-for-tat ? WTF doesn the Iraq war have to do with the Fed pissing away hundreds of millions on a simple website and with all the professional resouces available to them those morons cant get it right. An unlimited checkbook to spend and the site still is a joke.

For the love of God can anyone make a statement about how the CURRENT government staff, the ones affecting our lives NOW, is/are doing without more stinking GW Bush nonsense?

When you start pulling OF replies, this forum here has indeed tanked.
I am, and you're right I do go after them on an R vs. L rebuttal. But, even today, we're still blowing billions and TRILLIONS overseas through our government. There are far worse things than the ACA. What about the Monsanto Act? What the fuck is that? Or, the PAC trade agreement? All I heard was crickets. To me, those are far, far more damaging to America than the ACA website.

If I'm stuck with most Americans believing that the federal government solves problems, I can choose the lesser of two evils, right? So, if that's the path I have to take (after all, I'm offered no other alternative), I'd rather we lose our money internally on ourselves.

I wonder how many billions right now this administration is blowing overseas? Why aren't we bitching about that more? How 'bout that drug war, that Obama yet again sold out to? Hundreds of millions every year going into Mexico alone....to do what? Prop up criminal governments that strike deals with the guys they're supposed to be fighting?

Our attacking the ACA doesn't preclude us from also addressing those other problems. My big issue is that all I hear about is the ACA, and I don't hear shit about the rest of it. Americans get their panties in a bunch over nothing. That's an issue.

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11/10/2013 8:07am
So by your logic, there is no point in local Police authorities to investigate or pursue rape or burglary crimes. I mean, why even discuss such small problems when there are murderers out there and other terrible lethal offenses taking place.

Jtom Logic 101: Get over your trifles already.
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11/10/2013 8:19am Edited Date/Time 11/10/2013 8:19am
LOL...I said specifically in that post it doesn't preclude us from addressing those smaller issues.

Just a friendly link.
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11/10/2013 9:36am
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LOL...I said specifically in that post it doesn't preclude us from addressing those smaller issues.

Just a friendly link.
No, that is not what you did, you wrote out a huge rant about how the Iraq was was such a clusterfuck and money pit, (no one disagrees with that, but aint got shit to do with the ACA debacle) that talking about the ACA website was stupid and a waste of effort. Then you took it down. No comprehension issues here, you just alter the thread here with a deletion and try to back-peddle what you said.
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11/10/2013 9:42am
ToolMaker wrote:
Can you imagine a start up, just pulled in a bunch of investor money to develop and launch this wonderful website/service and then launched this debacle...
Can you imagine a start up, just pulled in a bunch of investor money to develop and launch this wonderful website/service and then launched this debacle website. The whole lot would be fired, and possibly even charges filed for privacy violations.
Somehow it's Bush's fault. Just being preemptive here.
My wife is a programmer/developer for Exxon/Mobil and writes programs that deal with bigtime billions of dollars, have people from all over the world using the application, and her conference calls when developing these things are done on a global basis. If she screws up code in a rounding error it could equal hundreds of thousands of dollar mistakes, not kidding. And she writes, puts out to beta then rolls out her stuff in no time flat. There is absolutely no excuse for what is going on given they have had YEARS and a literal blank checkbook to fund its development. Real coders are cracking up at how this thing has shit itself so badly.
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You have to look from a different angle ........it was SUPPOSED to be a clusterfuck......... nobody in the 1% of the 1% benefits 1 iota from introducing something that actually works and benefits the general populus .

The amount of Government funded IT disasters isnt a short one, but when some keeps writing a bigger cheque to keep paying for your screw ups , why get it right first time.

Its pretty simple , the people at the top dont get it , because their existence relies on them not getting it , and any politician that truly understands the problem , is instantly excluded by the MSM , or made out to be a kook , and if that fails ... well we all know what happens then... i do wonder where we would be if things had been different 50 years ago
11/10/2013 1:11pm
They had three years and a basically unlimited budget. Is this Bush's fault too?
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11/10/2013 4:22pm Edited Date/Time 11/10/2013 4:22pm
Racer92 wrote:
If there ever was a shining example of how wasteful, inept and ridiculous government is at running anything, this Obamacare thing is.

http://www.ijreview.com/2013/11/93240-leno-white-house-techs-cant-log-w…
It's not the administrations first problem with computers. This is from a NY times article on Cash for Clunkers

The answer appears to be a bad mix of paperwork and balky computers.

Around the country, dealers had put off the laborious task of applying for the rebates of $3,500 or $4,500, which requires entering the 17-character identification numbers of each vehicle to be scrapped, scanning images of proof of insurance and filling out other paperwork.

The computer system was overloaded, according to the dealers. They said they would finish one page in the application, hit enter and nothing would happen. Eventually a message would appear notifying the dealer that the page had “timed out.”

Tom Frew, the business manager at Galpin Motors in Los Angeles, said that he needed 35 tries to register just one of the company’s 11 dealerships on the day that the program opened because of problems with the government Web site. On Friday, he spent an hour processing just one rebate application, he said.
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11/10/2013 4:58pm
Even Bill Maher knows the POS would not have passed if Obama and the Democrats would have told the truth.

From an interview with Piers Morgan:

BILL MAHER: It sure is hard if you're a politician, not that I'm really that sympathetic to them, to try to get information into people's heads. I don't think Obama should have lied to people.

PIERS MORGAN, HOST: It was a lie, wasn’t it?

MAHER: Well, hold on. First of all, insurance companies are always dropping people from their plans. This goes on, this went on before ObamaCare went on, after ObamaCare. We’re losing a lot of perspective here. But, yeah, he probably should have not been so blatant about saying you iron clad guarantee.

On the other hand, since he got no Republican votes and no Republican help, and since three years after it’s a law they’re still fighting it, can you imagine what it would be like if he said, “Yeah, some people your rates are going to up.” I mean, he, the thing passed by this much. If they said that, they might have lost the whole thing. And politicians are always making compromises like that.




Maher is giving him a pass for lying but at least he admits he lied and admits that the ACA would probably not have passed had he even told a partial truth. Had the whole truth been told it would not have even been close.

That's fraud in my book. A fraud that affects every single person in the country.
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11/10/2013 5:50pm Edited Date/Time 11/10/2013 5:52pm
Of course those projects are being continuously changed and added on to. By the hour, daily. She deals with that every single day dude. All day long, for years and years. Thats the nature of how it is with coding when you have tons of teams/groups of people all over the world putting in changes, requests, an all manner of input. Its a dynamic situation, not static. You have absolutely no room to comment on how easy or hard it is to write code and roll out this kinda stuff unless you want to cite the major projects you have written and what source code & database you used to do it, just please quit trying to explain away how bad this deal was. The guys who wrote Priceline.com could put a better web interface together for this shit than the clowns they hired. The title of this thread is spot on, the ACA website is a great example of inept, wasteful, inefficient government crap.
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11/10/2013 7:10pm
Mid 80s? Sorry old friend, the batch files you wrote for DOS 2.0 crunching thru that 8088 dont actually qualify as programming. Wink
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I actually preferred Netscape back in the day. They had a good thing goign until Gates shut everyone down. (Netscape, Mozaic, et. al. )
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I remember loading 1/2" reel tape for backup in our DEC running PICK and UniVerse.
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Really ........ which bit of that wouldnt be fraud if you or i had done it then ??
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borg wrote:
Even Bill Maher knows the POS would not have passed if Obama and the Democrats would have told the truth. From an interview with Piers Morgan...
Even Bill Maher knows the POS would not have passed if Obama and the Democrats would have told the truth.

From an interview with Piers Morgan:

BILL MAHER: It sure is hard if you're a politician, not that I'm really that sympathetic to them, to try to get information into people's heads. I don't think Obama should have lied to people.

PIERS MORGAN, HOST: It was a lie, wasn’t it?

MAHER: Well, hold on. First of all, insurance companies are always dropping people from their plans. This goes on, this went on before ObamaCare went on, after ObamaCare. We’re losing a lot of perspective here. But, yeah, he probably should have not been so blatant about saying you iron clad guarantee.

On the other hand, since he got no Republican votes and no Republican help, and since three years after it’s a law they’re still fighting it, can you imagine what it would be like if he said, “Yeah, some people your rates are going to up.” I mean, he, the thing passed by this much. If they said that, they might have lost the whole thing. And politicians are always making compromises like that.




Maher is giving him a pass for lying but at least he admits he lied and admits that the ACA would probably not have passed had he even told a partial truth. Had the whole truth been told it would not have even been close.

That's fraud in my book. A fraud that affects every single person in the country.
This is exactly what happened...and every American should be pissed!

In my line of work, if I withhold certain pieces of information, or outright lie, just to get a loan approved (believing the end justifies the means...like Obama did here), it's called loan fraud...and I'm up against a $1 million fine and/or up to 30 years in prison.

Obama had to LIE to get this law passed...he had to commit fraud in order to sway public opinion enough to keep the votes to pass it...it would NOT stand on its own. And that is very telling.

Oldfart hates, and has no respect for liars....I wonder if he will be consistent in that and stop supporting Obama.

America got screwed, big time.
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Really ........ which bit of that wouldnt be fraud if you or i had done it then ??
That's the problem:

Bush lied to us and saw no recourse against him.
Obama lied to us and has seen no recourse against him.

Both sides now know they can lie to us about WHATEVER they want and nothing bad will happen. Expect it to only get worse.

If you're not mad about either side lying to you, you're nothing but a party playing hack and shouldn't be allowed to participate in discussions here.
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11/11/2013 8:09am
... yet the deadline could NOT be pushed due to the politics.

Explain your version of the "politics" that wouldn't allow a delay in implementation.



"Liberal policies are so good, they have to be mandatory!"
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philG wrote:
Really ........ which bit of that wouldnt be fraud if you or i had done it then ??
Choppy wrote:
That's the problem: Bush lied to us and saw no recourse against him. Obama lied to us and has seen no recourse against him. Both sides...
That's the problem:

Bush lied to us and saw no recourse against him.
Obama lied to us and has seen no recourse against him.

Both sides now know they can lie to us about WHATEVER they want and nothing bad will happen. Expect it to only get worse.

If you're not mad about either side lying to you, you're nothing but a party playing hack and shouldn't be allowed to participate in discussions here.
I do find it ironic that you can have a president that didnt win , and lied you into war , and president that lies you into another war , and costs loads of you your healthcare, and nothing is done .... but you get your d!ck sucked , just once , and they spend more money investigating that than they did on the 911 commission.
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11/11/2013 8:44am
Saw the resume, very nice. You aint a newb, I will STFU. Those old RS6000s on AIX were good machines. I still have one laying around, still works. Got a Wyse50 dummy that goes with it.

I did hafta giggle at the 'QuatroPro' part. I remember when that was the new cool thing to use.

Anyone who remembers installing thicknet, thinnet, token-ring or were thrilled when the 3C509b combo came out are old timers. Wink
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I do find it ironic that you can have a president that didnt win , and lied you into war , and president that lies you...
I do find it ironic that you can have a president that didnt win , and lied you into war , and president that lies you into another war , and costs loads of you your healthcare, and nothing is done .... but you get your d!ck sucked , just once , and they spend more money investigating that than they did on the 911 commission.
He got impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice. If he had handled it in a different manor he would've been fine.
Not sure why we no longer conduct investigations into presidents lies, although it seems to have started under Bush and continues under Obama.
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philG wrote:
I do find it ironic that you can have a president that didnt win , and lied you into war , and president that lies you...
I do find it ironic that you can have a president that didnt win , and lied you into war , and president that lies you into another war , and costs loads of you your healthcare, and nothing is done .... but you get your d!ck sucked , just once , and they spend more money investigating that than they did on the 911 commission.
Choppy wrote:
He got impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice. If he had handled it in a different manor he would've been fine. Not sure why we...
He got impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice. If he had handled it in a different manor he would've been fine.
Not sure why we no longer conduct investigations into presidents lies, although it seems to have started under Bush and continues under Obama.
the fact that nobody is even asking the question tells you where its at .... im not saying our politicians are any better , but the fact that our elections cant be won by an advertising budget is a decent start.

A system that leaves you to choose from 2 people who are bought and paid for by the same folk isnt a great choice.

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