Those Magnificent Men & Their Lying Machines
Tue, 02/09/2010 - 09:36 | 
rba
[Minor edit: added lipstick on flying pig image. CM1]
We can no longer afford to pay more for - and get less from - our government. The answer for every problem cannot always be another program or more money. . . We must reward the people and ideas that work and get rid of those that don't.
Bill Clinton and Al Gore, National Performance Review, 1993
Andrew McIntosh/sacbee: Lawmakers lash out at EDD (9 Feb):
The latest overruns come on top of a five-year delay and $80 million more in cost increases on other computer modernization projects at EDD, according to a report produced for the Assembly Insurance Committee.
Change we can count on.
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Submitted by rba on Tue, 02/09/2010 - 10:39.Image © MS/Old Computers.com
They haven't changed one bit since the early contract awards for major projects in the 80's. This is not just simple negligence, but a compound clusterf*ck of billion-dollar proportions, nearly all caused by outsized egos and undersized brains.
Hubris doesn't come close.
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Submitted by Connecticut Man1 on Tue, 02/09/2010 - 10:41.But I added an image. Sometimes it is hard to tell if your snark is coming or going, if you know what I mean?
No problem
Submitted by rba on Tue, 02/09/2010 - 11:27.'Specially when the image fits. :-)