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keycocker
Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 3598
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Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2013 4:17 pm Post subject: |
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"Go to college and learn to hate rich white folks" LOL
No wind at all on Maui for days. Canadians are getting all the best rides, from the sound of it. |
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mac
Joined: 07 Mar 1999 Posts: 17744 Location: Berkeley, California
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Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2013 4:26 pm Post subject: |
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Season carries on at Berkeley for formula and big slalom. Some of the best days have been during the last week with relatively flat water and high speed tours to Alcatraz. I'm too old to throw anything but my back out. Today looks like a repeat. |
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KGB-NP
Joined: 25 Jul 2001 Posts: 2856
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Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2013 4:40 pm Post subject: |
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Ok, all gather around in a circle, join hands,deep breath in and..." Kumbaya my....,"
There that's better!
Mac,
I've heard that Viagra can help you to loop. Maybe you should increase the dosage.
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pueno
Joined: 03 Mar 2007 Posts: 2807
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Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2013 4:49 pm Post subject: |
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stevenbard wrote: | They could have paid monkeys to write this thing. |
They could have, but they're already employed at Fox News.
Roger gives 'em free bananas.
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feuser
Joined: 29 Oct 2002 Posts: 1508
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Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2013 5:47 pm Post subject: |
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stevenbard wrote: | How is this for substance. $600 million to write 5 million lines of code for the Obama care website. All complete gibberish. They could have paid monkeys to write this thing.
The whole thing is nonsense. $600 million? For what? And we expect them to do a good job with our healthcare? |
I am going to venture a guess and say you're not qualified to comment on that matter and neither are those who's opinion you represent here.
Integrating a system like this with so many existing data points, in compliance with patient/customer data protection laws and across the entire country isn't trivial and is certainly a bigger deal than creating a social networking site, where you can make up your own rules, design you own data structures, etc.
However monkey-ish it seems - it seems to me the site is mostly broken for those who have to use it because their states of residence have not set up exchanges yet.
The project certainly was an easy target for Republican state governments to torpedo by just not playing along. I think, that accomplishment (or failure, from their constituent's perspective) deserves a little more exposure. _________________ florian - ny22
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MalibuGuru
Joined: 11 Nov 1993 Posts: 9293
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Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2013 5:51 pm Post subject: |
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pueno wrote: | stevenbard wrote: | They could have paid monkeys to write this thing. |
They could have, but they're already employed at Fox News.
Roger gives 'em free bananas.
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Ha ha ha, hmm, This system is so broken, they're going to have to spend another $600 million just to get it to work. THEY HAD TESTS THAT FAILED PRIOR TO OPENING IT. NOW THEY WILL PROBABLY DELAY THE MANDATE! WTF? Didn't the R's want to delay it? Today Steny Hoyer said they could solve the problem with MORE MONEY!!! What an idiot. |
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isobars
Joined: 12 Dec 1999 Posts: 20935
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Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2013 6:38 pm Post subject: |
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We were developing a state of the art proof of concept in testing fighter aircraft software modifications. It embedded actual aircraft hardware and software into a computer facility designed from the ground up to make those airplane parts believe they were flying. The purpose was to save lives, planes, hundreds of millions of dollars, and months of sometimes dangerous testing AND obtain far more reliable results. The computers cost merely tens of millions, far cheaper than a fighter plane, so they were funded. But when we requested funds for the simulation and analysis software, the Pentagon, in all seriousness, said, "Write it yourself on your lunch breaks". It took us many weeks to make those idiots realize that were were talking about 50-100 man-years of state-of-the-art algorithms and code.
Apparently nothing has changed. |
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overpwr
Joined: 29 Jul 2013 Posts: 18
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Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2013 6:59 pm Post subject: |
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Funny don't you think? |
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MalibuGuru
Joined: 11 Nov 1993 Posts: 9293
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Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2013 8:01 pm Post subject: |
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The hypocrisy, arrogance, and incompetence is monumental. |
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uwindsurf
Joined: 18 Aug 2012 Posts: 968 Location: Classified
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Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2013 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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stevenbard wrote: | The hypocrisy, arrogance, and incompetence is monumental. |
I agree, and I ain't talkin' 'bout the Dems or Obama. |
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