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[email protected] (Chase, John) writes: > From CONgress' viewpoint: "It's public money. It doesn't belong to > anybody, so we *have to* spend it." > > My viewpoint: CONgress *is* organized crime. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#33 U.S. house decommissions its last mainframe, saves $730,000 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#38 U.S. house decommissions its last mainframe, saves $730,000 slightly related ... recent post http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#25 Opinions on the 'Unix Haters' Handbook' referencing article "The Success of Failure": http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0407/040407mm.htm where a culture has grown up with the large system integrators and beltway bandits that they make more money off the failures than they do off of successes (i.e. failed products result in another round of appropriations for additional attempts, making more profit off the failed projects than made off any succesful). in the past there have been periodic references to statistics that the institution with the highest percentage of convicted felons was congress -- 40+yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
