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  • Trump stops Y2K work...

    From Arnold Trembley@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jun 17 00:11:52 2017
    Your tax dollars at work:

    https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-06-15/trump-orders-government-to-stop-work-on-y2k-bug-17-years-later

    by Justin Sink
    June 15, 2017, 1:03 PM EDT

    Seventeen years after the Year 2000 bug came and went, the federal
    government will finally stop preparing for it.

    The Trump administration announced Thursday that it would eliminate
    dozens of paperwork requirements for federal agencies, including an
    obscure rule that requires them to continue providing updates on their preparedness for a bug that afflicted some computers at the turn of the century. As another example, the Pentagon will be freed from a
    requirement that it file a report every time a small business vendor is
    paid, a task that consumed some 1,200 man-hours every year.



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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Jun 17 06:31:39 2017
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Arnold Trembley <[email protected]> wrote:

    [snip]

    As another example, the Pentagon will be freed from a
    requirement that it file a report every time a small business vendor is
    paid, a task that consumed some 1,200 man-hours every year.

    A standard Full Time Equivalent - one employee - is, I believe, allocated
    1,920 hours per year.

    Not sure how many folks work at (or with) the Pentagon... but .625 of one
    of them seems to be freed now for something else.

    DD

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  • From Bradley K. Sherman@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Jun 17 12:46:22 2017
    Arnold Trembley <[email protected]> wrote:
    Your tax dollars at work:

    https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-06-15/trump-orders-government-to-stop-work-on-y2k-bug-17-years-later

    Hey Arnold. Good to see you're still kicking.

    This was a ridiculous exercise as Doc has pointed
    out. They were ignoring the Y2k requirement and
    eliminating the small-vendor report is worth, maybe,
    $100,000/year. Is that the best they could do?
    The "investigation" cost more than the savings.

    Meanwhile a billion-dollar destroyer just got
    totaled in a collision with a container ship
    on calm seas under a clear night. And six
    trillion dollars [sic] has been flushed down
    the crapper in Afghanistan.

    Penny wise, pound foolish.

    --bks

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  • From Arnold Trembley@21:1/5 to Bradley K. Sherman on Sat Jun 17 15:47:27 2017
    On 6/17/2017 7:46 AM, Bradley K. Sherman wrote:
    Arnold Trembley <[email protected]> wrote:
    Your tax dollars at work:

    https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-06-15/trump-orders-government-to-stop-work-on-y2k-bug-17-years-later

    Hey Arnold. Good to see you're still kicking.

    This was a ridiculous exercise as Doc has pointed
    out. They were ignoring the Y2k requirement and
    eliminating the small-vendor report is worth, maybe,
    $100,000/year. Is that the best they could do?
    The "investigation" cost more than the savings.

    Meanwhile a billion-dollar destroyer just got
    totaled in a collision with a container ship
    on calm seas under a clear night. And six
    trillion dollars [sic] has been flushed down
    the crapper in Afghanistan.

    Penny wise, pound foolish.

    --bks


    Beeks! Good to see you're still kicking, too.

    It's true money is often wasted, even if our government is commendably
    on top of that pesky Y2K problem.

    But the USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62) is still floating and will probably be
    repaired rather than written off. The USS Cole (DDG-67) is also an
    Arleigh Burke destroyer and is still in service after more severe damage.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arleigh_Burke-class_destroyer



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  • From Chris Weston@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jun 17 15:56:20 2017
    I'm just glad we're still alive to see it and TEOTWAWKI is playing out in the GOP rather than date arithmetic.

    Best

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    Chris Weston

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