4 types

Plasmodium vivaX <---- BAD MOTHER, does not go away
Plasmodium malariae <---- easy to treat
Plasmodium ovale <---- not so strong symptoms
Plasmodium falciparum <---- can be resistant to treatment, can hit like a 5 ton truck

Had Malaria 8 times. If you know you have it and get treatment (pills or a shot) early, it isn't even as bad as a cold.

Had a resistant form of Malaria once. It sucked balls because treatment would only work for a few days and then the symptoms would come back... harder. Took some stronger medicine and was fine.

Malaria is not a big deal for healthy adults who can sense the symptoms. It is a HUGE deal for children who can not always understand the way they feel, or the elderly who have weak immune systems.

But this isn't capitalism. There is no free market in telecommunications, they are awarded a monopoly on spectrum, and have often been given rights to put up radio towers wherever they want. These companies then take that monopoly advantage and lack of competition to milk consumers for every penny they can.

All the cell carriers have roughly the same price plans for everything, and the costs go up at similar times. There needs to be an investigation into their trust, because I cannot believe that there is not price fixing going on.

Except that the scope of this project is to interface with all aspects of the recovery funds that are doled out. That means tracking thousands upon thousands of projects.

When I was evaluating web-based project tracking software for a quarter billion dollar project using a mildly customized product, we were looking at over 140,000 USD per year.

Given the shear size of the, lets call it "Recovery Project" 3.6 million a year for a customized system with thousands of concurrent viewers that can view and track thousands of different subprojects, yeah I can see 18million.

And here is the fun part: Any of you who say they could do it for cheaper, probably couldn't do it at all, let alone near that price.

Those who have actually done something similar don't see this as being an outrageous price tag.