Sounds like me.
Tell your friend to try Ecstasy. It's a permanent fix.
I was actually writing about myself. Tried marijuana, opium, alcohol and stimulants. Didn't do me any good. Keep it clean these days.
Any disaster could be averted with extra millions and millions spent on it, it's just balancing risk and reward.
Come on, don't be dense. The claim here is precisely that they weren't balancing risk and reward - they were overweighting their own immediate gains and underweighting the future risks, which were mostly to other people.
So a country rebuilt by the USA after WWII ended up with an industry based oligarcy? How surprising!
I think he is mostly refering to older hardware, not modern hardware.
That is something I am curious about to. A lot of old hardware isn't supported anymore by modern drivers in new linux kernels. Possibly most of it is FOSS anyway and so you could (given the needed knowledge) recompile them to work for modern distros but I can see where a gov implementation would get stuck there. Not to say I don't like the idea, I fricking love it. Still I really don't think much of the IT skills of the gov sector (in any country).
This problem is lessened by the machines involved probably having been purchased in large numbers. All that is required is to get the OS running on one machine, then roll it out to the 10,000 or so identical machines from the same purchase. Personally though I've been setting up free student computers for years using, at times, some very old hardware. I have very rarely had any driver issues at all.
The other angle is that Australia has always had censorship. Radio and TV are censored. Video games were logically censored to keep things in line with alread excepted policy. I'm personally surprised that censorship of the Internet has taken so long. I used to run a PC repair business and every customer with children and some without were concerned about what is available on the internet and many asked me to install Net Nanny or some other similar service. Any internet filter that filters out things like child porn and bestiality will be, except for some vocal small groups, quite popular here.
As for the 'oversights' outlined by the parent, Australians trust our governments a lot more than people in the US. Up until not too many years ago all of our public utilities were government owned, we have free government run or supplemented health care, education and payments and job training for the unemployed. It is quite natural to us that there should be censorship and I think the majority if Australians would be quite happy for the government to be doing it without questioning things too much.
The rule on staying alive as a program manager is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.