Comment Re:Be an insider...get rich... (Score 1) 497
"I was told that they only get this funding once in awhile and needed to "take advantage of it.""
Yeah, uncertain revenue streams are a beach.
"I was told that they only get this funding once in awhile and needed to "take advantage of it.""
Yeah, uncertain revenue streams are a beach.
"only to recall them and basically admit compleet failure of the project. ".
Do all your systems and plans roll out effortlessly? Neither did this one.
What you do is analyze it and fix the issues. And roll it out again.
That's $634m to LAUNCH the healthcare.gov site. How many more hundreds of millions are they going to spend over the next year to -fix- it?
Well, extrapolating, probably another 200 mill. It will take a couple of years for the systems to be truly stable. Just like any other complex software.
You want *facebook* or *google* to handle my HIPAA compliant data?!
Why not build such solution as open source using brilliant minds who would contribute there time voluntarily to nation building.
This would be a "job-killer".
Gravity of the mission, whatever it is, has little to do with the cost of implementation. First step on the Moon was a gravely important mission, but it was easy for Neil Armstrong to do it...
That was a mission that had real gravitas.
oblig. "I see what you did there"
""You're going to be living in dire poverty because of what we're doing to you; here's how you can cope with it"."
Good one!
"'The first model in which we changed our perspective is on U.S. Atlantic hurricanes. Basically, after the 2004 and 2005 seasons, we determined that it was unsafe to simply assume that historical averages still applied,'"
fwiw, I find this statement to be "controversy neutral".
It sounds like they were thinking more of economics & scale, and taking advantage of DOD research.
Hah! That's a good one.
Like Iran in the 70's...
Excellent! I like this. I might go for Donald, though.
It's a naive, domestic operating system without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
