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Comment Re:Where are the conspiracy theories? (Score 3, Insightful) 159

Maybe hackers caused the flight control computer to shut down the engines.

Maybe aliens used their alien technology to drive the plane into the ground.

Maybe it was motherfuckin snakes on the motherfuckin plane.

Maybe the pilots were off having tea and not paying attention.

Maybe Trump had the plane shot.

Maybe OBAMA did.

Maybe it was a dual-engine elephant ingestion.

Maybe Boeing forgot to install steering yokes on this plane, and nobody noticed till they took off.

Results from the CVR and CDR need to be made public and fast.

Why? It's much more fun to throw around wild asinine speculations when we have basically zero information. Also, it's a FDR, not a CDR.

Comment Re:Thanks editors (Score 1) 65

So you have one example where one cite/edit in one article was rolled back because some other editor didn't like the source, and your conclusion is wikipedia "prohibit[s] using primary sources". That, good sir, is what you call a "logic bust". Especially when paired with the link from Wikipedia themselves stating that primary sources can be used in certain situations.

Comment Re:Was FreeFile better than existing options? (Score 1) 192

So what was FreeFile offering that didn't already exist?

I didn't have "the incessant dark patterns trying to push you into a paid tier of service." which analysis showed was very successful into "tricking" people who should have qualified for free service into coughing up money.

Comment Re:The government doesn't have to fund everything (Score 1) 192

but it absolutely did NOT save taxpayers any money.

From your link: "By design, the Direct File Pilot started out small" It was a pilot program, it was supposed to be low numbers. And costs for programs like that are generally amortized over many years. Your comparison is like opening a restaurant and complaining that you didn't turn a profit in the first year because you had to buy the building and kit it out.

Comment Re:And this is new why? (Score 1) 20

Whole functions that the old AS/400 software did were not even considered in the new application and either had to be crash-written or the users told to pound hot sand and find another, often harder way to accomplish their objectives.

I work in the ERP space. The first implementation I was a part of was to replace an AS-400 basedsystem. That project was the basis of my "There's a real good reason that things are done slowly and methodically. Some of it can be helped, some of it can't" comment. The "move fast and break things" methodology doesn't work in the ERP world.

to show that it's actually better to go with them than with prior solutions

I, like I assume you are, won't be holding my breath on that one.

Comment Re:And this is new why? (Score 1) 20

So ... why is this a surprise?

That was kind of my initial response as well. I haven't been around as long as you have, but long enough to wonder if this dude has ever worked in a company before. There's a real good reason that things are done slowly and methodically. Some of it can be helped, some of it can't

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