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When IT and Bad Government Meet, Everyone Loses

Posted by chrisd on from the 9-track-really-isn't-the-answer dept.

Cron-os writes "The city of Wilkes Barre, Pa is furiously trying to enter some 25,000 tax records into their new PC network. Their aging AS/400 crashed sometime around April 15, and the city did not renew a maintenance contract with IBM because it cost more than the PC network. You can read the associated articles here, here, and here. I'm so glad I live across the river in a SANE city." I wonder if these bozos run their schools and roads departments with the same level of professionalism.

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  1. Welcome to Pennsylvannia! by CrazyJim0 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    WestVirginia be damned. I really think PA holds the redneck ethos. I hate this fucking state so bad. There's NOTHING to do here. Maybe thats why old people like to live here.

    I can't even leave the forsaken state. I'm stuck living in a house built in the 1600's, with $100,000 debt and a degree from Carnegie Mellon! Fuck the whole idea of an educated poor. Education just makes you more poor.

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    1. Re:Welcome to Pennsylvannia! by (outer-limits) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      I think you are getting Swtizerland and Sweden confused.

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  2. Re:So why don't the know it alls from /. fix it? by nordicfrost · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Uuhh... NO! There is such a thing as responsibility, and the IS/Mayor has got it in this case. You can't be in charge of the town, fuck up royally and then hope that someone will fix it. I have no doubt that many, many of the /. readers could fix the system, but they shouldn't. This is the fault of the mayor (since most of the articles point out that), and he should take the heat.