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When IT and Bad Government Meet, Everyone Loses
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.
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.
God spoke to me
^^^ Loser!!!!
You stupid cunt. Obviously, they have no fucking money. When one has NOTHING, even $1 is too much.
You know it's a fucked up world when CHRISD calles someone ELSE a bozo.
That dork is the king of fucked up.
...and yes, I'm still bitter about X-FILES.
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.