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Arlington National Cemetery's Many IT Flaws
imac.usr writes "A story in today's Washington Post calls to light the utter failure of the nation's most sacred final resting place to modernize its pen-and-paper record system. According to the story, the cemetery's administrators have spent $5 million without managing to accomplish the seemingly simple task of creating a database record of the site's graves. As Virginia senator Mark Warner points out, 'We are one fire, or one flood, or one spilled Starbucks coffee away from some of those records being lost or spoiled.'"
To be fair they are losing the home they couldn't afford to pay for when they bought them hopping the market would go up and they could re-finance.
Why is it so hard to only have politicians for a few years, then have them go away?
That was the case for the first few months. But the recession caused lots of layoffs. They shut down a GM plant near me, that had 1200 full time employees. I think you will find that most people used to be able to afford their homes, but now cannot.
But hey, welcome to 2010!
What are we going to do tonight Brain?
Bullshit! To be real, losing the home they could afford before a bunch of rich fucktards screwed the economy and got millions of people laid off is not the fault of the folks who got laid off.
To be really real, the economy tanked because the fucktards loaned money to people to buy houses they couldn't afford, and when those people defaulted, the crazy ass schemes the fucktards had created to justify lending large amounts of money to people who can't possibly pay it back all came crashing down, which led to a bunch of layoffs, which led to more people who couldn't afford to pay their mortgage.
How come all the replies to this are modded as offtopic but the parent isn't modded as offtopic? What does this have to do with Arlington?