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Computer Crashed New Orleans Real Estate Market
sustik writes "For a month now the New Orleans real estate market has been crippled by a computer crash that caused the loss of online data from the late 1980s that should be researched prior to the closing of any real estate transactions. 'The clerk of Orleans Parish Civil District Court said Tuesday that her office continues to make progress in resolving the computer problems that have been holding up real estate transactions in New Orleans for the past month, but there still was no indication of how soon the crisis might end.'"
There all better, now back to selling a bunch of repossessed homes that nobody wants, you knuckleheads!
This system is either a black box no one was willing to touch out of fear, or one in which they had no clue as to how important it was... until it died. Should have kept that info on little bits of paper in a binder or something less complicated. It's for you're own good, you ninny.
This is the NSA, we're gonna geet U h@x0r5! Also, what is a h@x0r5?
I mean you got to take this in context, it's not like a hurricane hit them and flooded them with water. If only there could have been a lesson learned from 'Katrina'.
They did learn a lesson: make any problems sound like they were caused by the federal government! They put that expertise to use in the recent oil spill crisis, it worked GREAT.