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Health Exchange Sites Crushed By Demand; Shutdown Blanks Other Gov't Sites
An anonymous reader writes "The launch of a national health exchange site was marred by overloaded servers in several states around the country. In a White House press conference, President Obama said that by 7 a.m., there were over a million users, and he likened the capacity problems to the glitches that Apple experienced after discovering bugs in their rlease of iOS 7. 'I don't remember anybody suggesting Apple should stop selling iPhones or iPads, or threatening to shut down company if they didn't,' the president argued."
Meanwhile, a number government websites went blank as a result of the shutdown, instead of simply lying dormant until personnel could return. The National Science Foundation, NASA, the FCC, and the Library of Congress are a few examples.
So you stole cable TV all your life but the people working for the government are the parasites? Interesting interpretation.
How can Obama possibly negotiate? Repubs are demanding he kick his grandest achievement to the curb or they won't negotiate. Sorry. Obama is the not the villain here.
so thats what, attempt number 512094 by the republicans to refight the same fight they've already lost?
at what point do the republicans admit that in a democracy you sometimes have to accept defeat, accept that the opposition has won, and move on?
what hte republicans are doing is NOT democracy, it is extortion.
they have co-opted the democratic process, using the Hastert Rule to prevent the true majority in the house from having any say, so that a minority of the ruling party can dictate the agenda, creating a flase middle ground, in order to hold the country, its economy, indead hte worlds economy, hostage over a ideological battle that they cannot win and have already lost 50 seperate times.
they have put the gun to all our heads, and are threatening to pull the trigger and blow us all to hell unless they get what they want.
they are acting like spoiled children who have no inlking of what living in a democracy entails, who refuse to accept that they can be on the losing side.
they have created their red line, and unlike the other recent one, they refuse to back down even though they will not only destroy themselves, but take everyone else down with them. and if they do this, it is the end of the republican party for the next 50 years or more; no one will touch them with a 10ft, indeed, 1000km pole.
The guy who said the election was rigged won the presidency with the second-most votes.
That is the current proposal from the GOP. The Senate and president are REFUSING to even talk to them about it.
THE DISCUSSION IS OVER. The senate and president don't *need* to talk to the crazies because IT IS ALREADY A LAW. You've already had this debate.
Or is this up for debate every year? Every time an already existing and passed law needs funding, but some disagree with it, the whole country can be held to ransom by those who disagree?
You people make me sick. You ignore your own system, you are destroying your own government for fringe interests.