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Lockheed To Furlough 3,000 On Monday, Layoffs Also Kicking In

Posted by timothy on Friday October 4, 2013 @02:11PM from the can-lassie-save-the-military-industrial-complex? dept.

Dawn Kawamoto writes "Lockheed employees are the latest casualty in the government shutdown, with the defense contractor announcing Friday it plans to furlough 3,000 workers on Monday. But what they didn't mention is they are laying off workers too, says a Lockheed source on the hush-hush. Lockheed, of course, isn't the only defense contractor taking it on the chin. Other contractors include United Technologies, which has furloughed 2,000, and BAE Systems which cut 1,000."

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Re:An amazing chance for good. by SydShamino · 2013-10-04 17:05 · Score: 4, Interesting

I live in the middle of Austin, yet I'm represented by someone who lives in suburban Houston. My only option is to vote for or against the guy who is guaranteed to win thanks to gerrymandering.
How exactly can I fire him?

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Re:The government wants you to hurt. by HJED · 2013-10-04 18:10 · Score: 4, Interesting

It looks like those sites in that list are now all running on the same server (given they are serving an identical page, and nslookup returns the same IP address for all of them). Most likely they have one server running to keep that page displayed whilst turning off the rest of the servers that would be needed for normal operation (considerably more than one).
Also they are probably worried about the sites getting hacked or breaking whilst they're not paying anyone to fix them...

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