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Trump Orders Government To Stop Work On Y2K Bug, 17 Years Later (bloomberg.com)
The federal government will finally stop preparing for the Y2K bug, seventeen years after it came and went. Yes, you read that right. Bloomberg reports: The Trump administration announced Thursday that it would eliminate dozens of paperwork requirements for federal agencies, including an obscure rule that requires them to continue providing updates on their preparedness for a bug that afflicted some computers at the turn of the century. As another example, the Pentagon will be freed from a requirement that it file a report every time a small business vendor is paid, a task that consumed some 1,200 man-hours every year. Seven of the more than 50 paperwork requirements the White House eliminated on Thursday dealt with the Y2K bug, according to a memo OMB released. Officials at the agency estimate the changes could save tens of thousands of man-hours across the federal government. The agency didn't provide an estimate of how much time is currently spent on Y2K paperwork, but Linda Springer, an OMB senior adviser, acknowledged that it isn't a lot since those requirements are already often ignored in practice.
As another example, the Pentagon will be freed from a requirement that it file a report every time a small business vendor is paid, a task that consumed some 1,200 man-hours every year.
So they layed off one guy...whoopdedoo! Looks at those savings! Who wants a paper-trail of who the pentagon pays money too anyway?? What a zany idea.
The electronic surveillance type.
I don't trust Trump to make smart cuts. He's not a details and logic guy, and he or his minions favor "trickle down" solutions over those that benefit the little guy directly. He might accidentally get a few right, but so would blindfolded dart throwers.
Table-ized A.I.
The issue isn't that this is bad per-se. It's that it's not very good. As the article points out, no one was really applying these regulations. Ultimately, this is grand standing more than anything else.
I'm always happy to see redundant legislation go away, but don't get grand delusions that this is Trump somehow removing burdens and making the government magically super efficient.
That's on the desktop, of course. Amongst the serious computers Linux has, what, maybe 50% of the market share?
I suppose Android's been fixed.
By "gamed the system", you mean "followed the system in place for 200+ years", right? And, according to your losing candidate, questioning this system is âoehorrifyingâ and "talking down our democracy" as recently as 2 weeks before the election?
Got any other deep thoughts to share?
It is evident that you don't understand how the Governments work. Unneeded/unenforced are traps for people/organizations that are targeted. An unused or little known regulation can wreck havoc with "out of favor" people and organizations. Laws that aren't enforced should be removed so that people/organizations can live and work in a functional manner.
It's not hard to see how someone thinks if they have no filter
Luckily the century turned a year later...
Sig?
to get the main point:
" the Pentagon will be freed from a requirement that it file a report every time a small business vendor is paid"
I foresee a _lot_ of 'small business vendors" cropping up over the years now.
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I suppose Android's been fixed.
Yes, but a super majority of users won't be able to get the patch.
At least, with those numbers its obvious that "6" is the month.
I would disagree most strenuously. For the left, being a violent kook is now mainstream. Just listen to the 24/7 nonsensical conspiracy theories about Trump on CNN/MSNBC, etc, and huge mobs of leftist psychos and BLM supporters marching and calling for cop killings (which they got). Compare that to 8 years of the insufferably arrogant, worthless community agitator. No one in the mainstream conservative movement did anything like pretend to behead him, threaten to kill his supporters, etc.
Your idiotic gibberish about Russians is pretty typical, and ignorant. Trump didn't go to the Russians with a mispelled "reset" button and Trump didn't tell Medvedev he would "have more room to maneuver after the election" - or later try to side with ISIS in a civil war. The Trump/Russian collusion conspiracy was blown completely out of the water and even worthless lefties like Feinstein admit there is not a shred of evidence to support ot.
Washington is turning into a massive partisan witch Hunt thanks to the Democrats and their hatred for anything and everything Donald Trump does.
I dunno where the fuck you've been for the past eight years, but we're loooong past that point, and it wasn't the Democrats who brought us there. Or have you forgotten the fella with the skin that was noticeably darker than any other US president and what a Republican Congress did to him? But no, let's go much further back. George W. Bush deserved the shit he got. "Heckuva job, Brownie" earned him that. Let's go back to Bill Clinton. Couldn't keep his dick in his pants like, I dunno, half the US Presidents before him, but what does another Republican Congress do for years but fucking obsess over it, instead of goddamned governing like they were elected to do.
That's when it started, and it was Republicans that started it in the modern era. Nobody gave Reagan that much shit. Nobody gave Bush Sr. that much shit. Hell, nobody even gave Carter that much shit until he was out of office. Nobody remembers Ford. Nixon got some shit, and deserved every bit of it. Johnson got a little bit of shit for the Vietnam war, and probably deserved it. Kennedy and Eisenhower are both revered. Truman, I dunno and at that point we've passed out of living memory.
But Democrats vs Trump turning Washington into a partisan witch hunt? Bitch please.
Here's my contribution: the Trump administration finally found something so trivial that they have a slim chance of getting it right.
It's not like you have a chip on your shoulder over this. "Boo-hoo-hoo, people are being mean to the president. It's not fair, how could anyone be so cruel? Anyone who says anything negative about the Fearless Leader is a Bad Person." I visualize you pouting and stamping your foot in frustration while you are whining about this outrage.
It's the bully/coward syndrome. Bullies can dish it out, but when they get a dose of their own medicine they squeal like a stuck pig. It applies to Trump and it applies to you.
Why is Snark Required?
No they won't. Get rid of the electoral college and everyone gets an equal say in who rules. The fact that more people live in place A than place B does not mean that the people in place B should be given more power in a democracy,
Please explain to me how having less than a third of the populace support the president translates to 'a broad, nationwide support'?
"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" -Alfred North Whitehead
so I I'm not buying insurmountable technical justifications other than simple lack of will.
It boils down to the fact that correctly handling time is complicated. Leap years, seconds, gregorian nonsense, .. the rules just pile up higher and higher. Nobody wants to touch that code and I dont blame them.
"His name was James Damore."
The electoral college is working as designed. If one were to ignore the votes in New York City and Los Angeles -- not even the states of New York and California, but just the two most populous cities across the fruited plain -- Trump wins by half a million votes.
The electoral college is an ingenious solution to the problem of small clusters of populations imposing their will on an entire nation.
But the EC is NOT a deliberative body. It is an honorary one. There's the source of your misunderstanding, I think.
The members of the EC are picked by the winners. Membership is temporary, the entire EC is dissolved once the election results have been reported to Congress. In fact, the ACTUAL vote to confirm the election is done by Congress, not by the EC. And yes, it is an actual show-of-hands vote. The job of the EC is to simply report the official results of each state.
That is why any electors who don't report properly are called "faithless" electors. They literally make a promise to faithfully report the results when they are appointed.
"We receive as friendly that which agrees with, we resist with dislike that which opposes us" - Faraday
get rid of the Electoral college and a few big cities run the nation
No they won't. Get rid of the electoral college and everyone gets an equal say in who rules.
Campaigning would only occur in major cities, so they would have a much larger impact than now.
The fact that more people live in place A than place B does not mean that the people in place B should be given more power in a democracy,
It's called federalism, and it was put in place for a reason. The founding fathers realized that even though we are one country, we are composed of several different cultures with different values. A law that might make sense in a metropolitan area might not make sense in a rural area, so you don't want the population centers making all the rules for everyone else.
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.