In 1997 a major bank in South Africa ran its nightly payment job 17 times. It made a few people instant millionaires overnight, and caused others to have the worse debt they could ever imagine. The bank had to close for business the next day to do a complete rollback (which was successful, perhaps giving them a lot of confidence in their disaster recovery plan).
What happenned was that the job failed due to the job data spanning two tapes for the first time ever. This specific occurance was never tested before. The operator simply ran the job again and again 17 times, until he realized he should call for assistance.
By then the damage was done, but luckily not permanent.
The question is: who is to blame? The operator, the programmer, the tester, the owner or Col. Mustard (who accepted the system).
Hey bigchief, what SA are you living in?
The only personal tax that got less was those on welfare cheques.
Yeah, the budget got healthy for senior govt. officals: Budget for big house in Sandton. Budget for big BMW. Budget for big BMW. Budget for big BMW........
The govt. is systematically taxing everything that used to be covered by normal taxes anyway.
One good example is our main roads. All major metro routes will be tolled from next year. Will this happen in your SA too, mr Emperor?
They say it is to pay for the roads etc. But that is what our petrol tax is supposed to cover. Yes - our fuel could be 1/3 the price if we weren't paying for the friggen minister's wife's couzin's girlfriend's luxury car.
This place is becoming a shithole for anyone who has a bit of money to buy more than just a halfloaf.
I won't be surprised if we see Internet tax soon. Keep in mind what population group is currently the major user of the Internet here. The govt. won't leave any stone unturned until they can tax that group 150%.
Say it aint so.
and... The economy is not in free fall anymore, coz it hit shit already.
Also keep in mind that with this govt. if it is not for money then it must be for control.
VollaSolla
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In 1997 a major bank in South Africa ran its nightly payment job 17 times. It made a few people instant millionaires overnight, and caused others to have the worse debt they could ever imagine. The bank had to close for business the next day to do a complete rollback (which was successful, perhaps giving them a lot of confidence in their disaster recovery plan).
What happenned was that the job failed due to the job data spanning two tapes for the first time ever. This specific occurance was never tested before. The operator simply ran the job again and again 17 times, until he realized he should call for assistance.
By then the damage was done, but luckily not permanent.
The question is: who is to blame? The operator, the programmer, the tester, the owner or Col. Mustard (who accepted the system).
Hey bigchief, what SA are you living in? The only personal tax that got less was those on welfare cheques. Yeah, the budget got healthy for senior govt. officals: Budget for big house in Sandton. Budget for big BMW. Budget for big BMW. Budget for big BMW. .......
The govt. is systematically taxing everything that used to be covered by normal taxes anyway.
One good example is our main roads. All major metro routes will be tolled from next year. Will this happen in your SA too, mr Emperor?
They say it is to pay for the roads etc. But that is what our petrol tax is supposed to cover. Yes - our fuel could be 1/3 the price if we weren't paying for the friggen minister's wife's couzin's girlfriend's luxury car.
This place is becoming a shithole for anyone who has a bit of money to buy more than just a halfloaf.
I won't be surprised if we see Internet tax soon. Keep in mind what population group is currently the major user of the Internet here. The govt. won't leave any stone unturned until they can tax that group 150%.
Say it aint so.
and... The economy is not in free fall anymore, coz it hit shit already.
Also keep in mind that with this govt. if it is not for money then it must be for control.
VollaSolla