Subject:	Re: Did Dechert Do This?
Date:	1999/06/03
Author:	cory hamasaki <kiyoinc@ibm.XOUT.net>
	Posting History

This is the funniest thing I've seen here for days.  It's not just the way Tim and Tom are ping-ponging on Al, it's the build up over time.   On Thu, 3 Jun 1999 06:00:00, Tom Ambrose <ambrose@ns.net> wrote:   > Tim May wrote: > > > Sabotaging the "child-support check" computers...now _that's_ a noble > > thing to do. > > > > Way too many useless eaters on the public dole. > > Yeah, but with Dechert's vaunted Left-Wing credentials, I find it far > more likely that he would have wanted to create this screwed-up sytem > than to sabotage it.   Al is on the "no problems" side of the fence yet we find an article that his organization is franticly trying to remediate software and is failing.   Why don't they just fix it in, oh, 2 or 3 hours?  Why is there emergency funding?  Aren't programmer rates falling?  How much of the extra million or so bucks is going into Al's hip pocket?  Why don't they just get some yellow pads and bic pens and write the checks by hand?   How can Al be a Polly while his organization is a public laughing stock because of a Y2K remediation failure?  If they're doing so poorly, what about places like Miami, DeeCee, Boston?   I just reread the article, they're not trying to fix software; they have a package developed by a consortium of counties and are trying to *install* it.  Can it get any better than this?   Will he go on the tube to shake his finger at the camera?   "I did not flubnutz the Sacramento welfare system, Al Dechert"   ..and it's "for the children".  The irony is too much.  For this screwup, he's getting "Good job, attaboy Al"s from Tim May. (Nobody is saying that Al is personally responsible for this, we all understand that there's a lot of good natured kidding going on.)   Sadly, this scenario is being played out across the country and setting aside one's political and social issues, the heart of the matter is that the remediation failed some time last year.   When a king-Polly's organization can be a public laughing stock for Y2K problems, this is an indication that the doomers have accurately reported disasters.  Perhaps they didn't feel that they could offer details, perhaps a few clung to the hope that by increasing their personal efforts they could save their organization or their client.   I know several code-heads who are working through lunch and are putting in a extra hour or two a day to try to make the schedules.  Most are not billing for the time.    Are the Polly's busting a sweat or are they kicked back, drawing a big consulting rate, while the doomers turn the crank on the remediation mills.   Maybe I should turn Polly, publicly say "No Problem" while the legislature votes 1.3 million bucks for Y2K remediation, make the check out to:   cory hamasaki 211 Days, http://www.kiyoinc.com/current.html   

-- a (a@a.a), June 03, 1999

Answers

What's funny, a, is the pollys who come to this forum will read that and STILL remain DGIs. You see, it's Hamasaki who is clueless. And you. And me.

-- BigDog (BigDog@duffer.com), June 03, 1999.

Anyone who has hung out on csy2k at all knows just how vile both Dechert and May can be towards those on public assistance. I find this latest development to be satisfying in the extreme. It makes them both look as idiotic as they truly are.

ROTFLMAO

-- R (riversoma@aol.com), June 03, 1999.

Sabotaging the "child-support check" computers...now _that's_ a noble > > thing to do. > > > > Way too many useless eaters on the public dole.

Since when did child support become equated with public dole?! Interesting, huh ladies?

-- Shelia (Shelia@active-stream.com), June 04, 1999.

I do get child support in CA. NONE of it comes from public funds. ALL of it comes from my former spouse who WILLINGLY pays it. He is a Dad who wants to provide for his child. However, the COUNTY insists he pay it to them so they can deposit his check and draw one to me for the same amount. That way they keep track of the payments for the court. Since when is that public dole? It is bureaucracy at its worst.

BTW, the software the State is installing is probably the same software my county switched to a few years back in a pilot program. If it is, it is an absolute nightmare. Expect months of backlogged support payments and miscalculations.

-- anon (anon@anon.com), June 04, 1999.

It is the same in Texas...either through the county or the state. It does serve the purpose of ending the he said/she said arguments in court over whether the payments have been made. My daughter also receives her child support from the childrens father. She noted a few months ago that a new system was being installed and every thing was backlogged...seems to have leveled out now though.

-- Shelia (Shelia@active-stream.com), June 04, 1999.