"We put them in office and deserve what we are getting in return." How very
true. The not so intelligent voter voted for Trump, knowing that he is a
convicted felon as well as a convicted sex offender. They knew about Trump
1.0 and the damage that was done from 2017-2020.
Enough is enough.
Elon start up the chainsaw, Let the DOOGE times roll, as promised.
On Friday, April 4, 2025 at 05:50:07 p.m. EDT, Michael Oujesky
<[email protected]> wrote:
We put them in office and deserve what we are getting in return.
At 01:55 PM 4/4/2025, Joel Ewing wrote:
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>Right! If you think DOGE folks have any concept
>of acceptable change management practices, or
>that they care about what they break from
>ignorance or lack of understanding, you haven't been paying attention.
>
>These dodgy guys are convinced they are geniuses
>who can understand and improve the SSA system
>after a few days of study. When you are
>convinced you are "top gun" and can't make
>mistakes, then you see parallel testing as
>redundant. As long as it compiles, just put it
>into production and insist all results must be
>correct. If a few people starve or die
>homeless as a result, that's just acceptable
>collateral damage from incorrect use of the system.
>
>According to Trump's Commerce Secretary, the
>only ones who will be upset about receiving
>incorrect SS payments or late SS payments are
>those who are trying to commit fraud. With the
>quality of people currently in charge, one would
>expect adoption of the approach that worked so
>well in the UK for almost three decades with
>their postmaster accounting system: insist the
>computer results are accurate, deny that
>problems are being reported, and imprison or
>fine the complainers for misappropriation of funds.
>
> JC Ewing
>
>On 4/4/25 12:25 PM, Michael Watkins wrote:
>>'I can see the problems occurring when they run
>>both systems in parallel for 6 months...'
>>
>>Why assume they will run both systems in parallel for 6 months?
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
>><[email protected]> On Behalf Of Colin Paice
>>Sent: Friday, April 4, 2025 12:15 PM
>>To: [email protected]
>>Subject: Re: DOGE wants to modernize Social
>>Security’s legacy tech — what could possibly go wrong? Computerworld
>>
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>>They may be able to automate changing the code
>>to a fancier language - that's the "easy bit"
>>
>>I can see the problems occurring when they run both systems in parallel for
>>6 months, and try to find the cause of the two
>>systems giving different results - this is the hard bit.
>>I remember having problems when we changed the version of the compiler...
>>it exposed a timing window - and this was on the same code base!
>>This situation is when you need tracing etc in
>>the programs, which you will not from the automatic conversion.
>>Colin
>>
>>On Fri, 4 Apr 2025 at 18:03, Mark Regan <
>>[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>This might wrap for some of you.
>>>
>>>
>>>https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.
>>>computerworld.com%2Farticle%2F3953741%2Fdoge-wants-to-modernize-social
>>>-securitys-legacy-tech-what-could-possibly-go-wrong.html&data=05%7C02%
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>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>
>>>Mark Regan
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