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Oct. 10th, 2003 08:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lovingbothIt's meant to put into perspective how much money GW Bush is asking to spend on Iraq...
But my first reaction was 'gosh, boxes of copier paper in the US must have 72/3 = twenty four reams inside, not five as in the UK. How does anyone lift them?'
But my first reaction was 'gosh, boxes of copier paper in the US must have 72/3 = twenty four reams inside, not five as in the UK. How does anyone lift them?'
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Date: 2003-10-13 03:59 am (UTC)But from the link, the US ream is also 500 sheets...
Ah, government procurement. Many people have wondered just how EDS in particular keep getting contracts given their amazing track record of screwing up.
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Date: 2003-10-13 11:31 am (UTC)*lol* Something that I often ponder when systems x,y and z have crashed. Another thing that amazes me is the pennies Inland Revenue have spent on a commercial e-HR system that does not meet it's HR requirements when - given the amount of money forked out for EDS - couldn't EDS have developed something? Then again, we're talking about the government department that awarded Mapeley Trillium a 20 year contract when it had no track record (and IR also said that they were cracking down on offshore companies... could it be that Mapeley Trillium is an offshore company???)
My current idea for a career move is to be a crackhead, go on the dole and have 20 kids - that way I'll be so much better off financially than I am despite working full time for the civil bloody service.