Which one of you ballers made this website for $18 Mill??
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Want lots of YT views, backlinks &/or a Digg/reddit-tsunami?
Screencast yourself reporting recovery.gov's $18M waste TO recovery.gov and youtube that shit... Redditors especially will find that shit hilarious.
Word it funny and provide a link for evidence of the $18M spent.
You're welcome.
Screencast yourself reporting recovery.gov's $18M waste TO recovery.gov and youtube that shit... Redditors especially will find that shit hilarious.
Word it funny and provide a link for evidence of the $18M spent.
You're welcome.
18 million is obscene, but after doing government contracting for many years I can assure the pricing is something like this:
Website design and build: 2 million (90% spent on meetings)
Hosting and redundancy: 10 million - if there's one thing the government likes it's lots of servers with co-located (or tri-located) data-centers, running big HP or Sun boxes, Oracle on the back end, SAN all around, and more web servers than Google probably has. These have to be located in nondescript office buildings on the edge of the suburbs in major metropolitan areas, with 24/7 security, access controls, and internal badge readers on every door.
More meetings: 6 million
Sad that a decent small Linux farm using WP could have done all of this for a few grand a month.
Website design and build: 2 million (90% spent on meetings)
Hosting and redundancy: 10 million - if there's one thing the government likes it's lots of servers with co-located (or tri-located) data-centers, running big HP or Sun boxes, Oracle on the back end, SAN all around, and more web servers than Google probably has. These have to be located in nondescript office buildings on the edge of the suburbs in major metropolitan areas, with 24/7 security, access controls, and internal badge readers on every door.
More meetings: 6 million
Sad that a decent small Linux farm using WP could have done all of this for a few grand a month.
I wouldn't be surprised if they paid 10 million just for coding in ASP and using Windows servers. JSP and ASP make me go bleh.
That would indeed amount to a horrible use of tax money. But that assumes your unsupported premise. Seen another way, this website aims to:
"Create transparency so that citizens understand where their tax money is going and how it's helping the economy."
Then one can say this is great for democracy as it encourages citizenship and participation. An informed population makes for a better country.
In this light, $18 million is an efficient use of tax payer money.
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Wouldn't it make more sense for the to just host at SuperNAP in Las Vegas? The place already has a shit load of government contracts and has armed security patrolling it.
Notice on the home page this icon near the middle:
Iconfinder.com ftw!
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Iconfinder.com ftw!
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i woulda done it for 17.
...............Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm, how many guns, bunkers, ammo, strip club visits i could do.
...............Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm, how many guns, bunkers, ammo, strip club visits i could do.
I just reported recovery.gov to recovery.gov
Internet marketers are doing America a favor by taking money away from the MORONS who elected Obama.
Internet marketers are doing America a favor by taking money away from the MORONS who elected Obama.
ha, i suppose there is someone driving round in a royals royce right now having a good laugh at the cost of the tax payer.
Hahaha...
But actually, that shit happens in every gubmint.
The German government sunk millions and millions into their failed IT projects, including, but not limited to:
The German payroad system
- horribly overdesigned piece of fuckery, which could be done 10 times cheaper.
The new integrated system for German police
- Just failed after millions sunk
A new system for German military communication
- Failed, millions sunk
The web site for the federal employment agency
- Failed in many aspects, millions were paid to a foreign company - massive WTF at least spend the money at home
etc.. etc..
German computing magazine c't actually ran a very nice analysis on all the massive clusterfucks that are government IT projects.
They came to the conclusion that the reason for the costs and failures is not overspending or throwing away money, but political bitching at every level, clueless people talking into IT projects and scope creep on a massive (i.e. political) scale.
So.. welcome to the club.
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But actually, that shit happens in every gubmint.
The German government sunk millions and millions into their failed IT projects, including, but not limited to:
The German payroad system
- horribly overdesigned piece of fuckery, which could be done 10 times cheaper.
The new integrated system for German police
- Just failed after millions sunk
A new system for German military communication
- Failed, millions sunk
The web site for the federal employment agency
- Failed in many aspects, millions were paid to a foreign company - massive WTF at least spend the money at home
etc.. etc..
German computing magazine c't actually ran a very nice analysis on all the massive clusterfucks that are government IT projects.
They came to the conclusion that the reason for the costs and failures is not overspending or throwing away money, but political bitching at every level, clueless people talking into IT projects and scope creep on a massive (i.e. political) scale.
So.. welcome to the club.
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