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re: Sponsorship scandal

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From: Eliminator
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 22:11
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> Tell you what, come back once you have graduated grade school.

I happen to have a Masters Degree in Computer Science, so I could be good
judge between Better Defender and Defender of Enormous Manhood. Here is my
judgement: Better Defender is indeed better and Defender of Enormous Manhood
should rename himself into a Defender of Crooked Politician or in a stupid
Defender of Crooked Politician.

> One database yes, but it has a few elements you completely dismissied...

For your information, there is no database which is absolutely static. Even
a
dictionary has to incorporate some change from time to time. Microsoft
Access
allows any tracking you can imagine.

Better Defender is right when he says that one personal computer is enough
to
keep the whole gun registry. Here is a simple calculation: a single record
for a gun will not contain more than 1000 bytes. Generally, when someone
buys
a gun, he keeps it for the rest of his life. But we presume that gun changes
hands ten times. So, you will need 10,000 bytes to track one gun. At
present, there are about 5 million guns in Canada. I make registry for 10
million. Now 10 million guns X 10,000 bytes gives 100 Gigabytes.
Contemporary
micro-computer hard disk has 500 megabytes, so you can place 5 gun
registries on one hard disk, and if it is not enough, you can install second
hard disk. Got it?

>but there is no legislation covering the government or protecting it.
> It's buyer beware.

And who makes the laws? Isn't it the Government? Presume that you are
crooked politician and you want to steal several billion dollars. Now, how
do you do it? Here is how. You sign a contract with a company and in this
contract, you give them card blanche. You agree to pay them regardless if
they do job or not, they send you bills for hundreds of millions of dollars
without doing any job. You pay them and get half quietly returned into your
pocket. And when the whole thing is being exposed in the press, you hide
behind ignorance of public servants. Isn't it what usually happens? Can you
imagine another scenario?

>No, this is called incompetent mis-management, lack of controls over the
spending of public funds, inadequate >procurement processes and oversight by
the Ministry of Justice

Come on, you are not really that stupid. It was stealing. Nobody is that
dumb to have an estimated cost of $2 million and sign a contract for $350
million just for the software. I am sure in the original estimation, the
price of necessary programming was given and it was certainly less than
$1,000,000. Shouldn't a normal person ask a question: how come initial
estimation was 1000 times less than what the contract estimates now?
Shouldn't they ask the guy who did the original estimation whether he made
1000 times mistake?
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