tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post8689314672852406372..comments2024-03-27T01:58:22.445-07:00Comments on The Gazetteer: This Day In Clarkland...All Your IT Outsourcings 'R UsRossKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07677239332112652522noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-3794340168375432242015-08-25T21:40:52.178-07:002015-08-25T21:40:52.178-07:00IBM AU cock up worth AUD$1B?
IBM tries to dodge $...IBM AU cock up worth AUD$1B?<br /><br /><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/25/ibm_tries_to_dodge_1bn_sueball_for_ethical_transgressions/" rel="nofollow">IBM tries to dodge $1bn sueball for deal won with 'ethical transgressions'</a><br /><br /><i>"The dispute started in 2007 when IBM bid AU$6million for a payroll project at the State's Department of Health. The project blew out beyond the billion-dollar mark but didn't deliver: the Department's thousands of staff were overpaid, underpaid, or sometimes not paid at all."</i><br /><br />Sure glad nothing like that would happen in BC!<b><i>!</i></b>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-64364733198891917262015-08-22T01:20:11.994-07:002015-08-22T01:20:11.994-07:00Terry Lake isn't answering questions?????? M...Terry Lake isn't answering questions?????? Must be a Con and not a B.C. Lieberal. <br /><br />There is Steve who won't answer questions. Now another Con has said he won't answer questions until after the election. Well I can only say, we have now seen Terry's true colours. <br /><br />If we could ever get the RCMP to quit harassing people who own motorcycles perhaps we could get them to look into things like politicians doing bad things or some such thing.e.a.f.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-33895007060639882182015-08-16T09:00:52.766-07:002015-08-16T09:00:52.766-07:00And note that the minister, Terry Lake, is refusin...And note that the minister, Terry Lake, is refusing to answer any questions about the debacle, hiding behind an emailed statement crafted by communication staff and political appointees. (In a process now being revealed at the Duffy trial.) paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11003637352818760817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-35539033609521230792015-08-16T08:39:35.733-07:002015-08-16T08:39:35.733-07:00Something about forcing BC Hydro to purchase $56 b...Something about forcing BC Hydro to purchase $56 billion worth of private IPP power, because importing supposedly dirty power from the U.S. is bad, although the BC govt is desperate to export LNG, which is a greenhouse gas, on ships which would travel 7,000 km across the Pacific Ocean, spewing GHG all the way.Hughnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-74669223662105808912015-08-15T23:38:26.492-07:002015-08-15T23:38:26.492-07:00scotty--
I fear that, without the prosecution, it...scotty--<br /><br />I fear that, without the prosecution, it will be the rubification of everything.<br /><br />______<br /><br />Anon-Above--<br /><br />Really?<br /><br />I know that the Saanich thing was squashed but I had no idea that folks weren't allowed to do Open Source stuff...That's crazy.<br /><br />.RossKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07677239332112652522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-75601413590808830172015-08-15T21:35:58.786-07:002015-08-15T21:35:58.786-07:00We will find out on September 8 how well the lates...We will find out on September 8 how well the latest proprietary boondoggle works when myEDBC comes into play for BC's K - 12 kids.<br /><br />http://trn.myeducation.gov.bc.ca/aspen/logon.do<br /><br />And to think that a dedicated group of teachers were threatened with insubordination if they continued to work on an Open Source program.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-5241785164976558622015-08-15T19:35:36.860-07:002015-08-15T19:35:36.860-07:00breach of fudiciary duty
breach of public trust
or...breach of fudiciary duty<br />breach of public trust<br />or keep believing the pr,promo,ads,propa?<br /><br />search<br /> rcmp corprate crimeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-45442608219644693762015-08-15T18:43:56.558-07:002015-08-15T18:43:56.558-07:00Neo-rightism, practiced as vigorously as it is by ...Neo-rightism, practiced as vigorously as it is by the BC Liberal government, is so blatantly bad it makes criticism of it sound necessarily ---and unfortunately---rhetorical ("freedom" allowing "difference of opinion" is a basic neo-right philosophy effectively deployed everywhere these days.) It founds Christy's stylized whopperism, and her government's general absurdism, which, incidentally, marks a line crossed, no retreat possible. And they'd say it was us who granted them licence to pillage the public weal with impunity.<br /><br />Neo-rightism beggars public enterprise directed by citizens through their elected governments, the idea being to provide erstwhile public goods and services for private profit, without public interference of any kind. The agenda requires citizens to become and remain rubes, and certain favoured private interests to collude in selling the public pigs in a poke. Lies have to be believed, and liars have to be rewarded.<br /><br />Incremental bankrupting of public enterprise as BC Liberal cronies sell us things we don't need, or gouge the piss out of us for things we do (when provided privately for profit) is Gordo's legacy (he converted to piecemeal sabotage after the whole-hog, corrupt sale of BCR got him into trouble.) Pulling it off once or twice---well, maybe---but consecutive, consistently money-losing gambits must eventually prove these alleged efficiency improvements are actually coordinated acts of sabotage. Why then aren't these breaches of public trust prosecuted? It's a crime, right?<br /><br />SmartMeters, BC Ferries, IPPs, P3s---you name it---all bankrupt what they're supposed to not bankrupt. This is the part we rubes aren't supposed to notice. The "nice man" recommended by the BC Liberals will then magnanimously take the defunct public enterprise off our hands for pennies on the dollar---the part we rubes are supposed to accept. It's our democratic freedom, and the BC Liberals stand on guard.<br /><br />Forget what rubes we've been. This shit should be prosecuted whether we're too dumb to figure it out or not.scotty on denmannoreply@blogger.com