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boss given you a crappy chair? crash the governments computers!

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danny_galaga:

--- Quote from: ark_ader on October 14, 2008, 03:01:58 pm ---

Your press almost sounds as bad as my local rag, but with definitely better weather reports!   ;D

--- End quote ---

well, it IS a newscorp paper  ;D

danny_galaga:


this article elaborates a little more:

http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2008/10/08/8185_ntnews.html

if you have to fly people in from interstate, i can see where some of the costs they claim are coming from. especially when things like 10000 public servants dont get paid that week, that gets messy...

Robbbert:
Sounds like crap, the Northern Territory would be lucky to have 10,000 ppl living there.
The place is mostly an outback desert.

danny_galaga:

--- Quote from: Robbbert on October 15, 2008, 07:29:09 am ---Sounds like crap, the Northern Territory would be lucky to have 10,000 ppl living there.
The place is mostly an outback desert.

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northern territory, AUSTRALIA. not north west territories, CANADA  ;)

from wiki, the NT's pop is 218,000. Darwin is the capital, i think more than half the pop lives there, which is where im from. and i know from two friends who worked at DCIS (the organisation that runs the governments computers) that they always have state of the art stuff. sometimes the first in australia. my theory was that if its new tech, and it stuffs up, better to test it out on a small population first  ;D  anyway, if its cutting edge equipment then the guys who come in to fix it (probably from canberra) are not going to be giving any discounts...

of course, the government are going to beat up the costs in the court hearing, but it still seems to me like it could run a lot of money to straighten out.

Robbbert:
I know you meant Australia... I live in Sydney, and I can look out the window and see a bigger population than lives in the Territory.

Still, 10k public servants is a very high ratio of govt to non-govt workers.
Should be able to run the place with 1000 public servants, imo.

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