Large government IT projects have high failure rates because they bring in consultants who by design are quick in and out and take the money. A better approach would be to hire a cadre of permanent full timers who will own and maintain this from start to finish. Architecture and design need to be in house. Then you can outsource small teams to build modules when appropriate.

Governments unwillingness to hire great software people, and pay the required salaries is why we get into these pickles.

Edit: from the government’s perspective this was a $290 million boondoggle.

To a consulting firm, this was a 290 million revenue stream pulled out of an $86 million dollar contract.

That’s the reel.

There is always at least one.

What a stupid article. US pressures to up spending by supporting fucking Russia and by abandoning democracy and free markets for autocracy and kleptocracy and ultimately by declaring themselves as an unreliable partner who can’t even be assumed to act in its own interest.

Not sciency enough. Moths don’t know the word lamp. They do not crave lamp, because they do not know lamp.

To moth, there is only sun and moon. Lamp is sun and moon and sun and moon is lamp.

Black markets in others currencies.

Not until the NDP or unions buy or build their own media outlets.

I like you. ;)

How does moving address admin shortages?

" It gets in people’s lungs and affects them pretty much the same way smoking does. Without the nicotine “rush”."

So what your saying is, to mitigate climate change, we should be cutting down select forests and replacing them with an 80/20 mix of marijuana and tobbaco? Dat’s some Deep Adaptation right there.

“Are we the baddies?”

New kink unlocked.

The first edition of On the Origins of Species by charles Darwin didn’t originally sell well because he waxed poetically about “all life’s duty to please booty”. He also could be bothered with taxanomic nomenclature and called most creatures bootyus maximus.

“That bird has a curved beak!” His assistant would say. “But look at the curves on the other end. Thicc” would all too often be his reply.

It’s like natural SRM. Climate change is solved, once and for all? /s

But you can’t cull humans and distribute the meat to elephants. The elephants are too smart and have good taste.

It is a well understood phenomena that prison guards are among the worst people.

Consolidation of farmland by corporations has been accelerating for 30 years. A world dominated by climate change will be one where access to food and it’s weaponized counterpart, the absence of food, will be a strategic resource in the conflicts to come.

Who knew putting your head in the sand would be seen as a viable strategy?

Maybe bury the rest of your body too.

Nothing says “warrior culture” than being terrified of natural phenomenon.

And a smidgeon or three of PFAS and plastics and heavy metals.