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Loki

(3,825 posts)
11. And you know when this will get done?
Thu May 26, 2016, 09:09 PM
May 2016

Probably never. The cost will never pass muster with any republican. Most people have absolutely no idea what the standards are for the National Archives and how our government stores its records. I only have to go to my son who works for a contractor for the DHS in the Immigration and Naturalization department. They store over 25 million files at the facility where he works, paper files and run on a computer system that hasn't been upgraded in years. When I found out yesterday listening to Rachel that our Nuclear Arsenal system is run on computers from the last ice age with floppy discs, it made me angry. We are this close to being a non-functional government if we can't even keep up to date on computer systems that can work in this ever changing data environment. My home computer is probably safer and more secure than our government. Oh, and I love the fallacy that Condi Rice never used email. How in the hell did she communicate with State, smoke signals?

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