Things I'm Not Surprised About
October 25, 2013. I was
watching the morning news over my cup of coffee, while the headlines were
reported in the normal, startling fashion.
As I watched, it struck me how unsurprising the headlines were. Here’s a few:
·
Angela Merkel (Prime Minister of Germany) is
angry that the NSA was monitoring her phone calls. Wow!
Really? For those of us who
haven’t noticed, the NSA was monitoring all foreign phone calls (and probably
ours as well). I’d be mad if someone was
monitoring my calls… (and they probably are).
I’m going to learn Ojibwa and only speak in that language to throw them
off for a week or two until they hire an Ojibwa translator. Babiigomakakiis.
· Brett Favre has memory loss from playing in the
NFL. The NFL, of course, denies that
getting crushed by 300 pound men on a very regular basis is bad for you. I wonder if you went to a doctor and said, “My
job requires me to get hit in the head every Sunday for a couple of hours.”, if
she’d think it was a good idea. I used
to kick box, I stopped when I figured out there was a better use of my head
than stopping punches or feet.
· The government has spent twice as much on the
Obamacare website as Apple did developing the iPhone. According to the GAO report from June, the
Federal Facilitated Exchanges cost $394 million, of which about $363 million
was for technology. That was through
March. CGI Federal (memo to self to take
them off our supplier list) charged $93.7 million to build Healthcare.gov,
which doesn’t work (or works very slowly, since about 20 million have visited
the site, but only about 18 thousand have actually been able to sign up). According to Fred Vogelstein, Apple only spent
about $150 million to develop the iPhone (note:
I think that number is low).
So the shocking news of the day? The NSA has been hacking phones, getting hit
in the head is bad for you, and the government spends lots of money on things
that don’t work. It appears that we’ll
now have ‘tech surge’ to fix the website.
Maybe they should hire Apple to fix it.
Gigawabamin Nagutch,
Leon