Texas Congressarmadillo Steve Stockman, veteran of such memorable stunts as inviting Ted Nugent to join him for the State of the Union Address and tongue-kissing the Obama Rodeo Clown guy (which we'd somehow forgotten...How did our republic ever weather that crisis?), had this tech-savvy insight today, which an aide probably explained to him as he tapped it out with two fingers.
Republicans: Obamacare is an assault on our freedoms that will destroy America. And the worst part is that the website to use to sign up for it doesn't even work!
I don't know about other people, but healthcare.gov worked fine for me. It loaded promptly when I navigated to it, and then after having me answer a few questions it smoothly and seamlessly switched me to the website for my state's (New York) health exchange, which took me the rest of the way. No hiccups, not even a hint of a glitch.
In terms of ease of use, I could compare my experience of using healthcare.gov to tossing a stick off my back porch, but that wouldn't really be fair, because tossing the stick is much harder.
Reminds me of a gentleman I knew in the City some years ago, who said in all seriousness "We can put a man on the moon but we have to watch the Giants on tape delay."
2. One thing that does bother me is that is appears that the prime contractors do have a couple of resume items that were pretty big fuck ups. This says that somebody, who should have been paying unblinking attention to ensuring the minimum possible risk, didn't do a very good job. On the most significant tech management task of the last decade or so.
Rad! As a young person in today's electorate, I thank Stumpy Stockman for framing this whole Obamacare situation in the hip fresh language of 80's video gaming so that I too can understand what's going on. I'm totes voting Republican now.
These are the same fuckers who at one time jeered Al Gore for his "information superhighway."
They are totally knowledgeable about technology, like how it is the square battery in your overtoast alarm that will shut off that dad-burn infernal beepin'.
So basically, with too many people trying to log on, it's like a Denial of Service attack. Denying service is exactly what the GOP wants to do, so why are they bitching?
Geez! The food at this restaurant is terrible, and such small portions, too!
Republicans: Obamacare is an assault on our freedoms that will destroy America. And the worst part is that the website to use to sign up for it doesn't even work!
I don't know about other people, but healthcare.gov worked fine for me. It loaded promptly when I navigated to it, and then after having me answer a few questions it smoothly and seamlessly switched me to the website for my state's (New York) health exchange, which took me the rest of the way. No hiccups, not even a hint of a glitch.
In terms of ease of use, I could compare my experience of using healthcare.gov to tossing a stick off my back porch, but that wouldn't really be fair, because tossing the stick is much harder.
St. Ronnie Reagan's entire political career is summarized by H.L. Mencken.
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong."
Reminds me of a gentleman I knew in the City some years ago, who said in all seriousness "We can put a man on the moon but we have to watch the Giants on tape delay."
1. What you said.
2. One thing that does bother me is that is appears that the prime contractors do have a couple of resume items that were pretty big fuck ups. This says that somebody, who should have been paying unblinking attention to ensuring the minimum possible risk, didn't do a very good job. On the most significant tech management task of the last decade or so.
Oh, for fuck's sake.
Ok from now on it has to be a qualification if you cant design a interweb site you can not be prezeedint
Rad! As a young person in today's electorate, I thank Stumpy Stockman for framing this whole Obamacare situation in the hip fresh language of 80's video gaming so that I too can understand what's going on. I'm totes voting Republican now.
These are the same fuckers who at one time jeered Al Gore for his "information superhighway."
They are totally knowledgeable about technology, like how it is the square battery in your overtoast alarm that will shut off that dad-burn infernal beepin'.
I'm guessing it also had to be IE1.0 compatible to help reach more of the target audience.
<i>now it&rsquo;s time for the problems of the Healthcare.gov website to turn into a crisis</i>
Yeah, but it will be totally worth it if we can prevent just one poor kid from getting a free flu shot.
At this rate of inflation, the wingnutz will have the system costing over a billion by the end of the week.
So basically, with too many people trying to log on, it&#039;s like a Denial of Service attack. Denying service is exactly what the GOP wants to do, so why are they bitching?