What an utter joke that the nation that invented the internet, and will have spent
over $100 TRILLION on just the regular federal budget (that's is not even counting off budget items, etc) in just my lifetime (1996 onward) by the time the next POTUS election rolls around cannot even make a state of the art vaccinated database, let alone upgrade it's scandalously shit computers system for ALL of the federal government. It still uses shite from the 1950's and 60's in multiple areas ffs.
It is a fucking national disgrace. It really is a joke. We built one from scratch in Sweden in a few months for what would still be chump change for the US even if it was designed the US population versus the Swedish one. It also is hooked into the pan EU system, and the EU has far more people (around 115 million more even after the UK fucked off) than the US. There will be a complete pan European system, and now we are talking about three quarters of a billion people.
I watched on in horror at the COVID payments serial cock-ups. The US government's technological infrastructure is on par with a third tier European nation. It is more Slovenia than Silicon Valley. Even its nuclear launch system is a dinosaur. It still uses 1950s-era assembly language code in some areas, and up until 20 months ago, 8 inch floppy discs from the 60/70's era.
I am just gobsmacked that this is tolerated.
= new reply since forum marked as read
It did catch me off guard.
❤Stay encouraged.
