Monday, July 21, 2014

Daily Caller: "IRS Reports EVEN MORE Computer Crashes"

"IRS Deputy Associate Chief Counsel Thomas Kane said in transcribed congressional testimony that more IRS officials experienced computer crashes, bringing the total number of crash victims to “less than 20,” and also said that the agency does not know if the lost emails are still backed up somewhere."

"The new round of computer crash victims includes David Fish, who routinely corresponded with Lois Lerner, as well as Lerner subordinate Andy Megosh, Lerner’s technical adviser Justin Lowe, and Cincinnati-based agent Kimberly Kitchens."


24 comments:

Icepick said...

But you know, absolutely NOTHING could have POSSIBLY been done wrong at the IRS.

Shouting Thomas said...

Wow! It's epidemic!

XRay said...

Stating the obvious I know. But people should be going to jail over this crap.

AllenS said...

Once they (IRS) figured out that nobody with any authority in this administration was going to do anything, they went all in. They could care less what it looks like. Nothing is going to happen.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Other departments are watching and learning how its done.

Synova said...

That was funny.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

Surely if we defund the government then they would be able to afford more sophisticated, less crash-prone computers. Or something.

AllenS said...

The IRS computers seem to work just fine when they want my and everyone else's money.

But, you knew that, didn't you R&B.

Methadras said...

This is nothing more than scatter gun effects. In order to hide the true crime, they've now committed even more.

Look everyone, it isn't just Lois Lerners HD that is gone, here's 20 more. Shocking.

Chip S. said...

$20K per employee is a big enough IT budget to assure adequate data storage. But no amount of money is enough to assure honesty in this administration.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

That's what they were designed for, Allen.

But as we saw with the VA, if you want them to be more advanced than they were in the 1980s, that takes cash.

Defund the IRS' computers!

Chip S. said...

"Just give a thoroughly corrupt gov more money and all will be well," says Ritmo the Denier.

It's obvious why people think they're being lied to about global temps when progs lie so transparently about other stuff.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

Oh Chip. How could I ever doubt your expertise in IT resource budgets when you get them from opinion pieces in partisan rags and use them to retreat from acknowledging how a 1980s computer system in the VA came to persist into 2014?

Pay no attention to the Republicans running government until 2006 and one house of one branch from 2010. Somehow it must be a Democratic failure.

Please hand over some of what you're smoking. Not because it's wrong, but because it apparently grants you total intellectual immunity!!!

Seriously. With all the Marvel-franchised movies being rebooted lately the time has surely come for pundits in superhero costumes. An unpleasant fact revealed? An uncomfortable political opinion described? Conservative-Political-Man will save the day! Disinformation away! My disinformation stun gun will do the trick! Quick, Robin, get it from my utility belt!

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

"The party permanently at war with government is in no way responsible for any dysfunctional government operations."

-- Pundit Man.

Shouting Thomas said...

Ritmo has read one of the worst hack job editorials in New York Times history.

I read it, and laughed in wonder.

The argument is that the IRS was forced into poverty, and thus the attack on the Tea Party.

So, the solution to an impeachable offense on the part of the Obama admin, which was to set in motion this attack, using the IRS as a weapon, is to give the IRS more money! Give the offending, rogue institution more cash!

Ritmo in this case is sort of like one of those Zeks in the Gulag who thinks that the problem is that the saboteurs really are responsible for the utter failure of the Soviet Union.

I always think of Solzhenitzn when I read this argument.

Ritmo the debased party apparatchik. All the while imagining himself a rebel against entrenched authority.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

Hahaha Dude. At least I'm not a party apparatchik for a political movement that ended 30 years ago - like you are. Lol. Get with the times, Geezer. Stop hatin' on the living. Stop blowdrying your ball sack.

XRay said...

Making excuses, our political class since... well, post Andrew Jackson. At the least he could man the fuck up.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

It's not that I reject the idea that Republicans could run things well. I just want to know what evidence I have for it -- esp. after 25 years of hearing them tell me that their job is to NOT run things well. After all, it's part of the government and the government can/should/will only mess up.

I wish I could tell my boss that I have an ideological objection to our organization's competent success. Well, I actually don't. But maybe I'm not Republican enough to understand the benefit of taking such an approach.

XRay said...

"“The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.”"

"Over the last few weeks, this picture has been circulating on the Internet. According to RationalWiki, that sentence must be attributed to Alberto Brandolini, an Italian independent software development consultant [1]. I’ve checked with Alberto and, unless someone else claims paternity of this absolutely brilliant statement, it seems that he actually is the original author. Here is what seems to be the very first appearance of what must, from now on, be known as the Brandolini’s law (or, as Alberto suggests, the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle):"


http://ordrespontane.blogspot.fr/2014/07/brandolinis-law.html

Some should get a clue.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

All I ever needed to know about political bullshit I learned from Newscorp and its voracious consumers here.

The Party of No Government has no credibility in running government and it takes some wacky hallucinogenic bullshit for anyone to believe otherwise.

Admit it. You don't believe otherwise. You just want to win. You want power. But the credibility of being able to get the job done when it comes to jobs they never want (they'd rather be talking heads on AM radio) is just not there. And won't be for the foreseeable future.

Seriously. Republicans for Competent Government has all the credibility of Atheists for Christ. Virgins for Better Sex. No one's going to buy it. They have no reason to.

Follow your bliss instead: Power by other means.

XRay said...

Thus proving the point.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

Thus you never made one.

Chip S. said...

It doesn't take much managerial skill to improve on this shit. All it takes is being just a little bit less corrupt.

Seriously, buddy, I don't think your party is well situated to run on Competence any time soon.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

Is that a thought you got from another opinion piece?