Saturday, October 19, 2013

If people can't use the web site, they can use the 800 number!

(To talk to people struggling with the same data center that's tossing its digital cookies.)

Breaking the rules, here is a comment:
If a million people have to call 1-800-F1UCK-YO to register, and each person takes one hour of the time of the person on the far end, in the next four months, and we assume they can only answer the phone at reasonable hours. that would require about 1,500 people answering the phone if we ignore queueing theory.  Sadly, queueing theory is unavoidable.

To serve a million call hours in the next four months with "servers" (phone answerers) in an M/D/k queue.... hell, if I could answer that I'd have a PhD in computer science.

Day 1, 8 A.M.: "BO has cut the deficit (he created) in half (all of which is because of the budget deal BO made, which includes the Sequester)." Day 1 8:05 A.M.: "The Tea Party Sequester is starving kids and must be repealed!"

A day in the life.

Voting against a debt ceiling increase, and making an elaborate speech justifying your vote, is OK as long as it's pointless obstructionism. If it has a chance of succeeding, it's evil.

Would you believe?

Oh, wait, this is actually what was argued...

Asking for an increase on your maxed-out credit card on Thursday has nothing to do with using your credit card on Friday

And anyone who says otherwise is a liar.

Using the Constitution to seek a one year delay in the individual mandate is terrorism, but the President doing it himself is discretion.

Would you believe?

Ted Cruz Linked to Hacker Cabal Denial-of-Service Attack on Healthcare.gov

Would you believe?

Only if you're Ko Sin Don!

(Totally made up.  Except for the DOS part.)