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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (448342)	1/17/2009 5:51:06 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576660

"Nobody gives a crap about bumper stickers or unplugged telephones." The White House did. If you had actually read the report, you'd know a lot of the complaints were just that. "But destroying office equipment" What office equipment was that? There were reports of some broken furniture, but that happens over the years. Having worked for the state of Texas, pretty much every office had at least one piece of damaged office furniture. Nothing that was clearly vandalism. "and writing graffiti" Graffiti had been noted before. In this case, there were exactly two cases that checked out. The others were stray pencil or pen marks. Which happen. "The GAO put the cost at about $15K, including some $5,000 to replace destroyed keyboards. " Now you are making stuff up. Assuming their accounts were correct, and the GAO reports indicates the White House exaggerated many things, most of the replaced keyboards were not destroyed. Some had stuck space bars and assumed to be glued down. However, as you know, that is a failure mode of keyboards. Others were dirty. Which, as you should know, happens in an office. Finally, there was the removed 'W' keycaps or had the 'W' whited out. Which, apparently, the Bush staffers were unable to put back in place. But, such a keyboard is far from destroyed. Whiteout does no destroy a keyboard and even one where the user couldn't figure out how to put the keycap on can still be used. "No honest person can say there is evidence to suggest that '00 was no worse than any other transition." See, there you go again. We do know that pranks did occur in the past, something you denied ever happened earlier. Then in the face of proof you were FOS, suddenly you shift course and argue that it was worse than in the past. Something that, if you had read the report, you'd know is false. The GAO interviewed people who had been involved in past transitions as well as the one in 2001. Some said it was worse, others said it was less. So it likely depended on where you were and what you saw. Which tells you it, if it existed at all, wasn't widespread.