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Post by brown9-2 » Fri, Oct 04, 2013, 11:52 PM UTC

mwsherman wrote: post #86

This is a misleading dataviz, I’m afraid. There are around 4 million federal personnel, of which 800k are furloughed, which means the government is running at 80%. So, at the very least, ‘Is the federal government operational?’ should be 0.8 instead of zero (aka, ‘no’). I would also expect the ‘service level’ calculator to reflect this. Update, citation from US Office of Personnel Mgmt: http://www.opm.gov/policy-data…

Post by MichaelGG » Fri, Oct 04, 2013, 11:55 PM UTC

jaggederest wrote: post #91

patmcc wrote: post #78

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What? No, that's completely untrue. We guarantee 4 nines on some of our services, but they're measured with 2 hours of allowed downtime early Sunday mornings (we usually don't need this, but very occasionally we do).

Then I'm sorry to say, you're doing 4 nines wrong.

Post by joe5150 » Sat, Oct 05, 2013, 12:00 AM UTC

shrikant wrote: post #95

aaronblohowiak wrote: post #81

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>I can only assume the rest of the RNC is going along with it because they are stupid or cowards They are not stupid; they are self-interested. With gerrymandering making many seats stable in terms of which party will win, the competition then comes from within the party; moderate GOPs face competition from the far right. If they don't tow the line, they risk losing their power. This is the end-game of gerrymandering…

OT, but I've been seeing this around a lot lately. It's "toe the line", and not "tow the line": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toe_the_line

Post by adammichaelc » Sat, Oct 05, 2013, 12:07 AM UTC

dragonwriter wrote: post #89

bmelton wrote: post #80

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> a small minority of republicans are subverting the budget process because they don't like a law So, not to get into a partisan argument (because I'm not a Republican), but the Supreme Court battle for the individual mandate imposed by the ACA circumvented the House's budgetary authority here, and that's why we're log-jammed at the moment. The Constitution prescribes that all spending bills must originate in the Hou…

> So, not to get into a partisan argument (because I'm not a Republican), but the Supreme Court battle for the individual mandate imposed by the ACA circumvented the House's budgetary authority here, and that's why we're log-jammed at the moment. This is simply false. > The Constitution prescribes that all spending bills must originate in the House. Presumably, you mean tax bills, as saying this of spending bills wou…

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Oct 05, 2013, 12:10 AM UTC

brown9-2 wrote: post #101

mwsherman wrote: post #86

This is a misleading dataviz, I’m afraid. There are around 4 million federal personnel, of which 800k are furloughed, which means the government is running at 80%. So, at the very least, ‘Is the federal government operational?’ should be 0.8 instead of zero (aka, ‘no’). I would also expect the ‘service level’ calculator to reflect this. Update, citation from US Office of Personnel Mgmt: http://www.opm.gov/policy-data…

Do you have a source for the 4 million number? Most reports this week have said 1.8 million total. Regardless of how many are furloughed versus working unpaid, not paying that many people will have a big economic impact the longer this goes on.