THIS is what happens when government doesn't have the resources it needs

[derby378]

The federal government has more than 400,000 pages of evidence against fugitive Miami doctor Armando Angulo, taking up some two terabytes of digital space. On the surface, it sounds like a pretty solid case. But at the urging of prosecutors, charges were dropped against the doctor because the evidence is simply taking up too much space on government servers.

"Continued storage of these materials is difficult and expensive," wrote Stephanie Rose, the U.S. attorney for northern Iowa, describing the ongoing evidence storage as "an economic and political hardship" for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/federal-charges-dropped-against-fugitive-doctor-because-too-184830159.html

[Proud Liberal Dem]

1. Just wait until our infrastructure really starts collapsing all around us

n/t

[Systematic Chaos]

2. Aren't 2TB hard drives like under $100 now?

Jesus Henrietta Christ what a joke.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

4. Hot DAMN I love your weight loss gadget in your sig...

congrats and keep it up. how are you feeling?

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[Systematic Chaos]

9. Thanks for the kind words! =D

Honestly I could be better. Life is very tough for my wife and I right now. But I'm hanging in there.

We now return to our regularly scheduled thread already in progress.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

7. How much $$$ could be saved

NOT raiding MMJ dispensaries in places where it has been duly legalized?

[Blue Meany]

20. Well, for you and me it would be $100, but government procurement

probably is done with a contract with Bain Capital or Haliburton...

[1-Old-Man]

26. That is simply not true and adds to the misinformation about Government efficiency

for whatever its worth normal office supplies would be purchased off of GSA approved vendors at pre-negotiated prices and nearly no overhead involved on a per unit basis at all.

Government is efficient and Government workers are too, they are not stupid, they are not lazy, and they do their best to serve the public.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

3. that is a bullshit excuse...

smacks of incompetence.

sP

[Nuclear Unicorn]

5. 2 TB drives can be bought for less than $500

[ProdigalJunkMail]

6. much less...

even for an external you can get below $180 for 2TB...

sP

[Nuclear Unicorn]

8. Alas

excuses are still cheaper.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

12. no truer words have ever been typed n/t

[Nuclear Unicorn]

14. The truth will cost you more than a cheap excuse.

Please remit $1,500.

[hobbit709]

11. try $100

[ProdigalJunkMail]

13. external??? really? (i should have looked harder)

i mean, i could put one in an enclosure i have... Fry's (closest to me) has 2TB externals for around $150-$180...

sP

OnEdit : Yep, newegg Seagate...$109...

sP

[hobbit709]

21. Frys has one on sale right now for $99.99

[JHB]

10. But can they plug into something running on Windows 95...

...or maybe TRS-DOS?

[Nuclear Unicorn]

15. I once saw

a computer that used cassette tapes like the kind people used to listen to music with. I was like, "Wooooow!

[AngryAmish]

16. I learned programming on those computers

Apple II, TRS 80.

and why yes, I do have an onion on my belt....



also, when I say programming I mean BASIC. I learned enough COBOL to get a D in CS 105 to graduate. I am not in any sense a real programmer.

[badtoworse]

17. Apple IIe for me. It felt a bit weird when I saw one in the Smithsonian.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

22. I once read a blurb that said

that an entire generation is now clicking the icon of a floppy disk to save their files but none of them has ever seen an actual floppy disk.

[JHB]

23. Worse still, the floppy icon they're clicking...

...is the one that doesn't have a big donut-hole in the center.

The 5 1/2-inch disks (and the (jeez!) 8 inchers) are even older.

[badtoworse]

24. The first computer with a hard drive that I used had 10 MB of storage...

...and I was blown away. I'll never use up up that much capacity.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

19. TRS 80 here...

still have it...don't know where any of the old tapes went, though.

sP

OnEdit : Got a IIc a little later in life...kinda laptopish thing with a handle and a little green monitor...

[truth2power]

18. ...storage...is difficult... I am getting so sick of hearing this. U.S. attorneys, including

his highness Eric Holder, whining about how they can't do their jobs because "it's difficult".

We need a list of jobs that really are "difficult". I'll start:

coal-mining
working at WalMart

Maybe these attorneys need a career change if they're too lazy to do the job they were hired to do.

[HopeHoops]

25. You can get a 1TB USB hard drive for under $100 at OfficeMax.

[nykym]

27. There must be some really

incriminating evidence in those files affecting a large number of people.
Only logical reason I can see for this action.

[hunter]

28. Yep. Too many big fish in that net.

Danger of leaks too high.

[Egalitarian Thug]

29. Resources is not the reason for this, but your point is still valid.

This is about not prosecuting sanctioned drug dealers. It's about all those inconvenient facts regarding the corporate welfare system supporting Big Pharma, and rampant looting of taxpayer $ through Medicare(aid?). It's about power.