Not to mention the Windows 95 Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry... thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ypXfodOu-s
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Not sure what to say.
As it turns out other people have different priorities than you do. The world not conforming to your personal preferences does not make it wrong.
I watched the call in the article. Given the severance they're getting I think they did the most humane thing possible.
Edit: assuming the borrower is current.
Also for that amount of data it'd be faster to transfer as a stationwagon full of backup tapes (https://aws.amazon.com/snowball).
This one thing I've thought about. People seem to assume it's bureaucracy within government that's the issue when really it's bureaucracy among government.
At a minimum there's Federal, State, County, Municipal. Then you might have other specially formed districts for transportation or whatnot. There's no "the government". There's many governments and trying to get them all to agree on a coordinated plan for anything beyond the status quo seems next to impossible. The Bay Area is a perfect example of this. It's all one region. For all intents and purposes municipalities are pointless. It's just one giant organism. But some counties didn't want to join BART, some are more NIMBY, some don't want to construct housing, and so on.
Could anybody familiar with other better functioning countries maybe compare this system to one that is known to work better?
This is one reason why people in the middle to lower middle class resent the system. The system will only take care of you if you are indigent. If you're upper class you're wealthy enough to take care of your own problems. Of course I think their grievance ends up being that somebody else got something they didn't instead of demanding they receive the same benefits (affordable healthcare).