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Foodstamp Nation In Turmoil: EBT System Goes Dark, "Glitch" Blamed
In the past five years it has become apparent that America can survive a near-fatal financial system collapse, an economy teetering on the edge and kept ticking only thanks to the Fed's now perpetual QE, a collapsing standard of living for everyone but the wealthiest 0.1%, declining wages, zero interest rates, surging food, energy, rent, tuition and welfare costs, and pretty much everything else, as long as the welfare state keeps humming along. Any be welfare state we mostly mean providing the daily bread to the nearly 50 million Americans living in poverty and surviving only thanks to the only thing to have exploded to epic record highs under Obama (in addition to the Fed's balance sheet of course): foodstamp usage. However, the true stability of the US may be tested very soon following reports that due to a "possible computer glitch" the Electronic Benefits Transfer System, aka EBT, ala Foodstamps, is offline. Cue mass panic among the best-weaponized population in the world. Naturally, this latest fiasco involving a country that has grown accustomed to sucking on the government's teat was immediately blamed on a "glitch" - just like everything else that is slowly but surely breaking in the New Normal.
CBS reports:
Reports from around the country began pouring in around 9 a.m. on Saturday that customers’ EBT cards were not working in stores. The glitch, however, did not appear to be part of the government shutdown. At 2 p.m., an EBT customer service representative told CBS Boston that the system was currently down for a computer system upgrade.
The representative said the glitch is affecting people nationwide. She could not say when officials expected the system to be restored.
People calling the customer service line were being told to call back later.
State officials said they were preparing a statement to further explain the issue.
The federal EBT website was unavailable due to the government shutdown.
People in Ohio, Michigan and several other states found themselves unable to use their food stamp debit cards on Saturday, after a routine check by vendor Xerox Corp. resulted in a system failure. Shoppers from Maine to Oklahoma had to abandon baskets of groceries because they couldn't access their benefits.
Ohio's cash and food assistance card payment systems went down at 11 a.m., said Benjamin Johnson, a spokesman for the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. Ohio's cash system has been fixed, however its electronic benefits transfer card system is still down. All states that use Xerox systems are affected by the outage.
Xerox spokeswoman Karen Arena confirmed via email Saturday afternoon that some EBT systems are experiencing temporary connectivity issues. She said technical staff is addressing the issue and expects the system to be restored soon.
As a reminder, this is how many Americans and households were on foodstamps as of the most recent monthly update (hint: a record).
And now, it's time for the sequel to @MrEBT's hit masterpiece: "My EBT... has been rejected."
Xerox Statement on Temporary EBT Systems Outage
During a routine test of our back-up systems Saturday morning, Xerox’s Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) system experienced a temporary shutdown. While the system is now up and running, beneficiaries in the 17 affected states continue to experience connectivity issues to access their benefits. This disruption impacts EBT beneficiaries who rely on the system for SNAP and WIC. Technical staff is addressing the issue and expect the system to be restored soon. Beneficiaries requiring access to their benefits can work with their local retailers who can activate an emergency voucher system where available. We appreciate our clients’ patience while we work through this outage as quickly as possible.
In short: Cue panic, because while the Nasdaq may be down for 3 hours and only a few vacuum tubes would notice, take down EBT, and you will have a full-fledged revolution in no time.
NOBODIES EBT CARD IS GOING THRU AT WALMART
—
Jazmen Ashley (@jazmen04o25) October 12, 2013
EBT cards in many states aren’t working today, and as you might expect, some Walmart shoppers aren’t very happy.
"@Creamteam_bitch: Government done shut down the #EBT cards in Ga… These folks going crazy in walmart lol"swearrrr—
J A N A E (@JanaeHudson) October 12, 2013
Walmart just made an announcement on the intercom that EBT for the state of Georgia is down…there are now full carts Left everywhere #awk—
Kelly gentry (@KellyKgentry23) October 12, 2013
EBT is down so Walmart is complete chaos right now, so glad I'm leaving in 2 hours—
Chelsey Oliveira (@chelseyoliveira) October 12, 2013
EBT down at walmart and MF going crazy!—
Lorena Bobbitt (@iNoUliKmYdReAdZ) October 12, 2013
THEY DONE SHUT DOWN EBT CARDS IN MISSISSIPPI…… Walmart fulla mad motha fuckas right now—
J.Thrash (@dreadsANDretros) October 12, 2013
I almost just killed some people at Walmart, EBT is apparently down today #madhouse—
cassidy davis (@cassEdav) October 12, 2013
EBT isnt being accepted at walmart and people are going crazy.—
Rudy Huxtable ? (@ForevaHisBadass) October 12, 2013
Walmart is in here announcing they not taking EBT due to state wide issues ???? ppl in here PISSED! Lol—
MS. UPTOWN (@MZUPTOWN) October 12, 2013
Heard a fight broke out at Walmart cause ppl EBT card stopped working lmao—
Pricetag (@AtoDa) October 12, 2013
in Huntsville Alabama,they are refusing ebt/food stamp cards at walmart. my daughter works there and says it's getting really bad—
dani (@danid373) October 12, 2013
Working at walmart while EBT is fucking up <<< I just might get shot today. Lol.—
. (@_KaylaJeann) October 12, 2013
Then again, every cloud has its silver lining:
OMG. MULTIPLE LANES OPEN! CASHIERS BEGGING FOR CUSTOMERS! IF ONLY EBT MACHINES WERE DOWN EVERY DAY!!!!! (at @walmart) 4sq.com/18YjLvZ—
Carolyn Ingold (@angelady1127) October 12, 2013
#EBT down?! Sweet, I can go to Walmart today! It'll be empty!!—
KatieKaBoom (@Katie_Ka_Boom1) October 12, 2013
Welcome to the Obama economy.
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So Tylers is there any correlation between you title and the color of the majority of EBT users?
DaddyO
It's named after Obama's second off record son; Erin Bashar Tyrone.
11/11/13 bitches - everything goes dark.
WOW, so I guess making a joke at the Tylers expense is verbotten?
No sense of humor!
DaddyO
http://images.angelpub.com/2011/17/8344/food-stamp-usage-chart.jpg
Might have some correlation to the financial nuke that went off in 2008...
http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/food/Screen%20Shot%202012-09...
http://www.thewovenmoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/SNAP-demograph...
And where they're located..
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2011/11/01/some-15-of-u-s-uses-food-stamp...
I been sayin' for a long long time that if somebody wanted to fuck US over, all they gotta do is freeze/takedown the EBT system and Viol-Fuckin-A you got a lotta hungry pissed off less than civil (some of which, BTW is downright violent) people out there all of a sudden.
And then there's K Sebalius's view of the ObieCareSystem's not working, too (Very funny)
http://www.naturalnews.com/042461_Kathleen_Sebelius_acid_trip_Obamacare....
Fuck US over or finally have a goddamn revolution? Patriots could take down the EBT to achieve that aim. The only thing that will force the unwashed masses to revolt is EBT being cut for weeks.
I'm a thinkin' along the lines of some good olde fashioned Cyber-Warfare to Fuck Things Up
In any case, it'll be blamed on the Republicans at this moment in time... shutting down the gubamint...
That's because it's
George Bush's fault!
Aha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Aha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Aha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
sick fuck
blurble, drool, throws stuff at people...
Dry run bitchez
It’s free! Swipe Yo EBT Free!
Swipe Yo EBT
It’s free! Swipe Yo EBT Free!
Swipe Yo EBT It’s free!
You had me to get it all free
Now yall need to be sitting here now
Let’s go get this money
Man I want some subway
Hot Cheetos
Some Starburst
Fish and French fries
Some Jolly Rancher
Lemonade
A mamma! What? Did they approve us for section 8
don’t want go to Granny’s house anymore, anymore! I want some airheads
Hot Cheetos I want some nachos Oh I want some pizza
Noodles- Ravioli Ohh!
I want a pickle with some Kool-Aid
See that’s just ghetto
You’ll want too much stuff I want everything in the store
It’s free! Swipe Yo EBT Free!
Swipe Yo EBT
You had me to get it all free
Only about 15 or 16 million more on the roles since BO first perjured himself to "preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States".
Youtube of TIS song with nasty lyrics:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzspsovNvII
Speaking of dry runs...
Glitch my ass.....Obama wants pain.
I smell a hit disaster movie:
We gots no EBT!
Didn't you see World War Z?
From a couple years ago, a one-time outage of bennies...imagine a week, two?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXgXHgXlD-E
Gimme, gimme, gimme...
#EBTBreakingBad
Cost of livin' gets so high,
Rich and poor they start to cry:
Now the weak must get strong;
They say, "Oh, what a tribulation!"
Them belly full, but we hungry;
A hungry mob is a angry mob.
Bob Marley, "Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)"
EBT.....
Electronic Bubkis Transfer?
48 hours... Let the count down begin...
3 days without food means people stop acting rationally.
Brains! Must. Have. Brains!
One day in the probable likely future, EBT cards will only work in your friendly, neighborhood FEMA camp.
See...this is the problem (among many):
"Reports from around the country began pouring in around 9 a.m. on Saturday that customers’ EBT cards were not working in stores."
They are not a "customer". It implies they have their own money, that they earned and are willing to part with it at a going private concern for a price they agree with, for parting with it...like a grocery store.
Its just bitching about means of payment.
This would NOT BE A PROBLEM...if EBT card users went to a government store for surplus, government subsidized cheese, bought from a private producer.
Would it? ;-)
A man cannot live by cheese alone.
Where be da Twinkies, yo?
Dey's got that spray cheez...hmmm, spray cheez on a Twinkie....
Exactly, to you both.
How does one describe reality to...someone living and being taught, in an alternate universe?
You can't.
All I can say is, sorry for their luck and I understand their compliance to their masters desires but their masters desires are at complete variance to mine.
So they...and their masters...will have to fight me.
There is no turning back now.
Imagine when the Soylent Green runs out.
yo mean World war ETB .....
And the food riots will be televised as entertainment
Bread+Ciruses - Bread = Circuses squared
Television is so 20th century.
Are you ready for real FPS action?
Even prominent black Americans are basically calling Obama & his supporters Wall Street whores & Uncle Toms.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/cornel-west-attacks-al-sharpton-bonafide-...
Cornel West Attacks Al Sharpton: ‘Bonafide House Negro of the Obama Plantation’
by Andrew Kirell | 4:14 pm, August 30th, 2013
Cornel West tore into many of this week’s speeches surrounding the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.‘s “I Have a Dream” speech, accusing everyone from President Obama to Rev. Al Sharpton of “sanitizing” Dr. King’s vision.
“Brother Martin himself, I think, would’ve been turning over in his grave,” West said of the event. “[King would have wanted] people to talk about Wall Street criminality, he wants people to talk about war crimes, or drones dropping bombs on innocent people,” he asserted.
“Instead,” he lamented, “we saw the coronation of the bonafide house negro of the Barack Obama plantation, our dear brother Al Sharpton.” West went further declaring that Sharpton’s decline was “supported by [MSNBC analyst] Michael Dyson and others who’ve prostituted themselves in a very ugly and vicious way.”
Waul first there was mind control, it ain't panned out too good....but Stomach control....the new ploy...Obey your masters or you will feel prolonged real gut wrenching pain......got lead? eat it......
"..but Stomach control.."
Howdy Dugald.
You are close.
Some people's god is money. Some people's God is Love.
When both are no where to be found, and the food is gone, the stomach will become the god of the future.
WalMart without the FSA.
Nice
..don't taze our severs dude.
Abracadabra.....EBT becomes ..........rationing cards.
Xerox...what bank owns them.
At least now we know the true value of Twitter. If it wasn't for them, how would we know the PPLs, folks and Motha Fuckas was going all cra-cra ats the Walmarts?
Golly!
Yeah, that was my first thought. Not so much as a dry run though--more like a test to say what would actually happen when the cards stop working. But, to be a real test, you'd have to go at least 48 hours (6 meals) without them working.
"after a routine check by vendor Xerox Corp. resulted in a system failure."
Xerox, huh? Well that explains it. Hand the reins of a huge nationwide payment system over to a bunch of copier jockeys and nobody should be surprised at the result.
.....Heading to the basement to double check that everything is loaded and ready for action.
dito... loading more shotgun shells tonight, drinking jack, playing a little guitar... ready, check!
You might want to make a few "waxers" to fend off the Zombies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3M46XVfVOU
Barry: Fuck Boener...Jamie it's time to kill switch EBT
Jamie: Yasser Master
A super bank CEO referring to Obama as Master??? Surely you jest lmao
the market is open Monday right? Leave this system off until Monday morning and they wil get the crash they want. That is assured.
And these people want more money to do what?
Create more broken systems, waste and sow mass confusion far and wide?
Hi I'm from the Government and I'm here to Fuck Things Up
increasingly complex systems become increasingly susceptible to collapse
But then, the Eastern Roman Empire - a.k.a. Byzantine survived the western Roman Empire by 1000 years
invest accordingly?
For most of that time, the Byzantine "empire" wasn't much of an empire. It waas more like a city state.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day..... Teach a man how to fish and he will never know hunger
Sign at the National Park;
"Please don't feed the wild animals. They will become dependent and not learn how to fend for themselves."
Oh, the park's closed, and the unemployed Ranger's EBT doesn't work?
So the bears must be longing for their Cheese Roayales
Build a man a fire and he will be warm for a day. SET a man on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life.
Book of Armaments Napalm section.
.
Stocks are open on Monday. Bonds closed, banks closed.
Hmmm...
Its bad ..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzC_rGX-XyM
OH, NOES!!!
THE 'FREE SHIT ARMY' IS BEING DEPLOYED!!!
If there's any real point to the welfare state, tonight could be very interesting for about a third of the country.
I really hope that there wasnt any SARC intended.... because that is 100% what that was... The EBT's go dark for a week, and lets say things will get a little kinetic......
A week? You guys are bloody optomists. 2 days of this and you will see social unrest that willl go unmatched. Give it 3 days and you will start to see actual bank runs.
I think even you are being optimistic. I could see shit going down TONIGHT -- and it's out here in California too.
I need to get this evening for a quick look around. Glad I have a full tank of gas.
I may be nuts but I went through this with Sandy, I just threw my daughter in my car and filled up the tank. I sent my sister instructions to come to my house tomorrow if the system is still down. She lives in Brooklyn and I want her out of there.
Stay away from Waldomart, and watch the mirror for out of control Caddy Escalades and Chrysler 300's with spinner wheels!
Both yours and the one above are very good ideas, especially if another thought I had came to fruition:
We have already passed the X Date and they can't even satisfy the benefits currently on the cards...
If the cards were to stay off until Monday morning then the bank runs would start then. 2 DAYS not 3 (and ATMS would have run out before then which would only encourage the run on Monday).
and as this is my first post:
Silver Bitches
Moot point, for at least another 96 hours (Oct. 17th), but the banks are closed on Monday for Columbus Day.
Why bank runs? The people who have the cards by definition have no money to withdraw. Are you suggesting that EBT is the canary for systemic collapse? I disagree.
"That's a nice little EBT system you've got there. It would be a shame if anything happened to it. Now, what was that you were saying about fines?"
--
Jamie Dimon
Well another web site has been referring to the ObamaCare web site problem as FuxNet to destroy ObamaCare because it is the biggest take over of America ever seen.
So we have ObamCare web site a pathetic joke of a web site built for $643 million? WTF? They the $2 billion NSA headquarters is having fires, electricity arcs/surges and other problems.
Now the EBT cards are failing.
How does the song by Beastie Boys go?
Don't play no game that I can't win?
Like Father's Day in Harlem - complete chaos.
It will be tougher than you think. This country did food stamps before electronic payments you know. The cards are just to create the appearance of a normal transaction so as not to needlessly shame the holder as compared to how the old system worked.
Any "patriot" who believes that should open fire at the nearest welfare/Social Security office.
Get violent or stop talking about it.
I am serious.
In his just-before-death manifesto the US gov ordered pulled from the internet:
« Violence not only is the answer, it is the only answer. »
- Joe Stack (1956-2010)
Joseph Andrew Stack III died in the hope of inspiring resistance and revolt to the US regime
And Barack Obama still fears him, even three years after he died ... Obama and his handlers so afraid, that they wrote Joe Stack's final moments of life into a recent Obama speech, « a plane flying into a building in Texas »
Large photo of US government IRS building on fire after being hit by plane flown by Joe Stack:
http://blogs.ajc.com/political-insider-jim-galloway/files/2010/02/irs.jpg
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A software engineer badly harassed by the IRS and US government and system, on 18 February 2010, Stack first burned down his own house, then, leaving wife and child behind, crashed a small aeroplane into IRS offices
Obviously Joseph Andrew Stack III in his death, did leave quite an impression on the US leaders, if not on the US people
Maybe in the end, suicide bomber Joe Stack may be hailed as a martyr of the still-mostly-upcoming New American Revolution
Stack's dying manifesto, tho the US government ordered it censored, it is still archived and available on the web from others
Article with photo of Joe Stack's burned-down Waco, Texas house
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0218/Who-is-Joe-Stack
What are you all so furious about that you'd talk about blowing up a building or shoot up a welfare office? Seriously, get some anger management help and stop being pathetic losers.
And Joe Stack? Guy was a fuck-up who projected his fuck ups on everyone else.
That's what half of this shit is, white middle-aged men pissed off at the world and blaming everyone else for their own failings. The 'personal responsibilty' crowd my ass.
"white middle-aged men pissed off at the world"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWVxI6XZAuE
Well, we have a different definition of middle-aged men I guess. Anyway, good to separate fantasy (fight club) from reality (Joe Stack). Joe Stack was a loser who blamed his personal problems squarely on .gov & ultimately flew his plane into a building / wrote a rambling manifesto to try and convince everyone (himself?) he wasn't a loser. Only a deeply narcissistic fuckhead would do such a thing.
And his big accomplishment in this final act? Kiling a vietnam war veteran and injuring a dozen people, wow what a hero!
Though to be fair, the IRS shutdown and .gov finally admitted Joe Stack actually was right about taxation all along. Oh wait, that didn't happen at all.
A system of fascistic socialism will relentlessly torment the productive independent classes, and some of them will snap. Joel Stack is a natural outgrowth of everything you believe in, Mr. Cole.
When you say the 'productive independent classes' being tormented by socialism what industries specifically are you talking about?
Here's your economy, 1947 - 2009:
http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/business/jobs%20employment%2...
Joe Stack drifted among unemployment and actually blamed cutting of government investment as one of the issues. Yet on the other hand blamed .gov overreach into his taxes as justification for flying a plane into a building.
From Stack's actual manifesto:
Instead I got busy working 100-hour workweeks. Then came the L.A. depression of the early 1990s. Our leaders decided that they didn’t need the all of those extra Air Force bases they had in Southern California, so they were closed; just like that. The result was economic devastation in the region that rivaled the widely publicized Texas S&L fiasco. However, because the government caused it, no one gave a shit about all of the young families who lost their homes or street after street of boarded up houses abandoned to the wealthy loan companies who received government funds to “shore up” their windfall. Again, I lost my retirement.
His one consistent trait was that he kept blaming the government for his own lack of perception relating to macro trends. We actually don't need all those bases! Military bases are yet another form of welfare and you can see that clearly by how many people get really upset if you try to close the one near them because it is the only reason so many people are in a particular geographic area to begin with! But these artifices are not sustainable.
As per usual, James, you're full of shit. Loser Joe Stack, who owned a personal aircraft- How many airplanes do you, personally own, dear James?
Joe made it to the end of his rope. You? You don't even know what that rope looks like.
Loser Joe Stack, who owned a personal aircraft-
...and was drowning in debt, possible connection? Nahh, his financial problems were 100% a fault of .gov
Listen, dipshit! He may have been in debt up to his eyeballs, I don't know. But, there's more to owning and operating a personal aircraft than simply having a good FICO score. Then again, you wouldn't know that, would you?
But, there's more to owning and operating a personal aircraft than simply having a good FICO score.
I also hear there's more to owning a boat than dumping money into the ocean, even so I remain firmly convinced that such a use of money is not wise for those without the financial resources.
Ok, so you've heard some stuff, huh? What have you actually done, dear James? Some of us have tried and failed. Some of us have tried and succeeded. Still more of us are yet to know whether we'll succeed or fail.
Every day above ground is a good day, James. Each day could be even better, if not for idiots like yourself.
His name was Joe Stack.
Ok, so you've heard some stuff, huh? What have you actually done, dear James? Some of us have tried and failed. Some of us have tried and succeeded. Still more of us are yet to know whether we'll succeed or fail.
What are you going on about?? We're talking a specific instance where a guy felt justified flying a plane into a building and the fools who think this was some sort of heroic act.
Whatever peoples finances are is their business and I don't much judge people on that, but when people try to justify flying planes into buildings I become a tad more critical.
For gawds sake get some perspective - I'm not randomly lashing out at peoples personal struggles.
Joe Stack's failings do not change the fundamental premise that the downward trajectory of the nation as a whole and the entitlements that feed this trajectory are irreversible otuside of a violent counter-reaction.
Ayn Rand: Reason can be fought with reason......How are you going to fight the unreasonable?
Let's see, there's thousands of dollars for flying lessons, more money to store his big boy toy, money for fuel...
And there's the $38M the government laid out which Joe obviously won't be on the hook for...and the disability I'm sure his wife and son are collecting as a result of his pointless death and abdication of personal responsibility to care for his family.
The guy got a raw deal and refused to handle it like a man.
On top of all his other problems, what do you bet Joe Stack was a really awful programmer as well? I've seen the work of plenty of Joe Stacks in my time, I've made a career of cleaning up after them.
Xlnt link, fonz.
I think that there are enough of who called themselves the "53%" (of the country who actually has a job and are producing, while (in their eyes) the other 47% are sitting on their asses collecting checks) who are furious enough that they should, lest they be the ones brought upon when (or in-progress-now) the benefits stop.
I'm just sick and tired of the talking about it. There is going to be no balanced budget in the United States of American with a population close to the current 314-ish million. That's reality: You're anywhere from 20-40 years too late, and probably now are looking at 60-120 million Americans who may well have to be dealt with (with as many euphemisms on those last two words as you'd like).
Pretty much! Look at how much mileage the Nazis got by blaming everything on Jews!
Normally, I would despise a bank guy, no matter his location. But you- are an enigma, and thank you for reminding us of Joe Stack. Not a big fan of the Christian Science Monitor, though. The name, in itself, is an oxymoron.
My Obamaphone is gone dark, what can the excellent Companions of the Grand f@&kin' royal Arch do for me, my chapter number 2 in St James' is f*#%ed up, innit , bitchez?
Except that Joe Stack was an idiot who was trying to put one over on the IRS even though it was incredibly apparent that what he was doing was against their rules. Nobody even remembers that guy or what he did.
Please tell us, aerojet, how you know this, exactly. I remember, BGiB remembers, and who the fuck are you, exactly? Are you familiar with the phrase persona non grata? That's you.
' when the money stops flowing down to the streets the blood starts flowing in the streets'
Celente
Tick tock. We're, what, 12 hours in?
All circus, no bread.
~"...if somebody wanted to fuck US over, all they gotta do is freeze/takedown the EBT system"~
Naw, if you want to send everything ass-over-kiester just lock up the satellite/cable channels and shut down the cell towers. That aught to about do it. The fuckwit-monkeys would go ballistic. Game over.
I'm a sucker for ice cream, can you get your EBT on ice cream?
I wanna dance too.....
Obama just jiggling the handle, blame it on the utter guys on Monday.
What a hoot.
I can tell you for a fact that this ebt outage was caused by a power failure at a primary datacenter, I know this becasue I am sitting in a network operations center as I type this and am directly working with the company that is the cause of all this. Their name is ACS State $ Local Solutions. As I type they are about 20% restored. don't know if the root cause was a power failover test that went bad or not, but that is how it started, total power black out at a primary facility. Well enough said back to work......
thanks for the info man.
NumNutt has supposedly been a member for 4 years and 9 weeks, and this is his first post?
Something smells funny.
Also, when people start a sentence with, "I can tell you for a fact..." or, "The truth is...," instead of just saying whatever they have to say, I get suspicious.
Thanks hedgeless. I suspect that the ZH main site has been hacked. It was oddly more transparent when it was based in Bulgaria. Whocouldanode?
I did not junk you. It was a reasonable post by that dude. Odd what HH pointed out though.
I know you didn't junk me, fonz. Who junks a thank you? This site is glitchier than I've ever seen it. Man! I hope I see you tomorrow!
still trying to determine if that tangent flame war about joe stack was between two shill-trolls..
Well, you prolly already know that James Cole is a shill-troll, and a bank guy can never be fully trusted. The rest is up to you.
Some quick, basic bing searching finds ACS is now XEROX state and local. Former head of ACS division is now CFO of.....FEMA.
Mr Norman Dong. Harvard grad.
FEMA.
He said 'dong', hehe
Xerox... now where did I hear that name, earlier today? WTF? These folks made copiers that straight-up sucked, so they morphed into the nebulous blob of pseudo-government agency in charge of ebt? Makes perfect sense, if you think about it.
Nope HH I have been here for over 4 years, not sue why none of my other post are showing up. I tend not to post to much these days. I have just found that there seems to be a lot of what I refer to as "thunder cats" posting useless comments. . Young bucks with more attitudes then brains. But long story short I am leggit and what I posted above is fact.
Numnutt, You in Blythewood by chance?
I have been here for over 4 years, not sue why none of my other post are showing up.
The NSA background support staff has been deemed nonessential...just goes to show they are essential.
Some of your posts come up on a google search.
"Thunders Cats" LOL! Sounds like Robot Trader, MDB and a few other f*ckwits who post here.
Xerox? One of those shitty upstate NY companies that are connected to Uncle Sam like IBM, GE, Xerox and Corning. Xerox was always a lib outfit. They dodged oblivion by buying ACS a few years ago.
Kodak sort of failed on that score. They had gotten into pharmaceuticals but sold off that division and went down with the core business "ship." NY state companies like GE - owning politicians to dodge ever paying for clean up of the rivers they polluted in NY state with PCBs.
Thundercats are Go!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K9rVRuehGU
I don't think the post archive section is accurate at all anymore, HH. I tried to find one of my own old posts (I've posted plenty), and there were only two in total!!!!!!!!! Also, I seem to recall seeing other NumNutt posts.
The user comment search function only returns results as far back as September 29, slightly less than two weeks ago. It ignores any comments posted before then.
It used to return results back as far as 2009, when the site first moved from blogspot. Something like this first happened to the user comment search results in December 2012, when it stopped returning results prior to late November 2012. It happened again earlier this year, when it stopped returning results prior to sometime in June.
As this is the third time it's happened, it seems unlikely to be accidental, although the reasoning behind it escapes me.
Most of the articles in the archive are still there, although a few of them are missing all of the comments.
"the reasoning behind it escapes me."
Really? Posts are being deleted on ZH, users being banned, and past comments being deleted is difficult to figure out?
Hint, its a lot more conspicuous when you just delete SOME comments.
"The Langoliers"
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I apologise for any possible lack of clarity in what I said. While going through articles in the ZH archives, I have found the following:
1) Clicking the link for some articles returns a '404 - page not found' response.
2) Clicking the link for some articles returns a 'You do not have permission to view this page' response.
3) Some articles with a non-zero comment count are missing the entirety of their comment section.
These things occur with a very small percentage of archived articles. Aside from those articles, the comment sections appear to be intact, including comments from people whose ZH accounts were subsequently shitcanned.
When I said, "the reasoning behind it escapes me," I was referring to the phenomenon whereby the oldest comments retrievable from the user comment search, which originally produced results going back to 2009, shifted to late November 2012, then to June 2013, and now to September 29. The comments before those dates still exist, but are not returned in a user comment search. The reasoning escapes me because it appears to defeat the purpose of the user comment search function.
What would it take, if we all chipped in, to somehow have you keep the power off for a few days?
and can we pay by credit?
Ya'll ain't right.
How can I help?
Ain't right?
I'd say they're something just wrong.
rolling eyes
All Right? We're pretty fuckin far from all right.....
"What would it take, if we all chipped in, to somehow have you keep the power off for a few days?"
What would it take, if we all got chipped, to somehow have you keep the power on for a few days?
There, fixed it for ya
Expect this headline: RFID chips Required for Food Stanp Recipients
At our primary facilites we have immediate battery backup and then onsite generators to supply power for the batteries. We have no need for commercial AC. We also have backup portable generators which can be brought to the site in case of generator failure.
What kind of fucked up group is in charge of this site?
And for the data, cut the fiber comming in and another location takes over with only a momentary interruption.
So once again who in the fuck would run a primary site this way?
Let's see...
The USFEDGOV is in charge of the program, overall, but sold out the rights of control to J.P. Morgan (who oversees the EBT program). NATURALLY, they would subcontract certain functions to the 'lowest bidders'...
I understand that the Obamacare website is also having issues in kind.
Of course, you probably work in the 'private sector'. HOW DARE YOU QUESTION OR CRITISIZE, TAXPAYER? (sarc)
If one of my locations goes down I lose my job. No questions asked I am out the door. So this kind of power issue is close to my heart. And my customers pay me so I have an obligation to them to do my best.
Either the generators did not kick in or JPM cut some corners on infrastructure to save $$$. Wouldn't be the first time I've seen a backup system fall over when it is actually needed. We had a data center outage recently due to street power going out. The data center battery backup kicked in to hold load before the generators came online. The capacitors in the battery backups exploded on load transition. The Hazmat team wouldn't even let us in the building for 3 days due to lithium contamination. So, it does happen.
I don't buy it. Unless something FUNDAMENTAL about bank IT priorities has changed in the last decade - ANYTHING that that keeps the dirty little customers and away from bank employees is automated and has redundancies. The last thing JPM wants to do is pay salaries and benefits to people who are answering low-dollar calls.
After 9/11 geographic redundancy became a big issue to those firms that didn't already have it. There's no excuse in bank the size of JPM unless the Fed or the internet itself goes dark.
And who the hell at Xerox implements a system update without a rollback plan (and DURING THE DAY no less)?
I knew a good programmer who did work for The JP Morgue. They would get calls at 3 am because the Indians over in Mubai had no idea what they were doing. This person I know had to fix the shit in the middle of the night that the Indians broke. This person got sick of JPM's nonsense. They eventually told headhunters - No Banks!
I know other people who have worked for other big banks. A lot of the systes are total crap with old code, garbage, H1B ghettoes of non-American programmers because they keep Americans out. This is one reason who Motorola failed. I know one person who worked for Bear and then Lehman before they crashed...oh and AIG. AIG's systems are crap.
At the micro level it's frustrating, but at the industry level it is a clusterfuck of epic proportions that does get the job done, because the cost of a 9 of fineness is the difference between economic growth (or the current stagflation) and TSHTF. There are legacy transaction processing systems that date to the VAX/VMS era running along side and fully integrated with the latest co-located hyperactive black boxes, and there are ever increasing and complex APIs retrieving and integrating data which are being hastily slathered on top of an arguably weak foundation, however, every day the banks are reconciling with the FED and the brokerages are reconciling with the exchanges, and life goes on as people have access to their data and money. If an IT worker aspires to the life of the mythical Maytag repairman- he shouldn't be in an industry based on complex integrated systems with a short product life cycle (or in bed the bankers, but that is a different issue).
I usually like to shop on Sundays.
Do you think you can make arrangements for a regular event to take place? Say.....every Sunday?
Thanks for the scoop.
That ACS is fucked up...find a new job ASAP
That would just piss off trillions of fat cells.
Imagine all the Global Warming that will cause.
This will be blamed on the Repub's and it will work for the big O.
Doubt it. People are getting wise to his schemes particularly after all the vindictive shit he has done during the shutdown to annoy and aggravate people when it wasn't necessary. Even his own people think he's an asshole.
He's a jackass.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=078BGtKNL1o
I hope Wally World has called the security guards in early today, the free shit army only plays two ways...........
Give me the shit on an EBT cards for free and I play by the rules (sort of)
Or
We storm this motherfucka and mob rob this bitch, it's up to you American people, really it's your choice, which do you want??
Shoppers from Maine to Oklahoma had to abandon baskets of groceries because they couldn't access their benefits.
What a bunch of low-lifes. The get this shit for free and then leave carts full of groceries, some perishable, for others to take care of.
(Gee, when I put it in writing, I wonder why I was surprised.)