Friday, August 2, 2013

CM PRESS # 304

BACK IN MAY WE WROTE ABOUT THE CITY THROWING OUT MORE THAN 400 COMPUTERS AND REPLACING THEM ALL AT ONCE

Well, apparently someone forgot to check to see if the quoted price from the supplier included sales tax.  It didn't.  And, now, a new supplier is in the picture.  HERE's an article from the DAILY PILOT about this.

And, just to refresh your memory about this matter, here's one of our columns on the subject.

Everything below in this column from CM PRESS # 226, dtd May 16, 2013, still applies:

WHO'S MINDING THE STORE IN LOOSEY GOOSEYVILLE?  WE GET SOME ANSWERS

Remember back in CM PRESS # 218 published on May 8, we wrote about the City not following what is generally considered to be a best business practice by essentially throwing out 435 desk top computers and buying 435 brand new ones at a cost of $358,110?

The vote of the City Council to make this purchase was based on a staff report that justified this mass throw-away and new purchase largely with the following two sentences in the staff report:

"The City currently has about  435 desktop computers throughout every City owned facility.  Many  of these computers were last upgraded around  2003 and are beyond their life expectancy." 

Well, the CM PRESS made a California Public Records Request of the City to see if we could nail down a few facts. Yesterday, we got the documents we requested.

So, here are the above two sentences which we have now split apart for your ease in reading what we've discovered.

The staff reports says: "The City currently has about  435 desktop computers throughout every City owned facility."  

FACT:  According to the inventory from the City, we actually have 483 computers, but some of these are  laptops and notebooks. The number of 435 desktops is about right.  Furthermore, we won't quibble about the 435  figure since this is the actual number of new computers that the City Council has just voted to buy.

The staff report says: "Many  of these computers were last upgraded around  2003 and are beyond their life expectancy." 

FACT:  According to City records, that we obtained via the California Public Records Act, out of the 435 desktop computers owned by the City, only 23 were purchased in 2003. Thus, 412 are newer models.  So,  only about 5 per cent of our present desktops were purchased in 2003.  Many?  Five per cent doesn't sound like  "many" to us. 

PERSPECTIVE:  Bob: "Say, I have $ 435.00 in one dollar bills and I want to give you many of them.  Here you go, $23.00."  

FACT: The rest of the desktops (412 or 95% of them)  were purchased from 2004 to 2013--not in 2003, with the vast majority purchased in 2005.  So, well, er, we guess one can say that 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 are sort of "around" 2003.  After all, it's just a ten year spread. 

PERSPECTIVE:  Bob: "Say, you have 435 nice looking suits."  Bill: "Thanks, but many of them were purchased around 2003, so I need to throw them all out and get brand new ones."  Bob: "How many of the 435 suits were purchased in 2003?"    Bill: " Twenty-three."

In CM PRESS # 218  we also wrote the following:

Furthermore, common sense and best business practices dictate that you do not  replace every computer at the same time in an organization. 

Instead, you usually replace no more than 1/3 at a time.  So, you'd replace 1/3 this year and maybe 1/3 next year or the year after that and the last 1/3 after that.  This way, you're always getting the newest technology.

And, do ALL employees need the newest and most powerful computers?  What about employees that mostly just do word processing?  What about employees in the maintenance yards?

The staff report also doesn't say what is going to happen to the 435 old computers.
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FLORIDA:  THREE OLDER BLACK TEENS VICIOUSLY BEAT AND STOMP ON A 13-YEAR-OLD WHITE SIXTH GRADER ON A SCHOOL BUS AND THE BLACK BUS DRIVER JUST WATCHES

Earlier videos of this attack didn't show the race of the victim but the one with the above story does show that he is White.

Welcome to New Africa where it is open season on Whites who mostly are being kept in the dark about the racist attacks on their fellow Whites that happen every day all around this country.
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BLACK CHARLIE RANGEL CALLS TEA PARTY A BUNCH OF "CRACKERS"

Let's see how long it takes some of the wimps in the Tea Party to find another Black to stand in the window so they can hide behind him.

And, let's see how long it takes for some wimps in the Tea Party to snivel and whine "We're not racists," instead of telling Rangel to go stuff it.
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VIRAL PHOTO OF MARINE WHO LOST 5K TO A NINE-YEAR-OLD BOY

The Marine is one of us old people (read Whites of any age), and so is the kid.

One of the comments on the main page was funny: "What wasn’t posted in the story is the whole time the Marine did stay with him, but kept screaming at him 'You worthless wimp, move your sorry but[t] or I will stomp your guts out.' It seems that kind of motivated the lad to run a little faster. It’s just a good thing R Lee Ermey wasn’t there, he would have thrown a box of tissues at the kid."
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"ADAM AND EVE" LIVED AROUND 150,000-200,000 YEARS AGO

Actually, when you look at the source material for the article you see that it mainly refers to Europeans and European descended people (read Whites) and not the progenitors of all humans now alive and that there are a number of fudge factors in the research because of the small sample used.
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REHAB MESA

According to the City, there are 104 "known" rehab houses in Costa Mesa.

We bet there are more, but even 104 is way too many.

Mayor Righeimer told a crowd last night (click on headline) that the City needs support from citizens and that litigation may be costly if the City tries to move against rehab homes.

And, the mayor is right on both counts.

If the City takes aggressive legal action, bet on a major PR campaign against the City and the mayor by those who support rehab homes and even by local liberals who will use the City's attempt to curb rehab homes to attack the mayor as we go into an election year.  When these attacks happen, will those fine folks who attended the meeting last night step up and stand with the mayor, or will they wimp out and remain silent?
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