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Reminder - I really didn't want to start a war  I was just curious as to the reputation of CGI Federal. For 650 million... I love my digital rock.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house.
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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As a former CGI Federal employee, it is an American company sort of. The US Government has a lot of rules about how they do business. CGIF is owned by the parent CGI (a Canadian company) but it is firewalled from the rest of CGI kind of like a blind trust that a politician might have to control their investments but keep them from having any input so they couldn't be accused of influencing legislation to benefit their investments.
CGIF does contracts with the Federal Gov't. Name a branch of FedGov't and they probably are involved in it. American Passport? Probably processed at a CGIF location (because CGI bought Stanley Associates who had the lion share of that business)
CGIF people have to fill out a report ANY time they have a conversation with a CGI person. They can't work in the same building even on different floors. My boss had to fill out a contact report when there was a company social event and we mingled with regular CGI people.
Good company to work for, I had no real complaints other than the soda choices being Pepsi products in an office in Atlanta, the home of Coca-Cola. I was let go because the contract I was working under was ended and I couldn't find anything else with CGI/CGIF in Atlanta.
A couple of my former coworkers got on one of the exchange projects. It was started at the end of March and they were expected to have it stood up by Oct 1. Don't know if they made it or not. Seems like a lot of the exchanges were rush jobbed. From my experience it was because the Gov't side took forever to provide specs and probably changed them repeatedly once the development team got going.
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Heard about the swiss federal project "Insieme"? (Some IT Project to replace a system from the 80's (yeah, you heard that right)
After having spent around 100 million Swiss Francs they have seen that the project will be far more expensive than they originally thought it would, they aborted it. Basically, the government has thrown 100 million swiss francs out of the window to get nothing at all.
At no time anyone was able to tell how much it would have costed in total...
That's project management at its finest...
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Jobs was a Buddhist, right? That being the case, I’m hoping for a little time warping reincarnation that sticks him back on the planet three or four decades ago. He can stay in stasis until this month just to keep him from bumping into himself and disrupting the time-space continuum, or whatever other evil fate such events inspire.
By most accounts he was an absolute dictatorial SOB, and I probably wouldn’t last ten minutes in a room with him. I don’t care. I just want MS to give him Ballmer’s job. They need a second coming of someone, and Jobs has the best resume for that sort of thing.
Besides, it’s the most reliable way I know of to drop Windows 8 into the bit bucket. I could even live with the iWindows branding if it would get MS back on track again.
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Christopher Duncan wrote: They need a second coming of someone, and Jobs has the best resume for that sort of thing.
Jobbs?
..must be a sick joke. He had that chance with the Mac. Multiple times. No results.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Second coming of Jobs:
Three out of four ain't bad.
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When nightmares come true...
this is a ridiculous Imagination which simply would result in a second Apple company...  
what is worse than one Apple company?
Correct: two of them... 
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Clodetta del Mar wrote: what is worse than one Apple company?
I KNOW! I KNOW!
ME! ME! ME!
Finding half a ... Windows operating system in IOS7.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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His reincarnation could be long-term jobless.
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Holy poop....I was sitting watching closely, then it all let go. Didn't half make me jump  
Neodymium Magnets Reaching Terminal Velocity [^]
Yes, the title of the video is not correct, but that is not my fault and doen't change the fact I still jumped!
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Strange - it did pretty much exactly what I thought it would once the compressed air started it spinning! 
What was the OP expecting? Warp speed? 
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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I know, couple of moments I noticed the imbalance starting, then it recovered again. Wonder what force was required to split it apart? Shame he didn't have a tacho on it to see what the RPM was.
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DaveAuld wrote: Yes, the title of the video is not correct,
Because of "Terminal Velocity"? maybe not in the usual sense the term is taken, but for light practical purposes the magnets array did reach its "terminal velocity" to keep their magnetic cohesion 
-- RP
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30 second and it got the flick.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Calendar
Wasn't
Much
Not bad, 7 words, and only 3 of them wrong.
You weren't off by much either 
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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New from of CCC?
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I am being very unfair of course.
Your English is very much better than my Norwegian.
I only know about 6 words in Norwegian, and Hello is one of them!
Ha Det.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Nah, one could always improve....
If you can point you can make it in Norway, at least at the Pub, or Pøbb as we can write it in Norwegian.
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Dalek Dave wrote: I only know about 6 words in Norwegian, and Hello is one of them!
It's your numeracy that's in question.
"Ha Det" is two words.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Psst - the Police Squad are already onto it...
speramus in juniperus
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You mean that they are diggin into it?
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Now, I understand DeathByChocolate.
Veni, vidi, vici.
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This is silly. Obviously as prices are predicted to soar, more trees will be planted. That's like capitalism 101.
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