GitHub Bug Opened: Government Occasionally Shuts Down; Conflicting Error Messages
from the expected-result:-government-should-be-working dept
Via Brian Walsh, we learn of a rather amusing bug report that's been opened on GitHub by Dave Rupert: BUG: Government occasionally shuts down. Rupert's bug report is both dead on, and quite hilarious:Tragically, no one has been assigned to fix it.I noticed a bug over the past week or so and it seems reproducible:
- Go to U.S. Government.
- U.S. Government is shut down.
Expected results: Government should be working.
I'm unable to debug or propose a fix since there's not an open, transparent stack trace. Conflicting error messages are being thrown as well.
Hope you can resolve this soon. It would seem that the U.S. Government would value 100% uptime in order to be a reliable and trustworthy source for the rest of the world.
Thanks! Love this project and would like to continue using it.
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And then there's a bunch of crappy ones, of course.
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Remember, it's not a bug, it's a feature!
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Start with, "You gave are your trust and handwork" and finish with "Yes we can".
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None of the really important things have shutdown, the Army is still there, the police is still working, firefighters are still on the job.
Social entitlement programs are what was closed to all.
Things that people can organize and take care for themselves.
Maybe it is time for people to start taking responsibility for their own?
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Statements like this are why Gary Johnson got only 1% of the vote in the last election. Social entitlement programs exist because wages have been frozen for more than 30 years. Meanwhile, executive pay goes up and up and up. Oh, and your beloved private enterprise can "LEGALLY" steal deferred wages, AKA pension funds from their employees.
So tell me, who are the people who will organize programs for and take care of the people YOU say should learn to enjoy and manage poverty because the market says so?
I'm sure they could do it themselves if they weren't working three or more jobs just to keep their heads above water.
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http://boingboing.net/2013/10/08/this-mom-with-a-rare-form-of-c.html
But no problem, she probably brought the cancer on herself.
/s
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although I dislike Fidel Castro and the whole Socialist thing tremendously, Cuba had to DIY when the US left, was the DIY culture and mentality that made it possible for Cuba to survive and then thrive.
I like to think that Americans can do better than Cuba though.
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DIY Pffft, yea right.
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Oh they don't have a plan B?
Sorry, but there will be some discomfort for them then.
Doesn't amaze people that the government have shutdown 11 times before in 30 years and nobody not one soul bothered to make plans for it to mitigate adverse effects?
This pain is not accidental, is by design.
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someone has to say it !!
U.S. Government would value 100% uptime in order to be a reliable and trustworthy source for the rest of the world.
Source of what ?
I think most Governments would require more things than 100% uptime to be considered trustworthy and reliable.
oh, I get it source of amusement ??
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NAB: User error.
The government needs to be refactored using new specifications and new principals.
There are internal subroutines in the government that regularly manifest themselves as a shut down. In reality, this is caused by bad design.
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The only known fix for this bug
format c:\ /u
Reload.
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The Government/State itself is the Bug
There's your bug.
The fix? Apply principles such as don't initiate force/violence (self defense is valid) and don't steal (i.e., "taxation") to everyone, including the Government/State...at which point one will realize that the Government/State can only exist by being exceptions to such principles.
Therefore it must be ended for the good of the human race.
I prefer consensual relationships and voluntary exchange.
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Re: The Government/State itself is the Bug
BUG: Parts of government still continuing to operate and waste system resources after shutdown initiated.
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Have you tried turning it off and on again?
While the US government undergoes a partial UI reboot every 2 years, there is no specified means of rebooting the entire UI when a major problem is discovered. This seems to be a flaw in the design document, and the problem it introduces was probably not foreseen by the designers.
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Type Error
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Bug in Public Class
Also the private class "corporateBusiness" seems to be consuming resources properly allocated to the above two functions.
Most likely can't be fixed, as the public "Voter" class is also saddled with lousy memory management.
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Clearer Abstractions Required
public class Dollar extends Speech {} //??!!!
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Assign to fix bug
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NOT A BUG
Status: CLOSED.
Comment: Checks and balances are a feature of this form of government. Although some users may consider operation of checks and balances as undesirable or even harmful, nevertheless this feature is essential to long-term stability of product.
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No, this is not funny at all.
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Incompatible
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