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Why Microsoft is a national security threat (www.theregister.com)
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[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 42 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Government spending 101:
Paying private sector rates? unnafordable!
Paying a private company who pays their employees those same private sector rates plus a huge margin on top? totally reasonable!

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago

Sorry that's the lowest/only rate we got for tender, lol.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Or: the only way we could get this crazy group of senators whose votes we need is by devising the program in such a convoluted and inefficient way such that it’s politically un-killable (read: SLS).