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USDA turns off entire website, claiming shutdown woes
The Hill ^ | 10/03/13 09:46 AM ET | Pete Kasperowicz

Posted on 10/03/2013 7:47:09 PM PDT by Olog-hai

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To: blueunicorn6

does the government have a day to day contract with the server farm? do they make daily payments?


21 posted on 10/03/2013 8:13:34 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: Olog-hai

More BS - selective shutdown.


22 posted on 10/03/2013 8:18:47 PM PDT by TheBattman (Isn't the lesser evil... still evil?)
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To: noprogs

They are needed to send out surveys you are required to fill out repeatedly because some jack ass with the I Q of sheila jackazzson Lee loses the first ten you send them.

So then the send threatening letters and hound you over the phone

All part of the Essensial part of your federal government. /s


23 posted on 10/03/2013 8:20:56 PM PDT by VRWCarea51
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To: Irenic

As far as we let it.


24 posted on 10/03/2013 8:43:26 PM PDT by old curmudgeon
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To: old curmudgeon

Much more and we will have lost this country, at least it looks that way to me.


25 posted on 10/03/2013 8:59:54 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: old curmudgeon
Not necessarily.

There was a sports statistician who worked for the Kansas City Star newspaper. In August, on his 60th birthday he committed suicide. He had planned it for over a year and spent much of that time preparing a website detailing his life, death, and the reasons he decided to end his life.

It was likely the only site with so much insight into a person's reasons for such a decision.

He made all preparations to insure that everything was in order with all aspects of his life, finance, relationships (no wife, no children). He thought the site would be of use or interest to others. He paid Yahoo in full for 5 years of hosting for the sight.

One day after he died, Yahoo pulled the plug on the sight.


But you are essentially right. Website hosting is paid by the year at minimum and there would be no point financially in shutting it down, unless you just want to be a petulant baby.

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26 posted on 10/03/2013 9:15:05 PM PDT by Bronzewound (Lost Hope & Loose Change)
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To: Ray76

My God!

Now who’s gonna send me a threatening 8 page census form forcing me to cough up endless details about my 1.3 acre residential property’s farming, dairy, ranching and aquaculture operations?

Oh, the humanity!


27 posted on 10/03/2013 11:13:20 PM PDT by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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To: Olog-hai

Wow! Big loss. I wonder how many farmers tune in to their website on a monthly basis. What info could they possibly need that they don’t already have (or get elsewhere like the Weather Station) unless they are newbies.


28 posted on 10/04/2013 5:30:44 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist (America: home of the free because of the brave)
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