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Old 04-16-2002, 06:37 PM   #1 (permalink)
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retarded Canadian government. omfg
on TV i just saw a report saying that Canadian government spent 250 MILLION DOLLARS creating a health tips website then they shut it down.

am i wrong or does a real good website only cost like 5 grand if yer talking high prices? then expense of internet of course......

TechIMO is a nice organized site, there is no way a website could even be worth just 1 million. stupid liberal government sucks, why doesn't anybody vote them out!?!?

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Old 04-16-2002, 07:02 PM   #2 (permalink)
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It's more than likely you mis-heard.

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Old 04-16-2002, 07:09 PM   #3 (permalink)
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I'm not sure about website prices but how much would google cost???

I would pay a load for that!
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Old 04-16-2002, 07:11 PM   #4 (permalink)
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nope, it was on the national news. $250,000,000 spent on some stupid @$$ website which they took down, how could they spend so much money on a website!?!?!? did they buy their own phone company to be the ISP!?!?!
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Old 04-16-2002, 07:30 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Find me some proof of this. I still don't believe you.

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Old 04-16-2002, 07:33 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Find me some proof of this. I still don't believe you.
Way to beat around the bush..lol j/k For some reason it wouldn't suprise me if the government spent money like that.
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Yes it is very easily possible.
Don't forget the gov't would hire contractors to do this work that cost 70-100 bucks an HOUR
Also TechIMO is small in relation to a full scale web interface... don't forget how many databases they'd have to bring together to get all of the information they would require. Which I'm guessing would require bringing in data from legacy systems and putting them into a newer database format (oracle probably) and don't forget the cost of hardware which is astronomical.. and also the software it has to run on... if its MS need I say more?

Also the cost of all of the development tools, and machines for the developers to work on. Believe it or not, its not all that uncommon
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Is that $250 million on the website alone, or in research for what they put on the website as well? What would happen if they put false information on the site, and then people started getting sick or dying because the "health tips" are inaccurate? You'd probably wind up with a class-action lawsuit worth billions rather than millions.
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PROOF! I WANT PROOF!

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Old 04-16-2002, 08:09 PM   #10 (permalink)
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the money was NOT in research at all, just for the website, the servers, the connection and so on.

Canada.com has not put the article on the web yet, i'll check tomorrow
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