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<OriansJ>xentrac: first thing I learned about government: money is one big pot. Saving $5M one area results in $5M more being spent elsewhere.
<OriansJ>second rule you learn in government is all Management-15s get paid the same; as do the Management-17s. So the size of your budget is how you display how much more important you are than the other 15s or 17s that are your peers.
<OriansJ>And pitching cost savings to a 15 or 17 who wants to feel important is like convincing a nun to engage in a satanic blood-orgy in Times Square. They would rather just hurt you for suggesting such things to them.
<OriansJ>So it is best to do recon, never pitch to them unless you can lube it up with prespending to hide the cost savings or even make it look more expensive; while gutting future costs. Like prepaying for 10 years of support in the contract or a thousand other ways to make it look more expensive using accounting games but hiding the future savings as much as possible from the manager. Until they are in too deep and things are now running
<OriansJ>better, faster and cheaper; then the fiscal year rolls around again and that big fat bill they were needing to justify their budget just doesn't appear because the contract already paid them for the next 10 years and no renewal payments until year 10.
<xentrac>haha
<gforce_de1977>stikonas: automake-1.15.1: my base64-dumper works now: https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap/issues/112 , i can also decode (if needed) the config.log, or just every file in /after
<gforce_de1977>OriansJ: can we somehow enforce a flush after each write syscall? see: https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap/issues/94
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