OT: Canadian Census 2006

Guy Fraser guy at incentre.net
Wed May 3 20:19:54 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-03-05 at 12:20 -0400, briert at cepu.ca wrote:
> > Guy Fraser wrote:
> >> On Tue, 2006-02-05 at 14:00 -0700, Stephen Mirowski wrote:
> >>
> >>>Stephen Mirowski
> >>
> >> How can you be a Canadian if you don't use Windows or a Mac? :^p
> >>
> >>
> >
> > I guess I won't be able to check Canadian off on my census form anymore
> > for nationality. :(  I wonder if they will have a none box?
> >
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> > Robin Laing
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> 
> I tried the site using Firefox with no luck.  So then I tried the site
> using Konqueror.  I changed the browser identification to explorer 6.0 on
> Windows XP - Tools, change browser identification. Doing this I was able
> to get into the site.
> 
> The site is running on a Windows server. This was apparent from a number
> of timeouts that put up IIS's default message of contact microsoft.  The
> system is also very slow.
> 
> There is no excuse for developing such a poor site.  Not just the
> restrictions, but also the poor performance.
> 
What do you expect. The government will not hire quality technical 
staff, since they have quotas and have had special interest groups 
to satisfy. Jobs certainly do not go to the best qualified people. 
I applied a few times over the last couple decades and each time 
was told I would not qualify because I am not in a demographic that 
is required to fill the position. Apparently discrimination is 
allowed if you are an educated experienced white male with no 
visible disability. It also seems that the people who do meet the 
demographic conditions, know they can't be fired so are allowed to
do a crummy job and get away with it.


> I'm going to send them an e-mail.
> 
> Tim Brier.
If I get one in the mail, I'll comment as well.





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