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  • Kaepsknee
    Kaepsknee Member Posts: 14,919
    edited October 2019
    Let’s see. Long ago, like in the ‘90’s, the State of Oregon put up almost $200 mill on a new software system for DMV that was never implemented.

    A few years back they paid Oracle around $300 million for Cover Oregon, which was supposed to be the state exchange website to sign up for Obamacare. They actually tried to get this up and running, but it fell on its face and was scrapped.

    Turned out you could just sign up on the federal site all along and it was really never needed.

    The poont is that besides all of that fuckery, the State of Oregon has also had massive data breaches in the last few months.


    I’m gonna go ahead and give it until next year until I trust the State of Oregon with custody of one of my bank accounts. It sucks but it’s the only sane move as far as I’m concerned.
  • whuggy
    whuggy Member Posts: 2,088
    ntxduck said:

    whuggy said:

    It's horrendous. I think they are running about a 50% success rate in people being able to sign up. All kinds of glitches. Thousands of dollars down the drain but this is expected from Oregon government.

    Why massive projects don’t do pilot rollouts to select groups to iron out these issues before go live will always baffle me
    They said they did. If so it was a very small group. I finally got signed up but it was embarrassingly bad. Kate Brown can just go away, the sooner the better.
  • whuggy
    whuggy Member Posts: 2,088
    salemcoog said:

    Let’s see. Long ago, like in the ‘90’s, the State of Oregon put up almost $200 mill on a new software system for DMV that was never implemented.

    A few years back they paid Oracle around $300 million for Cover Oregon, which was supposed to be the state exchange website to sign up for Obamacare. They actually tried to get this up and running, but it fell on its face and was scrapped.

    Turned out you could just sign up on the federal site all along and it was really never needed.

    The poont is that besides all of that fuckery, the State of Oregon has also had massive data breaches in the last few months.


    I’m gonna go ahead and give it until next year until I trust the State of Oregon with custody of one of my bank accounts. It sucks but it’s the only sane move as far as I’m concerned.

    I'm going credit card. No way I give them access to my bank. At least my credit card will flag out of lane transactions.
  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 69,726 Founders Club
    instead of managing their money better the state resorts to this?
  • ntxduck
    ntxduck Member Posts: 6,231

    instead of managing their money better the state resorts to this?

    Resorts? Everyone is legalizing sports gambling. As they should. Keep the money in the states instead of going to the Caribbean via shady online books.
  • Kaepsknee
    Kaepsknee Member Posts: 14,919

    instead of managing their money better the state resorts to this?

    They did it to try to put a dent in the public employee pension liability.
  • greenblood
    greenblood Member Posts: 14,566
    salemcoog said:

    instead of managing their money better the state resorts to this?

    They did it to try to put a dent in the public employee pension liability.
    If weed didn’t help, this certainly won’t
  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 69,726 Founders Club
    ntxduck said:

    instead of managing their money better the state resorts to this?

    Resorts? Everyone is legalizing sports gambling. As they should. Keep the money in the states instead of going to the Caribbean via shady online books.
    there's always a price to pay for any vice
  • Kaepsknee
    Kaepsknee Member Posts: 14,919

    salemcoog said:

    instead of managing their money better the state resorts to this?

    They did it to try to put a dent in the public employee pension liability.
    If weed didn’t help, this certainly won’t
    The fraud in that is that it was supposed to go the schools.
  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,496 Standard Supporter
    salemcoog said:

    Let’s see. Long ago, like in the ‘90’s, the State of Oregon put up almost $200 mill on a new software system for DMV that was never implemented.

    A few years back they paid Oracle around $300 million for Cover Oregon, which was supposed to be the state exchange website to sign up for Obamacare. They actually tried to get this up and running, but it fell on its face and was scrapped.

    Turned out you could just sign up on the federal site all along and it was really never needed.

    The poont is that besides all of that fuckery, the State of Oregon has also had massive data breaches in the last few months.


    I’m gonna go ahead and give it until next year until I trust the State of Oregon with custody of one of my bank accounts. It sucks but it’s the only sane move as far as I’m concerned.

    State of Washington tech > State of Oregon tech

    Put that on the list of >'s for next year when those fuckheads need to be reminded which is the more superior State in this fine Union.

    Pump my gas, ducks.