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    From Mike Powell@1:2320/105 to Kurt Weiske on Tue Mar 4 19:16:00 2025
    Kurt Weiske wrote to Mike Powell <=-

    Description:
    A key US government technology department has been slashed in drive for "efficiency".

    He keeps using that word. I don't think it means what he thinks it
    means.

    Yeah, I wonder what he thinks it means as he is doing it wrong by most
    other peoples' definition. As I have said before, if DOGE is not including forensic accountants and subject matter experts, a lot of real fraud is
    going to be missed and they are more likely to screw things up.

    Based on past things I have seen from Elon on Twitter/X, he has a very,
    very limited understanding of COBOL and mainframe systems in general. He
    is most definately *not* an expert on either.


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  • From Kurt Weiske@1:218/1 to Mike Powell on Wed Mar 5 20:48:18 2025
    Mike Powell wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

    Yeah, I wonder what he thinks it means as he is doing it wrong by most other peoples' definition. As I have said before, if DOGE is not including forensic accountants and subject matter experts, a lot of
    real fraud is going to be missed and they are more likely to screw
    things up.

    It's not an audit.

    Based on past things I have seen from Elon on Twitter/X, he has a very, very limited understanding of COBOL and mainframe systems in general.
    He is most definately *not* an expert on either.

    I've worked with both, seeing people who grew up in the client-server
    era trying to understand mainframe archeology can be painful.



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  • From Mike Powell@1:2320/105 to KURT WEISKE on Thu Mar 6 08:30:00 2025
    Yeah, I wonder what he thinks it means as he is doing it wrong by most other peoples' definition. As I have said before, if DOGE is not including forensic accountants and subject matter experts, a lot of
    real fraud is going to be missed and they are more likely to screw things up.

    It's not an audit.

    Yes, that sums it up.

    Based on past things I have seen from Elon on Twitter/X, he has a very, very limited understanding of COBOL and mainframe systems in general.
    He is most definately *not* an expert on either.

    I've worked with both, seeing people who grew up in the client-server
    era trying to understand mainframe archeology can be painful.

    And, in this case, costly in the long run.


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