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Is this purely symbolic, or is there some real sense in which replacing the USDA website with a placeholder saves the government a measurable amount of money?
by Steuard 13y ago
Is this purely symbolic, or is there some real sense in which replacing the USDA website with a placeholder saves the government a measurable amount of money?
- nwh 13y agoSymbolic really. The same servers are sitting there, just idle rather than pumping out pages.
- SolarNet 13y agoNot if they can't pay for the power or system administrators to support them for an undefined amount of time. Better to switch to a simple single server now than let the web page get hacked, fail slowly, or disappear completely.
- bsdetector 13y agoIf they have legal requirements like a report of contamination or unsafe conditions is investigated within N days after being received their only option may be to not accept the report at all. Unless everybody involved in the whole process is an essential worker.
- palidanx 13y agoReports of contamination would most likely go through the FDA for announcements.
- abalone 13y agoFalse dichotomy. It could well be that many parts of the site don't function correctly without staff. For example processing submissions, keeping critical data up to date, etc.