On Call Again

[howeird]

The pager went off at 2 am. I am on hold waiting for the engineers of two other companies to figure out the issue while I monitor our servers so I can tell them when it is fixed. It is now 4:25 am.

Yawn

While I'm waiting, I found this gem:

From: sscherme@adelphia.net (Skid/Jos)
Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny

There have been an average of 160,000 troops in theater (IRAQ) during the
last 22 months, which has a firearm death rate of *60* per *100,000*.

The rate in Washington D.C. is *80.6* per *100,000*.

That means that you are 25% more likely to be shot and killed in our Nation's
Capitol, which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation,
than you are in Iraq.

*Conclusion*: We should immediately pull out of Washington, D.C.


And now for the scary part. The cable company I'm on hold for is the same one this fellow's email account is with.

Comments

[emberleo.livejournal.com]

Quantity/Population/timespan?

--Ember--

[howeird]

Timespan for both was the same - 22 months. It's a valid comparison that way.

It's also valid in another way which most Americans either forget or don't know - Washington D.C. is not a democracy. Congress is the final arbitor of city policy, it has no representation in the Senate and no voting representation in the House.