We spend $630 million a year on the Library of Congress - outsource it to Google an be done with it

Oh the endless ways the statists find to overspend.

"The first is boring but critical. The library -- with more than 100 million books and manuscripts, a $630 million budget and a staff of more than 3,000 -- is sprawling, chaotic and increasingly archaic. As a withering report from the General Accounting Office found earlier this year, its technology is outdated, duplicative and disorganized. Hundreds of new flat-screen monitors have been sitting in a warehouse for years. Millions of taxpayer dollars have been wasted. Have you tried the website?"

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-11-23/renewing-the-library-of-congress

So Google can decide what to save? No thanks.

Does the Library of Congress need to catch up with the technology, yes.

to some OMM.

Only Money Matters

The article's thrust seems to be that it needs to do even more, while refocusing on what's lasting and important. 

Oh, and 

"The free exchange of information is diminished when citizens are tracked
and prodded by marketers as they journey across the Web, and when much
of what they find is dubious or corrupted. Helping ensure that
authoritative scholarship and reliable information remain free to the
public online should be an overriding priority."

That is not the business that Google is in.

Libraries are for losers.  Wikipedia has everything I need to know.   Wait.  Wikipedia and baseball-reference.com.

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Two chicken apple sausages, a salad, and pita chips.

And you?

ParticleMan said:

Two chicken apple sausages, a salad, and pita chips.

And you?

Roast turkey and cheddar sandwich with sriracha mustard. Damn it was good, too.

and this is how government spending gets out of control and taxpayers are impoverished. 

ridski said:

ParticleMan said:

Two chicken apple sausages, a salad, and pita chips.

And you?

Roast turkey and cheddar sandwich with sriracha mustard. Damn it was good, too.

Library of Congress guests are asked to follow some general guidelines:

Please dispose of all food, drink, and chewing gum, and turn off cell phones and other electronic devices before touring the Library.

bramzzoinks said:

and this is how government spending gets out of control and taxpayers are impoverished. 

Wait a sec, I though poor people didn't pay any taxes.

Sriracha mustard?

dave23 said:

Sriracha mustard?

Yeah. Inglehoffer Sriracha mustard. Picked it up at World Market. Excellent stuff. 

http://www.biteofthebest.com/wp-content/uploads/BeavertonFoodslowresING-Sriracha-Mustard-e1417378120445.jpeg

DaveSchmidt said:

Library of Congress guests are asked to follow some general guidelines:

Please dispose of all food, drink, and chewing gum, and turn off cell phones and other electronic devices before touring the Library.

Except at the South Orange library you can drink your coffee and talk on your cell right on the main room floor ( I did have to go to the break room for my Italian Hoagie lunch.)

ridski said:

dave23 said:

Sriracha mustard?

Yeah. Inglehoffer Sriracha mustard. Picked it up at World Market. Excellent stuff. 

http://www.biteofthebest.com/wp-content/uploads/BeavertonFoodslowresING-Sriracha-Mustard-e1417378120445.jpeg

Ive had the smoked bacon mustard from them...that's really good. Also picked up a Sriracha ketchup.

why would you need sriracha ketchup when sriracha works so well? 

tom said:

why would you need sriracha ketchup when sriracha works so well? 

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The statists in California wanted to close down the major sriracha factory in the US because of complaints about the peppery smell,

damned statists and their noses.

bramzzoinks said:

The statists in California wanted to close down the major sriracha factory in the US because of complaints about the peppery smell,

And neo-cons want to close the factory down because sriracha is bouchy.  What is your point?  

And I had an apple and a yogurt. I am trying to eat healthy 

Your statement has no basis in fact. Mine does.

bramzzoinks said:

Your statement has no basis in fact. Mine does.

You wouldn't notice a fact if it stared at you.   Let's be clearer here, you are a cartoon character on MOL.  Your posts read as fiction or humor.  Sorry to have to be honest.  

Aah, the tactics used by the left.

Great idea, zoinks. We could use the model of for-profit colleges in yet another case - let some private entities bilk the government instead of the government spending its money directly. There's gold in them thar government institutions.

I daresay that Google could do a better job of the technology side of the Library of Congress.  Let the government manage the physical library.  Let Google manage the electronic library.

Give them the FAA too. They use 60's era technology. As does the IRS and countless other agencies.

Not that billions and billions have not been spent. It has been. For projects that fail. But that is the way the bureaucratic statists like it.

bramzzoinks said:

Give them the FAA too. They use 60's era technology. As does the IRS and countless other agencies.

Not that billions and billions have not been spent. It has been. For projects that fail. But that is the way the bureaucratic statists like it.

Oh stop.  Google has some expertise in document management.  The IRS and FAA are different animals.

if the choice is between a library or another pointless war, I'll take the former.