Last weekend, people across Hawaii spent 38 minutes thinking they were going to die because a government worker selected the wrong option on a missile alert interface. Multiple images, including several from the governor’s office , later circulated showing an interface similar to the screen the employee would have been using. They all shared the same quality: outdated, confusing, problematic design.
We don’t know if the system in Hawaii was ancient or simply poorly designed, but we know that no user-experience designer worth her salt would create a giant list of links or a drop-down menu for a lifesaving function. It’s the design equivalent of installing a hand-cranked engine on a Tesla or communicating with Alexa via smoke signals.
The incident in Hawaii exposes a problem far larger than a single confusing screen: Government is not good at buying, building and using technology. So maybe the most shocking part of this story is that mistakes like this don’t happen more frequently.
As former government technologists, we’ve worked as contractors and in civil service at federal and local levels, including buying and building out New Orleans’s emergency response systems. Over the past six months, we’ve also conducted in-depth interviews with people in and around government working to improve its technology and modernize its processes.
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B or C
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To me it is C or B is because both of them are true but mostly it is C because Mesopotamia had fertile land to plant their own food.
The answer is B) Dividend Income, because I had the on USA test prep and got it wrong and it showed me the right answer which is dividend income
A major reason the U.S. oversaw the building of the Panama Canal was to, D. increase the mobility of the U.S. naval fleet. That way if there was ever an attack on the Pacific or Atlantic, ships could easily navigate between the two oceans through the canal.
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The correct answer is B) The Russian government was weakened and eventually overthrown in a revolution.
During World War I, the Russian Empire was a vast empire based in an agricultural economy with a large poor population. The worker masses, led by Vladimir Lenin and the Communist party, organized in Soviets (councils) and following the Marxist precepts started a revolutionary movement that overthrown the Imperial government in October 1917 and established the first Communist government under the name of Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. As a result of this, Russia left the war.
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