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  1. Join Date
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    #21
    A$$shole naman talaga yang si Carandang eh. Napaka-arogante ng dating, akala mo kung sino. That's just my opinion though, feel free to disagree.

    He may have forgotten that he was before elected representatives of the people, even if some have reprehensible characters themselves. He forgot to draw the line.

    He should have directed his sarcasm to Ces Drilon, hehehe. Maybe he hasn't been getting any lately

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    #22
    with his attitude and mindset, carandang should have stayed in news casting

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    #23
    Meanwhile, as they bicker over MACS, Congress promptly went shopping for its own computers just as well:

    From: Manila Standard Today -- House gave overpriced laptops to congressmen -- 2011/september/8

    House gave overpriced laptops to congressmen
    by Christine F. Herrera

    Notebook computers that should have cost P24,000 each came out to P150,000 apiece in unfinished P75-million E-District deal

    FIVE hundred laptops that Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. handed out to 250 congressmen last Christmas cost taxpayers P75 million, or P150,000 per unit, documents obtained by the Manila Standard Wednesday showed.

    The HP Mini 5101, with an Intel Atom processor, one gigabyte of memory, a 160-gigabyte hard disk and a 10-inch display, sold for about P24,000 when it was introduced in 2009.

    Manila Standard also learned that the notebooks came installed with Windows XP, an operating system that was phased out by Microsoft in June 2010, but did not include a voice-over Internet Protocol system that was part of the original deal with Advance Systems Inc., the supplier.

    The HP laptops were part of the E-District project initiated during the previous Congress and were supposed to allow districts to call and communicate with their representatives in the House for free through the Internet as a way of saving on communications costs.

    But the House under Belmonte did not carry out the VOIP portion of the deal, leaving lawmakers with “overpriced” notebooks that should have cost less than P30,000 each.

    Manila Standard was unable to reach Belmonte for comment.

    An Waray Rep. Florencio Noel, chairman of the House committee on accounts, confirmed the mass distribution of some 500 units of laptops, but could not explain why the House failed to compel Advance Solutions Inc. to set up the VOIP system at the Batasan and other service areas nationwide.

    Noel said he had the company’s P7.5 million in retainer fees withheld because of its failure to set up the VOIP services and back-up server systems.

    But the company had already been paid the total contract price of P75 million even without the VOIP system.

    “I am using both laptops here in my office [in the House],” said House Assistant Minority Leader Maria Milagros Magsaysay of Zambales. She said she didn’t know the two laptops cost so much.

    Under the contract, a copy of which was obtained by Manila Standard, only the lawmakers with legislative districts were entitled to the laptops.

    But Belmonte and Noel also equipped their allies, including party-list groups, with the overpriced laptops. They even gave two units to Basilan Rep. Jim Hataman, a member of the Liberal Party, when Basilan did not have access to Internet services.

    The office of Bayan Muna Rep. Teddy Casiño installed its own VOIP system to maximize the use of the laptops.

    The E-District project hoped to enhance the networking function of the district offices with the local government units, organizations and institutions, social sectors, research groups, and even individual citizens by creating Web-based voice and data communication facilities.

    The House also required that the geographic information system be made available 24/7 and to operate with 99.9-percent reliability.

    The project also required backup servers and an off-site disaster recovery service, none of which was provided.
    If ever that is true, t-a-n-g-inang HP Mini, mas mahal pa sa mga Mac ni Carandang.

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    #24
    dont tell me you are surprised? you just change the President. dont expect everything to change kahit tapos na termino nya. he needs to dance with them.

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