Last of the old or first of the new?

[robkelk]

And most admins are overworked and underpaid

You've never worked as a government sysadmin, have you?

In Canada, the entry-level pay for a federal government sysadmin is $50,140 Canadian per year, according to http://www3.pipsc.ca/portal/page/portal ... e09.en.pdf]the current collective contract, and new hires only stay at that level for a year. (And one has to pass a security check to get the job.) I can't see any other Commonwealth or G8 country paying their sysadmins any less than that.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012