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We will miss you.
Thank you Parney for your service and looking always for welfare of the peons like me.
Parney was a big improvement over the previous Director.
If he was so good, what did he do to get fired?
There are difficult decisions to be made soon and he is not the right person who can make them.
But Bret is, and he will lay waste to the landscape.
The New director - not the regent- needs to protect grow and protect the lab. It is very long in the tooth.
The future is tenuous. The lab needs a part of the new complex 21 facilities. It needs new interesting missions to engage and retain weapons talent. To show that we know what we are doing we need to begin again UG testing.
We really need to deploy a RRW so the new generation can learn again the details.
LLNL needs to revise compensation to reward staying at the lab where it takes 5 - 10 years to train a Post Doc to an independant weaponeer. Need to increase compensation dramatically to compete with more interesting, local, productive industries.
They need to decrease NNSA/DOE involvement in any lab to a minimum. These homes for unwed mothers, provide almost no benefit and provide many unwise threats.
Contact 44 needs to be junked as does the LLC notion in favor of a UC-lead scientific institution with significant independence.
As much as I personally like and respect Parney, he only had acted on a few of these things by the time he resigned. It is hard to join the LLNL culture without significant previous exposure. He did a pretty good job.
Perney looked after me ok. Oh boy, Perney signed my career-death warrant a few days after he took office about two years ago. I was out the gate shortly after he autographed the warrant. Well, what goes around will comes around. I wonder who signed Perney' career-death warrant this time.
I wonder who signed Perney's career-death warrant this time.
Parney's career is not over. Being a lab director is not his last hurrah.
I take issue with the idea that LLNL needs more nuclear weapons designers. That's certaintly not where LLNL's future is going IMO. Give it no LANL, There going down hill faster than we are. We need great technology programs in the national interest (energy,space,climate,natural resource preservation,advanced manufacturing, advanced photonics, etc...) in order to attract and retain good people. Things that keep the US at the edge of technology and growth. NOT nuclear weapons ! Don't need new ones ! I think we (nuclear weapons states) should keep some around for certain reasons (e.g., planetary protection), but not to use against one another. Not in this century. I include high density physics and fusion energy programs in advanced energy technologies.
Nuclear weapons are dying at LLNL, the future whether anyone likes it or not is in a large number of small projects funded by a variety of sources, following something closer to a university model but with some overall structure focusing on "national security". Certainly that is where LLNS is pushing things. I think that is a disaster for the lab and ultimately for the nation, but it is not a stoppable process - get on board, or get off.
Parney did the country a huge favor by shit-canning Tomas. Whatever other things he may have done to piss off whomever, You can not deny that he did the right thing with regards to Marching the megalomaniac out of the gate.
I think we (nuclear weapons states) should keep some around for certain reasons (e.g., planetary protection), but not to use against one another. Not in this century. I include high density physics and fusion energy programs in advanced energy technologies.
November 2, 2013 at 9:46 PM
You are working at the wrong facility and definitely the wrong mine set. These are for the sole purpose of wiping an adversary off the face of the earth. My only regret is we haven't developed a weapon that you could deployed into the middle of a large city, kill all the people and do no harm to the facilities and leaving no radiation. I could see lots of use for this. Wars would end quickly and lots of very bad people would be gone o short order. Now there's a mission worth working on.
That's great to give Parney "best wishes", however, what did he accomplish as Lab Director? What did he do?
The difference going from a smart, cultured guy like Parney - who seemed to care about employees - to a dumb hick like Knapp - who loves brutalizing employees - is going to cause a huge amount of culture shock at LLNL.
Knapp is an "attack dog". He's been sent to LLNL as the Director for a purpose. Can you guess what it is?
"My only regret is we haven't developed a weapon that you could deployed into the middle of a large city, kill all the people and do no harm to the facilities and leaving no radiation."
We did - it's called the neutron bomb ! I believe that Carter killed it, and Reagan wisely didn't try to bring it back.
Hey November 3, 2013 at 8:16 PM:
It was called the RRR bomb - Reduced Residual Radiation. It may not have been fieled, but boy did we have fun developing it...
Since this thread started as well wishes to Parney, we really should keep it that way. There is obviously much more to the story of his departure that we will never know beyond speculation.
I am a 30 year LLNL employee so yes I have seen many changes & several Directors over the years. Parney is the first one I felt had the guts to fight for what is right for us.
I am grateful for the way Parney treated us. He would actually tell us facts, tell us when he didn't know, and speculate on what he thought might happen. I respect that from him especially in these uncertain times. I wish him all the luck in whatever he decides to do in the future.
God help us all who remain at LLNL.
The difference going from a smart, cultured guy like Parney - who seemed to care about employees - to a dumb hick like Knapp - who loves brutalizing employees - is going to cause a huge amount of culture shock at LLNL.
Knapp is an "attack dog". He's been sent to LLNL as the Director for a purpose. Can you guess what it is?
November 3, 2013 at 6:45 PM
Yeah, he plans to rip both buttocks off the LLNL ass.
You give Knapp too much credit. He's not a trained attack dog. He's just a garden variety jackass with the ambition to be known as an attack dog.
What or who is POS?
What or who is POS?
November 4, 2013 at 7:01 PM
I tried answering you in detail but Scooby deleted my post. No profanity, no name calling. POS accepted the moniker after so many posters called him that. He is over-the-top a government hater, except when it comes to his Social Security and Medicare, which he considers his God-given right. He insists the government will be coming to confiscate everything you own any day now. He also insists he is "not bitter" although he is an ex-LLNL employee who hates everything about LLNL, especially "educated people" whom he considers worthless to society.
"November 4, 2013 at 9:12 PM"
That was a bit one sided on your part and unfair.
"He is over-the-top a government hater,"
He believes in the constitution which limited government and being a former lab worker he has good reason hate the government that just spends all his tax dollars.
"except when it comes to his Social Security and Medicare, which he considers his God-given right."
He feels he paid his share of this already and wants it back. He earned his own money. He did not get money from the government or live off the government.
"He insists the government will be coming to confiscate everything you own any day now."
If government continues to grow we will turn into a totalitarian states like Switzerland or Luxemburg where the government has taken away everything including the guns. We cannot let American turn into Switzerland.
"He also insists he is "not bitter""
He has his pension so how could someone be bitter if they have a pension? It just stand to reason.
No all the other people are bitter that they will not have a pension.
"he is an ex-LLNL employee who hates everything about LLNL, especially "educated people" whom he considers worthless to society."
The so called "educated" people speak in ways that no one understands, are naive, and have a cannot do attitude. Perhaps they failed in understanding great intellectual insights of POS.
November 5, 2013 at 7:29 AM:
SO what you're saying is that November 4, 2013 at 9:12 PM nailed it.
You give Knapp too much credit. He's not a trained attack dog. He's just a garden variety jackass with the ambition to be known as an attack dog.
November 4, 2013 at 5:47 PM
He's not a jackass. He's a bull in a China Shop with a red hot chili pepper shoved up his ass.
November 5, 2013 at 6:58 PM
Can tell you're not from New Mexico. "Chile" is the name given to hot peppers of various varieties. "Chili" is a meat and chile stew, sometimes with beans and tomatoes.
I almost vomited when I saw Knapp in a photo op at LLNL with his cunning smile and receding and "blown back" hair, California boy "does good" look. In truth, the guy is a "tried and true" bastard. He raised hell with me when he was here at LANL.
Anonymous said...
I almost vomited when I saw Knapp in a photo op at LLNL with his cunning smile and receding and "blown back" hair, California boy "does good" look. In truth, the guy is a "tried and true" bastard. He raised hell with me when he was here at LANL.
You think you're upset....Knapp looks a lot like my old man......I suspect that's why he was hired....to deal with me and my poor attitude at work!
You think you're upset....Knapp looks a lot like my old man......I suspect that's why he was hired....to deal with me and my poor attitude at work!
November 8, 2013 at 12:16 PM
Well maybe Bret Knapp is your real daddy? Who's your daddy?
Can tell you're not from New Mexico. "Chile" is the name given to hot peppers of various varieties. "Chili" is a meat and chile stew, sometimes with beans and tomatoes.
November 6, 2013 at 7:19 PM
Webster:
chili noun \ˈchi-lē\
: a small pepper with a very hot flavor
Webster's not from New Mexico either!
Knapp looks happy on his 6th day as interim-director. Despite his receding hair, his administrator gazed adoringly at him. His "teams" surrounding and protecting him from peons employees who are clinging to their jobs with dear lives. Is Knapp going to yank jobs from peons and keep his clouts?
Knapp looks happy on his 6th day as interim-director. Despite his receding hair, his administrator gazed adoringly at him. His "teams" surrounding and protecting him from peons employees who are clinging to their jobs with dear lives. Is Knapp going to yank jobs from peons and keep his clouts?
November 9, 2013 at 8:39 AM
Yeah I saw that picture. If only they knew the "prick" that he is.
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