Actual post from Dec. 15 from one of the streams. This is a real topic. As far as promoting women and minorities even if their qualifications are not as good as the white male scientists, I am all for it. We need diversity at the lab and if that is what it takes, so be it. Quit your whining. Look around the lab, what do you see? White male geezers. How many African Americans do you see at the lab? Virtually none. LLNL is one of the MOST undiverse places you will see. Face it folks, LLNL is an institution of white male privilege and they don't want to give up their privileged positions. California, a state of majority Hispanics has the "crown jewel" LLNL nestled in the middle of it with very FEW Hispanics at all!
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Changing the domain name on all LLNL computers will take a massive effort in time, manpower, and money we don't have. It would have to be coordinated to occur at the same time, taking at least a half-day downtime. And then there are applications - some tools will have to be recoded.
In summary - all hell is going to break loose.
Branding! Yeah, that'll save the DOE's poor image.