Don Cook named acting NNSA administrator:
http://blogs.knoxnews.com/munger/2013/05/neile-miller-announces-her-dep.html#more
http://blogs.knoxnews.com/munger/2013/05/neile-miller-announces-her-dep.html#more
Tri-Valley Cares needs to be on this if they aren't already. We need to make sure that NNSA and LLNL does not make good on promises to pursue such stupid ideas as doing Plutonium experiments on NIF. The stupidity arises from the fact that a huge population is placed at risk in the short and long term. Why do this kind of experiment in a heavily populated area? Only a moron would push that kind of imbecile area. Do it somewhere else in the god forsaken hills of Los Alamos. Why should the communities in the Bay Area be subjected to such increased risk just because the lab's NIF has failed twice and is trying the Hail Mary pass of doing an SNM experiment just to justify their existence? Those Laser EoS techniques and the people analyzing the raw data are all just BAD anyways. You know what comes next after they do the experiment. They'll figure out that they need larger samples. More risk for the local population. Stop this imbecilic pursuit. They wan...
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When you face other bigger problems, what better way to deal with it than to create an enemy, demonize him in front of your employees, and get those war drums beating and all the employees in a frenzy of bloodthirsty revenge.
http://www.contractormisconduct.org/index.cfm/1,73,222,html?CaseID=1259
Livermore is screwed.
They could force an EXTERNAL INDEPENDENT REVIEW of their LASER EOS and MATERIAL STRENGTH PROGRAMS
ouch
They could force an EXTERNAL INDEPENDENT REVIEW of their LASER EOS and MATERIAL STRENGTH PROGRAMS
Ha that is a death blow. They don't have 15 years worth of EoS work demonstrating a progression or leadership in capability development for analyzing these types of experiments. It makes NNSA look bad too because they signed off on all their work for years. With this kind of shite about to hit the fan, those ignition people are actually looking good, occupying high ground and making legitimate progress. Laser EoS and figuring out how to "hide the dead bodies" doesn't give us any confidence that it will end well for that effort.
Speaking of fair and balanced, the IRS did the right thing in putting those nutty orgs under scrutiny. The IRS was right to question the legitimacy of their non profit status. They deserved a medal, not an investigation.
May 20, 2013 at 3:07 AM
Except for the slight inconvenience that it was totally illegal to do so. If they can do it to anyone, they can do it to you. Think about it.
So you don't like the law. Too bad.
By the way, Smeagol's other name is Gollum.
May 22, 2013 at 11:27 AM
Again, illegal under current law.
May 22, 2013 at 2:59 PM
Cite which law you are referring to, please.
The question I have is regarding the statement made by May 22, 2013 at 1:50 PM:
The IRS needs to target all non-profits for greater scrutiny, not just conservative groups.
May 22, 2013 at 11:27 AM
Again, illegal under current law.
I'm curious what law is prohibiting all non-profits being targeted for greater scrutiny.
Same thing with the argument about private funding for basic research in the United States. You were asked to name one source and you named many. Somebody doesn't know how to apply logic.. or just has bad eyesight and is misreading everything... i dunno. It's speaks to the sad state of American education I guess.
The IRS needs to target all non-profits for greater scrutiny, not just conservative groups.
May 24, 2013 at 2:58 PM
You are seriously misinformed. It uses government money to PAY FOR health care for the uninsured. All of the "exchanges" MUST offer certain coverage through private insurers. Who do you think pays the insurers to do this, especially since they have no reason to want to? This is just a thin disguise for government run health care, the ULTIMATE "subsidy."
Haven't you people got some huntin' an' fishin' to do to get ready for your imminent layoffs?