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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From the Sandia article itself:
" Tim Shepodd (8223) liked the moniker and agreed to call it the “chili cookoff.” But there was no chili involved, and the only “cooking” had to do with the kind of chemicals not usually found on Sandia grounds. "
That's another stupid Sandia project too. I heard that the Sandia Livermore staff were laughing and ridiculing it when the project manager tried (unsuccessfully) to get it nominated for an award.
Sandia California mandated bicycle helmets and I can't believe that drunk driving is allowed where an unprotected head is not.
Why did Sandia need to pay anything, other than the fact that lawyers would drag things out in court for years?
The driver of the vehicle still works at Sandia? Why wasn't he fired?
This does cost the taxpayer when it shouldn't but unless there are details not published that give a different twist on this story I can't see where Sandia is the guilty part. They just have the deep pockets.
WTF?! Are you serious. LLNL has a redundant mission and is way less component than LANL. Don’t take my opinion, go ask the Navy, they refuse to work with LLNL, and if the Air Force ever put their heads on right they would follow suit. LLNL is artificially sustained by your Senator Frankenstein. LLNL should be closed down and handed over to Hollywood as a sound stage.