Is the blog dead? Too bad it was fun and informative.
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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A single thread use to get up 60 or more posts if you look the postings from last year.
Sometime around Nov the number of posts dropped by 10. I think it use to be you could post and see your comment right away so you could have a much faster back and forth, now you have to wait a day or more to see if you post will even appear and often it does not for whatever reason.
July 19, 2018 at 6:02 AM
OK, not a clue what that means. "Best" in the sense that's the best the moderator can do? Or "best" in the sense if it's the best blog out there for rapidity of postings? I suspect the former and that is obviously a pretty low bar for quality of service. Like everything else in the world, you get what you pay for and it's worth every penny.
Why are there so few postings and comments this year compared to last?
The most obvious answer is that there is nothing wrong at Livermore. Also, most everyone is happy with how smoothly the contract change at LANL is proceeding. And, Sandia is cooking right along under the new management. Nothing to complain about equals fewer postings and comments. But,you'll probably see an uptick in squawks once the new benefits package is released at LANL.
I helped get rid of the trolls that swamped the forum. Scooby and I had clearly published rules and we followed those ruled rigorously - no hate speech or personal attacks. No personal opinions from either of us came into the fray unless we overtly posted our own entry stating those thoughts.
Of course the volume went down after the troll postings were suppressed. What was left is the true interest group for the labs. If that is dwindling then it's dwindling.
You're entitled to blame me all you want - this forum, Trump being president, global warming, any other delusions you may have. I'll smile just as sweetly, signing my name to the posts unlike you, Dr. Anonymous.
July 27, 2018 at 4:09 PM
One can only notice that you do not, in fact, sign your name to your posts, using a catchy pseudonym instead. Unlike Scooby, who has come clean as Julian.