Post deletions

Hey Scoob.

Some posts are deleted, but not others nearly identical in tone and content are retained.

Bias is present in the editing.

"..It is not the policy, so much as the implementation.."

"..blame the christians.." Nero

October 30, 2012 7:29 AM

Anonymous said...

Blog owner typically can filter/censor however they choose and don't have to explain their decisions or even be consistent.

The flipside is that systematic bias in filtering will simply drive the legitimate contributors away, reducing the relevance of the blog site, which is probably not what a blog owner wants (though who knows).

We have to accept the reality that blog owners are rightful dictators in a small domain, but we can decide what our threshold is regarding when we choose to stop participating in (and therefore supporting) it.

I'm very impressed overall about this blog. I've been keeping tabs of sharp rise in the number of visitors accessing this blog.

October 30, 2012 12:59 PM

Anonymous said...

I employ an even more rigid form of censorship. I allow no comments on my blog. All the content there is either mine, or given to me through other means, to put onto my blog. The downside is that my blog has a readership of 2 people (excluding web crawlers).

October 30, 2012 1:04 PM

U.S. pushes for more scientists, but the jobs aren’t there

Anonymously contributed: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Washington Post article

NIF on KQED

Anonymously contributed: KQED web/radio short news piece on NIF http://science.kqed.org/quest/audio/in-livermore-still-waiting-on-nuclear-fusion/ This is the link to the web piece. I heard the radio bit this morning. It does reaffirm the big-science strategy as the main focus by NIF management. The 3 pieces are: (1) LIFE, (2) stockpile stewardship and (3) big science. It is Chu who has to report to congress regarding the alpha heating milestone failure. It will be interesting to see what he says. Whether he also affirms the big-science committment on the part of an NNSA that is supposed to be focused on ensuring the safety, security and reliability of the nuclear stockpile. NIF is not the only NNSA that has somewhat questionable or tenuous connections with weapons. So arguments hitting NIF on this big science strategy may hit other projects as well. October 29, 2012 11:05 AM Anonymous said... Yeah they are matrixed to NIF to "solve" the alpha heating milestone failure problem.... while watching important youtube vids.

Security Failure at Los Alamos National Laboratory Puts Nuclear Materials at Risk

Anonymously contributed: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Security Failure at Los Alamos National Laboratory Puts Nuclear Materials at Risk -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The Nuclear Weapons and Materials Monitor and the Albuquerque Journal are reporting that a new and expensive security system at the Los Alamos National Laboratory simply does not work. In response, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is demanding that the contractor at the New Mexico lab fully disclose all of the project’s problems and show that the nuclear materials stored at the facility are safe. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We commend the NNSA for holding its contractor accountable. Apparently, the NNSA had warned the contractor, Los Alamos National Security, as early as 2010 that the security project was likely to be completed late and over budget. The apparent incompetence of the contractors is appalling. Still, we’re concerned that the NNSA didn’t exercise enough oversight along the way. How did the project get this far and this over-budget when the NNSA has an office on site at Los Alamos that is supposed to be overseeing the contractor? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Security issues in the nuclear weapons complex are getting out of hand. First you have an 82-year-old nun breaching security at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oakridge, Tenn. Now, a security upgrade at Los Alamos is so botched that it may require Congress to rescue it with up to $25 million in emergency funding." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.pogo.org/pogo-files/alerts/nuclear-security-safety/20121026-security-failure-at-lanl.html

Bradbury science museum

Anonymously contributed: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Is there any truth to the rumor that the Bradbury science museum in Los Alamos is now going to a wing devoted to Bechtel?

Another Los Alamos managed project over budget and behind schedule

Another Los Alamos managed project over budget and behind schedule. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Coming on the heels of the recent LANL radiation safety incident this can only be bad news. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.abqjournal.com/main/2012/10/26/north/213m-project-not-working.html

Lack of qualifications

Anonymously contributed: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A subject that never comes up in this blog is the lack of qualifications of the AD's for some of the support technical divisions at the Lab. It seems that the Lab management have sacrificed any hope of making those divisions world class. The obvious reasons are: political correctness to appease affirmative action critics and, and dare I say it, the convenience of having compliant AD's. The impact of this practice will surely be detrimental to the long-term future of the Lab.