--Doug
"Never pick a fight with someone who buys his ink by the barrel."
- Mark Twain
Also, I would be remiss if I didn't use to opportunity to leach of Slashdot's bandwidth to mention my new science fiction novel, Second Cousins: http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins/
:)
--Doug
Agree completely. I also left in June, 2005 when Act 3 was just one year away.
--Doug Roberts, http://parrot-farm.net/lanl-the-real-story/
Speaking as the author/creator/owner/maintainer of the original LANL, The Real Story blog, http://parrot-farm.net/lanl-the-real-story/ [parrot-farm.net], and as a person who spent 20 years on staff at LANL, I can tell you that Hugh Gusterson's paper, if anything, understates the levels of incompetence, arrogance, and these days under its new corporate ownership, the *greed* demonstrated by the management of Los Alamos National Laboratory. The place had become nearly completely dysfunctional during the Nanos period, and is now simply treading water. The primary goal and business plan these days is to ensure that the annual award fee is received in it's entirety. Science has taken a back seat to making money for the LLC that now owns the contract for running the place.
--Doug Roberts LANL, Retired 2005
The moon is made of green cheese. -- John Heywood