Hey if they are stupid enough to force over time I'm mean enough to work it at 1.5 times my regular rate. My bosses did the same thing all after firing the most recent group of new hires to try to skew their data numbers to look better in the cash flow department. The consequence is with out the fired new guys we cant make our production numbers so now we're in mandatory over time. funny how that works out.

ahh how the mighty have started the long slip to no where

dude have a heart, publish a link to where you got it?

ya, it's always funny till you get your card jack'd for $2400.00, then it acrimony and histrionics time! But, of course, it'll never happen to you, right,,,,,,,,?

Excellent!! Now my Mutant Armys can be remote controlled !!

ya know I liked Kelly Johnsons work immensely but I just haven't trusted Lockheed in the last 30 years I really cringed when they got the contract.

Unfortunately it will be for the follow on generation who will have a better handle on tech than the present who will have to correct a whole litany of laws written by the old business model operators to try to keep their model alive instead of using new technology to expand their positions, examples of what happens when you fail to innovate are apple Itunes versus SAM Goodies, Sam is out of business I believe. How will SOPA affect the net??? I believe there will become two camps the innovation community and the stodgy old school camps with their own independent DNS hierarchy. It will be interesting to see the outcome, the stodgy campers will undoubtedly sue and the innovators will have to try to buy out the old guard where they can and absorb them into revised/new corporate incarnations that are friendly to innovation.

News Flash! Generalisimo Francisco Franco is still Dead! After 32 years dead the general and dictator of Spain is still dead!, Oh, by the way so is WEBOS, this pawn off of the operating system to open source is, I'm betting, a tax write off, as a way to recoup a pointless buy of a dead operating system that they cant sell to some one else because, its dead Jim!?!! stick a fork in it!

That would require responsible journalism, , god forbid right...

AMEN!

Actually not true, whats missing is the nations vision to past low earth orbit, as for the private sector the reason Elon Musk started SPACEX was to make money selling freight hauls to orbit , the iss or any where some one will pay the freight to, all so he can develop the technology to get to Mars himself. To be fair he's already launched the Dragon which cost him $300,000,000.00 to design and fly (Dec 8th 2010) its an interesting story all by itself, read it yourself; http://www.spacex.com/

they are no more productive than I am, but they get paid a fraction of what I get paid, hence their desirability

woo hoo Go Cav!

Sadly this is true, even after Spacex flew the dragon in December 2010 after the NASA program it was competing with ARIES was cancelled. And their still trying to bring home bacon to morton thiokol. its sad.

The constellation & Aries may be gone but there are replacements for them, & yes they most definitely are out sourced designs, see http://www.spacex.com/F9-001.php Oh yeah & its in orbit right now! thats 15 years ahead of constellation / Aries.