tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post3701953480041317172..comments2023-08-27T06:53:36.768-06:00Comments on LANL: The Rest of the Story: This Just InFrank Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02134775226991383924noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-45466687719081098772007-09-11T09:44:00.000-06:002007-09-11T09:44:00.000-06:00Independent wealth? Hey, I live in Los Alamos Cou...Independent wealth? Hey, I live in Los Alamos County. We're all filthy rich millionaires, don't 'cha know? Our streets are all overflowing with Bentley's and Ferarri's and finding a decent butler is next to impossible since the neighbors have scarfed up all the good ones. I just wish the County would ease up a bit on the home helicopter pad restrictions.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-25339280949918007032007-09-11T05:15:00.000-06:002007-09-11T05:15:00.000-06:00Beautiful and smart aren't quite enough. Ya gotta ...Beautiful and smart aren't quite enough. Ya gotta have the independent wealth along with it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-52407562975673804002007-09-10T21:49:00.000-06:002007-09-10T21:49:00.000-06:00What do you think people would pick today? - 9/10/...What do you think people would pick today? - 9/10/07 1:10 PM<BR/><BR/><BR/>Depends how ugly we are talking about. If we're talking about a butt-ugly smart kid, I'd go with beauty. In sad, but people do get judged by first appearances. It's always been that way, though. <BR/><BR/>I'm just glad all my kids take after me. They're all extremely beautiful and very smart ;-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-29197816878566315562007-09-10T13:10:00.000-06:002007-09-10T13:10:00.000-06:00"Which would your rather hear your college-bound s..."Which would your rather hear your college-bound son or daughter say to you as a parent these days?<BR/><BR/> Mom and Dad...<BR/><BR/> "I'm going to be a scientist!"<BR/><BR/> or,<BR/><BR/> "I'm going to be an investment banker!" "<BR/><BR/>What is weird is that when you phrase it this way I think most parents would say <BR/>they would would be happier or more proud if their kid said scientist.<BR/><BR/>However if the parents are scientists <BR/>themselves they would be happier if the kid said "investment banker!"<BR/><BR/>Interesting topic. If parents had a choice in which they could guarantee <BR/>(1) Your child will be very smart.<BR/>(2) Your child will be very beautiful.<BR/>What do you think people would pick today?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-44626059381084186602007-09-10T11:42:00.000-06:002007-09-10T11:42:00.000-06:00Which would your rather hear your college-bound so...Which would your rather hear your college-bound son or daughter say to you as a parent these days?<BR/><BR/>Mom and Dad...<BR/><BR/>"I'm going to be a scientist!"<BR/><BR/>or,<BR/><BR/>"I'm going to be an investment banker!"<BR/><BR/>Science has it's own rewards, but it's hard to get excited about a kid who is headed for a career in science, given what the US seems to value these days. Job security is currently not one of the strong points for a career in science.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-44240968590863533972007-09-10T11:20:00.000-06:002007-09-10T11:20:00.000-06:00"Investment banking *is* better than going into sc..."<BR/>Investment banking *is* better than going into sceience (sp)! Apparently, almost everyone already know that but you, my clueless friend."<BR/><BR/>I hear ya. When we where kids we would hear things like, "oh you are so smart, we need people like you in science." "If you go into science you will be treated really well"<BR/><BR/>It is interesting that the so called smart kids went into science and egineering while the not so smart kids got business degrees. <BR/><BR/>So the message is "do not go into science." Leave that to people in China and India who we let in to do science.<BR/>Funny how you cannot come from these contries to be investment bankers you can only come if do science and engineering.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-75500326505691997772007-09-10T10:32:00.000-06:002007-09-10T10:32:00.000-06:00"Of course if bright young people see what is happ..."Of course if bright young people see what is happening to LANL they might think investment banking is better than going into sceience." - 9/10/07 9:22 AM <BR/><BR/>Investment banking *is* better than going into sceience (sp)! Apparently, almost everyone already know that but you, my clueless friend.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-89862609361797146472007-09-10T09:22:00.000-06:002007-09-10T09:22:00.000-06:00"FYI, I'm not overseas. And you? Perhaps your a fo..."<BR/>FYI, I'm not overseas. And you? Perhaps your a foreign national at LANL doing "science" who is eager to take some scientific booty back to the old homeland? Who knows? You can never be too paranoid, right?"<BR/><BR/>This is borderlines on bigorty. A large fraction of scientists in the United States come from abroad. Than a fraction of them become naturalized citizens and stay LANL and elswehere in the United States. There are foreign nationals at LANL but these are mainly postdocs who are usualy in the process of becoming citizens. Most likely somone in your past family had to do that too.<BR/><BR/>The United States itself does not or cannot produce the number of homegrown scientists. At US universities 60% of Ph.ds awarded in mathematics and engineering 50% of Ph.ds in Physics go to foreign nationals. Of course if bright young people see what is happening to LANL they might think investment banking is better than going into sceience.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-31524564902525941142007-09-10T01:37:00.000-06:002007-09-10T01:37:00.000-06:00Don't have a cow, man.Don't have a cow, man.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-43189088539503303032007-09-10T01:16:00.000-06:002007-09-10T01:16:00.000-06:00Ешьте мои шорты!Ешьте мои шорты!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-53057094754169842742007-09-10T01:09:00.000-06:002007-09-10T01:09:00.000-06:00Oh, my! I suspect "real science" Poster 11:27 PM ...Oh, my! I suspect "real science" Poster 11:27 PM must have just con'ed his LANL AD into giving him the go ahead to attend a Winter conference being held in sunny Hawaii. I certainly hope that AD doesn't read this blog! Those airline tickets are re-fundable, right?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-65747177954658882842007-09-10T00:55:00.000-06:002007-09-10T00:55:00.000-06:00Меньше знаешь-крепче спишьМеньше знаешь-крепче спишьAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-7905357891510742752007-09-10T00:51:00.000-06:002007-09-10T00:51:00.000-06:00Poster 11:27 PM, looks like I hit your solar plexu...Poster 11:27 PM, looks like I hit your solar plexus. Feel free to let your paranoid delusions run wild in an attempt to protect your little science fantasy land. Perhaps those paranoid delusions are just part of the price to pay for having such a powerful scientific mind, right? <BR/><BR/>FYI, I'm not overseas. And you? Perhaps your a foreign national at LANL doing "science" who is eager to take some scientific booty back to the old homeland? Who knows? You can never be too paranoid, right?<BR/><BR/>Geeze Louise, tweaking off some of the pointy-heads types at LANL is like shooting fish in a barrel. It's just way too easy!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-22211919345887008762007-09-10T00:39:00.000-06:002007-09-10T00:39:00.000-06:0011:27PM: Of course. The lab is such a wonderful p...11:27PM: Of course. The lab is such a wonderful place that treats it's employees so well, it's just inconceivable that anyone who works there (or did) could possibly harbor any bitterness towards the place, the way it works, or the people at the wheel managing the place into the ground. I'm sure the correct course of action is for everyone to just suck it up and shower the managers and processes with endless compliments about their wonderful job. I'm so very sorry that we have made this horrible error on this blog. Thank you for pointing it out to us. Let's have a group hug and go give thanks to Terry, and bask in the salvation that the Institutes and Signature Facilities are providing to raise this place back to it's former glory. **erp** I think I just puked a little on the inside -- I'm not sure I can do sarcasm that extreme...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-40653911851364373672007-09-10T00:33:00.000-06:002007-09-10T00:33:00.000-06:00Good point 11:27PM. A new form of counter-propagan...Good point 11:27PM. A new form of counter-propaganda -- blog smearing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-10561517908327413332007-09-09T23:27:00.000-06:002007-09-09T23:27:00.000-06:009:36pmDo you really think your rants are of any va...9:36pm<BR/><BR/>Do you really think your rants are of any value to the lab? How do we know you are not from overseas and trying help bring the lab down? It is interesting possibillity. Just imagine if the cold war was extended for 25 more years. We would have all sorts of people posting on Soviet blogs and vice-versa. Youtube would be filled with secret propaganda. I know they did that stuff with radio brodcasts. Maybe someone out there figures that if they can help destory America' ability to do good basic science than it will help them get an edge in the long run. <BR/><BR/>Ok maybe I am being paranoid but some of the posts are so anti-science and anti-lab that you have to wonder if there is something more behind it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-88649656458249074432007-09-09T21:36:00.000-06:002007-09-09T21:36:00.000-06:00Sell.. a product? Hey, I only do LDRD research a...Sell.. a product? Hey, I only do LDRD research as an 'art' piece. Don't bother me. Just go out and pimp up some more programmatic funds so I can continue doing what I like to do at LANL. I'm the hot stuff that makes LANL famous, or don't you know? And if you don't keep those programmatic funds rolling in to LANL, me and the fellows will have to see to it that the programmatic side is taxed at a higher rate of 12%, rather than 8%. Life is grand up in the rarefied clouds of science-land. Time to book another conference at some beautiful European Getaway! Hmmm, Greece sounds nice for the Winter, but Hawaii might go over better with the boss as a cost-savings gambit for this next year.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-61031105600688199732007-09-09T20:38:00.000-06:002007-09-09T20:38:00.000-06:00I've got an idea. LANS could completely kill off ...I've got an idea. LANS could completely kill off all the current programmatic work that gets funded and place *everybody* on overhead. Opps, I forgot. That already seems to be the LANS plan for Los Alamos.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-65375145054257978602007-09-09T19:14:00.000-06:002007-09-09T19:14:00.000-06:00It's no wonder the Lab is in the mess it's in. Ma...It's no wonder the Lab is in the mess it's in. Maybe a severence package would enable the angry, discouraged and disenfrachised to leave and go on with their lives elsewhere. But it probably won't get rid of the many of the problem managers that created this mess to begin with. Without that, the institutional gain in moral would be short lived at best. It's a sad situation for all of us because we just can't seem to let the healing begin.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-44259418255710811762007-09-09T15:59:00.000-06:002007-09-09T15:59:00.000-06:00In response to all of you....We are located in "El...In response to all of you....We are located in "El Norte", whether you like or not, the majority of voters will pull a straight democratic ticket even if you run Mickey Mouse. Until these folks get tired of being screwed, there will not be a change.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-81033972779377705762007-09-09T12:39:00.000-06:002007-09-09T12:39:00.000-06:00" The sky is falling. Time to reset and rewind. Ti..." The sky is falling. Time to reset and rewind. Time to move on." 9/9/07 8:58 AM <BR/><BR/>Most of the best performers in my group have either left LANL or are preparing to move on. We are getting left with a high percentage of 'dregs' who have no funding, who have no desire or ability to help out other programs, and who have no desire or ability to obtain new funding to help bail us out of our declining financial position. It's looking very bleak these days.<BR/><BR/>Everybody seems to be running for the safety of overhead funding, but the programmatic money that pays for all overhead is quickly evaporating.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-73964565661689526862007-09-09T12:04:00.000-06:002007-09-09T12:04:00.000-06:00We will not forget!!This is not about Democrat v. ...We will not forget!!<BR/><BR/>This is not about Democrat v. Republican. I am a Democrat but if I loose my job because Tommy Boy did what his mentors told him to do, I am going to be really pissed. When you send someone to Washington, you want them to voice your opinion, not the opinion of some guy from Michigan. Tom, your family has some good things behind them but you really screwed the pooch on this one. Do SOMETHING this week or you will loose my vote and the votes of several fellow Democrats.<BR/><BR/>Marty, are you listenting?? Time to move to SF.<BR/><BR/>We will not forget!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-89244884649741745372007-09-09T08:58:00.000-06:002007-09-09T08:58:00.000-06:00The sky is falling. Time to reset and rewind. Ti...The sky is falling. Time to reset and rewind. Time to move on.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-57635069976494573802007-09-08T21:24:00.000-06:002007-09-08T21:24:00.000-06:002PM very well be Rich Marquez. Lab management hate...2PM very well be Rich Marquez. Lab management hates Montano for his past advocacy, but Marquez especially does. That's. pretty well known around the. Lab. Or it could just be another media junky that forms opinions based on news distortions, rumors and innuendos. Whoever it is though, it should stop. No one really knows for sure who is posting, and to be suggesting otherwise is just plain wrong. Attempting to discrediting the message by discrediting the messenger; whether it is in fact the messenger, is a form of McCarthyism we can all do without. The issue is the Lab's funding. Let's stick to the issue. We'd all be better off if we did.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-10138208095265229732007-09-08T20:54:00.000-06:002007-09-08T20:54:00.000-06:00A friend of mine in State government sent me this ...A friend of mine in State government sent me this link awile back: http://www.saonm.org/contacts-staff.php<BR/><BR/>Note who's the Director of Fraud Audits in the New Mexico State Auditor's Office. Doesn't sound like much of a cow-milking assignment if you ask me. I guess the question I have.to ask is why couldn't the Lab find a similar assignment for this individual inside the Lab? If you don't think we have fraudulant activity occurring in our own institution, think. again. What a waste of resource. But whose fault is it if not Lab management? Place the blame where it belongs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com