NYT reported yesterday on the national labs efforts to attract commercial clients to offset declines in national security funding, with Sandia being featured. http://jya.com/sandia.htm We've been receiving from Bill Payne, ex-Sandia cryptographer, a series of reports and letters on what's happening to enraged Sandia scientists and staff as the budgets decline and piddling new missions are sought, while facing the congressional threat to close all the labs and the entire Department of Energy. We'll offer one of the astute assessments shortly which describes the bind imported managers are in to turn the labs into dog-eat-dog corporate sweatshops, and how the not so dumb scientists are learning to fuck with the heads of the hatcheters, refusing to work, bickering, prolonging disputes, sabotaging projects, maybe/maybe not whispering secrets to bad people in other countries, or worst of all, disclosing vital national information to commercial interests, that is, outfox management by arranging a private deal. As the NY Times recently reported on the fearsome threats nuclear weapons scientists are making to keep funding coming, noting that the Russians are doing the same, all rather brilliantly saying: keep us "peacekeepers" doing the dirty work happy or suffer the consequences when the loyal patriotic guards go over the fence, or simpler, open the gates, that is sell the PAL codes, barter the diagrams, to maintain our "entitlement". Yep, the Sandia manager claims that the best and brightest scientists of the US believe that their dole should be for life. Or they are going to get very black market ammo oriented, that's market-Oriented. The Times editorialized today that the nation's leaders must not give in to nuclear blackmail from its own professional nuclear blackmailers. Yet who's going to pay the nuclear gunslingers if we don't? Eh, Mr. Crispin? What do you know that we don't and what will you charge to tell?