Lawrence Livermore Lab On The Chopping Block?

guttentag writes "According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Bush's Homeland Security plan calls for transferring $1.2 billion of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's $1.5 billion budget to a new Department of Homeland Security under Tom Ridge. However, the plan transfers only 4 percent of the lab's employees. Ridge's explanation of the numbers: "I cannot give you the kind of explanation you need to deal with that imbalance." LLNL funded and houses the ASCI White supercomputer, among other cool projects." While Livermore has an impressive research record, we would miss most the laser lab from Tron.

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I believe there were right wing wackos on here

[Left Wing Troll]

earlier argueing the new homeland security department doesn't include any new positions..In fact, someone said they are CUTTING government pork(positions)...Here is the REAL TRUTH..There's gonna be cuts alright....cuts from good social educational services to fund BIG DUBYA's COWBOY BRIGADE...

Re:Misprint

[Anonymous Coward]

Perhaps an all to convenient misprint?

Or, just maybe, it's an all too convienient misprint?

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Just curious, How many posters to Slashdot graduated from English 101?

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[Anonymous Coward]

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-towncrier
ps - the caps mean i'm yellin.
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Re:partisan

[the_radix]

...make the Bush administration seem inept and disorganized.

Wait... you mean it isn't?

Re:Nope.

[The Turd Report]

I live 15 minutes from Downtown DC. How would you react if one of these could go off in your backyard?

Plus, if you want to argue, please argue, don't just post some overused quote and scamper off.

Re:Misprint

[ftobin]

Just curious, How many posters to Slashdot graduated from English 101?

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