WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT, OVER

[unixronin]

Well, Shrub dropped the other shoe.  We should now probably all consider the US space program doomed or dead, and wash our hands of it.  This press release is short... does the second name on the list look familiar?

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[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

Edward C. Aldridge, Jr. of Virginia -- career military, Air Force

Carleton S. Fiorina of California -- yeah, *that* Carly Fiorina

Michael P. Jackson of Virginia -- Deputy Secretary of Transportation; background with Lockheed Martin and the American Trucking Association

Laurie Ann Leshin of Arizona -- NASA

Lester L. Lyles of Ohio -- career military, Air Force

Paul Spudis of Maryland -- planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins

Neil deGrasse Tyson of New York -- astrophysicist, with what looks like a decent record of publication in the hard sciences

Robert Smith Walker of Pennsylvania -- career politician

Maria Zuber of Massachusetts -- E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics and Department Head, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT


So Fiorina is a disaster, Jackson and Walker are politicians, and the rest are a mix of Air Force and hard science. Not good, but not quite as bad as it could have been, I suppose.

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[unixronin.livejournal.com]

True. There are at least some people there who know what they're doing. But Carly Fiorina as the sole "industry" representative?
(I put "industry" in quotes because her idea of "industry" is slapping new badges on no-name boxes and reselling them. Sorry, Carly, you can't do that with a Mars lander -- there aren't any Taiwanese ones you can re-brand.)
What was Bush thinking?

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[dafydd.livejournal.com]

How did a woman wind up with the name "Carlton?" :-p No wonder she's the way she is...

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing Daddy really wanted a son.

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[ilcylic.livejournal.com]

Isn't that the silly twat who put HP in its coffin?

Or, at least, took it to the funeral home showroom?

-Ogre

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

That would be her, yes. Though the process was begun by the idiot before her, who apparently took a huge golden parachute for breaking HP up, spinning off its core business under the Agilent name, and keeping only the metastasized wag-the-dog PC division and the printer division.
I have heard rumors, admittedly unsubstantiated, that profits from the printer division are keeping the PC division afloat. I have also heard that Carly plans to sell off the printer division -- after all, it still makes things, which is anathema to Carly's idea of what constitutes a business model.