en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/403560 Comments by IVillageIdiot http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2116/1#IDComment399740153 Part 9 People Solutions- ================ 1. Hiring Freeze on Managers. 2(*). New Hiring of Engineers to replace retiring managers. 3. Separate Science from Flight! The goal IS NOT... "find the little green men (or,... little green whatevers...)" and get YOUR name in the history books and your Pic on all the front pages of all the magazines. The GOAL.... is Flight and Flight Systems. The rest is "Science", most of which is tangentially associated to the degree it will pass the sniff test,.... some of it, just barely, but it will pass...! That ALL goes into a different organization! Difficult... I know... BUT... it should go over to FFRDCs in close coordination with NASA. (I know that is hard to take, I'm sorry, but we'll build you a ship or TWO of your own later, WHEN WE ARE ABLE TO DO SO... cause... we're NOT going to get there at this pace!?!?!?!?) 4. Cellularize. Create SMALLER teams of Engineers, that are more self-contained, and tailored to the purpose at hand. (See the Intel model) I don't know anything about this NASA program, or that NASA program. I don't know if we should do this or that, or what makes more sense, or the price pre pound ratio, I don't know about any of that stuff. But,... I do know people fairly well. I KNOW what government is really like. I KNOW I'm not alone in wanting to fly. I'm not the only one with this dream.... I just know.... we ARE NOT OPTIMAL.... and these are some of my ideas for correcting the things that, over time, I believe would help a great deal…. -IVI Wed, 11 Jul 2012 11:16:08 +0000 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2116/1#IDComment399740153 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2116/1#IDComment399739496 Part 8 Organizational Solutions- ==================== 1. Transfer ALL the bean counters, into a sub-organization that reports to a SEPARATE Management Chain. 2. Assign bean counters to a rotating schedule that keeps them from getting friendly with those for which they are DOING THE ACCOUNTING! And especially from getting friendly with those who would otherwise write their Evaluations. (HELLO????) 3. Once the schedule is rotating, make each bean counter RESPONSIBLE for that Department’s numbers. If the next bean counter in a given seat finds a mistake, it's the last person's fault, until they’ve made too many large-type mistakes at which point you’ll need to find another career. Guess what? EVERYONE accounts for EVERYTHING, each time they move! You don't want the next person in your seat finding anything in the shorts you just washed (do you?), SO YOU DOUBLE-CHECK!!!! (HELLO????) 4. So,… what is the purpose of this kind of accounting? To change the emphasis from a “Spend everything you can” culture, to one that saves as much as possible so that it can be moved into a Trust and locked away from Congress and management. You have TWO options at present; 1) Spend it. 2) Give it back, so someone else can spend it. Only ONE option is ever taken, SPEND IT! If you want to get out of the Binge/Bust/Bulge cycle, you need another option. 3) Sequester it for the purpose of making more you'll be able to spend next year, without having to beg or negotiate for it. Wed, 11 Jul 2012 11:14:12 +0000 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2116/1#IDComment399739496 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2116/1#IDComment399738696 Part 7 However, I still want to help: Money Solutions- =============== 1. Create the "Legal Constructs" for binding a NEW kind of Trust Fund, to Government, for long term use. 2. This kind of "Trust", would NOT be able to expend Principal, ONLY... Interest, Earnings, Dividends, and then… only a percentage of those. 3. This kind of "Trust", would allow an Agency (NASA) to place excessive funds per anum, back into it's OWN "Trust Funds" to be invested and the resultant revenues utilized. 4. MAKE Congress allow excessive (or.. saved budget) transferable to these Trusts, W/O penalizing the agency in the next cycle, by reducing the baseline budget. 5. Setup Trust Funds by Program and/or Objectives where the beneficiary is NOT a NASA General fund, BUT rather… a specific cost center for a specific purpose. Let people then contribute to programs (feeling free to make prioritization suggestions of course) THEY support, because the funds go DIRECTLY to that program. You want to support a better Engine? Contribute to the JPL Engine Development Trust! 6. Could Congress contribute to a Trust, PERMANENTLY sequestering capital to a given purpose rather than into a nebulous cost center? I’m sure of it…. Wed, 11 Jul 2012 11:11:57 +0000 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2116/1#IDComment399738696 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2116/1#IDComment399738336 Part 6 Pictures for the PR machine (love um), data for the Scientist (great, love it), but….. where is the effort to LIFT people and THEIR various interest off this rock,…? It’s in the back seat where Pols and Bureaucrats (also, a phalanx of GVT lawyers) want it…. Too many problems, and the competition will spoil the novelty driving the hope and BUDGET….. I would argue, THAT… is the real problem. Wed, 11 Jul 2012 11:10:57 +0000 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2116/1#IDComment399738336 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2116/1#IDComment399737926 Part 5 I hate to include Scientists, but… you have to do so if you’re going to look honestly at the problem. Scientists have a different goal, they have a different method, they have a different agenda, and, consequently,… a different set of problems. They seek answers, for the sake of colleting and cataloging those answers on behalf of humanity. Science is a genuinely laudable effort, perhaps even a noble effort (in my opinion), and an effort WORTH pursuing by any rational standard. AND,… (unfortunately) at odds with the actual mission NASA SHOULD pursue. Yes,… NASA uses “Science”, but it’s NOT the goal! The GOAL is FLIGHT which advances humanity into space! I would submit, that is why it’s wallowing around accomplishing little or nothing at all with regard to getting “average people” and/or "working people" off this rock! Wed, 11 Jul 2012 11:09:55 +0000 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2116/1#IDComment399737926 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2116/1#IDComment399737240 Part 4 If you ask a NASA Bureaucrat today, what they need to get things moving again, do you know what they will tell you? The number ONE answer: BUDGET! If you were to go back and ask the original NASA Engineers; “what do YOU need to get things moving”, do you know what THEIR number one answer would be? "XX months!"..... To the Engineer, “Budget” is just one more of the parameters which must be calculated to reach the objective, like weight or distance. To a Bureaucrat, budget…. IS…. the Objective. NASA HAS... Engineers (to be sure), but it's not run BY Engineers any longer. Methane has floated to the top of the pond, which is a sure sign that Bureaucracy has taken hold in the mud below. NASA, like EVERY Government agency tends to age, and in that aging process, it has taken on TOO many bureaucrats, far TOO many managers, TOO many Pols, and (I don't enjoy saying it...but,...) TOO many Scientists. Wed, 11 Jul 2012 11:07:57 +0000 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2116/1#IDComment399737240 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2116/1#IDComment399735820 Part 3 NASA, once run by Engineers, has been slowly replacing them year after year by Pol Appointees, Bureaucrats, Scientist (cause it's virtually the only game in town), Administrators, Clerks, PR Teams,... etc,... etc,... etc,..... effectively choking out what made it GREAT(!) in the first place. All the original greatness was replaced with politics and bureaucracy. It really makes my heart sick thinking of the progress we've thrown away, and what hath been wasted and delayed. Imagine if tomorrow the next Chicxulub should fall, what 30-40 years of sustained development of flight COULD HAVE meant to our chances at avoidance or survival? NASA has popularity nearly equal to US-MIL. Many, many, many people share the idea, and are supportive of the effort. I would say, so much so the OTHER nations of the West have setup their OWN versions of the same organization. That is NOT A QUIRK! That is the basis of a unifying Dream! Wed, 11 Jul 2012 11:03:54 +0000 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2116/1#IDComment399735820 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2116/1#IDComment399735391 Part 2 I get the distinct sense that when NASA was FIRST formed, when it brought the best and brightest over from the "previous program", it was FULL of Engineer types, hard-charging “GO-GETTERS”! Type A realists that were used to achieving and were 100% totally up to the challenge. They were given a CLEAR mission, “PUT THE USA on the moon first, bring them back home alive, and... you have this much time in which to complete this objective.” THAT is exactly what those kinds of people, and those specific people were used to doing! They made it work, and I’m not surprised at that, because it was normal... FOR THEM! What a great example they set, what a tremendous achievement on behalf of Mankind! It was truly WONDERFUL,... in every sense of that word! Now, what have we got? Most, if not all, of THOSE Steely-Eyed Rocketmen are gone from the payroll, many aren't even with us any longer. Wed, 11 Jul 2012 11:02:42 +0000 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2116/1#IDComment399735391 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2116/1#IDComment399734723 Part 1 1. I am a HUGE fan of EVERYTHING space (except instant death). I want to go personally, I want to help others go (if they want to do so), I want to develop this that and the other things that are required to move Mankind towards that future, as I do believe it to be our true destiny. 2. In fact, if I didn’t know better, I would say I am the #1 Space exploration fan on the Planet, however… there is SO MUCH competition for that seat, it’s only really an honest emotion. I’m not even close to being alone in that regard, not by a long-shot, and could never wear the crown. 3. Having said that, I am increasingly less and less impressed by NASA’s direction and it's management in general. Wed, 11 Jul 2012 11:00:37 +0000 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2116/1#IDComment399734723 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cftoto/2012/03/02/the-lorax-review-seussian-eco/#IDComment307379609 I've always thought that the MOST "ecologically friendly" resource on this planet, which uses the LEAST "carbon footprint", and which has 0 (zero!) external emissions, AND WHICH.... is capable of wiping out all poverty, all disease, and would halt the use of most if not all the exploitation of all the OTHER natural resources.... is..... capital..... (SURPRISE!) Sat, 3 Mar 2012 23:57:30 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cftoto/2012/03/02/the-lorax-review-seussian-eco/#IDComment307379609 http://bigjournalism.com/driehl/2012/02/27/joan-walsh-dissent-not-permitted-at-salon/#IDComment303536178 Digg does the same thing... in fact, I think any Left leaning site including the radio "talk" shows ban and muzzle their way to consensus. It's the ONLY thing you can do when you're wrong. You can alway reply with truth if you know what it is, sadly, they often don't even know, they just have what they were given to say and support. Tue, 28 Feb 2012 09:19:28 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/driehl/2012/02/27/joan-walsh-dissent-not-permitted-at-salon/#IDComment303536178 http://bigpeace.com/dwest/2012/02/24/muslim-judge-dismisses-assault-case-muslim-perpetrator-caught-on-tape-and-confessed-to-crime/#IDComment300945836 It's.... not April 1st, I double-checked..... BUT.... this HAS to be a joke, right? PLEASE TELL ME THIS IS A JOKE?!?!!??!?! Who appointed a Muslim to the bench? These people who claim this belief as a religion, are CLEARLY irrational! You CAN NOT have a Muslim judge in this country as all, they're incompatible with our laws and our way of life. They CAN'T fit in here, they are merely trying to take over here, don’t you know that???? You people are daft if you allow this to stand. This "Judge" MUST be removed from the bench..... NOW! Sat, 25 Feb 2012 00:53:10 +0000 http://bigpeace.com/dwest/2012/02/24/muslim-judge-dismisses-assault-case-muslim-perpetrator-caught-on-tape-and-confessed-to-crime/#IDComment300945836 http://bigpeace.com/jbradley/2012/02/13/calls-for-military-parade-in-new-york-go-unanswered/#IDComment292397754 Mr. BloominBurger claims to be a Republican, THEN... allows OWS to riot in the streets, break law after law, refuses his consent to parade the finest "Team" of American men and women on this planet, the US Military that keep him and his fellow New Yorkers safe from yet more villainy, but.... has PLENTY of time and willingness to allow a football team to parade through the streets. THAT,.... we have time and money for, but not enough for the Military, and then he has the nerve to call himself a Republican and an American? I’m sure he is busy enjoying his THIRD and FOURTH and FIFTH terms of Office even though the city CLEARLY has a Term Limit law. pathetic.... Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:42:08 +0000 http://bigpeace.com/jbradley/2012/02/13/calls-for-military-parade-in-new-york-go-unanswered/#IDComment292397754 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.5898d5e01f8ae0f5fddc52d810aa4f9b.611&show_article=1#IDComment288562430 . THAT... and living in 120+ deg heat w/o modernity, must destroy any rationality as it tries feebly to grab hold. My other pet theory is that the miserable climate, little water, no de-od or sex with humans that could rat you out, kills off the weaker ones, leaving the rat-fink, s-bag, jerks alive in greater numbers until you have a society that builds its notions of prowess upon merely surviving at all cost,... including blowing your neighbor's brains out with AK if he should glance at a daughter's unshod feet. Its actually the amalgam or two of the worst conditions humanity has to offer, and they complement and support each other perfectly to obvious and complete failure; Ancient Arab culture rekindled, and Islam, a death cult that makes the raving imbecile believe he is more important if he can find some "reason" (any reason will do) to kill somebody so that “God” can see how much the idiot is willing to do on God’s behalf and therefore, be loved and praised in return by God. As I said, it’s the very worst of humanity and its growing and seeking to field nukes….. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:14:05 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.5898d5e01f8ae0f5fddc52d810aa4f9b.611&show_article=1#IDComment288562430 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.5898d5e01f8ae0f5fddc52d810aa4f9b.611&show_article=1#IDComment288387366 This is just the beginning..... These d-bags have been held down (for cause mind you) for a long time. Now that they are off the leash, they are going to RAMPAGE until they believe they are effectively competing with Iran for the attentions and affections of Allah. They aren't going to even pause stuffing the Liberals and Christians who live there into the ground, they are going to kill or drive out every last human being that is not Islamic enough. THEN... they're going to go after the "Idols". In Egypt, do you know what that means? If I were Zahi Hawass, I would start moving as many of the important things as I could out of Egypt into the western world for safe keeping, or... into hiding somewhere inside the tombs as quickly as possible. The West had better start working on a plan to intervene when they go to blow the Pyramids and the Sphinx (etc, etc, etc...) because EVERY LAST ONE OF THESE TREASURES... is an idol in the wicked, twisted eyes of the Islamist. They’ve done this before in Afghanistan, they’ll do it in Egypt when they have sufficient control, and Iranian nukes pointed at Europe and America. You people better start thinking out of the box, or you’re going to loose EVERYTHING to these flaming d-bags. . Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:10:51 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.5898d5e01f8ae0f5fddc52d810aa4f9b.611&show_article=1#IDComment288387366 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.2ed706274083b5e00481b72882b4a47d.3b1&show_article=1#IDComment273845389 HILARIOUS QUOTE: "A small group of anti-capitalist activists have made their way to Davos, building a protest igloo. They are not joining in the discussions." Too funny, the Euros and the OWSers are ALL IN AGREEMENT now... Capitalism is the problem and it must be ended, and STILL..... the OWSers are going to protest?!?!? They are in disagreement with their OWN stated conclusions and goals... WTH?!?!?! Too hilarious for mere words! Oh well, you can lead a OWSer to water, but you can’t make them bathe…. (BTW, What.... exactly..... is a "Protest Igloo".... ?!?!?!? ROFL!!!!) . Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:07:11 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.2ed706274083b5e00481b72882b4a47d.3b1&show_article=1#IDComment273845389 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.f4b3121d53c9061ef3bd59387255abe5.51&show_article=1#IDComment271932790 QUOTE: "Despite US government assurances that it helped create a stable democracy, the reality is that it left behind a budding police state." I love how the Leftist ALWAYS try to throw the Tar-baby in our laps. It was NEVER the responsibility of the US Gov (or our people) to setup ANYTHING at all.... it was ONLY our job to tear down the one that was aiding our enemies, threatening our alies, and smashing it's own people into the dirt. We did that, it worked. NOW,... if they are having problems with freedom, with rights, with violence, you know who's fault that is???? The people of Iraq, that’s who! They voted with the tribe and their religion, they got what they asked for. MY ADVISE: Start your own political party, make sure it’s not driven by tribal notions and/or beliefs, and that is not a thinly veiled religious order,…. THEN,… win elections! To Americans, STOP listening to the Leftist, they don’t know squat, and their every bit the enemy of the USA as are the Jihadist. Stop letting them manipulate you. Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:39:00 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.f4b3121d53c9061ef3bd59387255abe5.51&show_article=1#IDComment271932790 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.be33fda73987ff722e71ca3a18f1bfaf.351&show_article=1#IDComment271639230 NEWSFLASH: Elite Euro-Trash snub America by claiming Capitalism, the great equalizer, must be stopped and re-replaced with... Aristocracy. pfffftttt...... What they're really saying is that they understand they've lost control, and they want it back. And, in order to get it back, they want to destroy the one thing that gives everyone else the opportunity to succeed and get ahead regardless of station, family, clique, or acceptability to THEMSELVES.... This REALLY isn't news, this is the same thing they have ALWAYS wanted, control. All they are doing now which is different than before, is admitting their desires in the open where they can be heard. OUT with Euro-trash, in with AMERICA and the solemnity of the Individual! . Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:06:00 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.be33fda73987ff722e71ca3a18f1bfaf.351&show_article=1#IDComment271639230 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.5ac8cc19445558189357128508908e39.901&show_article=1#IDComment264542158 I wonder if the Saudis have uMslims saboteurs in their midst’s? Two aircraft in a year, and on the eve of war with the $hiites… hmmmmm ….. odd….. You want to realign with the Chinese, thinking Obama has made the US an unreliable partner, BUT the real danger to the Kingdom has ALWAYS been from within, not the vacillating ineptitudes of US Presidents. One wonders if the Two-Face strategy, i.e. work with the West behind the backs of your subjects while pumping your subjects full of happy thoughts they want to hear behind the backs of the West, can last forever or end in some rational, non-violent way ? One would think that when the ranks are full of those loyal to Wahhabist message, and they KEEP GETTING THE HAPPY THOUGHTS MESSAGE REINFORCED…. and, not being bright enough to know any different, that they would be close enough to act upon their beliefs?!?!!? I wonder, maybe the message should be stopped or modified before the ranks are too numerous to control and the Kingdom should fall into the hands of the nutjobs ready to let the blood of their tormentors flow like so many other place in the last year or so? Oh well, you had your chance…… YOU rode the Tiger and feed it everything it’s used to get big and strong, and YOU thought the Two-Faces strategy traditional and therefore sound. Let the consequences be upon your necks…. . Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:55:42 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.5ac8cc19445558189357128508908e39.901&show_article=1#IDComment264542158 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.5ac8cc19445558189357128508908e39.901&show_article=1#IDComment264541013 I wonder if the Saudis have Muslim saboteurs in their midst’s? Two aircraft in a year, and on the eve of war with the Shiites… hmmmmm ….. odd….. Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:53:41 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.5ac8cc19445558189357128508908e39.901&show_article=1#IDComment264541013