NIST closed

So we are being punished for something we did not do, other than exercising our rights to vote.

Is that what it amounts to? It is ridiculous, childish, and worse.

I will vote for no incumbent in the next several elections.

Not enough red state presence to be called back to work like that other bunch of worthless overpaid parasites....

But I can still sync to a NIST time source.

Cheers

I listen to science360 on my internet radio. I wanted to listen while I cleaned my shed.

Due to the lapse in government funding, National Science Foundation websites and business applications, including NSF.gov. FastLane, Research.gov, and Science360.gov, will be unavailable until further notice. We sincerely regret this inconvenience.

Do they sincerely regret or are they inflicting maximum pain. Mikek

Why wouldn't they close NIST? They closed the CDC.

The Tea Baggers are now the new: Political Terrorists

Boehner and the GOP are held hostage by a handful of Right Wing crack pots.

At least al-Qaeda members we can shoot.

Why have they promised to pay the federal workers back pay, if they are getting paid they might as well work. It doesn't save hardworking taxpayer money to furlough them and then pay them. Mikek

Well the site might down, and then what? oh! I guess it'd be the same. :-) Mikek

Why the websites? Takes no manpower,only server power.

in principle they could have turned off the servers and changed the DNS so all the closed sites point to a single server serving "we're closed pages"

-Lasse

The shutdown has nothing to do with saving money. The backpay bit is the GO P trying to escape out from under being accused of slowing down the economy by holding back a billion dollar weekly for fed employee pay. This ought t o be a wake-up call: a substantial portion of the U.S. economy is criticall y dependent on the government spending money it does not have, and they're coming up to the fiscal cliff faster than they know.

What's wrong with NOT letting this crisis go to waste and save the hardworking taxpayers some money for these non essential nonworkers? I like to see how long we could go without 800,000 non essential workers. 40% of the government gone yahoo! Mikek

For the same reason they allow government workers to unionize. It's a big voting block and they spend big bux on elections and lobbyists.

It'll cost more but that isn't the point.

If they're non-essential, what are they doing working for the federal government in the first place?

WWV also appears to be alive as well as NOAA weather radio.

Is WWV essential ?

boB

Yes !!

My weather clock would not know that its Monday.

;-)

You do understand the U.S. government is spending each ***month*** $30B more than it takes in. And you think shutdown is a bad thing, well, there's coming a time when the shutdown will be permanent if they don't get on the ball.

It's welfare. No one else would hire them.

I don't know about that. There are still some union jobs around. They could become teachers.