Follow the money. Every piece of DRMO equipment sold is a piece of equipment that wasn't bought commercially. With companies being merged and acquired, wealth concentrates to where buying congresscritters doesn't show on the bottom line.
IMHO. Bill Hawkins -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hal Murray Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2007 11:56 PM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Question for the cesium nuts. >> Are there some funny accounting rules screwing things up? > Not accounting rules as you meant them, but rather end use rules. > It takes someone with a functioning brain to figure out what the > different pieces of equipment are, and to make sure that the end use > restrictions are honored. It is far easier to drive over the stuff > with a dozer, and render it inert than it is to propagate the > necessary paper chain... or so the DRMO says. I'm still somewhat (but not very) surprised that they aren't outsourcing the whole mess or something like that. I assume "end use rules" means don't send fancy gear to Iran and North Korea etc. Is there a simple list of what is/isn't OK to ship to anybody? If a box sells for $100, it can't be a big deal to have somebody check each item against a known-OK list. If the penalties are real nasty, check it twice. The stuff you can't ship to bad guys is probably worth more so they would be motivated to find it. -- These are my opinions, not necessarily my employer's. I hate spam. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
