[time-nuts] Question for the cesium nuts.

Bill Hawkins bill at iaxs.net
Sun Mar 18 02:35:05 EDT 2007


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: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] 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.




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