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In article <479eng$a6a@news.halcyon.com>, Rustyra@!Halcyon.com writes:

~
~ kdq@emoryi.jpl.nasa.gov (Kevin D. Quitt) wrote:
~ >James Rogers <jfr> wrote:
~ >
~ >>kdq@emoryi.jpl.nasa.gov (Kevin D. Quitt) wrote:
~ >>>Rusty Rae <Rustyra@!Halcyon.com> wrote:
~ >>..
~ >>>> Your post
~ >>>>will be sent to my senator along with a plea that jpl is abusing
their
~ >>>>privileges when they post on taxpayers' time and on taxpayers'
~ >>>>equipment.
~ >>>
~ >>>Who's your senator? I want to include follow-up information about
morons
~ >>>on the internet.
~ >>
~ >>This is Rusty's standard tactic: try lame intimidation when you can't
rebut.
~ >
~ >Do you think anyone should tell her that JPL is a private organization,
~ >wholly owned by a private college (CalTech), and not a government
entity?
~ >Nah, why confuse her with the facts?
~
~
~ The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a
government-owned/contractor-operated,
~ Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC). JPL procurements
are
~ California Institute of Technology (Caltech) contracts, not
government-direct
~ contracts.
~
~ Potential contractors should contact Caltech/JPL and familiarize
themselves with the
~ terms under which JPL contracts are awarded.
~
~
~
~ Hot off the web. It sez, ". . .a
government-owned/contractor-operated, Federally
~ Funded. . ." i.e., paid for by the citizens who read your posts, which are
written on a
~ computer bought by us (or at least your e-mail privileges were paid for by
us). I am one
~ citizen who does not approve of such waste of my tax dollars.
~
~ Sheila
~

Could you folks take your arguemnets about local politics out of all these
uninterrested groups.

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~ The view from the edge is always the best! Rustyra@Halcyon.com
~
~

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