I can see how it can be taken that way. Of course, I take it as "the administration is willing to work with an enemy, but not fellow Americans."



lol

Barry in 2006:

Only someone as slow and uneducated as you would find NIST and the National Parks to be nonessential.

The Post Office isn't federally funded and services have not been affected by the government shutdown.

implying the federal government is supposed to own national parks.

What NIST does may be essential to you, but that does NOT mean the federal government should provide it for you, and make it essential to a functioning government. As another poster pointed out in that thread, they used to teach engineers how to calculate the data you need, and you have the temerity to call ME uneducated? Go fuck yourself, you egotistical condescending asshole.

have fun calculating activity coefficients and the a,b,c,d values for heat capacity in the laboratory your lack of knowledge is becoming more apparent.