* Incoming political battle about right vs wrong, good vs evil...
We are in a day of government vs the people not government for the people. If they really had a concern about the people they govern (and technically work for) they would figure out a way to move beyond their differences and start getting stuff done. I am really sick of the blame game and finger pointing. We should all be pointing at Washington and blaming them all for the situation they have created...
But off the political crap and back to the NOAA site being shut down. Do you think this will slow down their push to add corals to the endangered/threatened list?
So if NOAA for the most part is shut down, what happens to all those people out on the ships doing oceanic research during this time? Are they working for free? Did they have to shut down the engines as they have no more funding?
Funny though that they are able to pay someone to place the nice little image on their site saying it has been shut down... However if it is still serving up an image, the web server is still running. It is still using power to keep the server alive at the data warehouse or server farm. Which means they could have left the site up and served up stale data and keep the resources available to the public which funded them in the first place. They still have the tech people keeping the sites and servers running so why did they have to take away access to the data that is currently on the site? Not that I need access to it right now or planned on accessing it in the near future, it's just that it takes more effort to shut it down than it does to just let it coast and run in its current state...
It follows the same line as paying workers to fence off a war memorial that requires no employees to be present to keep it standing. Then paying security guards to keep people away from the memorial... Costs more to shut it down than it did to just let it stand as is...
Makes me sick seeing the people who run our country act like spoiled rotten little children...
