Comment Re:Freedom Fatigue (Score 1) 154
Americans who supported the Iraq war because we were bring freedom to Iraq should be very happy. Bringing democracy to Iraq cost us about 700 billion $$s. Were getting democracies in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Yemen, Jordan, etc are coming for free!
Comment Re:Germans had great confidence in ENIGMA (Score 1) 534
Wait, I'm confused. Are you German or American?
Comment Re: unions (Score 5, Interesting) 1153
I worked as a contractor at Chrysler and maintained their driving simulator. There was a union guy in the lab that was responsible for moving stuff around (I'd get fired if I moved a PC, I had to ask him to do it). Since we weren't moving stuff around much, he spent most of the day sleeping. Every once and a while the mock-up shop needed him to build a 1-1 scale car out of wood. It would take him a few days to build an exact replica of a new vehicle. The work he did (does?) was amazing.
Long story short: people with great potential and skills are sitting around doing nothing.