Beck may be back from vaycay, but he’s nuttier than ever.
Freescale makes microcontrollers, chips that run everything from microwave ovens to the sensor that flips the screen in your iPad. They’re one of many suppliers, but to suggest that Pakistan would grab some semi chip designers or process engineers like this is just embarrassingly ignorant. People fly all over the place every day. Freescale has plants in China like every semi company.
Really, someone needs to get this guy some stronger meds.
I do think he’s having a mid-life crisis
I agree,it is embarrassing. It would be hilarious if it was not such a tragedy. I am sure that the engineers involved were talented, and certainly very special, to their loved ones and friends - but come on - they really were not harboring cutting edge know how that couldn't be acquired by any other means. I believe they were mostly Quality and Packaging Engineers. Invaluable to any company trying to make a profit, but bringing six-sigma processes to Acmed's suicide belt factory, or teaching kaisan or ishikawa fishbone diagrams to Mohammed's Falafel stand ... really is not worth a hijacking. Yes, embarrassing.
I think the pilot just flipped his lid and went off on a psycho bender of an ending. The plane is now a submarine tomb on the ocean floor. Don’t even need a talk or TV show to state it either.