[chimera]

OTOH: Outsourced engineers could, of course, retrain as hair dressers and have a more secure future.

Don't laugh. I know of two engineers who are now running a SuperCuts in Monterey.

Oh now that's real encouraging. Puts us in a good spot when the next Future War comes along. We'll send our people out to fight with nothing useful in the way of weaponry, but they'll have a great-looking GQ hairstyle. They'll get mowed down by whatever high-tech weapon the enemy has developed and built and we haven't, but they'll look damned good while getting killed.

[A. Pole]

We'll send our people out to fight with nothing useful in the way of weaponry, but they'll have a great-looking GQ hairstyle.

This haircut will put Al-Queda on the run.