[Unrepentant VN Vet]

But they got hundreds of thousands (millions?) of engineers -- come on, people, let's do what the Chi-Coms do!

One other "little" problem with the Chicom engineering system (also with some recent grads right here in USA):

If they don't have CTRL C / CTRL V or if the 'puter goes down, they are all but dead in the water.

Got no real math capability, any imagination they ever had was beaten out of 'em in 9th Grade and they can't hand write a legible, coherent simple sentence.

Shut off the Main Circuit Breaker and most of 'em couldn't even feed themselves, let alone design their way out of a paper bag.

Oh, yeah.....I'm an Old School Engineer, still got a sliderule and drafting equipment stored under the table.

[sloop]

engineers today are more obsessed with osha regs than the systems they design

be a tragedy if the yellow stripe is not the exact same width as the black stripe