What happens when you want to move up in a union shop, but you/your talents don’t fit into the predefined pay structure they’ve negotiated? Or what happens when it starts bumping up against older tenured employees?

“Workers who would otherwise be at the whim of their employer..”

If a supplier is dependent on a single customer or contract, then they better diversify their business. I’m a supplier. I don’t put all my eggs in one basket. I also don’t like the Union culture. It encourages complacency and dependency in individuals instead of innovation.

“Negotiated” in the same manner as Samuel Jackson and Kevin Spacey in The Negotiator

One death per 180 miles?! I’ve cheated death three times this week already!

Then we’ll see counters to this tech, of course. But always best to be an ‘offset’ ahead.

Absolutely. But the challenges have become greatly simplified since the days of massive optics chains and a chemical laser on the ABL.

That’s because it’s a fiber laser, and the wavelength is extremely dangerous.

When talking about stated powers, they are all generally output numbers.

It won’t die because it WORKS if you have enough power to burn through. I program and run a 4kw industrial laser at the shop I manage. It cuts through 1" steel. This technology is decades old. Fiber lasers have done away with the optics, turbine, resonator gases, and other sensitive, expensive, and finicky bits that…

The only calming part about this whole laser tech is that the last time the United States military tried to make killer lasers, they mounted them on planes and it was a complete failure...

I like the “American vs Russian” style of those statements.

Don’t forget the seized laptops mentioned in the beginning of the article when the cars were seized from homes.

I still have yet to make a big effort to complete Pikes Peak properly in DiRT. The practice and concentration required, just for a freaking video game, is immense.

First-world problem- Having to look up which Ford GT he was assistant chief engineer for.

“Just think of what it would be like if everything worked...” is the reason behind 99% of all Fiat purchases and 100% of all subsequent bridge jumps to end it all.

As Benjamin Franklin famously said, the only certainties in life are death and the fact that the underside of 70's Fiats will always look worse than the Titanic.

Scrap value is considerably lower than you think because of all the swiss cheese :P

I tell my friend that I approve of their desire to purchase an MGB, as long as a doctor has told them they will die tomorrow, and there are no other options on craigslist in a 3 state radius.