It's just a step-up in terms of the pressure on the unions and it's consistent with what they've talked about, pushing to double savings. It's pretty much in line with the strategy that Dixon's outlined.

More maintenance work is being done out of Southeast Asia and China. The real savings are in labor. There's a lot more work to be done and a lot of savings can come out.

Especially in this environment, where there's a lot of cash in the market, I don't think they'd have too many problems getting it away.

My biggest objection to Marxism has been the presumption that industry should exist at all. I think the unstoppable juggernaut which is global warming demonstrates that processing natural materials on an industrial scale is a suicidal practice.

I did the first album, and it did much better than anyone expected.

In a sense, there is no such thing as a bargain in computing. Models which are popular sell for the price they are supposed to fetch for the best part of their product cycle.