From: gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com   
      
   Bret Cahill wrote on 1/19/2018 12:30 PM:   
   >>> I once asked a relative of the manager of the largest engine plant in the   
   world if the politics at GM was really that bad, already the stuff of course   
   work, books and PhD papers.   
   >>>   
   >>> He cringed with this grim don't even think about fixing it look.  No   
   matter what any CEO tried, he'd get out flanked by underlings.   
   >>>   
   >>> Years later he said he'd be better off as a failed entrepreneur than work   
   at GM.   
   >>   
   >> Read the book, "The Reckoning" by David Halberstam.  If you think GM is bad,   
   >> I bet Ford is worse.   
   >   
   > Ford might not be quite as "hidebound" now as in the past.   
   >   
   > https://www.reuters.com/article/us-autoshow-detroit-ford-motor   
   ford-plans-11-billion-investment-40-electrified-vehicles-by-2022-idUSKBN1F30YZ   
   >   
   > I wish I had a < 5 week response time planning letters to politicians.   
   >   
   > We're living in a philosopher-engineer's paradise.  Just daydream out loud   
   and it becomes reality in real time.   
      
   I'm sure you know what you are referring to, but I don't.  I can't see   
   inside your head.  Care to explain what you mean?   
      
   --   
      
   Rick C   
      
   Viewed the eclipse at Wintercrest Farms,   
   on the centerline of totality since 1998   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)