OT:

[1] It's funny how companies decide to save by laying people off. Take Boeing in the aftermath of WTC tragedy: they decided to lay off 30000 people, but don't know yet from which units. That means that the thing does not begin with "Let's see whom we can do without, and who is going to have nothing to do due to such-and-such changes in the market", but simply "Let's cut payroll expenses by $75zillion".

The 30,000 jobs (its actually closer to 31,000) all come from the commercial aircraft division. They are mostly the line workers (no engineers as far as I can tell so far) and the 'shared services group' (still haven't figured out exactly what they do besides IT support) that support them. So the jobs are being cut directly from the component that is affected right now, the Military Aircraft and Missiles division is as strong as ever.

And now back your your regularly scheduled program...