IBM created weapons?!

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IBM created weapons?!

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1_carbine

Look into the "Manufacter" table. Really weird :lol: - If you click on the IBM hyperlink, it will guide you to Wikipedia's site of the Big Blue, so it's not a disambiguation ;)

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List of IBM products
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Never knew IBM created rifles and BAR... wow :shock:

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inflater wrote:Never knew IBM created rifles and BAR... wow :shock:

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They worked on around 5% of it's production, and even then i'm not sure it was anything weaponly.
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Tyler wrote:
inflater wrote:Never knew IBM created rifles and BAR... wow :shock:

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They worked on around 5% of it's production, and even then i'm not sure it was anything weaponly.
The trigger was probably attached to a patented IBM push button underneath.
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Its called a conglomerate, a corporation that buys or generates daughter corporations in a variety of sectors much the same way stock investors invest in a variety of sectors so the losses in any particular sector are asorbed by the gains in the other sectors.
Even microsoft, disney, coca-cola probably make weapons.

If you research any particular corporation you will see that its either property of a large conglomerate or its the parent conglomerate. Remember 90% of the world's wealth is held by 15% of the population.

Osh-gosh, a baby clothing manufacturer, makes the majority of modern military truck these days.

Typically if you or your corporation has unspent cash and you can get a government contract, building a factory and starting production is trivial.
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Weren't a few US. factories converted during the World War II era to manufacture weapons? - Or was that a movie I watched? :?

They probably designed those weapons for that reason.. makes sense.. retrofit an existing factory to mass produce weapons/supplies during a war.

(Not that I at all support war or weapons, Both are silly..:wink:)
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This reminds me of Goodyear. I associate it with tires, but they made most of their money off of blimps during WWII and now they're experimenting with spacecrafts.
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Post by jerryleecooper »

It's normal, when it's war, corporation participe in war.
posterity.
IBM not's different.
It seems.
I don't know.
I think.
All peace is war.
I think.
All peace is war.
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