http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1_carbine
Look into the "Manufacter" table. Really weird - 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
inflater
IBM created weapons?!
IBM created weapons?!
My web site: http://inflater.wz.cz (Slovak)
Derrick operating system: http://derrick.xf.cz (Slovak and English )
Derrick operating system: http://derrick.xf.cz (Slovak and English )
List of IBM products
Personally I want a Style 5011...
Personally I want a Style 5011...
Never knew IBM created rifles and BAR... wow
inflater
inflater
My web site: http://inflater.wz.cz (Slovak)
Derrick operating system: http://derrick.xf.cz (Slovak and English )
Derrick operating system: http://derrick.xf.cz (Slovak and English )
- AndrewAPrice
- Member
- Posts: 2299
- Joined: Mon Jun 05, 2006 11:00 pm
- Location: USA (and Australia)
The trigger was probably attached to a patented IBM push button underneath.Tyler wrote:They worked on around 5% of it's production, and even then i'm not sure it was anything weaponly.inflater wrote:Never knew IBM created rifles and BAR... wow
inflater
My OS is Perception.
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.
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.
- Brynet-Inc
- Member
- Posts: 2426
- Joined: Tue Oct 17, 2006 9:29 pm
- Libera.chat IRC: brynet
- Location: Canada
- Contact:
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..)
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..)
- AndrewAPrice
- Member
- Posts: 2299
- Joined: Mon Jun 05, 2006 11:00 pm
- Location: USA (and Australia)
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.
My OS is Perception.
- jerryleecooper
- Member
- Posts: 233
- Joined: Mon Aug 06, 2007 6:32 pm
- Location: Canada