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IBM created weapons?!
Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 4:17 am
by inflater
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
Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 5:03 am
by jnc100
List of IBM products
Personally I want a Style 5011...
Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 8:01 am
by inflater
Never knew IBM created rifles and BAR... wow
inflater
Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 8:02 am
by Tyler
inflater wrote:Never knew IBM created rifles and BAR... wow
inflater
They worked on around 5% of it's production, and even then i'm not sure it was anything weaponly.
Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 9:28 am
by AndrewAPrice
Tyler wrote:inflater wrote:Never knew IBM created rifles and BAR... wow
inflater
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.
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 7:41 pm
by Gizmo
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.
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 7:49 pm
by Brynet-Inc
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..)
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 3:48 am
by AndrewAPrice
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.
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 10:40 pm
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.