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I remember hearing stories about how the British hired toy makers to make guns and furniture makers to make planes back in world war 1.
by chocolatebunny 9y ago
I remember hearing stories about how the British hired toy makers to make guns and furniture makers to make planes back in world war 1.
- kens 9y agoIBM was put to work manufacturing rifles during World War II. That's not a product I would have expected from IBM. https://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/history/decade_1940.html https://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/history/decade_1940.html
- serf 9y agoIBM sure must've been spread thin during WW2. [0] [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_during_World_War_II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_during_World_War_II
- freeflight 9y agoWell the products you'd expect from IBM, during that period, have also had a rather controversial use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
- cityofghosts 9y agoWorld War 1 ended. The entire premise of free society is that war comes to an end, there is a such a thing as peacetime. Somehow that idea has died, and with it morality and social conscience. Comparing our spat with a few mountain dwelling cavemen on cellphones with a global War to threatened the existence of civilization itself is beyond ignorant. It's criminal intellectual negligence.
- cobookman 9y agoYou could argue that the US has done a great job protecting us. Hence why you view it as a non threat. We shouldnt be as naive as the Romans.
- dang 9y agoPlease don't post ideological rants to Hacker News. Whatever your point is intended to be, flamebait drowns it out and has the side effect of wrecking this place. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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