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Apple Joins Massive Pentagon Partnership to Develop High-Tech Military Wearables
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Personally I'm glad Apple seeks and works for a better world while accepting the realities of the world we currently live in. I see no contradiction in their actions here. Those who do, are ignorant as to what the US military actually is.
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Yet they are going to allocate all this money to R&D for products they may never end up actually giving to our troops. Not when they skimp already on simple readily available hazmat or radiation gear.
It bothers me that billions of our tax dollars go to the military industrial complex and still our troops have to take second jobs to support their families, our vets have to fight for health care and housing, and our troops still get put in situations where they don't have the right gear or adequate gear. So what the heck is actually happening to all this money?
You don't need to be a conspiracy theorist to read right in mainstream news publications like The Washington Post that the R&D seems to actually go to creating products that end up being used to control and track the taxpayers who just want our troops to be safe.
But we shall see. I'm hoping Apple does contribute something meaningful to keeping our troops more safe. However I can't help feeling that involvement with the military is something that is very much the opposite of what Apple was once all about. Steve was a bit of a hippy after all. But he's gone now.
See, that's what my problem with this endeavor is. I'm from a military family. My dad is a Viet Nam vet and I had also planned to enlist until it became apparent I was growing up to be too small and plagued with health problems to be an effective soldier. I have heard inside stories of family members being sent into dangerous situations with inadequate protective gear and I've shaken my head at some of the cost cutting measures taken that leave military friends and family exposed to danger and hardship.
Yet they are going to allocate all this money to R&D for products they may never end up actually giving to our troops. Not when they skimp already on simple readily available hazmat or radiation gear.
It bothers me that billions of our tax dollars go to the military industrial complex and still our troops have to take second jobs to support their families, our vets have to fight for health care and housing, and our troops still get put in situations where they don't have the right gear or adequate gear. So what the heck is actually happening to all this money?
You don't need to be a conspiracy theorist to read right in mainstream news publications like The Washington Post that the R&D seems to actually go to creating products that end up being used to control and track the taxpayers who just want our troops to be safe.
But we shall see. I'm hoping Apple does contribute something meaningful to keeping our troops more safe. However I can't help feeling that involvement with the military is something that is very much the opposite of what Apple was once all about. Steve was a bit of a hippy after all. But he's gone now.
That's why BMW's logo is an airplane propeller...IT IS NOT, I WAS MISTAKEN.
EDIT: Corrected by MacsRgr8's post below.... my apologies
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You cannot un-invent stuff.
Weapons, I'm afraid, are here... to stay.
That means human beings you distrust will also have them.
So, by all means... throw yours away... first. I promise... I will too....
Thank you for the correction. I'll update my post accordingly.
An old adage state that People with nothing intelligent to say often resort to name calling. Thank you for showing this adage are truly words of wisdom.
It's hopeless when you realise that majority of humans are gullible and/or naive. You know, religions.
You make some excellent points. Let's hope Apple and other companies on that list can make a positive difference. The government we've managed to elect for ourselves should be on notice by now that R&D money better *not* all be going to spy on the taxpayers. I should think there are names on that list of companies besides Apple that have CEOs thoroughly prepared to stipulate as much when they pitch in on these projects. The list of companies is long. The potential for whistleblowing is huge.
Tim Cook: Military-Industrial Complex Sellout Coward
Steve would have never gone along with this bulls#^t. You'll notice that when Steve was alive, Apple was not participating in NSA PRISM (Microsoft started participating in PRISM first, in the year 2007.) One year post-Steve, with Tim Cook leading, Apple started participating in PRISM.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Prism_slide_5.jpg
Tim Cook: Military-Industrial Complex Sellout Coward
Steve would have never gone along with this bulls#^t. You'll notice that when Steve was alive, Apple was not participating in NSA PRISM (Microsoft started participating in PRISM first, in the year 2007.) One year post-Steve, with Tim Cook leading, Apple started participating in PRISM.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Prism_slide_5.jpg
Tim Cook: Military-Industrial Complex Sellout Coward
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Hey Tim, is this your vision? I thought you were about Equality, Being Green, Holding Hands and Singing Cumbauya? Peace Love all that sh**?
Helping the Military what? Track us more? I thought that was your encryption mantra? Wait, I see.... You help them and they leave iMessage alone? Is it simply just selling more product at grotesquely high margins to the Govt? I'll have to check when your next Stock Option is up, and look for an email.
Helping the Military what? Track us more? I thought that was your encryption mantra? Wait, I see.... You help them and they leave iMessage alone? Is it simply just selling more product at grotesquely high margins to the Govt? I'll have to check when your next Stock Option is up, and look for an email.
Do you know how ridiculous you sound? Microchips, cellular networks, even the internet came from military innovation. These are nearly an infinitely small list of all the other things that military/government scientists have brought into being.
Well, Pentagon... Now it is up to Apple drone, operating fully electrically and firing environmentally friendly charges on those infidels... Sorry, - terrorists.
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I'm proud to support a company that supports our military. The rest of the sheep can rest well tonight despite insulting the sheepdogs that protect them.
It's not like the plane itself requires vast amounts of data storage.. The only data storage requirement would be from onboard cameras, and they would have their own dedicated storage.. No point in installing more than is required.
It's easy to forget how childish people can be. Oh well. On a side note:
As much as I'd love to see "no war ever again", in our imperfect world I'd rather see bright minds banding together to protect the men and women that serve to defend our homeland as well as other countries; hoping to defend freedom, tolerance, and peace. Not to mention the reciprocal affects this type of technological collaboration could have on the civilian medical, auto, & aviation industries.
As much as I'd love to see "no war ever again", in our imperfect world I'd rather see bright minds banding together to protect the men and women that serve to defend our homeland as well as other countries; hoping to defend freedom, tolerance, and peace. Not to mention the reciprocal affects this type of technological collaboration could have on the civilian medical, auto, & aviation industries.
And what did they have to give up, of our security, to get in on this cash cow?