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Re:Amazon asks court to halt Microsoft's work on Pentagon 'w... by kec on Thursday January 23, 2020 @05:42PM (#22133083)
I didn't, I was trying to point out that the unintended and inevitable outcome of making war cheaper to wage (either in dollars or lives of your own soldiers) is more war.
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Re:Amazon asks court to halt Microsoft's work on Pentagon 'w... by tracker1 on Thursday January 23, 2020 @07:55PM (#22134261)
As if cost is actually a deterrent for war...
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Re:Amazon asks court to halt Microsoft's work on Pentagon 'w... by kec on Thursday January 23, 2020 @11:18PM (#22135368)
It certainly is, compare Vietnam to Iraq. If LBJ and Nixon had predator drones we never would have left.
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Re:Amazon asks court to halt Microsoft's work on Pentagon 'w... by ta999999171 on Friday January 24, 2020 @07:00PM (#22143525)
The only difference is drone operators don't speak out publicly at the same rate when they get home as boots on the ground who saw the carnage more directly and personally back then.
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