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Re:The U.S. Army's Plans to Use 100k Microsoft HoloLens Head... by jl2718 on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @10:34AM (#27038027)
The Army is supposed to represent and protect Americans and more broadly individual freedom and safety around the world.

There shouldn’t be any problem with helping them. If there is, you need to take that up directly with the people that take your money and give it to them, not as much the people that they give money to.

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Re:The U.S. Army's Plans to Use 100k Microsoft HoloLens Head... by aplummer on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @01:01PM (#27039798)
> not as much the people that they give money to.

The soldiers get basically no money. They risk their lives carrying around missiles that cost 5x their salary.

You’re saying we shouldn’t take it up with the tech companies and military tech vendors, which people here might actually have influence with.

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Re:The U.S. Army's Plans to Use 100k Microsoft HoloLens Head... by jl2718 on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @04:14PM (#27042341)
A soldier is closer to a morally-neutral endpoint of your money, than a decision-maker that chooses to use violence or the threat of violence to achieve their objectives.
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Re:The U.S. Army's Plans to Use 100k Microsoft HoloLens Head... by daveslash on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @11:38AM (#27038747)
I'm not opposed to helping them, but I worry that they're helped disproportionately. In my opinion, kinetic warfare is not our weak spot - I feel like we've got that covered pretty well; information warfare is a complete blind spot from a defense standpoint. I'd like to see more money headed to defense on that front instead. Re >> "you need to take that up directly with the people that take your money and give it to them" - I do when I can.
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Re:The U.S. Army's Plans to Use 100k Microsoft HoloLens Head... by toiletfuneral on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @10:44AM (#27038135)
The us military is a tool for economic imperialism, if they existed to protect individual freedom they might try and stop the Yemeni genocide or generally maybe not help overthrow democratically elected governments.
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Re:The U.S. Army's Plans to Use 100k Microsoft HoloLens Head... by evolve2k on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @10:15AM (#27037814)
Google staff angry at Google for considering military contracts. Microsoft staff? Silent endorsement.
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Re:The U.S. Army's Plans to Use 100k Microsoft HoloLens Head... by aparsons on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @10:31AM (#27037990)
I think it’s misdirected anger. The reason we enjoy the strong, stable economy that allowed Google and Microsoft is flourish is our strong military that prefers to play “away games”.

I often half-joke that the aircraft carrier did more for democracy than a Gandhi and Mandela combined.

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Re:The U.S. Army's Plans to Use 100k Microsoft HoloLens Head... by somdax on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @10:53AM (#27038245)
There was a lot of noise and concern from the people building hololens. I am not sure what the state is now: https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/22/18236116/microsoft-holole...
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Re:The U.S. Army's Plans to Use 100k Microsoft HoloLens Head... by fortran77 on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @01:49PM (#27040365)
I proudly endorse my company's military contracts! (For several different militaries, too.)
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Re:The U.S. Army's Plans to Use 100k Microsoft HoloLens Head... by dugmartin on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @11:37AM (#27038738)
I guess the Slashdot Microsoft story image was prescient

https://lurkertech.com/bill-the-borg/windoze2495.jpg

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Re:The U.S. Army's Plans to Use 100k Microsoft HoloLens Head... by samstave on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @11:36AM (#27038720)
"The army is looking for a war in which it can test out a new toy" is how I read that.
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