Is CAT selling weapons of war?(Hang on to your cookies)

Mineweb.com ^ | '18-MAY-04 07:00' | Dorothy Kosich

[NoClones]

From under what rock did these weirdos crawl?

[RightWhale]

Operating the big equipment is a responsible job. We had a head-on collision at a relative 100 mph of two scrapers. Awesome. The real awesome job, though, belongs to the man who fixes flats.

[atomicpossum]

Fine. Switch to JDAMs.

[null and void]

Thought you'd be on this thread...

[Charles Martel]

Selena Maranjian wrote that “the war on terrorism has, in the eyes of some, a new villain. It’s not a person, not a government, and not a shadow association of any kind. It’s a public company, more than 75 years old, based in Peoria, Ill., and, in its own words, the largest manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, and industry gas turbine company: Caterpillar.”

Look at this, found through Google image search - evidently on a pro-Palestinian website:

I wonder how the Palestinians would feel about paying Ted Sturgeon's estate for the use of a copyrighted name?

When it comes time to repower my boat, I'll have to give the nice folks at Caterpillar due consideration.

[satchmodog9]

Finally, do the moral concerns of a few shareholders over the actions of a company, or the use of its equipment outweigh the financial needs of institutional investors, banks, and a company to earn a profit?


Do the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one. -Spock.

[BenLurkin]

"Is CAT selling weapons of war?"

Man I hope so!

[Cuttnhorse]

Kill Dozer...LOL! Priceless!!

[Cuttnhorse]

Seems I recall Clint Eastwood using a dozer to attack a machine gun nest when the Marines landed in Grenada, in the movie "Heartbreak Ridge".

[Condor51]

As far as we were concerned, the most complicated issue was: How can a company control a buyer’s use of its equipment or merchandise?

Question.
If a company can't, why does DELL Computer refuse to sell any of it's equipment to any company that has the remotest connection to... "the gun industry"?

If you will recall a few years back there was a BIG brouhaha over DELL refusing to sell a system to a gun dealer. IIRC they said it was their company policy. NO DELL's to the "gun industry" - period!

And Google® won't take paid ads from "the gun industry" either. Do a Google Search for 'guns' and not one 'sponsored link' (ad) will appear on the right side of the page. Then search 'autos'.

So it appears that a company 'could' control the final use of it's product. Not that I agree with that, except for hi-tech stuff going to our 'enemies'.

[Cuttnhorse]

I do recall the big flap when Dell refused to sell computers to anything associated with the gun industry.

But, in my thinking, companies who do this are acknowledging they have some responsibility regarding the final use of their products...and if one buys into this lame bit of logic, one must also buy into the argument that gun manufacturers indeed are responsible for where their products are used.

I don't buy it at any level. If CAT manufactures and sells a legal product, they are in no way responsible if a nutcase like Rachel Corries decides to commit an act of self-pancakeization under a D-9.

[Ford Fairlane]

When it comes time to repower my boat, I'll have to give the nice folks at Caterpillar due consideration.

You should look at Perkins engines also - Perkins is owned by Cat but the engines are a lot lighter (for engines in comparable power ranges) - Perkins is the standard engine in many US & UK tracked military vehicles

[Light Speed]

I read an eye witness account of that stunned B....
She was climbing up a dirt incline..below the Cats huge blade.
The Cat operator had no way of seeing her...until the blade came down and pinned her..then the cat rolled forawrd over her.....smudging her into the dirt like a footprint in the snow.

Crowd cheered as the stunned B went up the incline towards the Cat.

So much for fame....BBC won't show the real pics......as it is obvious Rachel is a moron/Darwin award winner.