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Full title: Microsoft employees slam $480M HoloLens military contract, refuse to create tech for 'warfare and oppression'
1 posted on 02/24/2019 12:37:14 PM PST by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

I don’t want them working on military projects either.

“Abort, Retry, Fail?”


2 posted on 02/24/2019 12:38:09 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: lowbridge

IIRC correctly, last year google employees petitioned management to stop working with US military on AI development. Management agreed. Now they work with a chinese university which works with the chinese military.

There outta be a law.


3 posted on 02/24/2019 12:39:01 PM PST by morphing libertarian (Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: lowbridge

I’ve got a bulletin for them: Windows operating systems are present on computers that the DoD owns and use routinely. That horse left the barn a couple of decades ago.


4 posted on 02/24/2019 12:39:04 PM PST by alancarp (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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To: lowbridge

I’ll develop it for them....


5 posted on 02/24/2019 12:39:56 PM PST by GraceG ("If I post an AWESOME MEME, STEAL IT! JUST RE-POST IT IN TWO PLACES PLEASE")
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To: lowbridge

Place the order with Huawei. They have business ahead of politics and not near that much infested with leftists as Microsoft is.


6 posted on 02/24/2019 12:40:07 PM PST by NorseViking
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To: lowbridge

Response should be ‘you are fired’.


7 posted on 02/24/2019 12:40:31 PM PST by Stevenc131
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helping one country's government 'increase lethality' using tools we built.

"One country"?? Yeah...THIS country! The same country that houses Microsoft's headquarters. If they don't support this country, I saw kick them right out of it.

8 posted on 02/24/2019 12:40:58 PM PST by montag813 ("This is Montag, Block 813...")
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To: lowbridge

Fire their asses. And by the way, I noticed they didn’t have any big ethical problems creating ways for the CIA and NSA to snoop in on American citizens


9 posted on 02/24/2019 12:40:59 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: lowbridge

I’m sure Microsoft has more than 150 competent employees.
Fire or suspend the 150 who refuse to do what they have been assigned to do. This is an employer-employee relationship.
It is not a Glee Club that votes with Jazz Hands or finger snaps.


10 posted on 02/24/2019 12:41:04 PM PST by lee martell
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“More than 150 Microsoft employees “

I wonder what their buddies in China think?


11 posted on 02/24/2019 12:41:51 PM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: lowbridge

KTA..


12 posted on 02/24/2019 12:42:17 PM PST by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket)
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To: lowbridge

They are liars. They are only against US warfare products, and probably Israeli too. If they had a contract with China, where everything is connected to the commie government and/or military (indirectly or directly), they would probably be OK with it.


13 posted on 02/24/2019 12:42:40 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: lowbridge

So you Fire them, whats the big deal


14 posted on 02/24/2019 12:43:06 PM PST by eyeamok
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One hundred and fifty out N employees (where N is a very large number)?
Not that I’d like to fly anything with Microsoft cr*pware in it, given that I want to Apple years ago because I was sick of blue screens of death.

Fire their simple little *sses. Plenty more coders elsewhere.


15 posted on 02/24/2019 12:43:14 PM PST by Da Coyote
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One hundred and fifty out N employees (where N is a very large number)?
Not that I’d like to fly anything with Microsoft cr*pware in it, given that I want to Apple years ago because I was sick of blue screens of death.

Fire their simple little *sses. Plenty more coders elsewhere.


16 posted on 02/24/2019 12:43:19 PM PST by Da Coyote
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Not a surprise for a company that likes to hire noncitizens for work. Fire them all and hire patriotic Americans.


17 posted on 02/24/2019 12:43:28 PM PST by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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To: lowbridge

Microsoft needs to fix 150 hiring mistakes.


19 posted on 02/24/2019 12:46:18 PM PST by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: lowbridge

Hmm. How to respond. How about, fire their whiny @$$es?


20 posted on 02/24/2019 12:46:56 PM PST by Flatus I. Maximus (There are lies, damned lies, and the Washington Post.)
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To: lowbridge

I’ll do it.

Fire them.


23 posted on 02/24/2019 12:47:43 PM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: dayglored

Of possible interest...


24 posted on 02/24/2019 12:48:05 PM PST by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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