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New and Improved - SmarTruck II
jmoriarty writes "The Army's next generation SmarTruck is on display in Detroit. The original version of the SmarTruck was covered back in May, but the Army now admits that version was 'hardly ready for the real world'. Apparently the real world version needed interchangable nodules, and the absolute must-have for every Slashdotter's vehicle - a 'hacker in a box'."
Hey Larry Wall, time to upgrade that crappy
Imagine a beowulf cluster in the back of one of these ...
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In Soviet Russia, the truck out smarts you
1) Build truck, 2) ????, 3) Profit!
Take a bunch of these over to N. Korea and tell them "all your base belong to us"
So lets sum it up
Imagine the SmarTruck II beowulf cluster in Soviet Russia where all there base belong to us. Profit!
Move on
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Pepper spray is probably more usefull against civillians than against terrorists/soldiers. I also wouldn't be surprised if that was the intent. Its probably for use against any non combatant that irritates you and you would get in trouble for killing.
Consider urban warfare. You could be facing attack from soldiers and civillians. While your standard weapons are perfect for mowing down enemy soldiers, there are political implications to mowing down civilians. Unless of course you are Isreal killing Palastenian civillians, then it's just collateral damage. Ok, political bias aside, that's probably the reason for pepper spray.
Geez, at a million bucks a peice that is one overpriced truck.
I had the same thought. This is a joke as far as military vehicles are concerned.
It's not a joke, it's just good marketing:
1) All the rich republican assholes driving thier 30gallon/mile SUVS need more oil.
2) Bush has many ties with the oil industry, many of whom are prompting him to leverage Irag out of its oil.
3) Oh ya, Bush wants the american people to say "A-OK George" when he bombs the shit out of Iraq for more oil.
Now that the army's got it's own SUV, America can fuel up right after dust-off. Symbolism at it's finest. Ary Fleisher, Cheney, Rumsfield and friends are having a field day with this one.
The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies. -Chomsky
--umm, martial law is already here, it's codified in under various Emergency Powers Act provisions, several of which we are currently "running" under. Check the federal register and google.. Peruse the patriot act and even more some of the provisions under the model states health emergencies act. for starters those are some good places to look for clues.
All the airports are now federal enclaves with an uberdirector assigned to each airport, and a combo of federalised security and military present 24/7. Police forces across the nation are receiving federal funding, federal direction and pure military hardware and training. Uniformed military personnel are already manning "courtesy" checkpoints on highways across the US in conjunction with alleged "civilian" police-granted, not on a huge scale yet but it's been happening. There are several up and running "civilian" prisons on military bases. Many of the so called "closed" military bases are in fact openly maintained as "open for some sort of business" with no apparent purpose that is publically released. Just breaking on drudge right now, a federal court has issued a ruling that the military/executive branch can declare whomever they see fit as an "enemy combatant", thereby removing any so called bill of rights protections if said indidvidual happens to be from the US. Just another one of them pesky clues, one of thousands.
There's just so much actual information out there now, it would be extremely hard to point at any one single url or whatever for me to make these points. It's complex but the gestalt is-look around, do independent research from as many positions and directions as possible, both in "real world" personal contacts and cyberworld research, take all the thousands of smaller pieces and make a big picture out of them, add 2+2, you can see what's coming. Closest historical and relevant parallel I can make is we are roughly the same point germany was around 1935 or so. The difference is that now psyops is much more sophisticated and pervasive and extensive, and that actual sureveillance/command/control technology is generations beyond anything available back then.
My bottom line- to anyone, not being personal now- is, if you ain't concerned and a touch scared, you ain't paying enough attention, or, you really don't want to.
"Paranoia" is an irrational fear of what isn't there. Recognizing a verifiable potential threat based on observable and redundant data is "just that".