Slashdot Mirror
The Nice Guy At the World's Largest Weapons Expo
pigrabbitbear writes "It was the second day of the Special Operation Forces Exhibition in Amman, Jordan, and the temperature outside the convention center was around 80 degrees Fahrenheit, with a typical chance of rain of zero. Drones of various sizes hovered in the hot blue desert sky. Inside, Ed Atchley had set up a booth for his company, Aspen Water Inc., right next to a 30mm chain gun designed to sink things like helicopters and Somali pirate ships. Atchley had traveled from his headquarters in Richardson, Texas, to the largest weapons trade show in the world, mainly because he makes 'the army's smallest, lightest, least expensive, high output, reverse osmosis water purifier,' he says, and people in the Middle East – including soldiers – get very thirsty."
Fr1st !!
Seemingly the Arabs must shower less than the Israelis.
No matter what you're there for, you are still there trying to aide people in the senseless murder of other people. Burn in hell, should there be one.
Actually, those booths should be sitting next to each other. All the high tech drones, big guns, fighters, bombers, and armor doesn't mean much if your soldiers starve or run out of water. Sun Tzu said as much -- it was pretty much chapter 1 of The Art of War. It may not be very sexy, but it's like saying the internet is important... and electricity isn't.
#fuckbeta #iamslashdot #dicemustdie
Unfortunately, at the weapons show, more of the attendees were probably interested in ways to keep this product out of the hands of "certain people" than buying it for themselves.
You are welcome on my lawn.
"designed to sink things like helicopters and Somali pirate ships."
I'd like to know how you sink a helicopter.
"Is it hot in Chad?"
The article is an obvious piece of PR disguised as informative journalism. I guess getting your sales pitch on slashdot is easier than renting billboards. Would not read again.
Is a droid that understands the binary language of moisture vaporators!
Are you practicing medicine...or weapons repair.
...the stillsuit or the lasgun?
no be have to fully punch chad out for it to count
The Nicest Guy At the World's Largest Weapons Expo
If you want to publicise the work of some actual nice guys, what about those people who go into warzones simply to provide this kind of facility (some even do it for free, the gall of these people!) to those who are suffering because they happen to live in the middle of a war they want no part in?
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
I scream, you scream, we all scream for loose, wet cunt!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you for using my real name ... asswipe I really hope I find you on the road some asshole .. because he is Douchebag Cunt and run it before you. I do not care who you are, you do not have a piece of shit in the street! You are a loser fucking nigger, you have nothing and have no insurance? Oh, your mom must be proud of you. What needs to be a responsible adult. Well Dick, I'm not going to sit here and throw insults at you, as I still class much more than that.
But let me tell you that you found on the road .. I have to take a mother fucker .. Should I run these streets and ass fucking be. Eat fat hairy cock!
>
70661 27272 30881 93496 32208 42630 58248 37953 98837 16186 17254 14050 23663 68265 81342 95228 53571 78542 77070 08045 15118 20458 04436 52502 81747 67456 36885 02041 06573 46094 00973 09777 36480 29813 96700 22595 71470 71729 24067 40494 64656 18727 56516 16590 62925 97364 47162 97769 19390 07641 42889 10586 54380 22999 43698 55043 47566 69997 02705 31140 45835 48634 66793 12318 02300 58911 62520 25136 37289 74270 89887 69593 30476 21267 22336 19131 28744 99905 12982 26867 58652 10182 08709 39685 20199 25540 09518 57584 13386 72538 68524 33681 11654 51175 32612 14859 41562 61452 28340 27676 03109 03368 55707 72133 96296 50366 88155 48230 94564 29004 52243 29408 24472 12722 47971 42226 86019 54639 75338 86683 79206 01637 34344 36221 77474 80274 98432 43957 07382 63993 94160 56775 68929 05909 21527 01232 62116 52907 53975 50771 60384 31544 18063 31949 90292 41821 13791 44766 51839 57180 41158 89223 45026 04177 73606 65320 43294 82815 64252 46498 73201 93092 59979 59316 34749 08450 60788 03773 27935 55448 19795 53311 26204 34085 83883 61048 56111 44362 79610 73865 17659 59720 06977 18322 10845 33276 39426 67861 09114 11913 30072 49039 39021 95632 25799 61857 00568 37549 26608 06314 67197 84546 85615 82410 92023 63184 49703 63588 21931 46903 45430 76406 83478 88819 72797 20863 50107 35817 05245 70402 74933 14454 69333 78138 04841 24731 65061 90955 66388 40089 92428 35412 33017 87087 51434 84951 57843 65725 15522 66129 87751 76001 11250 05505 49298 91360 38617 23404 15927 38358 71065 99500 40753 16995 35153 80678 70661 27272 30881 93496 32208 42630 58248 37953 98837 16186 17254 14050 23663 68265 81342 95228 53571 78542 77070 08045 15118 20458 04436 52502 81747 67456 36885 02041 06573 46094 00973 09777 36480 29813 96700 22595 71470 71729 24067 40494 64656 18727 56516 16590 62925 97364 47162 97769 19390 07641 42889 10586 54380 22999 43698 55043 47566 69997 02705 31140 45835 48634 66793 12318 02300 58911 62520 25136 37289 74270 89887 69593 30476 21267 22336 19131 28744 99905 12982 26867 58652 10182 08709 39685 20199 25540 09518 57584 13386 72538 68524 33681 11654 51175 32612 14859 41562 61452 28340 27676 03109 03368 55707 72133 96296 50366 88155 48230 94564 29004 52243 29408 24472 12722 47971 42226 86019 54639 75338 86683 79206 01637 34344 36221 77474 80274 98432 43957 07382 63993 94160 56775 68929 05909 21527 01232 62116 52907 53975 50771 60384 31544 18063 31949 90292 41821 13791 44766 51839 57180 41158 89223 45026 04177 73606 65320 43294 82815 64252 46498 73201 93092 59979 59316 34749 08450 60788 03773 27935 55448 19795 53311 26204 34085 83883 61048 56111 44362 79610 73865 17659 59720 06977 18322 10845 33276 39426 67861 09114 11913 30072 49039 39021 95632 25799 61857 00568 37549 26608 06314 67197 84546 85615 82410 92023 63184 49703 63588 21931 46903 45430 76406 83478 88819 72797 20863 50107 35817 05245 70402 74933 14454 69333 78138 04841 24731 65061 90955 66388 40089 92428 35412 33017 87087 51434 84951 57843 65725 15522 66129 87751 76001 11250 05505 49298 91360 38617 23404 15927 38358 71065 99500 40753 16995 35153 80678 70661 27272 30881 93496 32208 42630 58248 64511 25395 42744 43812 40608 50221 94823 07900 21786 80129 05100 03627 34603 41676 47016 30994 79060 08304 94014 63443 28599 33131 72652 27531 36335 63038 56370 23258 49153 98028 98287 50625 67052 91214 45285 8
Rodney King asked: "Can't we all just get along?"
Several thousand years of human history demonstrate that the general answer is a resounding "No!".
Many of us can get along with at least some of the others out there some of the time, but thinking that we all have nothing but peace love and singing Kumbaya in our hearts is wishfull thinking.
Oh, we might become that way at some point in the future. But, I think it would take some massive genetic/social engineering or eugenic breeding.
And I'm not sure what you'd end up with would be what you really wanted, or could really be called human.
So, until you come up with the right kind of magic pixie dust that makes us all like the angelic ones in My Little Pony you'll just have to deal with an imperfect world.
'An army marches on its stomach.'
'C'est la soupe qui fait le soldat.'
Nothing, absolutely nothing, matters more at winning wars than logistics. The lethal fighting force is but the edge of a vast engineering and distribution network. Or, if it is not the edge of such a network, it is soon a defeated lethal fighting force.
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
fuck it tapped 100 a few times here in the states last week, besides why is this guy nice? Cause he wants to sell technology to any army that pays him enough, well just call him Jesus fucking Saint Humanity!
Shanghai Shunky Machinery Co.,ltd is a famous manufacturer of crushing and screening equipments in China. We provide our customers complete crushing plant, including cone crusher, jaw crusher, impact crusher, VSI sand making machine, mobile crusher and vibrating screen. What we provide is not just the high value-added products, but also the first class service team and problems solution suggestions. Our crushers are widely used in the fundamental construction projects. The complete crushing plants are exported to Russia, Mongolia, middle Asia, Africa and other regions around the world.
http://www.sandmaker.biz
http://www.shunkycrusher.com
http://www.jaw-breaker.org
http://www.jawcrusher.hk
http://www.c-crusher.net
http://www.sandmakingplant.net
http://www.vibrating-screen.biz
http://www.mcrushingstation.com
http://www.cnstonecrusher.com
http://www.cnimpactcrusher.com
http://www.Vibrating-screen.cn
http://www.stoneproductionline.com
http://www.hydraulicconecrusher.net
We can ruthlessly butcher the Muzzi-wog by the 10s-of-millions till they eat batshiit and live in caves with scorpions and iguanas. Kinda like 18-th Century invader-bashing "before the gates of Vienna" only we take-no-prisoners. He wins and writes history who piles the bodies highest!
It was an addictive drug with mind and body enhancing traits. Just saying. : )
It is funny how people think that all military forces are bad. While it would be nice if there was absolutely no military forces in the world but that will never happen. It is human nature to want something someone else has and to want to protect what one has (which can soon morph into we have these forces and they have what we want). In every conflict there is at least one aggressor and at least one defender. In general I side with the defenders; taking land by force is wrong. In my mind the defending force are the good guys. They too need armaments and ammunition which is why I see not issues with military expos.
Whether or not a military force is a good or bad this is a moot point. It is how the people, through their elected officials, use their military forces on other countries that matters. As examples: North Korea, pretty bad; Canada damn good.
Would have broken the rules of the jihad if it came to empire collapse. Since I have no one else to geek talk some dune with : P
The capability was even their when norma cenva created the fist fold ships from a knowledge standpoint, the rules of the jihad where the only thing keeping computational devieces from controlling fold ships. Although it was said they had way more of an accident margin compard to navigators due to the strangeness of the holztman equations.
The lighter the tail, the better, but too light and the beast dies. It's hard to achieve a good balance, and unfortunately politics plays a role, with all the kingdom building and buying things that need too much maintenance.
I mean seriously; armies need to make roads with gravel too. Just like they need a specific manufacturer's water purifier, which is worthy of slashdot's attention.
30 mm, not 30mm.
and most military expos are not about selling protection to democracies.
selling land mines has no legitimate military purpose. we still do it.
selling weapons to dictators has no legitimate diplomatic purpose, other than enabling one to kill a bunch of people from another. in the cold war, you could argue that was meaningful. the cold war is over. what is the argument now?
Seeing US troops in the middle eased greased up to the eyeballs on LSD would be worth the cost.
Perhaps we could crowd source funding?
glad to know you will stay with us as an AC angel after the death of your /. account .
we will avenge you somehow !
> Atchley had traveled from his headquarters in Richardson, Texas, to the largest weapons trade show in the world, mainly because he makes 'the army's smallest, lightest, least expensive, high output, reverse osmosis water purifier,' he says, and people in the Middle East – including soldiers – get very thirsty."
Who cares a damn? The Hungarian Military has had this capability for a decade to mobile purify putrified puddle-water in the field and offered it left and right to NATO and Uncle Sam to deploy to the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan. However, US Mil will not use anything but bottled water and bottled cola and pre-bottled whatever, no matter how much it costs to haul Evian across the oceans and how much logistics headache that causes.
The czech-slovak military, who specialize in bio-chem warfare detection and warning are now much better off, because that is one good scare excuse to have at hand, so they are asked to deploy to most everywhere overseas. The downside is sometimes the Don asks them to detect threats that do not exist, but are needed for scaremongering at the UN and among NATO allies. The polish specialize in spec-ops missions and they have losses, but they are very close to USA and can get a lot of advanced, restricted export gear, although not for cheap.
You might be right about power, but religion feed off of power and power feeds off of religion. Reason is much harder to find when you start off life inside a lie.
..tries to sell water purifier.
He considers the target market and decides to try and sell to people who work in places where there is a shortage of water.
What's the story again?
If that is so, then give your home, car, & iPad away and go back to wherever your ancestors originated. Oh, you're tied to those. Hypocrisy, how does it work again?
The fact that hard work, sweat, and a populace having a sense of ethics make developed countries is lost on your mind scrambled by years of Maoist indoctrination in public schools.
The only resources the US has been taking are those of our citizens...and redistributing them in Afganistan and Iraq. If it was the other way around, we'd be getting rich here in the US...instead we're spending all our resources on roads, bribes, construction, keeping of the peace, and other measures abroad.
My God can beat up your God. Just kidding...don't take offense. I know there's no God.
When I look at the images, it might be great for large amount of people. However for the soldier in the field there is the Lifesaver. Also available in bottle and in jerrycan sizes.
The HUGE advantage is that it can be easily used, does not need any maintenance and can be used by anybody. Yes, larger ones are available as well.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.