CofL49 Company sing-along
Michael Bailey
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Tue Jun 2 21:41:46 CDT 2009
Kai wrote:
> What? "For peace"?! Yeah, I guess that's why they sold
> LOCHSTREIFENKARTENMASCHINEN to Nazi Germany ...
true that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Black#IBM_and_the_Holocaust
my dad's bud of course was a postwar IBMer, but your point is well taken.
I just thought it was an interesting sidelight to Yoyodyne's hymns,
and OBA was - being a technical sort of guy - possibly aware of that
corporate culture.
--
"...no matter what you did to its edges the true Pacific stayed
inviolate and integrated or assumed the ugliness at any edge into some
more general truth."
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