IBM Offers Military $45 Million In Translation Technology (donating)

[rainbow4321]

Other part of article said that the employee's son was one of the soldiers at Walter Reed who * went to visit recently--I assume to use the kid in yet another chimp photo op?


http://kotv.com/news/national/story/?id=124137

To honor an employee's son who was badly wounded in Iraq, IBM Corp. plans to give the U.S. military $45 million worth of Arabic-English translation technology that the Pentagon had been testing for possible purchase.

The offer made from the highest reaches of the company directly to President Bush is so unusual that Defense Department and IBM lawyers have been scouring federal laws to make sure the government can accept the donation.

IBM would not make Palmisano available for comment. But according to other IBM executives, Palmisano had heard from several IBM employees who have returned from active duty in Iraq that a shortage of Arabic translators has severely hampered U.S. forces' efforts to communicate.

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``A translator wouldn't have helped in my situation we were sneaking around the middle of the night, and it was just one of those things,'' Ecker Jr. said. But overall, he added, ``communicating with the locals is difficult. This technology that IBM is going to offer is really going to help.''

[Benhurst]

1. How heartwarming: IBM doing its part to help the Bush Crime Family

rule its new colony.

:puke:

[Karenina]

2. Translation programs are

WORTHLESS.

[Benhurst]

3. Probably not worthless.

I suspect IBM will get a fat tax write-off for its "generous",if useless, gift.

[Karenina]

4. Your reply SOOO astutely illustrates the point!!!

:toast: