EcoTerrorists With Bomb Arrested Near IBM Facility

[Doctor-boom]

"Being against micro-technology"... Maybe because it's what I'm working on every single day (and so retro, we call it nanotechnology nowadays), but I don't parse that! How can some one be so ignorant to be against something which... exist in nature... How do they think snails shells are made (nano-scale assembly)... How do they think gecko feet functions or lotus leaves...

 

[nforce4max]

This is nothing new 50/50 its is the real deal some nut jobs or it is some retards hired to do a fail job.

 

[JohnnyLucky]

I find the entire episode rather bizarre.

 

[Gin Fushicho]

Idiots.... Nano Tech could be wonderful for us.

 

[gm0n3y]

[citation][nom]Gin Fushicho[/nom]Idiots.... Nano Tech could be wonderful for us.[/citation]
Or if not for, then at least for our robot overlords.

 

[bloody llama]

And this is what happens when people take Avatar seriously, rather than just laugh at its' plot and marvel at its' special effects.

 

[wolfseeker2828]

According to DM, Swiss media reported that the intended bombing was planned to coincide with a secret meeting of European anarchists on April 16 and 17 in the Swiss town of Winterthur.

Two questions, 1. how did they know about the secret meeting, and 2. since when are anarchists organized?

 

[dgingeri]

Sounds to me like and irked AIX or Notes admin. With how buggy their software is, I'm surprised they haven't been bombed all over the world repeatedly already. It really is a PITA to administer any IBM product.

 

[xaephod]

I guess that secret meeting wasn't so secret

 

[Bruceification73]

could have just used candle bombs. much easier to make and much harder to detect.

 

[digitalprospecter]

Big Blue avoids the big boom because of a random traffic stop? How lucky is that?

 

[enlargedhousecats]

Eco-terrorists my eye! They didn't even take into account the toll on the environment the production of that bomb had, or the the air pollution from the smoke and dust, or the destruction of nearby plants and animals. And that car probably wasn't electric!

 

[neiroatopelcc]

[citation][nom]Article[/nom]a secret meeting of European anarchists [/citation]
This piece just seems all wrong to me! Are they really anarchists if they plan and hold meetings? I mean anarchy is supposed to be about chaotic unpredictability without any central form of goverment right?

 

[Bruceification73]

no comments about the candle bomb?

 

[Von Death]

[citation][nom]wolfseeker2828[/nom]Two questions, 1. how did they know about the secret meeting, and 2. since when are anarchists organized?[/citation]
1. Most fringe groups crazy enough to try something serious aren't trained intelligence operatives.
2. They hire a secretary to organize everything, then shoot her after she drafts a good plan.

Anarchists could probably be cured with a healthy dose of Left 4 Dead teamwork trials.

 

[rebb]

I wonder if their bomb would have ever been detected if it was constructed with IBM's state of the art nanotechnology. IBM says "All your base are belong to us!"

 

[back_by_demand]

[citation][nom]gm0n3y[/nom]I'm interested to hear why they chose IBM as a target. There must be more environmentally damaging companies out there than IBM.[/citation]
Face it, if you are mad enough to try and get your point acrosss using explosives, then making rational decisions probably isn't high up on their skill set.

 

[zuke]

Terrorists suck!

 

[raymi]

Not wanting to make any difference between islamic extremists that use fear to overthrow a government by killing innocent civilians on purpose and people that want to blow a building (probably empty) is really dangerous and isn't working towards a better comprehension of these acts.
As for anarchists, no they are not against organisation and it's a complete lack of knowledge of this movement to say that they are for chaos. Anarchy doesn't mean chaos. Absence of government doesn't mean lack of organisation.

 

[back_by_demand]

OK, back to the point, they must be out of their tiny fucking minds.

If you want to be an Eco Terrorist and use a bomb to send a message, why not blow up the Exxon head office, or Shell, or some other oil company.

Blowing up a computer company building... errr... why?????????

 

[gm0n3y]

[citation][nom]back_by_demand[/nom]If you want to be an Eco Terrorist and use a bomb to send a message, why not blow up the Exxon head office, or Shell, or some other oil company.[/citation]

Shell is actually considered to be an environmentally friendly company.

 

[Guest]

These bombers should be called mentally ill.

 

[Dirty Durden]

They say the Tea Parties & the Right are the dangerous. Could you image if these guys were from the right (U.S.A. Right not E.U. Right) or part of the Tea Party. CNN & MSNBC would be reporting this every 5 mins non-stop for weeks & months.

 

[back_by_demand]

[citation][nom]gm0n3y[/nom]Shell is actually considered to be an environmentally friendly company.[/citation]
I certainly hope you mean in relative terms, as in more environmentally friendly than, for example, the Exxon Valdez after it dumped 10 million gallons of oil in the water.

It is an oil company, it drills big fucking holes in the ground, pumps up millions of barrels of the black stuff and refines it so that you can drive your fat ass to work everyday and choke the planet to death.

If Shell was to spend its entire lifetime gained assets and move into the job of planting trees and finding a way to make fusion work properly then then it could make up for 103 years of inexorabley turning the world into a giant steaming turd, then, maybe, it could be called environmentally friendly.

 

[gm0n3y]

[citation][nom]back_by_demand[/nom]I certainly hope you mean in relative terms, as in more environmentally friendly than, for example, the Exxon Valdez after it dumped 10 million gallons of oil in the water.It is an oil company, it drills big fucking holes in the ground, pumps up millions of barrels of the black stuff and refines it so that you can drive your fat ass to work everyday and choke the planet to death.If Shell was to spend its entire lifetime gained assets and move into the job of planting trees and finding a way to make fusion work properly then then it could make up for 103 years of inexorabley turning the world into a giant steaming turd, then, maybe, it could be called environmentally friendly.[/citation]

While Shell has made some mistakes, they have realized that it is more profitable to try to protect the environment than to destroy it.

For example, their location in Papua New Guinea is pristine wilderness. Biologists going to the island to conduct research have commented on how the ecosystem is being destroyed on large parts of the island, but that the large piece of land that Shell owns is pretty much a wildlife preserve. Even the single road through most of the area is a small single lane dirt track, not the sprawling clear cut that most companies have. The locals had chased out the 2 previous oil companies that had tried to drill in the area due to their environmental practices and Shell has realized that they need to work with communities in order to get reliable access to their oil.

Shell is by no means perfect, but they are leaders for environmental responsibility in the oil industry.