'Nuclear Free' Maryland City Grants Waiver For HP 277
dcblogs writes "The City of Takoma Park, Md. this week granted a waiver to its public library to allow it to use some new HP hardware, whose products are otherwise banned under its 'nuclear free zone' ordinance. That law, adopted in 1983 one month after the Cold War-era movie 'The Day After' was aired, prohibits the city from buying equipment from any company connected to U.S. nuclear weapons production. The library bought new Linux-based, x86 systems from a Canadian vendor and didn't realize the vendor was using HP hardware. The hardware arrived in April and was unused until the Takoma Park city council granted it a waiver this week. The city's list of banned contractors was developed in 2004 by a now inactive group, Nuclear Free America, and hasn't been updated since."
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If you've ever visited Takoma Park... (Score:0, Funny)
... then you'd realize that this was the least of their worries.
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Movies, not reason, dictates their city policy.
You should see the stockpile of shotguns and Patrick Swayze clones they have on hand just in case Red Dawn comes true...
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"Nuclear free" is sooo 1980s. It's all about "greenness" now. You need to update your pc checklists monthly.
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So given that Indians are no longer called Indians, does that mean that people descended from the indigenous population can be served but not the guys from India?
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Re:Of all the stupid laws.... (Score:2, Funny)
Really? Can not buy anything from a company that is related to US nuclear weapons production? Really? What a stupid do nothing make everybody feel good while accomplishing nothing lets all hold hands and sing Kumbaya crap law!
No, wrong problem. The REAL problem is that HP is involved in US nuclear weapons production. And now Microsoft is making their computer manufacturing partners very very angry, and one of those manufacturers is HP...
Stay away from the Redmond, WA area for the time being, is all I'm saying.
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Apparently arming the shit out of your populace (with automatic rifles) is a far greater deterrent to being attacked than stockpiling nuclear weapons.
Cool. Then we (US Americans) are covered on both counts.
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Not to mention -and has been since at least 1983.
If I was in that town I'd be pushing for it's repeal. Just like I pushed for getting rid of the ban on selling alcohol to indians in my old town. Yes, the law called them Indians.
At least they didn't call them "prairie niggers".
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He's a school district?
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Who says product placement doesn't work???
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The Church of Scientology
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Negative: I am a Meat Popsicle.