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(...) I understand that it's quite arbitrary, and includes some amount of marketing tactics as well as back-biting amongst the various military departments and contract bidders. For example, the M-16 is a 5.56 caliber carbine fully-automatic rifle (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Military Weapon Designations?
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How are the official designations for military weapons decided in the US? That is, what do the M and the 16 mean, exactly, in M-16? I know, of course, that many weapons are described by their calibre and bore size, but what about the others? For (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Bowlin' Fer Souls
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(...) Cheers, - jsproat (26 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | SPOOF WARNS OF AIBO, THE ATTACK DOG
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SPOOF WARNS OF AIBO, THE ATTACK DOG A humorous posting on Bugtraq, a popular computer security e-mail list, warns that hackers have found a way to take over Sony's Aibo robot dog and command it to attack and perform other annoying canine tricks. The (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: FOTL
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(...) Since this was a self-proclaimed FOT*L*, I don't believe that a "next time" is permitted! ;) (26 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Bowlin' Fer Souls
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Hey Y'all: Not at all Lego related, but I just thought some of you POV or CAD people might also like some animation action: (URL) you say, "Big Daddy Roth..."? -- Richard (sitting here giggling as he replays it, and replays it, and replays it...) (26 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Ford Prefect
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(...) I don't think the TV adaptation of HGTG is un-funny! If anything, it whets your appetite for the books! There is actually something deadly serious underlying these books. (26 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | How about off-topic.book ?
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From time to time there are enthusiastic threads about books or authors tangential that come up in other groups. For example, over in lugnet.castle (Chronicles of Prydain coming up again), but also here in off-topic land. Usually it's science (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Encoding? (was Re: This isn't good enough!
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(...) [snip] (...) It's not what it was created for It's WHY it was created. Yes to make a bad practice part of the language, ROTFHMGUATI*. But more to the point adding ON to the debate is hardly going to advance GOTO's position as most hated (...) (26 years ago, 13-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: test
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Yeah, but it would take too much effort to create that group. ;^) ~Mark (...) (26 years ago, 13-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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