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  2. From: yarvin@cs.yale.edu (Norman Yarvin)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.peeves
  4. Subject: Re: Halfwits.
  5. Date: 20 Nov 1992 14:07:37 -0500
  6. Organization: Yale Computer Science Department
  7. Lines: 20
  8. Message-ID: <1ejd1pINN669@CATHY.NA.CS.YALE.EDU>
  9. References: <BxoJ4I.13A@cs.dal.ca> <1e1r07INNid8@CATHY.NA.CS.YALE.EDU> <lgfid6INN5sg@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM>
  10. NNTP-Posting-Host: cathy.na.cs.yale.edu
  11.  
  12. geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) writes:
  13. >
  14. >You can't use air-to-ground missiles against seaborne targets.  The Weapons
  15. >Police would be on you in a flash.
  16.  
  17. The captain of that Turkish destroyer which was recently in the news perhaps
  18. thought the same thing about surface-to-air missiles: that they could not be
  19. used against ships.
  20.  
  21. He's dead now.
  22.  
  23. But on second thought, the Weapons Police are indeed investigating.  So
  24. perhaps there will be justice in the world.
  25.  
  26.  
  27. ObWeapon: 42000lb General Purpose Bomb
  28.  
  29. --
  30. Norman Yarvin                        yarvin@cs.yale.edu
  31.  "Like all other men, of course, I pant for power."  H. L. Mencken
  32.