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- From: yarvin@cs.yale.edu (Norman Yarvin)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: More Brat Control
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 16:52:17 -0500
- Organization: Yale Computer Science Department
- Lines: 51
- Message-ID: <1k9kihINN7sg@CATHY.NA.CS.YALE.EDU>
- References: <1993Jan28.163211.24318@muddcs.claremont.edu> <1k9bd0INN7kj@CATHY.NA.CS.YALE.EDU> <1993Jan28.202532.28590@muddcs.claremont.edu>
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- Incidentally, anybody with a real interest in this matter should look in
- sci.military, where there recently was a thorough discussion of bullet
- physics.
-
- shampton@jarthur.claremont.edu (Scott M Hampton) writes:
- >In article <1k9bd0INN7kj@CATHY.NA.CS.YALE.EDU> yarvin@cs.yale.edu (Norman Yarvin) writes:
- >>shampton@jarthur.claremont.edu (Scott M Hampton) writes:
- >
- >>The plain fact is that terminal velocity can be greater than Mach 1.
- >
- >Not with bullets in free-fall, laughing boy. We WERE talking about bullets.
-
- Those of us with brains in our heads were talking about bullets. You
- were making sweeping and incorrect statements about the world in general,
- and trying to intimidate people with them.
-
- Anyway, your statement is (at long last) true, for some definition of
- "bullet". However I'd be willing to bet an APFSDS-DU penetrator---the
- mother of all bullets, so to speak---would exceed Mach 1 in free fall.
-
- >> I'm not going to corroborate this fact, since I prefer just denouncing you.
- >
- >Typical debate style for a Yalie. Smug east-coast prep boys. Harumph.
-
- In this debate, I have every reason to be smug. Even though I am neither
- an "east-coast prep boy" nor a "Yalie"---the latter epithet should be
- reserved for the local undergrads.
-
- >>Some of us have other means of procuring our entertainment than using our
- >>knowledge to intimidate those who do not share it.
- >
- >I'm really sorry to hear that, Yarvin. There are few better justifications
- >for good entertainment than a nasty intellectual shoving match.
-
- But you see, if someone has not learned a subject, it's just too easy to
- attack him. It is unsporting. The people to attack are those who think
- they know it, but actually don't. Such as the animal rights people, or
- yourself.
-
- > Especially
- >if the bloody affair makes the sublime translation into a balls-to-the-wall
- >my-cock-is-bigger'n-your-cock full out character assinating well-poisoning
- >assault on the other participants entire identity.
- >
- >Wanna play?
-
- I wouldn't try that, if I were you. Not on this subject, anyway. Given
- the amount you know, it'd be like bringing a knife to a gun fight.
-
- --
- Norman Yarvin yarvin@cs.yale.edu
-