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vxbush
2/11/2026 6:50:17 AM
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JCM
2/11/2026 7:02:53 AM
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Fraud to right of them, Fraud to left of them, Fraud in front of them Millions and Billions; Stormed at with greed and graft, Boldly they strode and well, Into the jaws of Debt, Into the mouth of Deficit Rode the country.
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Kosh's Shadow
2/11/2026 8:28:17 AM
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Reply to JCM in 3: The charge of the light finger brigade
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vxbush
2/11/2026 10:10:45 AM
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In #5 Kosh's Shadow said: The charge of the light finger brigade Oh, now I want Buzz to write this!
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Occasional Reader
2/11/2026 1:07:47 PM
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So, earlier today I put two 40-round belts through an M249 SAW.
Damn, that was fun.
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vxbush
2/11/2026 1:19:51 PM
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In #7 Occasional Reader said: Damn, that was fun. Oh, I bet! My daughter has shot a big gun on a destroyer. I'm jealous.
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Kosh's Shadow
2/11/2026 1:22:08 PM
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In #8 vxbush said: a big gun on a destroye 5" guns. Now the old battleships had 16" diameter projectiles that weighed a ton.
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vxbush
2/11/2026 1:22:09 PM
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Reply to vxbush in 8: I had to go look it up. It was a .50 caliber (12.7 mm) Browning M2 "Ma Deuce" heavy machine gun.
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Kosh's Shadow
2/11/2026 1:26:36 PM
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Microsoft just forked Windows I thought they "forked" it a long time ago. But this is about two versoions, one for i86 architecture (and x64) CPUs and ARM processors.
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Kosh's Shadow
2/11/2026 1:30:13 PM
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In #10 vxbush said: I had to go look it up. It was a .50 caliber (12.7 mm) Browning M2 "Ma Deuce" heavy machine gun. Those are great - still in use and a 100 year old design. Not the biggest guns on destroyers, but the kind you can actually shoot in person
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Occasional Reader
2/11/2026 1:33:20 PM
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Reply to vxbush in 10:
impressive. I almost got the opportunity to fire one of those back in the LGF days, at the legendary “Reaganite’s retirement party”; but it turned out not to be available. We did do a lot of other fun things though, involving .50 caliber firearms and C4 plastic explosive.
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vxbush
2/11/2026 2:23:29 PM
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In #12 Kosh's Shadow said: Those are great - still in use and a 100 year old design. Not the biggest guns on destroyers, but the kind you can actually shoot in person Yeah--she sent one spent casing to us so we could marvel at its beauty.
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vxbush
2/11/2026 2:24:27 PM
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In #13 Occasional Reader said: We did do a lot of other fun things though, involving .50 caliber firearms and C4 plastic explosive. Best party I went to was throwing pure sodium into a giant lake for the explosions. Heh.
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Kosh's Shadow
2/11/2026 2:32:56 PM
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In #16 vxbush said: throwing pure sodium into a giant lake for the explosions Kid in high school got some potassium and we threw it into a pond.
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Kosh's Shadow
2/11/2026 2:38:02 PM
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I had an uncle who served in WWII and made this lamp: (He passed away before I was born; never met him) 
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