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random P.S. the division of radical feminists who went down the road labeled "if biology is the root cause of womens' oppression, welp, we'e going to have to fix biology" are good fun to read and extremely sci-fi; I recommend...
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@18 Yes, there are many women[1] who seem very distressed, and I think for at least some this distress is genuine. This is because they have been told the lie[2] that trans women are disproportionately sexual predators and thus are...
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I had guessed, when reading, that the main value of slow money was that it was how you paid your passage to a new solar system. A new colony would issue a whole bunch of slow dollars (immigration credits) in...

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paws4thot commented on An update on the revolutionary experiment
IIRC, the M16A1 (and the AK-47) have 3 firing modes, single shot, 3 shot burst, and w@nker!!...
JohnS commented on An update on the revolutionary experiment
paws4thot @ 1230: IIRC, the M16A1 (and the AK-47) have 3 firing modes, single shot, 3 shot burst, and w@nker!!" The M16 and the M16A1 were similar except the M16 did not have the forward assist added to the M16A1. The M16 also had a chrome bolt & the M16A1 had a parkerized bolt. Both were "Safe", "Semi" (single) and "Auto" (w@nker!!). Supposedly the original M16 had a teflon coated bolt & wasn't supposed to require lubrication. But that didn't work so well with the cheap ass ball power the Army used in their ammo & caused a lot of...
Martin commented on An update on the revolutionary experiment
It also had a barrel with a more aggressive twist to the rifling - 1:7 compared to the 1:14 of the original M16 & the M16A1 ...to cope with the new NATO-standard ammunition. The US Ordnance Board had forced 7.62x51 onto the rest of NATO, and then promptly changed its own infantry rifle calibre to 5.56; by the 1980s, the rest of NATO was due to replace their service weapons, and ran another competition to find a NATO-standard ammunition. Britain (who had lost the 1950s argument, and cancelled the No.9 Rifle in 7mm) entered a 4.85mm round that they'd been...
waldo commented on An update on the revolutionary experiment
I'm curious: What happens if you fire the wrong ammunition? M193 from an M16A2, M855 from an M16. I guess M855 from an M16 is horribly inaccurate, because it's not stable. Is that right? And what about M193 from an M16A2?...
JohnS commented on An update on the revolutionary experiment
waldo @ 1233: I'm curious: What happens if you fire the wrong ammunition? M193 from an M16A2, M855 from an M16. I guess M855 from an M16 is horribly inaccurate, because it's not stable. Is that right? And what about M193 from an M16A2? From experience (we were issued the wrong ammo for annual qualification once right after being issued the M16A2) ... the bullets don't go where you want them to go. I think the M193 will go off high to the right if fired through the M16A2 while the M855 will go off low to the left in...

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Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
Old blog—2003-2006 (RIP)

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