From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Nov 4 13:57:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94F8437B401 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 13:57:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail14.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.214]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0313243E3B for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 13:57:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 28300 invoked from network); 4 Nov 2002 21:57:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail14.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 4 Nov 2002 21:57:29 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gA4LvJn5046188; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 16:57:20 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3DC6E578.EE0B48D4@mail.ptd.net> Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 16:57:21 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: "T.M. Sommers" Subject: Re: -current marcketting name? Cc: chat@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 04-Nov-2002 T.M. Sommers wrote: > John Baldwin wrote: >> >> On 04-Nov-2002 Terry Lambert wrote: >> > Ollivier Robert wrote: >> >> According to Kyle Martin: >> >> > 5.Doh! with a new beastie mascot pic found at: >> >> >> >> If you want a mascot, take this then: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> (drawing made for BSDCon Europe although that one is wearing even less) >> >> >> >> (B. Bellamy is a well known french comic artist, drawing his models in >> >> several magazines -- including Linux ones) >> > >> > Looks like a World War II B-52 bomber logo. Probably offensive >> > to Nazis... >> >> B-29 or some such maybe. The first B-52's were built in the 50's. >> AFAIK the US didn't have jet-powered bombers during WWII. I think >> the first jet-powered fighters were used in the Korean War to >> counter Mig's. (Putting on my history-channel watching hat.) > > The Germans had the Me-262 during the war, but fortunately misused it so > that it didn't wipe the skies clear of Allied aircraft. The Americans > and British had jets under development during the war, but they did not > become operational until 1946 or thereabouts. Yes, I should have clarified the last to say "..the first [US] jet-powered fighters were used [in action] in.." -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message