riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) (03/15/84)
Try this on for size:
FIA/ORA/TOD/PCB/FEMA
That stands for the "Federal Insurance Administration, Technical
Operations Division, Production Control Branch of the Federal Emergency
Management Agency".
The office employs only four people.
(Source: "Common Cause Magazine".)
Anybody know any other good ones?
--- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.")
--- {ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!riddleron@brl-vgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>) (03/16/84)
It's typical for the government. Our office (2 people) is officially: USA/DARCOM/AMCCOM/ARDC/BRL/SECAD/CTAB/ACST United States Army/Development and Readiness Command/Armament, Munitions, and Chemical Command/Armament Research and Development Center/ Ballistic Research Laboratory/Systems Engineering and Concepts Analysis Division/Computer Techniques and Analysis Branch/Advanced Computer Systems Team. Actually we leave out the DARCOM/AMCCOM/ARDC portion in normal operation.
kmw@iheds.UUCP (K. M. Wilber) (03/17/84)
OK, if FIA/ORA/TOD/PCB/FEMA stands for: "Federal Insurance Administration, Technical Operations Division, Productions Control Branch of the Federal Emergency Management Agency", what does the "ORA" stand for? -- K. M. Wilber iheds!kmw or mvuxs!kw
olney@fortune.UUCP (John Olney) (03/20/84)
How hard would it be to generate an 'ls -Rl' of the whole U.S. Government bureaucracy hierarchy? How long would the printout be? -- jho
wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok) (03/21/84)
> How hard would it be to generate an 'ls -Rl' of the whole > U.S. Government bureaucracy hierarchy? > > How long would the printout be? > > -- jho How about an "rm -rf" of same? -- Bill Sebok Princeton University, Astrophysics {allegra,akgua,burl,cbosgd,decvax,ihnp4,kpno,princeton,vax135}!astrovax!wls
seifert@ihuxl.UUCP (D.A. Seifert) (03/21/84)
That's like AT&T-NS-DDFM/NTIP/FOF/AIP/AWEOBSWD
or American Telephone and Telegraph-Network Systems-Divisional Design for
Manufacturability/New Technology Introduction Planning/Factory of the Future/
Artificial Intelligence Planning/and Whatever Else Our Boss Says We Do.
from Joe Pokorny, ihnp4!nwuxc!pokorny
(nwuxc gets mail but not news)
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____|___|_____ ihnp4!ihuxl!seifertolney@fortune.UUCP (John Olney) (03/23/84)
> How about a 'rm -rf' of the whole U.S. Government bureaucracy hierarchy?
What would we do with all those people on our free list?
-- jhoclyde@ut-ngp.UUCP (03/23/84)
>> How about a 'rm -rf' of the whole U.S. Government bureaucracy hierarchy? > What would we do with all those people on our free list? > -- jho Refer them to net.suicide, or better we could ship them over to (nation of choice) to do unto them as they have done unto us. (Hmmm, that would almost certainly be an act of war, now that I think of it). -- Clyde W. Hoover @ Univ. of Texas Computation Center; Austin, Texas (Shouter-To-Dead-Parrots) "The ennui is overpowering" - Marvin clyde@ut-ngp.{UUCP,ARPA} clyde@ut-sally.{UUCP,ARPA} ihnp4!ut-ngp!clyde