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Comment USA Not Stolen: Indians Were Wiped Out By Disease (Score 1) 126

The American Indians (both North and South) were doomed when the first European walked ashore and was greeted. The Indians and their ancestors had no exposure to European diseases and so, as soon as the European coughed, farted or offered his hand as a gesture of friendship, the match was lit.

The flame spread as Indians returned to their villages. It turned into a conflagration spreading in all directions slaying Indians before it. As the white man advanced, he sometimes found entire villages, sometimes entire civilizations, struck down where they stood: tools and implements scattered about among half-eaten bodies, dwellings, and crops in the field unattended,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbian_exchange

The fate of the American Indian was sealed by his/her geographical isolation. And the American Indian could give as well as get. Syphilis was a disease that was spread from the Americas to Europe.

Comment WTF is Paying for this Hole? (Score 1) 112

Goddam string and particle physicists are costing USA a bundle and delivering squat! We need to defund these guys until they're limited to a handful of pencils and paper pads.

Texas' contribution to taxpayer fundwasting: the superconducting supercollider (1/8 of it): https://www.dallasnews.com/new...

Comment So Old and Persistent I Thought it Was a Feature (Score 1) 36

This problem has occurred repeatedly through the history of Windows. So much so that I had decided it was a feature of Windows rather than a bug. b/c of that, I believe Microsoft should leave it in, so that we know a true valid version of Windows when we see it (and don't see the Start Menu and Taskbar Shortcuts).

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