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Thank for your reply. I see we agree on most points except the final point which is ok because I was not arguing whether or not the British empire supplanted a culture that had vio…

But this thread is not about other people, I haven't said that it was ok if Spanish or some indigenous people's were carrying out violence or just the British carried out violence.…

Ok, firstly I am unsure how any of the above refutes my statements about the British Empire. You have decided to get into the semantics of conquest vs land theft. My reading of you…

Please you tell me, do you think conquest is different to land theft? To me they are the same thing

I totally agree - and just wanted to point it out as people always reach for the what about those other people when discussing these topics. I had my awakening on this subject in m…

Your argument is a rhetorical diversion away from my comment regarding the crime's of the British empire. When someone commits a murder do you say. Well what about all the other mu…

No absolutely, sorry if I sounded that way. I certainly was not saying you were excusing, just adding an addendum to your comment.

That is such a great point about universal suffrage, a point completely overlooked far too often (by people including myself).

A private corporation committing atrocities is still the country or empire that sets the rules. It's still British people carrying out / orchestrating the violence.

British equally carried out similar atrocities there is so much evidence of this. But none of it is taught in British or Australian schools, I also was brought up with the myth of …

You are forgetting enslavement and genocide of indigenous populations they encountered, the Atlantic slave trade, mass land theft all in the pursuit of profit. No indigenous popula…

The whole thread is off the rails, just conspiracy and rumour

Wow crazed conspiracy stuff topping hacker news.

This is precisely what I have realised is my special skill as well! I can read the manual / docs and I can cast an eye over third party packages to see how it works it astounds me …

When I was a smoker, my smoke breaks were the thing that was noticed, I used to have one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Was incredibly awkward (due to the addiction) and …

I read Allen Carr's easy way to give up smoking. It was amazing, it opened my eyes to what my addiction actually was and I have never been addicted since reading that book. Been tw…

I totally agree but at what price point. I do think supersonic was just priced out of the market. Would you pay twice for the time saving?

Yes but this is my point is there are great reasons why concorde failed but equally it's technology was not enough of progress to overcome the fact that 747s could do things at muc…

Scale is everything though - great technology is nothing without reach

Having a total of 20 supersonic airlines wasn't exactly common place. And spending 1.5% of your GDP to send like ten people to the moon probably isn't that great an achievement fro…

They are beautiful, mischievous, highly intelligent birds. My favourite video of a cockatoo removing the pigeon spikes from a building. https://youtu.be/1FvD3NebLxE I would say ple…