If he can't define real numbers, how can I know how inaccurate these numbers are?
The Top 10 Atrocities of All Time
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If he can't define real numbers, how can I know how inaccurate these numbers are?
I can't define the numbers because the history to do so does not exist. I have to admit though that the author may have a secret inside track. I will revise my previous position and admit a .008% chance of him being correct.
Why should he? It always fascinates me that some people post hogwash and expect those that disagree to go out and disprove their hogwash. To go out and surf the net and find links, etc. that will either not be read or not taken as proof.
Do you think he gives a farg what you need to know?
"You farging iceholes... you violated me fargin rights."
Remember that movie? With Michael Keaton? I laughed so hard at that part.
Missed it. I'll look it up.
Farging, frakking, fricking, farking, I'll never keep 'em straight.
**** it.
Q: You're pretty specific about how many died in atrocities, even if they happened thousands of years ago. Can you really quantify the effects of long-ago events like conflicts and the collapses of civilizations?
A: Within limits you can. There are records that go back, and a lot of them are based on things like money – tax records, for instance. There are suddenly fewer people after a war.
Archaeology is another way. If one layer of the past has a thriving civilization, and a war comes through and the next layer is pretty empty, you can get into the area of numbers, whether it's tens of millions or hundreds of thousands.
Encyclopedia of evil: a catalog of history's 100 worst atrocities - CSMonitor.com
You can ask DaS for more - he's reading the book.
A: Within limits you can. There are records that go back, and a lot of them are based on things like money – tax records, for instance. There are suddenly fewer people after a war.
Archaeology is another way. If one layer of the past has a thriving civilization, and a war comes through and the next layer is pretty empty, you can get into the area of numbers, whether it's tens of millions or hundreds of thousands.
Encyclopedia of evil: a catalog of history's 100 worst atrocities - CSMonitor.com
You can ask DaS for more - he's reading the book.
I went right to the box when I did it!
"Loc I screwed up a thread!"
Take notes my peeps!
I had Shadowshiv delete my thread when it happened to me because he couldn't get it fixed and I didn't want Loc to be mad at me.
That will take a long while.......it's a thousand bloody pages.....full of reference links.........no charts......thank God........... it's not a novel where it gets so interesting that you can't lay the book down.
I'd rather have our local Historian, Colpy, read it and give us a Readers' Digest version..:lol:
Historians disagree about the source of the outbreak. If it can be proven that the US Army distributed smallpox blankets to the Mandan then it is unquestionably an atrocity imo.
How do you know?
So I guess killing someone today isn't nearly the atrocity that it was back when someone wrote 'thou shalt not kill'. aw heck, it shouldn't be anything more than a misdemeanour - I mean geez, someone should get a lollipop for not killing two people!