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The Old Hack
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Sure, you go right ahead!
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A big one is that time travel as so envisioned is a logical impossibility.
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Absolutely, I am not going to argue against that. I am simply saying that Pandora may have been more directly involved and hence this serves as an indication at least that it is possible.
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Not quite. It is not stated outright, but... I believe it is safe to say that it is at the very least hinted that Pandora might have been acting here.
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All of this is entirely beyond me. Once Hitler is out of the picture, the dice are flying and might land anywhere at all. As a matter of fact, I believe the computer game Red Alert's backstory was based on someone killing Hitler and this turning out to have been a really bad idea.
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Why, anything whatsoever. By taking Hitler out of the picture I would eliminate ONE possible branch of the future, the one where a genocidal sociopath named Hitler would attempt to exterminate entire peoples. But there would almost certainly be a second world war anyway, most likely in about the same time period. Possibly it would have a Germany led by a less murderous but more competent leader, one who could win the war faster. Or it might end up with some other petty dictator with an inflated view of his own competence. Who can say. I do not believe another twenty years would pass. Germany was already dead set on revenge. A huge part of Hitler's success was that he promised the Germans their revenge. A too cautious leader would have been overthrown and replaced with a more ambitious one. Remember, the German generals were absolutely fine with Hitler's plans of conquest. They just thought he was being too aggressive and reckless about them.
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True enough. But I still hate it when alleged maintenance workers so completely bugger up their job. Paint over a door? That's just so careless that it outrages me. I guess I am still a little hypersensitive on this topic. My departed friend had similar problems with clumsy workers back when he was already quite ill. For obvious reasons he had a very hard time getting the system to pay attention and it added completely unnecessary hardship to his life when he very badly did NOT need more of it.
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This reminds me of all the old conundrums of how to prevent WWII. Any viable solution I could think of invariably involved preventing WW1 as well. To do that you needed to go further back... it got quite headachey. I did find a much simpler way of preventing Hitler from getting into power, one that did not involve shooting him. All you needed to do was to look for him while he was still a painter, pretend to swoon over how magnificent his paintings were and buy them for enough money to set him comfortably up. If you wanted to make sure, surround him with admirers of his art. He'd be ensconced in the burgeoisie and live isolated from the poverty and want that originally lured him into politics. By the time the key years rolled about he would not have the apparatus he needed even if he changed his mind by then.
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Good. You keep an eye on it. If it tries anything again, threaten it with a big hammer.
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Look, I told you about summoning these, inadvertently or otherwise. If you manage to wipe out large parts of Oklahoma with one of them I will give you a warning point.
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"Cock's Cable"?
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Mind, modern knowledge of diseases and how they propagate would have helped. It might still not have avoided a massive death toll but there would probably be a larger number of survivors. Unfortunately, they did not know what was going on -- in fact, they had even less experience with epidemics than Europeans.
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And he spoke a to my mind eternal truth. Here's another: Christmas time is here, by golly; disapproval would be folly, deck the halls with boughs of holly, fill the cups and don't say when Kill the turkeys, ducks and chickens; fill the punch bowl, draaaaaag out the Dickens, even though the prospect sickens, brother here we go again...
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BAH! HUMBUG!
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I am not about to censure you for using too harsh language about them. Whatever you called those imbeciles, they unquestionably deserved it.
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And neither change my point: that the desire and willingness to exterminate a population may or may not exist, but the capability is a separate matter. America is ENORMOUS. Given the relative primitiveness and small numbers of the invaders, they were physically incapable of carrying out genocide on such a massive scale even if they had wanted to. If they had started, they would merely have achieved the same result as conquest used to have in the Indus region: push the tribes into moving elsewhere, which would most likely force another tribe to relocate further away, and so forth, and so forth... This was how our Indo-European ancestors arrived in Europe.
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The Moderator: I merged your thread into this one. This is standard policy whenever there is posted more than one thread for the same story comic. ~tOH.
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Yeah, and they didn't even invent gunpowder. It was invented in India. More examples of that in history. Some enterprising Roman invented a steam engine. But it was extremely primitive and they lacked a lot of the technology needed to make it useful, so they never did anything with it and it was eventually forgotten. (It was also argued that steam power wasn't necessary due to the abundance of slaves available, but I am not sure I am buying that one -- a big point of the steam engine when it was actually developed industrially was that it could produce exponentially more power than muscle power could.) The diseases mentioned above were what actually did the exterminating. Exterminating populations by hand is actually very time consuming and difficult work and is usually not worth it if you can just convince them to be ruled. Which is usually a LOT easier than convincing them to hold still for being exterminated.
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What a bunch of morons.
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No. Grammatically speaking, he is saying that the germs made it possible. If one insists on twisting the meaning, one might turn it into the germs giving permission, but there is nothing in that sentence that allows for the interpretation that the germs controlled anyone.
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And meeting me was a View to a Kill!
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Ah, ads on game sites. I remember I had a problem with them that finally made me lose my patience and install ad blockers. But before I did, I had a singular experience: an ad window that insisted on showing full page ads compressed to a tiny two by three inch size. One of the ads it showed was for the expansion to the Conan MMO, which was called Rise of the Godslayer. It was so blurry that it took several attempts for me to read it properly, and for a while I was convinced it was actually called Rise of the Cosplayers. It's too bad, really. If it had been the latter, I think I would have tried the game just to see that.
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Duh. Obviously she wanted Hermione to get together with Professor McGonagall.
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Big time.... Yeah. Afterwards there is the fun of picking up the pieces only to find that they don't fit together anymore.
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Well, they weren't much more than boys when I was a boy...
