cutterl6

Catastrophic loss of izzat

Remember, when the time comes: traitors first.

You underestimate how little resistance it takes to make a difference. It's not about every free man in the country single-handedly holding off the might of the US military on his doorstep.

As soon as a single shot is fired in defence, every thug now has to think twice before busting down a door. The game changes. Tyranny becomes a whole lot less efficient.

You send an FBI task force or god forbid the military to interfere with the life of a peaceful stranger and now you've given every man in the country a damn good reason to get himself organised for when they come for his family.

It's clearly not about a flu, at that point.

How are they descended from the earliest settlers if European ancestry is not listed? I read the same Wiki article but only just picked up on this now. That these non-European groups were slaves and (much later) foreign workers only further cements the status of the Europeans as the original settlers of these islands.

I doubt it, unless their hazmat suits are bullet-proof.

Since Europeans were first to discover and settle on the islands, wouldn't they have a greater claim to "indigenous" status than later ethnic groups? I genuinely don't understand, having had a quick read of the history, how your narrative of "colonialism" (in the pejorative) fits the actual timeline.

It feels like there is enough consumer frustration and confusion that this has been changing. A standardised mandatory marking in the spec would have been nice but it has been no problem for me to find cables with clearly-printed power and bandwidth ratings recently. History will consider this a minor teething problem.

ngmi

There's a much larger elephant in the room