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[Eric Blank]

I can't even into school this semester, the damn admissions office still won't admit me as a local resident so im paying out of state tuition, which is double the usual rate. Out of pocket now, because I have a full time job.

[scrdest]

It saddens me to no end that Isis has been overshadowed by machete bombers

Part of the reason to use Da'esh. That, and the fact that they absolutely hate it, apparently.

[Tack]

Da'esh? Is it arabic?

Also, ISIL is another thingy.

[scrdest]

Da'esh? Is it arabic?

It is. It's basically an initialism, same as ISIS, except based on their arabic name and originally spelled in arabic. And has the fortunate side-effect that it sounds a lot like... well, I can't find a good example; basically, it's like they named themselves an 'Exceptionally Virtouous Youth League' and realized it spelled E.V.Y.L., or something along these lines.

[Loud Whispers]

It saddens me to no end that Isis has been overshadowed by machete bombers

Part of the reason to use Da'esh. That, and the fact that they absolutely hate it, apparently.

If we're going to use names they hate just call them Dildos

[scrdest]

It saddens me to no end that Isis has been overshadowed by machete bombers

Part of the reason to use Da'esh. That, and the fact that they absolutely hate it, apparently.

If we're going to use names they hate just call them Dildos

Implying I don't.

[NJW2000]

Then what do I call my pets ?

Anyways, reminded of starlite again by a youtube video.

For such a mysterious and incredible material, its surprisingly... uninteresting.

[scrdest]

Then what do I call my pets ?

Then you are free to name them all after Egyptian gods.

[SOLDIER First]

The Egyptians: inventing Furries, 4,000 years before the advent of the internet.

They did the world a favor that day.

[Spehss _]

This conversation reminds me that there was a metal band named Isis, after the egyptian god, years before the current thing with the extremist Daesh group. The band's logo was ISIS in capital letters.

Devout fans of the band got tattoos of the band's name. Now, they probably have to do lots of explaining to anyone who sees the tattoos.

[stabbymcstabstab]

Decided to look up theories as to why the Native Americans (North and South) never advanced as much as the Europeans did.

First thing I found sounded reasonable, up until it started going on about how modern crops produce less than 500 years ago, and how the wheat chaff is toxic.

From what I understand the reason we never progressed much in the eyes of the Euros was because shortly after the Spanish and Portuguese started arriving small pox did. Its hard to appear advance when your population goes from 100 mil to 10 mil in a area larger then Europe. Hell my tribe was starting to use iron weaponry before you know... they pretty much all died.

[Calidovi]

Decided to look up theories as to why the Native Americans (North and South) never advanced as much as the Europeans did.

First thing I found sounded reasonable, up until it started going on about how modern crops produce less than 500 years ago, and how the wheat chaff is toxic.

If you want to know more about this, I recommend reading Guns, Germs, and Steel. It's required reading for our class, but I find it rather interesting. It changes your view of human development.

[NJW2000]

Most efficient weapon the English had against the Maori trench warfare was disease. That and giving them guns.

The latter was a bit self-defeating. The maoris fought everyone.

[Loud Whispers]

Decided to look up theories as to why the Native Americans (North and South) never advanced as much as the Europeans did.
First thing I found sounded reasonable, up until it started going on about how modern crops produce less than 500 years ago, and how the wheat chaff is toxic.

If you want to know more about this, I recommend reading Guns, Germs, and Steel. It's required reading for our class, but I find it rather interesting. It changes your view of human development.

Jared Diamond's a bit of an academic fool or idealist, whichever is better in your eyes. A lot of his history is wrong, underplayed or just dust not connect with what he's saying. The tl;dr is everything is an accident, native cooperation with Yurop is meh, the wills of nations and statesmen is meh, you don't domesticate animals to get domesticated animals, everything is caused by Yurops adaption to deadly pathogens.
Honestly the most likely reason is that Native Americans in the North never had populations large enough to form urban societies and begin creating the specialized roles in society that eventually lead up to scientists, scholars and scribes, or they had the agriculture, the populations but did not yet develop written language to keep information safe and build upon it. The South? Well, it was just a matter of time. Civilization was born in Mesopotamia 8,000 years ago, the Romans brought it to Europe 2,000 years ago and the Incan civilization was born 1,200 years ago. And whilst they lacked the technological discovery of Europe, they had the societies and governments which would have allowed such discovery to accrue from generation to generation - and indeed, when the Spanish did take over, its was made much easier by the assimilation of the local peoples disgruntled at their Incan overlords and they just took over the already existing governmental systems.
He tells a good story though.

[redwallzyl]

Decided to look up theories as to why the Native Americans (North and South) never advanced as much as the Europeans did.

First thing I found sounded reasonable, up until it started going on about how modern crops produce less than 500 years ago, and how the wheat chaff is toxic.

can i recommend the book 1491? the main thing is that they were advanced just in different directions to Europeans. think of the genetic engineering wonder that is corn and things like tension construction with suspension bridges.