Path: eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Chris Ahlstrom Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The Joy of *small* business Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 16:35:56 -0500 Organization: None Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: <19ebc64d-c683-a046-e19b-9cdc51c81226@example.net> <1248675b-e38a-04a7-93b3-6fa527725858@example.net> <0dadnaQb-I2PEP76nZ2dnZfqnPWdnZ2d@earthlink.com> Reply-To: OFeem1987@teleworm.us MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 22:35:57 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="7a91c8e610b8741461afdab805b2579b"; logging-data="3191015"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19kOr44/m5bUqNqNWGhayh9" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ApF/BBqoAGyJiDAruYjMsnE2k9I= X-User-Agent: Microsoft Outl00k, Usenet K00k Editions X-Mutt: The most widely-used MUA X-Face: 63n<76,LYJQ2m#'5YL#.T95xqyPiG`ffIP70tN+j"(&@6(4l\7uL)2+/-r0)/9SjZ`qw= Njn mr93Xrerx}aQG-Ap5IHn"xe;`5:pp"$RH>Kx_ngWw%c\+6qSg!q"41n2[.N/;Pu6q8?+Poz~e A9? $6_R7cm.l!s8]yfv7x+-FYQ|/k X-Slrn: Why use anything else? rbowman wrote this post while blinking in Morse code: > On Thu, 19 Dec 2024 09:56:45 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > >> Probably too much mammoth meat in the diet... > > Yeah, the experts recently concluded the environmentally sensitive Native > American ate all the megafauna in North America before starting on the > smaller stuff. Hmmmmmmmmm... https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/what-happened-to-the-bison.htm Beginning in the 1860s, conflict raged on the prairies as the US Army attempted to subdue the Plains Indians in order to make way for white settlers and railroad lines. Federal officials recognized the importance of bison on the Plains, where Native nations had yet to be forced onto reservations. In 1873. the Secretary of the Interior noted that “[t]he civilization of the Indian is impossible while buffalo remain on the plains”; following this logic, the Army provided free ammunition to hide hunters, who brought bison to the brink of extinction. By 1894, Yellowstone National Park hosted the only known wild herd in the United States. Ironically, the US Army—which managed Yellowstone—would play an important role in the return of the bison a few decades later. Includes a picture: Photograph 1892 of a [huge] pile of American bison skulls waiting to be ground for fertilizer. -- Old Barlow was a crossing-tender at a junction where an express train demolished an automobile and its occupants. Being the chief witness, his testimony was vitally important. Barlow explained that the night was dark, and he waved his lantern frantically, but the driver of the car paid no attention to the signal. The railroad company won the case, and the president of the company complimented the old-timer for his story. "You did wonderfully," he said, "I was afraid you would waver under testimony." "No sir," exclaimed the senior, "but I sure was afraid that durned lawyer was gonna ask me if my lantern was lit."