Originally, America was founded by refuges from Europe. For three hundred the colonies where democracies. In Rhode Island, women could vote and own property. Everybody was a property owner because land was free, so everybody could vote under English Common Law.

But, hey, 2% of Southerners owned slaves. Americas bought 400,o00, Mexico 200,000 (but had a slave genocide), Brazil 2 million, Argentina 4 million (but had 5 slave genocides - no Black Argentinas left), Canada 27,500 (slavery ended in 1901), and every country in Central and South America owned slaves. Which is why they are poor today, just like the South and the Snow Mexicans.

Word is it's 4 layered, with the top being based on "Brilliant Pebbles", a KKV concept. I'll ask around and get you more. I miss Sitzkrieg.

There is talk of using using a new free-electron X-ray laser that uses plasma to lase. I'll find that story for you later.

LSST - Legacy Survey of Space and Time.

This is why I pay taxes (to our alien overlords).

Told thee.

#8 Not you, "them". As in "they" (but not the gender "they").

I think they are saying because 4=1+1+1+1 and 2+2 and 2+1+1, you only have to look for primes in it's greatest common divisor, like 2?

I'm going to find this paper. A lot of times math like this goes beyond my pay grade but it's still fun to try to understand.

That should read "a != 0, b != 0". gcd means greatest common divisor.

Huh. Let a, b and c be integers with a0 and b0, and let d=gcd(a,b). If d does not divide c, then the linear Diophantine equation ax+by=c has no solution.

I'll have to take your word on that one.

Rum and ------ is up, comrade!