Re: Kurds gonna kick serious ass when Americans leave Iraq

In article <5jbdr15vef5mnr6k830234q6vrvhro1lv7@xxxxxxx>, Xanence@xxxxxx ()
wrote:

> I have a question for you. Why do you lower yourself by name-calling?

Because, from my experience on usenet, it seems to be the only way that certain
people understand. You simply can't reason with unreasonable people.

> I do realize that it is a temptation to reply in the manner one is
> addressed, but to do so by lowering your standards is only to
> compliment the person to whom you are replying by becoming more like
> that person.
>
> If you were to speak as you would in a formal arena such as a
> classroom or lecture hall, your comments would be respected and have
> the most possibility of being responded to in a like manner.
>
> By using the technique you've used in the post that I'm responding to,
> you alienate most of your audience and anger those who remain. I can
> imagine that you've been filtered out by a large segment of the
> lurkers and posters in this group.
>
> My advice to you would be to change your Usenet name slightly,
> (perhaps "Alan-"), and make your future posts polite and informative.
> This would show your education and intelligence instead of having a
> negative affect on your readers.
>
> Now, as to what you've said, in actuality, you're information is
> technically incorrect on both counts.
>
> As you can see from the below links, writing has been found that dates
> more than 2 thousand years before the earliest writings found in what
> is now Iraq. The wheels used in 3500 BC by the Mesopotamian's was an
> evolved device. The origins of the wheel still haven't been found.

> Many hundreds, (if not thousands), of other sources are available to
> show this information as being accurate.
>
> Good day to you sir,
>
> LD
>
> http://tinyurl.com/bka8z
> "Signs carved into 8,600-year-old tortoise shells found in China may
> be the earliest written words, say archaeologists. The symbols were
> written down in the late Stone Age, or Neolithic Age. They predate the
> earliest recorded writings from Mesopotamia - in what is now Iraq - by
> more than 2,000 years."

I had heard about that. Thank you for the link, Sir.

> http://tinyurl.com/9hugr
> Up till now, it is still a mystery as to who invented the wheel and
> when the wheel was invented. According to archaeologists, it was
> probably invented in around 8,000 B.C. in Asia. The oldest wheel known
> however, was discovered in Mesopotamia and probably dates back to
> 3,500 B.C.
>
>
> http://tinyurl.com/73mjg
> But as important as the wheel is as an invention, we don't know who
> exactly made the first wheel. The oldest wheel found in archeological
> excavations was discovered in what was Mesopotamia and is believed to
> be over fifty-five hundred years old.
>
>
> http://tinyurl.com/berno
> The first evidence of actual wheels being used is from the Bronze Age,
> somewhere around 3500 BC. One of the groups of people in ancient
> Mesopotamia, the Sumerians, used wheels made of a solid piece of wood.
> Heavy four-wheeled carts were equipped with these wheels and pulled by
> oxen to carry very heavy loads such as metal, timber, or military
> supplies.

Thank you for those links also, Sir.

I wish you a Happy New year.


Alan

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