Re: Physicist Robert Bacher Dies at 99!

From: Hop David (hopspageHATESSPAaMmM_at_tabletoptelephone.com)
Date: 11/22/04 

Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 15:26:08 -0700

Rand Simberg wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 14:25:44 -0700, in a place far, far away, Hop
> David <hopspageHATESSPAaMmM@tabletoptelephone.com> made the phosphor
> on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:
>
>
>>I would guess that every piece of real estate on this planet has
>>exchanged hands via conquest. If it's OK to steal land from thieves,
>>then nobody has any property rights.
>
>
> The aboriginal Americans, for the most part, didn't even have a
> concept of property rights when it came to land.

What's your point? 

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Hop David
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