dye

Wait wait, archeology is a scientific study.

Consider for example, if you get a heart attack and die today.

Without referring to any history book:

Your dotor can do an autopsy and know:
a) Your diet during your living year by studying your blood contend
b) Your cause of death
c) Your real parents (if differ from record)
d) Any major injury you have during your life
e) The approximate dates you live

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In the future, even if the world is conquered by alien, they can dig on the ground:
a) Find the remain of the server of Exchristian site and observe your thoughts, from the content of the forum as much as from the technical of the site
b) Find your living quarter and personal item and gain an insight to how you may live.  For example how many woman live in your quarter and what is their relationship to you
c) If you fight a battle, they can dig up the grave and see how many you kill, and how you kill them
d) If you are the governor of HKSAR, they will see your signature on the document.  If you are director of HKMA, they will see your signature on the bill
e) If you have a children, DNA study can show what approxi mutation you have passed to your children

There is many way history can be known refering to only nothing but objective physical evidence.  Anyone can know a camel passed over the desert when he see the footprint.  If there is really a global flood, there will be water mark everywhere.
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It is ONLY another branch of science.  "History is written by the victor" is only a misunderstanding on how history is written in mordern time.

Rather, it is "History is intepreted by the survivors."  (You only need to be fit to survive, there is no need to be the victor.  Luxemburg will have its own history of Germany whether or not it is the victor as long as it survives.)

dye

等等，英國佬監中國人食鴉片？定係中國一早已有價無市？英國佬如果開放自己港口（比如對印度、美國），又有沒有市？ 多年中國的巨大貿易順差是因為中國對英國佬的產品，無論多便宜，都原全沒興趣，還是中國的國策、文化鎖定? 如果中國自願開放自己港口去入口英國用機器做的布，英國佬又為什麼要浪費炮彈、人命去打開鴉片市場？說到底，鴉片市場是愈做愈無（客人失去生產力），紡織卻愈做愈有（客人提升生產力）！

今時今日大麻一樣流入美國、加拿，一樣用收買清朝官員手法收買美國官員。美國要不要把哥倫比亞炸平？

自家果園給蟲蛀，有些人會去怪其他果園的蟲爬過來，有些人則檢討防蟲政策。

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說起印度，英國也不是一無是處。英國建馬路、建鐵路、停止內戰，統一印度、建造了今天印度幾個主要城市。同時引入新的種植方法、加強教育、引入紙幣經濟、引入法治民主理念等等。沒有英國，印度或許也會自己購入這些，只是不知要內戰多少年。而內戰後的感情傷害又不知要何年何月才可癒合，又會有多少個斯里蘭卡、巴基斯坦、客什米爾。

沒錯，是立心不良，而且印度也付出了沈重的代價。但立心不良卻不一定做壞事，一來人算不如天算，更重要的是人與人之間大都不是零和遊戲！

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在個人層面看，如果大清生活不太差，為什麼大家拼命往外逃？

對張三李四來說，給外族滿人統治和給明朝漢人統治，有什麽分別？哪怕滿人不懷好意，如果在滿清下生活遠遠比明朝好，為什麼要反清復明? 為了長治久安，滿人也會一步步對漢人好，仍是同一問題「人與人之間大都不是零和遊戲」！

同樣，如果香港人在英國治下比滿清下生活得好，卻又為什麼要「反英復清」（又叫「扶清滅洋」）？

是一個人愛中國人的名字多，還是愛中國人這羣要生活的人多？

dye

We will have to return to economic common sense:

If person A continue to sell something that will damage the productivity of person B, what is person B going to give person A for the 'something' person A is selling?

Uncle B has already pointed out that person B will begin to sell its WEALTH to person A.  However, is it sustainable if you have a trade deficit forever (for person B), or trade surplus (for A)?

Even that is unrealistic.  Because as trade deficit continue, it will make everything from China cheaper with a deflating currency (look at US of A today).  B seems to be claiming the first thing that will caught the Westerner's eyes is our woman, I would have think they will be more interested in our tea instead.  What about land?  Why would they buy the land if it is turning less and less productive?  (look at US today, will you buy they homes if the US economy is promised to fall in the future?)  If they do buy it, would they not try to eradicate the drug problem to make the land more productive? (For example, the Chineses that is brought to US and is semi-ban from taking the drug.  In fact, would anyone shit in their factory, no matter where it is located?)

Wheras there is 100% of product from A and product from B to share even if they never trade, there is only 100% product from A and a smaller % from B to share with.  A will not be able to have a gain without seriously taking the share from B, and at that, B will have a high incentive to revolt against A!

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You can't complete an anaylsis without considering the alternative, what if B would open itself to product that enhences itself?

According to Ricardo, the productivity will increase in normal trade!  There will be 100%+ product from A and B if, for example, fabric and tea is traded.  With more than 200% goods share between the 2, the question become how it is share!

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New York Fries also has Poutine fries.  Did they steal the culture from Canada?
I heard that the unique fries eating culture in Canada is having fries with vinegar instead of ketchup.

dye

又或這樣想，今天的成衣巿場也沒有消失啊！（早兩天去了林則徐銷煙的虎門，美國也有林則徐像。林則徐可是世界級英雄！）

毒品巿場也許沒消失，但你看看今天在虎門是賣毒品巿場大，還是賣成衣市場大？

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外人買了地，是為了什麼? 買了以後，又怎做才最好？（為什麼英國禁止她印度工人吸毒？為什麼滿人入主漢人江山，坐穩後不是去一味殺殺殺漢人？）

外人要你的老婆，又是為了什麼？

一個道友搶了另一道友，錢有否增加？你拿著一手手道友的債券，對你要付給你工人工資又有什麼幫助？

dye

要比也可試試英國幹過的肯亞、蘇丹，和沒幹過的鄰國，埃塞俄比亚。