8/22    Do did the white men kill buffalos, dodo-birds, the natives, and
        everything else they stumbled on?
        \_ Yeah, pretty much.  -George Custer
        \_ White men have brought buffalo back as a yummy meat.  Mmmmm...
           buffalo.
        \_ white man killed teh grammar
        \_ We didn't start the fire, it's been burnin' since the worlds been
           turnin'.
           \_ No, you guys did start the fire.  -Kunta Kinte
        \_ Yes.  Just like the natives who were here and other places before
           white people showed up killed every large creature they found until
           several were extinct.  Thanks for playing, though.
        \_ How come there are no more dragons in China? Chinese killed them.
           Evil Chinese.
           \_ They didn't like the smog so they left.
        \_ Generally, homo sapiens in general hunted any major species
           which was vulnerable to their level of technology and/or unafraid
           of humans due to evolutionary isolation.  Some of the extinctions,
           such as the dodo, were partly the result of hunting but more
           fundamentally the result of introduction of diseases, rats and
           cats.  Smallpox killed more native humans than guns ever did.
           Easter Islanders cut down all their trees (once the largest
           eucalyptus in the world).  -tom
                \_ Plagues and disease like smallpox are a little different
                   than one group of people wiping out large populations of
                   other people on purpose. -Heinrich Himmler
                   \_ Himmler wasn't such a bad guy, he liked trolls.  -John