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cybergrunt69 writes "An enterprising Texan, John Underwood currently has a website that lets you target-practice online with a .22 caliber rifle, but will soon start offering "hunting" abilities. He recently built a platform for about $10,000USD to house this new system on his 300 acre properly, but the Parks and Wildlife department is now scrambling to find ways to try and stop him. While this may sound like cheating to some people, this may be a large benefit to hunters with disabilities."
While the concept (firing a weapon from your home computer) is interesting, I think it removes some of the challenge and "sportsmanship" of hunting. Hunting is already lopsided in favor of humans anyway (Scents designed to draw the animal closer, clothing to mask or remove human odors, calls, etc) the idea of making it almost effortless is disturbing. If you want to kill an animal do it with your own hands on a weapon, not on a mouse button.
Oh and as far as disabled hunters go Here is a rather general article about disabled hunters and the "sport" they love.
I hope you die painfully and alone.
That's the best part!
it'd beat the crap out of those stupid webgames I see everyone play at work. Or the low capatability NESCafe
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
In the days of true hunting, hunters with disabilities became the prey.
i thought the point of hunting was to get food ... or something to that extent. Why not get virtual deer hunter or something ?
Now what would be really cool is if you did this at a paintball range and had these things in trees firing at players (with paint of course.
Hunting is a sport if you go in the wild, hiding for a long time, tracking your prey (and drinking beer, too). If it's just point and click at a screen to kill a REAL animal, it's not a sport, it's cruelty. I hope he burns in Hell. Or better, that a 'customer' shoots him accidentally!
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I thought the entire excuse for hunting was for tradition and the sportsmanship. This completely removes both. This is purely idiotic.
So if you kill someone while on-line are you guilty? And how are they going to get you if you're in some far off country. This is a dangerous idea that could (most likely will) get way out of hand.
While this may sound like cheating to some people, this may be a large benefit to hunters with disabilities.
Actually, I saw a documentary about ten years ago that dealt with hunting people with disabilities. You know, like Vietnam vets and stuff. I think the lead actor was nominated for an Oscar. Best splits or something like that.
Underwood, 39, said he will offer animal hunting as soon as he gets a fast Internet connection to his remote ranch that will enable hunters to aim the rifle quickly at passing animals. I can imagine it now... accounting for tirgger lag when you're hunting online. This would probably just plain suck on 56K.
First robots with shotguns, now cyberednecks!
sigs, as if you care.
Sweet.. I want to be the first to get a kiltacular!!
This will never work.. the tree huggers will never allow it.. plus the whole idea is kinda stupid..
...to have taken hunters education classes? Do you need a hunter's license?
And today has been worse then most days.
On eBay a slice of cheese on toast. And now Internet Hunting? What next?
Wow, I should not post when knackered.
Underwood is taken to the undertaker?...Accidentally shot by someone.
The first thing that I thought when I read this was that 8 year old kids are going to use their parents credit cards and kill hundreds of deer just like a video game. This has the potential to run unchecked, due to the anonymity of the internet... I don't like it.
-dshaw
This seems like a bad idea that will only have bad consequences. Shooting animals over the internet... How are you going to stop that sicko who will start to shoot people if they so much as venture onto the hunting field? You know humans will make for a better hunt.
Perhaps they'll have a whistling dog pop out of the bushes when you miss 3x and the animal runs away.
An attendant will pick up the shot animals!!!
WTF?
Who wants that job?
At the golf driving range we all target the ball-retriever machines/attendants when they go to get the balls... and , hey this is Texas we are talking about!
Shoot the rabbit and WIN AN IPOD!!!
"Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it." -- Linus Torvalds
What we NEED is a robot on a Segway (for terrain adaptation and minimal field footprint) that's noise-dampened, carrying a shotgun, with a sensor that won't allow it to shoot outside a given radius.
::Shht:: Counterhunters Win.
Why all this, you ask? So we can CIRCLE STRAFE those freaking animals over the internet~!
(Deer proceeds to knock over robot mid-hunt, rendering it useless)
Walkie Talkie Voice :
What if some dude walks across the camera and gets shot?
We've Slashdotted even the strangest of hardware, but I think a gun will be a new challenge for us.
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suwain_2
I'd like to see one of these in the food court of a mall, with a zoom feature and tanquilizer darts. I'd pay well over $20 if they mailed me a DVD compiling the video of me aiming, zooming, firing, and the associated reactions.
We are one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. Back to you with the weather, Bob!
They're genuine, dipshit
I don't think the "he was a camper" defense would stand up in court.
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
This sounds like a pretty good idea, But what is the difference between hunting real deer and fake deer at this point?
Unless you are actually going to use what you shoot for a purpose, it has no real value to me. I think this is a great idea though, Next thing we can do is put these things in Iraq and shoot enemies this way...Oh wait, that would be to complicated for the governement to handle, we will just stick with deer.
Mark
Yahoo has the story, too. They include a link to the website: live-shot.com.
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suwain_2
In a real world situation where we would still need to hunt.. wouldn't a disabled hunter.. be helped by other able hunters, if he/she is alone.. then they umm just die ? survival of the fittest and all ?
Or is hunting today still being done for survival of the village/town ?
Beware! Remote control gunplay.
Or
Blue screen of death can be your own!
Tele-gunning in use!
OK, before the flame wars start - I just want to say that when the US declared independence and the British attacked - they encountered something never before seen in the history of human kind - armed citizens.
That's way today, the 2nd amendment clearly says the right to bear arms should not be adbridged and not "the government gives you the right to bear arms". Because it is implicitly understood that the right to secure your rights is a right that exists above government, not because of it.
We really are the dumbest creatures..
irc.enterthegame.com #linux
Here.
So, now people with disabilities can shoot at animals and thereby give them disabilities?
Try to hack my 31337 firewall!
I think this really makes one thing clear, Texans like guns a whole lot.
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What if the platform that the camera is on tips over? Won't this large moving apparatus scare away any game? An automated rifle could shoot any animals, but whats to stop it from shooting the rancher? There will be so many carcasses, lol.
Though this is an interesting idea, there are many obstacles. The camera would have to have extremely good resolution in order to see an animal that is more than a few feet away. The camera and gun would have to be sighted quite well. Also, who would track the animal down, and do the dirty work? Who would reload the gun? This simply has too many problems to be effective. Also, part of hunting is being outside in the fresh air. Staring at a computer screen would not give nearly the same effect, especially if the camera is low resolution. If you want to kill animals from a computer, play a deer hunting computer game.
http://www.live-shot.com/
good job researching the story
I liked the part in the essay when they say:
"We were looking at a beautiful white-tail buck and my friend said 'If you just had a gun for that.' A little light bulb went off in my head"
Who says that? I'm no tree hugger, but I have never in my life seen a deer on a webcam, turned to my friend, and commented on how much I'd like to kill it. BTW, before you start screaming at me, realize that I am a due paying member of the NRA.
Damn, the US could fund the war by selling chances to fire preditor missles on eBay!
So does a St. Bernard pop his head out of the bush and giggle at you when you miss three shots?
Far out...
All men aren't pigs... we just smell that way.
Just another use for the phrase "Only in America!" isn't it? He'd make more money getting a patent for it and licensing the technology.
I'm interested in the possibility of a competition writing programs that would do the hunting for you.
Think of it - who can do the best open source cybernetic sniper program? Remember those neat antipersonnel guns in Aliens?
Yet another place on the internet where people can scream "WALLHACK!" and "AIMBOT!"
On the serious side, though: Claiming that this is for the hunters with disabilities is a pity excuse. Why not just play games like Deer Hunter or Wall Hanger?
This is just another excuse not to go outside and get some fresh air.
http://www.live-shot.com/
My sig would have been a lot cooler if
I would gladly pay $20 to kill a terrorist from my computer!
Live Shot
Here's a link to the site. This is probably a bad idea, but I want gun toting robots for myself, so who am I to judge.
Let the Blue Screen of Death jokes begin!
Got mead?
Did it happen?
You clicked the button, you saw the shot, the deer appeared to fall, but did anything really happen. Does it even matter if it did? You can't use the kill for anything, there's no touch, no true surge of adrenaline from satisfying some primal urge.
I've been waiting for this (specifically a gun controlled from the net) because it won't be long before anything else that can be conveyed via telepresence will fall into place. This is going to lead to a huge bevy of essays on reality and the human experience, kick ass.
--- I do not moderate.
Can someone provide a link to his target practice page?
Avoid Missing Ball for High Score
I think we need a new Red Neck Domain. Are they going to introduce e-Kidnapping for the lazy criminals as well ?
I dont fucking need to log in. Why don't you stop falsely accusing people of things that are not true?
I can't wait till some hacker manages first to bypass whatever safety mechanisms he includes and then to point the gun at his house, cronning a random couple of shots in the vicinity each minute. He'll never be able to leave the house again. Heheh
Servlet v2.4 container in a single 161KB jar file ? Try Winstone
Next up, the US Army will create a website that will let people control mobile gun platforms on the battlefield, except no one will realize the truth and we'll all think that it's just a free computer game. oh wait...
Next you'll be telling us that sex isn't as much fun if you pay for it.
paintball
I have a friend who is disabled and wheelchair bound. He took me out to a gun range for my first time last Saturday.
This is so patronizing to people who have disabilities that I cannot imagine how much this would piss him off. People with disabilities don't need this kind of help to go hunting; they can do just fine on their own.
Any REAL hunter, too, would be pissed off by this. This isn't hunting, this is akin to shooting fish in a barrel. All you're doing is waiting for an animal to pass in front of the camera. Christ, I am so disgusted by this.
Say what!? Is this so the animal orphans can eat their own parents?
We don't see the world as it is, we see it as we are.
-- Anais Nin
We all know putting your mouse over the link and reading the url is very difficult, its ok.
I know I'll be bashed like hell for this but I can't help refrain myself.
Hunting, unless for food (and I mean survival here), is coward and stupid. The hunter must feels very macho shooting a deer with a rifle. What about go hunt a grizly bear bare handed?
Using the web to "hunt" is a even lower blow. You can be not only a coward but an anonymous one.
Scientia est Potentia
...that can only end in tears.
Possible scenarios that occured to me within first 30 seconds:
- Internet hunter shoots animal, some human goes out to retrieve it. Oooh, what will the next hunter that gets online fire a shot at?
- "something goes wrong" and the system becomes unreliable. Who's going to onsite to fix the thing, while it's playing up?
- it's all a big con, and when you think you're "hunting" you're actually watching a carefully prepared film
- parachute one of these things into Fallujah, then auction off rights to "The Real Deathmarch 2004, with added reality"
Anyone care to round out a top 10 list? I would, but I'm at work, about to walk into a meeting and wishing I had one of these with me right about now...
An advanced society makes accomodations for its disabled members, which is why prostitution should be legalized immediately.
paintball
Building on this idea, I hereby patent the remote control internet drive-by.
But I wouldn't call it cruelty. It's still shooting wild animals, which is a damn sight better for the animal than living in a factory farm and being "harvested" with a hammer.
I'm certain that the carcass will not be tossed out either. So why is this so bad?
While this may sound like cheating to some people, this may be a large benefit to hunters with disabilities.
I don't agree with this statement at all. Just because the "disabled" want to do something, doesn't mean that it has to be made able for the disabled to do. I would love to be the target of attraction for many chicks on campus (like your average slashdotter), but for some reasons (like your average slashdotter), I won't be. C'est la vie, that is my lot in life. Also, just because it would give the disabled some sort of perceived benefit, does not necessarily gives it merit. It's sort of like saying "It's for the children", when trying to argue the inherent good of something.the website www.live-shot.com
From the "how it works" page:
LIVE-SHOT is similar to a trip to the rifle range with one very notable exception. Everything is done through a computer and the internet. A paid membership will allow for access to the range viewing camera(s) at any time.
interesting...
looks like when hunting goes live you can hunt
Aoudad (Barbary Sheep), Blackbuck Antelope, A wide variety of sheep, Wild Hog, and Other antlered species like axis, fallow, and red stag will be available on a limited basis.
DOH! We shouldn't have patched the reactor with duct tape!!
From the article:
We were looking at a beautiful white-tail buck and my friend said 'If you just had a gun for that.'
What kind of sick bastard says "Oh, look how beautiful that living creature is. Let's kill it!!"? I can understand killing an animal for food, but just for the pleasure of killing it?
This costs $5.95 for a round of shooting! That's about an hour's pay for burger flippers. I figured it would cost an exorbitant amount, and I really wish it did. Any sick 8-year-old can lie their parents into thinking this is a cool online game, bum $5.95 off them, and shoot deer from the safety and comfort of their own living room. WHAT IS THE WORLD COMING TO?
My sig would have been a lot cooler if
Finally, hunters can masturbate over their kills without the risk of children seeing! Score one for family values!
fish and pipes
In the USMC we have a the ISMT... which stnads for Indoor Simulated Marksmenship Training, its actually very close to the real thing, they have it for all the weapons m16,m203,50 cal, saw, etc. the weapons give real recoil to an extent and it definally helps you improve your skill without the cost of amunation or the dangers of it, I think anything like that is really a good idea because you can used to firing a weapon without ever firing a real one, which is alot safer.
I remember one episode where Bender jacks on and appears inside the golf game. It feels like this guy got the idea from this ep!
You have the link to CNN. Where's the link to this guys site? That's darn irritating. CNN didn't link to the site either! It's that sort of thing that makes my trigg^H^H^H^H^Hmouse finger itch.
This has "HOAX" written all over it. It's classic culture jamming.
It's just like the stories about hunting nude women with paintball markers, Arm the Homeless, and Stu Magazine. I'd say odds are excellent that this is somebody pulling one over, quite cleverly and effectively, on the media.
See Sniggle.Net's News Trolls page for more information about the long, hilarious history of news trolling in the United States.
-Waldo Jaquith
Given the power of modern-day computers with rendering lifelike images, how long before have sites with virtual landscapes using virtual weapons to shoot virtual animals ?
;-)
After all, how can you tell if it is real if you aren't there ?
Of course the dent in your mastercard would be real
Naa... he just thinks that the first AC is using an exploit to make it look like a gmail invite link.
It's going to be possible for off site hunting accidents and off site manslaughter.
How about making it illegal to operate a weapon remotely for anything but military purposes? The further you remove a person from the carnage the more it seems like a game, and the less thought and respect for life you're likely to see.
There are real consequences to this hunting. Animals die. You wouldn't pilot an aircraft with real people in it by remote control via a flight sim or camera setup.
Sorry if my thoughts are a little scattered.
These posts express my own personal views, not those of my employer
I just can't be bothered.
Cripples should have the same right to hunt for food as the rest of us do.
I can't wait until someone writes an UNREAL style aimbot for this!
Because how could they live a full life with out hunting. Damb there are more important problems. You Americans love your killing.
Naa... you just can't transfer more than 100 pounds of deer meat over the Internet.
His site is here in case anyone was wondering.
A more concise summary of the essence of redneckhood may never have been spoken. Truly a quote for the ages.
Bugrit! Millenium hand and shrimp!
Just wait until someone writes an aimbot.
paintball
How long before someone in the US gov't proposes this kind of system to help control the southern border? :)
These are breasts; this is source code.
Why do you have a problem with those two things belonging to one person?
So if the guy goes out to get the deer and forgets to turn off the Internet rifle, and you find yourself at the site with an opportunity to shoot him in the ass, would that be murder?
the crippled hunter shooting game is online.
... the video camera isn't even looking thru the gun's scope.
Shoot the rabbit and WIN AN IPOD!!!
For some reason I read that as "Shoot the rabbit and WIN POO".
I'm glad I was wrong.
what exploit? mousing over the link always shows if its fake or not.
i think the plan is to have some kid hack the site, kill someone because of that, and then arrest all hacker as being internet-warfare-terrorist-WMD-buzzword-compliant!
Unlike real life, in this scenario the rabbit doesn't have the opportunity to fire back. Even if it did, it wouldn't harm the person firing the weapon. Just something to think about.
I'm not intending to troll, but I don't get the lure of hunting at all. The animals stand no chance. The hardest part is finding something - after that, if you have reasonable aim, you will surely kill it. I think all hunters should have to fight the animals with hand-to-hand combat. Give the animal a chance to do some damage in return.
Oh, and hunters should have to always make use of the meat/hides/fur/whatever in some way. I mean if you're going to run around in the woods and pick off mostly defenseless animals with rifles, at least make some use of them, eh? Otherwise it's just a waste.
With this new system though, you don't even have to go out in the woods and find an animal. You just wait for one to appear on your monitor. And you don't have to have great aim, really... you just click. That's not hunting, it's pointless slaughter.
I would gladly pay $200 to kill a redneck from my computer!
Live Ammo + Internet = Recipe for disaster. Yet another case where the law has to catch up to the cutting edge technology combined with stupid ideas that people come up with.
I can see it now. Site gets mentioned on slashdot. Within a half of an hour,all ammo stores are completely spent, with the rifle barrels glowing red-hot and sagging toward the ground. The entire area is covered in a light grey smoke, and police are showing up after receiving reports of automatic weapon fire.
It gives a whole new meaning to the idea of a slashdotting "melting down" the victim.
steve
Oh, you're not stuck, you're just unable to let go of the onion rings.
i saw this and thought:
1. how are they going to pick up the dead animals. because if they don't it would be a waste.
2. animals aren't dumb after a while wouldn't they
just avoid said area?
3. how is different from say a video game and how would you know you are not getting scammed with niffy computer editing?
Ping!
I mean, pling!
Need I say more?
If you're going to do it on the computer, why not just play a hunting game instead of shooting actual animals? It realy sickens me that there are people who can't enjoy themselves without hurting an animal.
I don't want to takes side in the gun-debate, but will point out there are no plans to add "shooting" (except for pictures) to the Christmas Lights Webcam
Hulk SMASH Celiac Disease
Hey, I just got here. Did someone say something about winning poo? If so, I'm in like Flynn.
My other computer is a Jacquard loom.
Wonder if it comes with audio so you can hear the gun fire and the deer mumble "you fucking lagger!".
From the article:
He said an attendant would retrieve shot animals for the shooters, who could have the heads preserved by a taxidermist.
I'd hate to be an attendant when some net hunter wanders away from the computer, and his young son, thinking it just a video game, takes a second shot.
Remember "Bring 'em on"? *sigh
If they're so disabled that they can't shoot a wild pig or a deer themselves, maybe they need to get themselves in front of the cross hairs too. Either that, or just forget it. Fucking pathetic.
Si tacuisses philosophus mansisses. If you had kept quiet, you would have remained a philosopher.
he Web site already offers target practice with a
Do they realistically expect people to be able to kill a deer with a .22? You'd need to hit it at least half a dozen times and hope it bleeds to death before it runs out of the camera's view.
...That is, if you're the kind of person who likes watching deer bleed to death. ;-O
I am all for proposing that anyone caught executing animals with a remote control device be placed in protective custody pending psychiatric treatment. It's one thing to go out into the wilderness and track and hunt, but to execute animals in cold-blood via remote control requires a psychopath that should be removed from society.
Merge this concept with a virtual Post Office and you'll have a winner!
The dotcom boom went down 3+ years ago.
I hope I'm not being presumptuous in pointing out that your name indicates your bias towards things bestial. But honestly, you're exploit animals too.
you bunch of crazy fucks
I'm going to market a gunrack that can accomodate a laptop. Then I'll sell bumper stickers that read,
"They'll have to pry the keyboard from my cold, dead hands!"
Slashdot + Remote Deer Hunting = Deer Extinction
until someone who was recovering an animal (and forgets to disable the gun) gets shot by a hacker half way across the world
Get your torrents...
Elmer: Be vewy quiet. I'm trying to win an iPod.
WABBIT TWACKS!! WABBIT HOLE!!
(aims rifle over the internet and fires) KILL THE WABBIT! KILL THE WABBIT! KILL THE WABBIT!
Bugs (via IM): Kill the wabbit?
Elmer: YO HO HO! YO HO HO! YO HO...
Bugs (IM'ing): Oh mighty warrior of great fighting stock
Might I inquire to ask eh... what's up doc?
Elmer (IM's back): I'm going to kill the wabbit!
Bugs: O mighty warrior, 'twill be quite a task
How will you do it, might I inquire to ask?
E: I will do it with my browser and remote rifle.
B: Browser and remote rifle?
E: Browser and remote rifle?
B: Remote rifle?
E: Remote rifle!
B: Remote rifle.
E: Yes, remote rifle, and I give you a sample!
(exit Bugs at 168kb/sec)
E: (spoken) There goes my iPod.
No, I used to think that too. Trolls are always trying new and clever ways to disguise the true nature of the link with mirrors, redirects, and other trickery.
Sleep is futile.
How many of you city fellas ever get a chance to milk a cow? Or a goat?
Why not an on-line cow/goat milker?
And an attendant could collect the milk and send it to you?
Maybe I'd better be quiet. Microsoft might patent the idea and create a Milk The Cow xbox game. Would it be called Grand Milk Cow?
If you ever look at a picture of an animal
and then imagine what it would look like through the scope on your rifle
you might be a redneck.
The link is not a redirect. Look at the fucking link yourself before spouting off shit.
Who cleans up after you shoot something? Is there a timeout for someone to go bag your deer? Can you have it shipped home or even better, stuffed?
This also kind of reminds me of a short story I read in high school called the most dangerous game" by Richard Connell. One of my favorites.
As a 2nd amendment supporter, a NRA life member, an NRA Certified Instructor and Training Counselor, and a Certified Hunter Education Instructor I am neither shy about nor at all against firearms ownership and use. This application of technology however; although enterprising (for someone trying to make a buck) is IMHO just stupid. Remotely firing a real gun (or is it just really good CG) is the ultimate for couch potatoes. Pointing a gun and squeezing the trigger isn't the hard work. Learningto do it with a real gun takes real skill and practice. Clicking a mouse contains none of those skills or challenges.
As for the quote above - A google search on "disabled hunting resources" yields over 200,000 hits. As a disabled (visually impaired) hunter myself, I can assure Mr. Underwood that most if not every state has resources to help disabled hunters. As an instructor I was given some training on this subject.
As for hunting in Texas, there are plenty of White Tailed Deer in many states (Here in Ohio the herd estimate is 650,000) and most of the folks I know who spend the money to hunt out of state would much rather opt for an Elk or Moose in one of the western states. It's not about killing something, it's about the total experience, and I don't think a video game cuts it.
Here's one more dot-com I hope goes bust.
I've always viewed hunting as stupid. I'm not against killing animals or whatever... but getting up at 5AM and setting in a deer stand when its 25 degrees outside, freezing your ass off and not even seeing a deer is a waste of time.
I'd rather just go buy a burger or something.
And look at all the trouble that small number is causing.
If all 40 million or so Iraqis (IIRC about the population) took up arms, there'd be no country in the world that could control them.
Heck, if even 1 in 10 of the males aged 18-40 or so took up arms against the US, it would be impossible to control.
.. More guns and more Jesus.
"If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer
Yea, about the first thing I thought about after I read this is how long is it going to take before there are rifles mounted from windows just outside of public gathering areas connected to private servers. This opens a whole new can of worms if the ability to hunt over the internet is proven effective.
Quite a scary thought as far as I'm concerned.
An enterprising Texan, John Underwood
Why doesn't it suprise me that this story takes place in Texas.
But it's ok. Soon all Texan schoolchildren will have RFID tags implanted so there is no chance a crazy redneck will accidently shoot them instead of a ninja deer.
Armed internet-connection equipped computers kill people!
I just want to cast my vote on the side that argues that killing animals and depriving of their lives is wrong, as wrong as it is to kill a person, with all the same complexities as that assertion implies.
I'm not trying ot get into a fruitless argument on the subject (I won't even be checking for replies) but I couldn't help but say something.
Though it will be interesting when machine consciousness arrives to see how that shakes up the 'smart enough to matter' debate. Then, hunting robots will perhaps be seen as a surprising irony.
aaaahh.... I think this guy needs to screen his customers to make sure that they don't love playing Quake ;-)
find the URL of the actual website and post it here. /.ing it should save a couple of days worth of animals.
President ISES
(International Society for Elimination of Sigs)
Woohoo,
Y'all mean I ain't gotta even done been in Jesusland to done fired a gun?
Does possum delivery service come wit that?
I indeed looked at the link after you (I'm assuming you're the one who posted the links) insisted they were genuine. After I found out they were not shock sites, I even posted an apology adn explained myself. Yet you continue to lash out with profanity at anyone who dare suggest that the links were not genuine g-mail invites.
Given the circumstances, anyone could, and likely would, mistake this for a troll. What is the big deal about?
Sleep is futile.
Let's turn this on its head.
Combine the Internet hunting stand idea with National Geographic's "CritterCam": Allow only live hunters into the area. Trap deer, fit them with something like a steadicam rig that includes a camera and a wifi-controlled gun, release them into the hunting area, and let them shoot back.
Now that would be sporting!
Cattle Hunter
Now that really is retarded.
Can we please DDOS this clown permanently? What sort of sick piece of crap looks at a "beautiful" animal and goes "man, i wish i could kill that"...
Take note. THIS is why the world hates you, America.
The big deal is that you are going on a witchhunt against anyone who posts gmail invites without proper evidence that something bad is being posted.
Now look at the thread you started. Its all becuase of you.
The whole point of hunting is that you track and follow the animal. Hence the term to "hunt down". Here you are aiming a robotic gun at a bunch of poor animals in an enclosure. It's like those stupid games where you have to bring something over something else and click (think http://www.imgag.com/product/full/ap/3067907/graph ic1.swf without Bushisms).
The military occupation of the former Confederacy was called "Reconstruction". After the Union's victory, the South was, in fact, divvied up into five military districts, and some of the Confederate states were not readmitted into the USA until 1870.
See Reconstruction on Wikipedia for more information.
I have no idea what the heck the original poster was talking about with the other half of his argument, however.
--grendel drago
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. --Seneca
I'm a hunter in Texas, and I feel incredibly angry that this guy is doing this! Its obviously a highly unethical publicity stunt, in Texas it is a illegal to hunt from automobile much less a computer on the internet, please don't think that we are all nuts like this guy! I also question the article, as it mentions that state wildlilfe officials are "up in arms". I honestly don't think its that big of a deal to them, this guy is a nut-job, there should be no problems whatsoever for accomodating new regulations against taking a shot from a computer. You're also legally required to tag your deer as soon as you can, which means as soon as you find it, I don't see how this could ever be legal. I also don't even see how this has relevance to target practice, there are so many factors when you actually shoot that aren't there if a machine is doing the shooting for your. The only thing I can think is that it might help with learning to cope with wind, but if its only shooting .22LR you are learning the characteristics of a round that its only good for hunting squirrels and rabbit. I'd be interested to see how this guy thinks he's going to make money, there is simply no replacement for time at the gun range, although, I suppose the novelty of it might be enough for him to bring in some revenue.
I think it's even worse as it was said:
"We were looking at a beautiful white-tail buck and my friend said 'If you just had a gun for that.' A little light bulb went off in my head," he said.
For crying out loud, who the f*ck looks at something that's beautiful like that and all they want to do is shoot it.
That's just wrong.
here are the guys prices from his site. Here is a mirrored picture of his setup, I have a few gigs of extra transfer. Live Shot Setup
-William
God is everything science has yet to explain.
This "online hunting" seems a lot more to me like handing somebody a skateboarding game and claiming that makes up for their inability to use a skateboard designed for somebody with an average body. There's a LOT more to a hobby than just the momentary act.
If they want to accommodate physical disabilities, that's great. But accommodation does *not* involve separating somebody that's different... I don't want a fake version of reality apart from everybody else as a disabled person, I want to be able to participate with those I know/care about. If I can't find a way to do so, I move on to doing something else we *can* all paricipate in.
While this may sound like cheating to some people, this may be a large benefit to hunters with disabilities.
What, exactly, is the large benefit to hunters with disabilities?
They can now "hunt" without having to deal with the non-ADA-compliant forest? I always thought that being in the forest was half the appeal of hunting in the first place.
They can once again kill something? I don't regard the thrill of victory as a valid reason for hunting.
They can once again kill something for food using a robotic weapon and, presumably, getting someone else to drag their prey home and butcher it? Might as well order up a Deluxe Pack from Omaha Steaks.
Can someone explain what this "large" benefit is?
They should set up some of these gun platforms in Fallujah and let geeks from around the world blast terrorists from the comfort of their home computers!
I cannot imagine that this will last longer than a week. I know that this guy has a lot of property, and the range of a
I have one question.
Who other than Lloyds of London could insure this hair brained scheme? The premiums have to be HUGE!
I would take a
Agreement here... If I had mod points, I'd certainly give one to you.
I have no problem with hunting, nor killing animals (mmmm... lamb!) but this guy's idea is just plain idiotic.
It's not a good idea because it poses a significant, and unusual, risk to human life and on top of that, it is going to remove the level of immediacy that is required to allocate legal responsibility for an action (i.e. shooting a gun) with a person (Joe Sixpack).
What if someone is out in the range adjusting some equipment, and the thing that was supposed to disconnect the Internet death trigger malfunctioned... I mean, is he planning on using an OS that is authorized for mission critical / life supporting systems? That won't be Windows or Linux, as you probably know.
The idea is just flawed. We as Engineers go to a lot of trouble to make systems that are safe for humans. This system poses unnecessary and probably significant risk to humans.
Nice, thanks moderator-from-hell-from-last-night.
cheap labor conservatives - they want to keep you hungry enough to be thankful for minimum wage.
What happens if you shoot the attendant?
Seriously tho'. Anonymously websurf, steal someone's account, however the hell you break into the security, and just shoot some other person for free.
This is my own opinion, and sure to be trolled down/flamed, whatever - but I dun't care.
Personally, this is subjective, but hunting is STUPID. If you're at a level that this appeals to, then YOU are stupid.
Do you think hunting means man vs nature? Then I hope to God you descend into the wilderness, naked, and use your hands and feet to combat that grizzly you have stuffed over your sofa. THEN I'll be damned proud.
Hell. If you even assembled your own tools, rather then buy a gun at Walmart, a case of beer, and shoot some poor mother cub while laughing with your buddies, I'll respect you.
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KickingDragon
Damn Califernians er messin' round with good 'ol southern huntin' too. Is this ervenge fer Dubya n' Congriss kickin' thur ass?
Table-ized A.I.
Is this webcam rifle thing gonna haul the game back to the truck, too?
Having one kind of impairment doesn't mean the whole body and/or brain doesn't work. What makes you think that having a disablility that makes traversing a forest difficult would have anything to do with aiming a gun, real or virtual?
Think about it: quads and paras are able to drive motorized wheelchairs and properly-equipped *cars* -- aiming a gun isn't likely to be a problem.
I think it's just the 'grown up' version of pulling the wings off flies; an indulgence of the barbaric side of human nature. I appreciate that you see some kind of spiritual side to it, but the majority of hunters I encounter seem to be pissed idiots, blasting away at roadsigns and leaving beer cans and rubbish everywhere.
If people want to have a spiritual experience or a team building exercise there are numerous civilised alternatives. If people want to understand where their meat comes from, they should tour some factory farms and industrial slaughterhouses. If people want to know their place in the food chain, they should compare their teeth and nails to those of a lion. If people want to honour animals, they should leave them alive rather than spuriously 'thinning out their numbers', South Park style.
And yes, I grew up on a farm and have killed things and eaten them. But I was young and stupid then.
Vino, gyno, and techno -Bruce Sterling
How about have surplus turbofied Mars rovers chase around the animals with a pellet gun?
Table-ized A.I.
"Sony will be releasing a stalker robot that can stalk celebraties and other individuals from afar, recording their everymove with a joystick and touch of a button. This is seen to be a major boon for disabled stalkers."
Said the deer: "Lets go, this guy bots"
the only thing I'm really surprised about is why someone didn't think of this any sooner? It was really only a matter of time, but I'm surprised nobody else thought of it!
What other insane ideas are we leaving out?
Berto
I'd pay well over $20 if they mailed me a DVD compiling the video of me aiming, zooming, firing, and the associated reactions.
Careful what you ask for.
Table-ized A.I.
Y'all are SHOOTERS.... NOT hunters.
Don't give me that crap about "the hunt", crikey...
The HUGE majority of nimrods in the USA are total losers who use hunting as an excuse to be macho dickheads.
Go chase down your "game" with a knife or a bow, and then I'll agree that it's "hunting", otherwise, shut the fuck up about how "noble" it is to sit around to shoot an animal who you've lured to your location because you're too fucking lazy or out of shape to track it yourself.
Shooters.... BAH!
I mean NO disrespect to true hunters by the way, and you know who you are.
Deers (and other animals) should learn to use a mouse and play "Shoot the Biped".
I hope someone does write an aimbot.
Part of responsible, real-life hunting is taking responsibility for your crappy shots. If you wound an animal but don't fell it, you need to track it down and put it out of its misery. Period.
What happens when John Q. Callous hits his target in a slow death spot from a thousand miles away? Who's going to make sure that the animal doesn't crawl into a hole and suffer for hours until it dies?
Me personally, I'm crap with a gun even if I've had hours to practice with it. How many n00b fools are going to try this with neither the means nor the inclination to make a humane kill?
John Hancock wuz here.
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Is his website blind-friendly?
Surely you don't mean humans are the best predator "regardless of size"? And pound-for-pound, humans may be good, but my cat Gizmo is the "perfect" predator. In her age, she hunts only birds now (her tastes have refined), but she can still grab low flying ones right from the air!
What will be the ad for this thing?
"Congratulations! You can now have the hamburger in one hand and the mouse in the other, hunting without physical activity in the comfort of you own home".
I recognize the importance in the disabled hunter's case, of course, but for the rest this just comes off like just another step to make sure you never leave your house.
You'd probably be more likely to recieve the Poo in this situation. ;)
-Vendal Thornheart
this guy is ingenious, I bet the DoD will be at his door soon. Imagine what they would pay for such a system
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Ecologically, the problem arises when you have enough people trying to cheat the system (which is going to happen - poachers are inevitable) and/or too many "legal" hunters. The dynamics of population are not geared to handle culls well.
The mass extinctions I mentioned in Australia, plus various extinctions elsewhere (eg: the Moa and the Haas Eagle in New Zealand, the Wooly Mammoth in Europe, etc) were the result of hunting to the point where the population collapsed totally.
In more modern times, the Passenger Pidgeon was totally exterminated in a single human generation. Virtually every whale species came close to extinction, due to "factory ships" slaughtering them in vast numbers. Several did, in fact, get hunted to extinction. Blue Whale numbers are only now beginning to show a modest gain, even though the ban has been in place for 20-odd years.
Modern hunters don't, as a rule, seem to be any smarter than the early humans, when it comes to knowing when to stop.
When they are smart, where they take the proper precautions to avoid excess (and to know what "excess" even means in a given situation), where they don't hide from what they're doing (eg: using high-power rifles to shoot across ravines), THEN I would be willing to accept that they've more than shown they understand the ecological impact of what they are doing.
The ethical side... nnnnngggggg... that's not really answered. Let's say that it turns out that some Cetatians are intelligent, sentient beings with something akin to an aquatic civilisation. Those in Japan who happily go out and kill dolphins by the hundred might easily claim that they are being honest about the hunt and the death, et al, but under those circumstances, I'd still prefer them to find some other way of being honest.
Ok, that's a fairly extreme (though totally genuine) example. It's pretty clear that your average Elk and Deer are unlikely to be nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics any time soon. On the other hand, if that was the limiting factor for what was reasonable to shoot, we wouldn't have a world overpopulation crisis. We might not even have a world population.
Yes, you've got to draw some line somewhere. Humans aren't capable of photosynthesis (yet) so do need to eat. The question is where you draw the line, and what reasoning you use to do the drawing.
I'd say honesty about what you're doing is a very big part of that reasoning. Denial of reality is generally a Bad Idea. But honesty can't be the only part of the reasoning. There's got to be more, and that "more" part has to be rooted both in what the ecosystem can support and in what can ethically be considered fair.
If you've reached this point, you probably don't know where the hell I'm going. Well, neither do I. It's late here. What I do know, though, is that anything which results in compassion and thought going into a decision on whether to hunt or not, has got to be an improvement on a culture of "blood sports". When it's all just a game, and the prize is a trophy far removed from the reality of life... That's when you have problems.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
whats the URL? I wanna fucking shoot something!
A month ago I went to that website and played what I thought was another one of those "Whack the Monkey" flash ads. But it turned out to be *sniff* real! I feel horrible. I clobbered the living hell out of that poor darling little monkey before I realized it.
Table-ized A.I.
1. Hordes of eager would-be Internet hunters sign up for service.
2. Site gets used for about a week.
3. All the animals leave because they figure out pretty quickly that going into a certain area next to the strange man's house = death.
4. No more animals = no more subscriptions = no more funding. Site goes bust and the guy finds himself a new career.
Check back a month after he switches from target-practice to live-prey. I predict the site will be out of business by then, unless the guy decides to start stocking his back yard with prey.
Information wants to be anthropomorphized!
He could always just cave in and set it up to paintball them.
That way it would be sort of cruel *and* (just a little bit) funny (as opposed to just cruel..and deadly).
Maybe thats not really a good idea. o_O
Wait, I hear the venture capitalists calling!
Quack, quack.
God damn, I love my state!
Only in Texas!
"We were looking at a beautiful white-tail buck and my friend said 'If you just had a gun for that.' A little light bulb went off in my head," he said.
Remind me never to go out drinking looking for women with these guys.
Seriously though - what's to stop someone shooting the attendants? Who would be legally responsible?
If someone shoots the guy remotely, is it technically suicide?
Thanks for totally missing the joke, and then EXPLAINING it.
paintball
i for one welcome our gun-toting internet-controlled overlords
But I guess we're taking it seriously.
Luring, or waiting for, animals to walk in front of a camera so you can shoot them by remote control isn't hunting. It's executing animals for fun, and it shouldn't be any more legal than someone drowning cats to get their jollies off.
demi
If you have to shoot things at all, just use a game of quake - why kill if it's not to consume because there is no other source like a supermarket. There is no reason for hunting like this with live animals.
"He recently built a platform for about $10,000USD to house this new system on his 300 acre properly, but the Parks and Wildlife department is now scrambling to find ways to try and stop him."
You know it just strikes me as wrong that even though none of these police is actually aware of any laws against this, they're trying their damndest to find some law they can apply to it so they can stop him... even though it is obvious that there is NO law written that is actually INTENDED to stop something like this.
Imagine someone use that rifle to shoot and kill a HUMAN BEING via the NET !
Will that be counted as a MURDER or an ACCIDENT ?
Who will be responsible for the death ?
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
- Your prey is a renewable resource
- It's actually a Fair fight.
- It's cheaper
- Far less moral dilema
- You can chat with them too.
About the only advantage of cyber-hunting is that you don't have to get your feet dirty. Might as well just go to a rendering plant and pay to kill a cow.Free Software: Like love, it grows best when given away.
There aren't any hunters *without* disabilities, so great news to all you brain-deads!
It's only a matter of time before he installs guns on tracked vehicles, which you can rent out using your credit card, going mobile hunting from the comfort of your own living room.
And for a bonus, it means that you're not there to get your ass shot by your friends in a "hunting accident".
Donte Alistair Anderson Roberts - hi son!
Karma: Chameleon
Why not bring in team play? a lot of bots controlled by humans over the internet, running around and killing things...
err..wait...
Find a job you like and you will never work a day in your life.
Tetris is NOT a game.
Tetris is about skill, and patience, and responsibility, and consequences.
Tetris is about handling blocks safely.
Tetris is about working alone, or in a group, to achieve a difficult goal. (arguably it doesn't help working in a group)
Tetris is about coming to a personal understanding that you, and your family, are also blockheads.
Tetris is about the lengths you will go to keep your blocks stacked and disappearing.
Tetris is about knowing, deep in your gut, that the blocks you drop will disappear. And Tetris (for humans) is about honoring those blocks, by making its disappearance for your benefit as fast and painless as possible, an easier disappearance than it would suffer from the bytes and operands of some virus, from deleting or from formatting.
Tetris is about understanding your place in nature:
You are a blockhead.
You are at the top of the hiscore list
You are SO full of shit that you MUST be careful, lest you wipe out those things you depend on for your own life, like braincells.
Slashdot social media options: AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, Jabber and Mobile Text. Why no MySpace?
Now that would get the heart going!
Slashdot "libertarians": Small government for me, big government for those I disagree with. -1, I disagree with you
5 years in fact.
.22 wouldn't see the walls.
/. front page.
I was going to call it bunnyblast.com and charge those Wall Street crettens $100 a rabbit. Rabbits in a pen, carefully designed so that the camera mounted swivel
For an extra $50 I'd mount your trophy and send it to you.
Then I thought about militant animal activist, of which the 'net has packs of, organizations that would DDOS my ass to the dark side of the moon.
bunnyblast.com it would of got me a
-Anon
When they come for us, I'm sure that "You have consistently abused technology to allow the murder of other beings for pleasure. You present a clear and obvious danger to other civilizations."
PLUS
"And there's a clear link between your governments and the attacks on the Two Quasars of Megaloon 2 and the intergalactic terrorist Batititi. Aphod 3, a friend of a guy who met Batititi's third son-in-law (estranged) at a starship swapmeet, had a cappuccino in Paris in 1873. The connection is obvious!"
"We were looking at a beautiful white-tail buck..."
Isn't that beautiful? I know, let's blow it's fucking brains out.
I suppose I just don't get it....
You're not a goddamn hunter if you're disabled.
hunters are humans with humanity disability
//TODO: put sig here
A quite likely scenario is that the shooter does not manage to actually KILL the animal, but simply wound it gravely.
What happens when a wounded animal runs off? With normal hunters, you would continue to hunt it to put it out of its pain. It's more or less a moral obligation to make the animals death as painless as possible.
With this 'remote shooting gallery' idea, things are going to go very wrong the moment they shoot with live ammunition on animals.
Modify the system to 'shoot' a photo instead, pinpointing where you would have hit. Perhaps even estimating if it would have been a kill.
Just avoid a system where it is more or less guaranteed that animals will suffer more than any hunter would accept.
Fast, Soon, Correct. Pick 2.
INDEED !
..the british government will be demanding that ISP's alert them whenever one of its' serfs has control of a gun. The firearms unit will be helicoptering its way to your house before any deer show up on your monitor.
They whose government reduces their essential liberties for temporary security, receive neither liberty nor security.
How would hacking be a problem? The gun would be physically limited in where it could point, and there would be a physical break between the internet and the guns whenever someone needed to repair something or whatever.
Reminds me of the furore in 1999, when a South African had the idea of letting whores run round his game farm, and allowing bikers to hunt them down and shoot them with paintball guns (for a fee, of course).
Choice quote, from this blog:
A 19-year-old hooker called Lindy was quoted as saying, "The fee is low, but it's an adventure, and at least I should lose a bit of weight." !!!!!
Now we can have a real live Duck Hunt... But without that fucking dog there to laugh at you when you miss...
Meet new people, and kill them.
"First it was rocks and clubs, then we sharpened it and put it on a stick. Then there was the bow and arrow, black powder, smokeless power and optics," Berger said. "Maybe this is the next technological step out there."
And the one after that will just be to radio a nuke over the forestry area. Make sure we get 'em all. As all the animals are getting harder to find, aproaching extinction and all in Texas.
With the same idiotic logic, maybe we should have internet attached rifles, mortars and tanks.
Handicapped people may want to shoot irakis too.
Dyslexics have more fnu.
The gun will only be able to aim at a specific area, the animals must be lured to that area via food(bait) or noise(animal calls). SO I see little inherent risk to humans in this situation, ..just stay out of the "kill zone".
.. i know because I know a few of them)
... do you realy think this is the only guy who has a web controlled gun on his property .. he isn't. so get over it.
I realy dont see what the big deal is, there are alot more dangerous hunting practices going on right now, spotlighting, hunting at night with night vision goggles, and silencers. drunken idiots stumbling through the forsest with loaded guns shooting at whatever moves. (yeah they exist outside of the sterotype
Besides
would venture out to retrieve the carcass before unplugging the gun.
"Little things hitting each other. THAT'S WHAT I LIKE!" - Time Bandits
If people want to know their place in the food chain, they should compare their teeth and nails to those of a lion.
No buddy, look at the brain of a lion and then compare that to what's in the cranium of even the stupidest among us and then tell me where in the foodchain lions belong. We've got guns and trucks and they've got shit in comparison. As far as I'm concerned, they're a species shit out of luck. Today for an animal species to survive it either has to be real tasty or nice and cuddly or a lot smarter and meaner than us. Sorry buddy, but if you wanted to place someone above us in the foodchain you would have to look off-planet and find yourself an Alien Predator.
Some of you vegetarian spiritualists pussies suggest that people be made to personally kill the animals they eat. Watch me.
Giving new meaning to plug and prey
Know your pads. One time pad: good for cryptography. Two timing pad: where to take your mistress.
nuff said
"Capital punishment makes the state into a murderer. Imprisonment makes the state into a gay dungeon-master"
...while retrieving the kill of the previous shooter.
Much more fun than hurting harmless animals, not?
Sig (appended to the end of comments I post, 54 chars)
Of course, you only get one shot, and then you have to buy a new monitor.
This is old news. Showed up on technocrat.net hours ago at 02:54AM.
Or should it be, mod this whole idea "Flamebait".
Oh, come on, I admit it is an effective flamebait... can't... resist... posting... reply... arg...
From the article:
Berger expressed reservations about remote control hunting, but noted that humans have always adopted new technologies to hunt.
Technologies like: Barbed Wire Fenced Grazing Grounds and Slaughter Houses! He as a texan should know. This web enabled Slaughter house cannot be more efficient than the real thing.
Notice I didn't mention using machine guns to hunt !
Quem a paca cara compra, paca cara pagará.
Mark my words. Some wacko will set up a copycat in a city.
Know your pads. One time pad: good for cryptography. Two timing pad: where to take your mistress.
How long before the first redneck misunderstands and shoots at his computer wih a rifle?
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I'm posting AC 'cos there are far too many overly aggressive types out there, but c'mon - everything non human is an animal. People like the cute fluffy ones and despise the reptilian ones (in general) so there's all this do-gooder stuff about protecting animals (again, this rarely happens for the ugly/vicious/non mammalian ones)
:-)
Personally I think - they are all animals...we are humans...why shouldn't we eat them. Sure, make an effort to treat them reasonably as a healthy animal makes healthier food, but for goodness sake, it's like Pet Insurance!
I mean, I really like my cats, and they get their inoculations each year, but if one has an injury requiring major surgery it isn't going to happen. They are cats. Sad to see them go, but we'll get another.
We are humans - evolution says we got here by hunting and cultivating better than every other species (okay lets exclude insects etc) so like the famous comedian said, "I would happily kill every last pig, goat, horse, sheep etc etc if I thought for one minute it might be a bit of a laugh!"
eh, light bulb went "on"...
Some people shouldn't have guns...
Rocket science is easy. Neurosurgery, now *that's* difficult.
Hunting + Robots with Shotguns
This has so much potential. We have an unlimited supply of l33t g4m3rz ready to fight terrorism.
So when cats hunt (in the way they do) its YOU moralising thier NATURAL behavior.
As if humans don't moralise their *own* natural behaviour...
"Slashdot - News and Chat Sites Deviant". (Click "homepage" link above for details).
You could probably find a nice window overlooking the White House lawn, or even the National Mall....
in Quake.
Look up 'quake frogbot' sometime on google.
I don't thing mixing guns ant the Internet (where those guns will certainly get 0wn3d) is a good idea.
If you really want the thrill of "killing something online" (quick, somebody call the patent office), why not just get a good FPS (might even be a hunting FPS). Okay, you need a good bot, maybe a hybrid could be done (the real robot, real animals, but blanks instead of real ammo).
GPG 0x1B479C78
I hope you don't spend time manually adding all those links to wikipedia.
-- Using the preview button since 2005
I know know it's early but it sounds like its gonna be the Killer App.
Anyone got a link so we check this out. I'm interested in exactly how this works.
the stereotypes, my god the stereotypes. nothing makes me smile more than chair-bound city dwellers squawking about how easy hunting is with "high powered rifles" and "gps" etc. etc.
you should all be ashamed of yourselves...
What about shooting the quickly passing by farm hand, or children that stray into the kill zone? Just as the internet empowers perverts to imitate women in chat rooms, or blatant racism in forums, the anonymity (real or perceived) will silence some people's conscience.
Is it just me who saw the title of this article and thought "Be vewy quiet. I'm hunting Internets."
And then wondered if Nukular weapons would be appropriate.
I hope all the RKBA advocates are working to stop this idea now.
This is a BAD idea for Americans and gun ownership and it will hurt rather than help the 2nd Amendment advocacy.
Gun ownership is about responsibility. period.
Having a remote control gun for the video game generations is ludicrous. There is a serious lack of personal responsibility already in this society today. If you let people shoot things over the internet you're just removing another step of accountability.
that being said, i don't worry about who gets the blame if someone is accidentally shot and killed. the owner of the land, the gun, and the server would be criminally negligent for letting people on to the property to be shot at.
that should put a chilling effect on the proliferation of these kind of things in a hurry.
-- Believe your Justice!
I am going hunting this weekend ~ I prob won't litter, or shoot street signs, but hopefully I will put a bullet through the heart of a deer, then gut it, bag up the guts, and skin, and take the meat to get processed...
:)
then make some good 'ole venison chili...
I hope I just digusted some of you tree huggers...
You all hunt, just some of you are pussy's about it and let McDonalds do the killing.
Come to Georgia ~ we'll take you hunting.
-There are only soldiers, and men who wish they were soldiers.
Rule 2: Always keep your finger off the trigger until you are ready to fire.
Rule 3: Never let the gun point at anything you aren't willing to shoot.
Rule 4: Always identify your target, and if possible, know what is behind it.
Rule 5: Always unplug the ethernet cable before going downrange.
I can just see it now. Some crazy person could set up a remote security system with this technology and shoot burglars upon entry. Where to people come up with this stuff? Technology is crazy these days. I mean there are even remotes that find the remotes these days. I want to know what you can't do remotely these days. Not much really. You can pretty much automate your entire house by sitting anywhere in the world. Kind of scary really.
What kind of loser would hunt sheep?
Fuck the system? Nah, you might catch something.
What kind of moron gets pleasure from the suffering and death of animals?
Thats just sick...
"Women got it made. They have half the money and all the pussy!"
What kind of heartless moron can derive pleasure from inflicting pain and death on wild animals, then have the nerve to call it a sport?
They must be the most evil kind of dumbasses.
But I'd pay to shoot those fuckers on line. Now THATS a sport. Giving them some of their own medicine and seeing how they like it.
Wow I see a ton of anti-hunting sentiment on here but just have to sit back and laugh at all the posts by the severly misguided. I grew up on a farm in wisconsin and still actively hunt, as a matter of fact deer hunting season is in a few days.
First of all this guy is located on one of those farms that raise animals especially to be hunted. While I don't specifically see much point in this type of hunting it differs very little to all of
the beef cattle in pens I pass on my way to work every morning.
This morning on the way to work I saw two deer splattered all over the highway hit by either trucks or some mom in a SUV not keeping alert.
Many say that I am not wanting for food because
I can go to the grocery store and get my meat. Well yes this is true, but when I was just out
of high school I actually worked at a meat packing plant. Not only did I work at the plant I had the job of killing those animals for you. Tell me what
the difference is between me pulling the trigger there than doing it in the woods? I have done both
the only difference I can tell is the range at which I done it.
If you are a vegitarian well then good for you but
I prefer meat and I am not changing because you want me to.
I see alot of posts about the challenge of hunting. Deer are a ton smarter than most of you realize, for every deer I shoot a whole bunch get
away by outsmarting us. Now that being said I did not find a whole lot of sport in pressing a pneumatic bolt firning weapon against a cow and shooting it dead so you can go have your steak or hamburger tonight.
Everyone have a great day and when you are sitting at the local steak house think about the fact that somebody pulled the trigger so you can eat.
Got Code?
Great, now we can add LAG to the reason we didn't get that big buck this year.
A lot of people claim that nothing dies to feed them, but that's almost never actually the case.
Do you eat cheese? Hopefully it's certified Kosher, or from a company like Cabot that explicitly states no animal products are used. Otherwise, it's likely to contain renet (calf stomach lining).
Do you eat wheat? Wheat harvesting machines kill hundreds of small animals in the process. Saying you're not killing them on purpose is a rather bad place from which to argue.
Do you eat any of those "alternate" products: fake meat, soy milk, etc.? Many of those are actually tied to large meat packers. You may not be directly consuming meat, but you're funding it.
You may consider it a noble goal to attempt to reduce your impact on the animal kingdom, and I'll support you in that. But it's usually dangerous to speak in terms of absolutes.
I don't get the lure of hunting at all.
I'll try to respond to this, honestly and respectfully. Bear in mind, I'm only one hunter, so my motivations will not match those of all other hunters.
My father imparted me with two fundamental hunting ethics:
1. Give your prey a the opportunity to use his strengths against you
This means that, when hunting birds, you don't shoot them on the ground, or in the water. If you encounter a stationary game bird, you first flush the bird, and allow it to put some distince between it and you, before you shoot. For big game (deer, for example), choose your weaponry or environment so as to require a very close (20-30 yards) encounter. Deer have unbelievably sharp senses of sight, smell, and hearing. Getting one to approach you to within 20 yards is no easy task. Some big-game hunters proudly display the elk trophy they took with a 350-yard shot -- I wouldn't call that hunting; it's more like a display of marksmanship. If you want to impress me with your skills as a hunter, show me the elk you took with a bow at 25 yards.
2. Only kill what you intend to eat.
You can't "catch and release" when you're hunting. If you don't intend on eating it, you've got no reason to kill it.
People who grow vegetables will tell you that tomatoes, corn, beans, peas -- all taste better when they come from your own garden. In addition, you know that they're organic (if you've chosen to raise them that way.) In the same way, pheasant, duck, and venison taste better to me when I know I've harvested it myself. In addition, I know that this meat is "free range" and organic, as well as lower in fat than anything I can buy at market.
In your comments, you raise some frequently-heard arguments:
The animals stand no chance. Neither does the pig, cow, or chicken going to slaughter. Using ethic #1, above, the prey is allowed to use his innate talents against my technology. The majority of the time (in my own hunting experience) the animal wins.
The hardest part is finding something - after that, if you have reasonable aim, you will surely kill it. This is partially true. It is difficult, and rewarding, to find game animals. I've spent many long, quiet hours remaining motionless in the woods waiting to hear or see a deer. Some of those unsuccessful hunts are memorable to me because of everything else I've seen -- an ermine catching a mouse, a wren landing on my boot, a skunk leading her kits across a field.
Reasonable aim isn't a guaranteed kill, however. There are species of ducks (scaup) I hunt that fly at nearly 50 miles per hour. This season, I saw perhaps 300 of these ducks, was able to lure enough into range to take a dozen shots, and killed only two.
I think all hunters should have to fight the animals with hand-to-hand combat. Give the animal a chance to do some damage in return.
I've often thought about this. I've been close enough to deer on several occasions that I could have jumped out of my tree with a knife in hand to do battle. I'm not sure it's legal in my state to kill a deer with a knife. I'm also not positive that I could have a "cleaner" kill with a kife than with an arrow or bullet to the heart.
I understand that hunting is not for everyone. I don't deride those who don't enjoy hunting. There's a thrill in hunting, and it's not about killing, death and destruction - it's about personal accomplishment, of self-sufficiency. Sure, I could go to the grocery store and buy a duck -- hunting may cost more, but in the end I get the duck, the memory of the sunrise that morning, and a sense of achievement as well.
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I had an idea to do this about a year ago. Alright... I didn't build it yet (let alone patent it!), so I guess I really can't complain.
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I thought it would be better to automate the process a little more. Set up each blind with an auto-targeting rifle using machine vision for target identification and tracking. It would be feasible using off-the-shelf components. One could go so far as having a system that even automatically compensates for range, air density, and wind, and targeting appropriate kill-zones on the animal.
I considered the risk of erroneous identification. At this time, I felt the best way to handle this is via photo/video confirmation via cell or network. That way the kill shot would have to be confirmed by a human. It would be limiting if the dial-up/login/confimation takes too long, though.
Another advantage would be to have multiple hides with autonomous systems. It would be especially useful running multiple hides simultaneously from one managing remote console. In fact, in this case they wouldn't even have to be automated, just remote controlled. My preference would still be having automated sighting, identification, and tracking. Then it's just pulling the trigger (or clicking the mouse) over a secure (or closed-loop) connection.
Would laws pertaining to hunting from vehicles pertain to this scenario? It seems the intent of that law might prohibit automated systems.
Obviously each component of the system would have to be thoroughly tested in many unloaded scenarios.
It would probably be a lot more practical (and with considerably less legal concern) to do all this with cameras only. The ideal situation would be a wide-view camera for motion detection and targeting. A high-quality high-zoom camera would be the "rifle" camera. It could be set to take video, sequenced frames with a delay, or single shot, depending on preference. This sort of setup could acquire very high quality photographs of wildlife without much effort. No remote console/control would be necessary.
It could be made less expensive by only using one camera with variable zoom, using it as both the spotting scope and the capture camera. Another cost-cutting measure would be to drop the bulk of the image recognition for identifying the animal. It could be simplified to look for motion and apparent size to find objects of interest and capture those. Human or automated post-processing could decide the value of the image/video.
Upon doing a web search, I found that there are lots of camera traps/hides/blinds. But most are tripwire-triggered (IR beam gate or IR motion). None I found incorporate image motion detection, image recognition, and automatic camera pan/tilt/zoom.
So how much should I charge when I start selling these?
they simply won't kill the animal, only cause it pain
.22LR, you just have to get the shot placement juuuusssst right. But yes, I wouldn't consider going after most american deer breeds with a .223. It's considered a varmit cartridge for a reason.
.223 is overkill for squirrel and gopher (except for longer ranges). About right for coyote. I'd want something bigger than a .30-30 for elk hunting. Something like my .300WBY. You have to match your cartidge to your game and hunting style.
Well, you can kill an elephant with a
On the other hand, a
I don't read AC A human right
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Think of all the new opportunities in Washington:
Computer Weapon Control lobby
Computer Weapon Registration lobby
The NCA (National Computer Association)
Plus all the new laws about carrying concealed computers, computer weapon training courses, no more computers in federal buildings...
It's a job creation goldmine!
You never really know how close to the edge you can go until you fall off.
The simple fact is that eating pasture fed animals that are slaughtered on home pastures (whether game or stock) is much more humane than the alternatives.
.22 between the eyes. We also had a contract for wild goat meat with a supplier to a number of ethnic restaurants. This meant every couple of months having the Kelpie/Border Collies round up a mob of goats (with the help of a Jackaroo on a Ag-bike) & penning them in a large yard with electric fencing that contained suffient pasture &/or saltbush. Then every week, depending on demand between 1 & a dozen or more would be slaughtered, which involved them being run up a race one by one by a dog, & then having their throats deeply slashed as their heads were ripped back so their necks broke at the same time. It may sound gruesome but their quality of life was much better than feedlot stock & their last days were much better than the lasts days of pasture stock that are trucked off to the meatworks, often via the markets as well.
.223 or a .303 bullet passing through their heads. Well other then the pouched Joeys that had their skulld smashed, but being a research station that was in the public eye (that had city types often visiting) the Roo shooter was told not to shoot obvious mature females for this very reason. He could take 50 roos a night, work that out over a year.
The alternatives being:-
1/ pasture fed stock that are packed together like sardines & truck/trained/shipped hundreds, sometimes thousands of miles for slaughtering.
2/ Feedlot stock that are penned like tinned sardines virtually all their lives in knee high shit & need to be pumped full of anti-biotics to survive & are fed on a diet that's totally unnatural (when young feedlot cattle are weaned off milk & pasture to a diet that's virtually all grain that's forced onto them, they can be chonically ill for at least a month, as cattle just arn't designed to eat a diet that's more than 15% grain for extended periods). Don't let us start on the problems caused by the lack of sunlight, etc.
It's a real pity govt regulations have meant virtually the end of on-farm slaughtering (trucking pre-slaughtered animals in refridgerated trucks is infinitly more humane). What's even worse is the govt tax policies & subsidies that encourage feedlot meat, when without such artificial influences, feedlot meat would be totally unviable compared to pasture beef/lamp/pork/whatever except for very high price niche gourmet supplies.
You see feedlot stock require constant attention, drugs, suppliments, hormones, etc, while many types of pasture stock need not ever see a human being till slaughter time.
I use to work on a 100,000 acre outback sheep station, that also kept cattle & pigs, plus feral pigs 'n goats & wild roos, so I know what I'm talking about.
Of course the sheep did need attention, including mulesing at lamp marking, shearing & diping every year & crutching mid term between the shearing, but most of the cattle only ever saw human beings up close when being rounded up for slaughter. The pigs were kept in a huge pen out the back & got the slops from the kitchens (the sheep station was a research station owned by a Uni) & were let out to graze during the day on pasture 'n saltbush. For most of the pigs the 1st time they experianced humans up close was at slaughter time, when one of the Kelpie/Border Collie crosses led them up the race to face a
Ontop of that we had a contracted Roo shooter working the property when Roos plagued up. Mind you only the 2 Roo species that were in plague numbers were slaughtered, The Roos probably had the most humane deaths of all - not knowing they were going to be a meal till they fell within the beam of a spotlight & were instantly killed by a
For chrissake, this is a dumb idea. Give them an NES, the little plastic gun, and a copy of Duckhunt. Much more safe.
Best. Game. Evar.
The deer may be faster, for a moment, but it doesn't
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have the endurance of a healthy normal human.
(I mean a "native" or wild human, not some flabby
software developer)
The deer will overheat. Humans have superior
cooling. Keep jogging, keep tracking the animal,
and soon enough it will collapse of heat exhaustion.
Then you eat it raw.
Be sure to bring back some parts for the tribal
elders, pregnant wife, and little kids.
I've grown up on a farm and have hunted all of my life; what ever happened to letting people live they way it suits them as long as it doesn't infringe on other people? I don't verbally attack meat eaters for torturing animals by supporting factory farms. Unless you are a vegan, moral arguments against killing and otherwise using animals are hypocritical and reek of ignorance (chicken doesn't grow up in cellophane). If you anti's have ever seen or read about factory farmed meat or even 'happy' organic meat (yes I work on an organic beef cow farm), a wild animal has LIVED a much better life and comes to a similar end as the cows only if they are unlucky / unfit. Read a book on factory farming or urban sprawl and then put your banning energies towards something useful.
./ers passing judgment on rural interests from your duplexes and high-rises can keep your laws and opinions local... but sadly I fear that's not the way democracy works; tyranny of the majority, here we come: look a county based election map sometime http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/.
I have forgotten more than most of the sanctimonious, anti-hunting city dwellers will ever know about the US's wildlife and yes I kill and eat a few animals a year. I also put a lot more money directly and indirectly into preserving the species for whose well-being we are responsible. Once again, "put-up" (buy land, put a conservation easement on it, and don't allow hunting) or "shut up".
So all of these holier-than-thou
"We were looking at a beautiful white-tail buck and my friend said 'If you just had a gun for that.' A little light bulb went off in my head," he said."
Stereotype yank? Oooh pretty: let's kill it!
Bad analogies are like waxing a monkey with a rainbow.
Give your prey a the opportunity to use his strengths against you
That there is city-folk thinking. Out in the country we kill them wherever we can, because it's dinner. Kill them quickly, and as painlessly as possible, forget that stupid "let them get in the air" crap. It's not like this is supposed to be a fair fight or something. That's like saying "don't wear camoflage so that they can use their natural eyesight to find you."
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So you shoot them via remote. And what happens if they move at the last second? How exactly do you stalk a finish off a wounded animal in pain? The convenience of this is not enough to outweigh the pain and suffing it may cause. I have no problem with hunting. It is more humane than most farming, and certainly more humane than letting animals die of disease and starvation resulting from our having killed all their natural predators. But please people! Show some responsibility and actually be present if you are going to take something's life. Be there to cleanly kill wounded animals and to make sure there isn't some dumb guy about to walk in front of your gun.
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I don't even know. A long time.
"We were looking at a beautiful white-tail buck and my friend said 'If you just had a gun for that.' A little light bulb went off in my head," he said.
Oh, yeah. It's beautful. Good reason to kill it, I guess :P
As for you rednecks saying "well you eat at mcdonalds right?", no, I don't approve of McDonalds, either. And we buy our eggs from cage-free chickens. Besides, there is a difference between ignorance (hamburgers come from hamburger factories, right?) and straight out cruelty (ooh! let's shoot a bullet through its heart! yeah!) I much more respect people that are at least *trying* to be nice.
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I don't feel bad for any animal that's dumb enough to be hunted with a hammer.
I thought hunting was about 4 yobs driving down creekbeds in a old ute with a car load of beer 'n blasting anything that falls in the beam of the spotties with a .303, a .223, a .22 Magnum & Macca's double barrel shottie.
Hunting, as a sport, emphasizes aspects which put food on the table for our ancestors. It's not simply about putting a jacketed slug into an animal, its about excercising patience, the stalk, the outdoors, about becoming one with your environment. What passes for hunting nowadays is already a travesty, what with laser range finders and designaters, infrared high power scopes, pheremone enhanced scents, and prerecorded broadcast noises designed to attract rutting deer. We (the hunting community) have lost respect for the animal as a clever prey worthy of our effort, and have turned it into a glorified bloodsport with a billion dollar a year industry convincing us they need their product to get that edge.
So don't get upset over this moron and his robo-hunter. Its just one more turn.
(Real hunters use iron sites. Hardcore hunters use a bow and arrow. Real men hunt with giant fucking knifes and sharpened sticks.)
Indeed, the parent was a horrible analogy! Torture would imply that the animal being hunted is intentional pain.
Perhaps you should go to Iraq for awhile, then you might learn what it's like to be a torture victim. When you hunt, one does better to get a clean shot off, killing the prey as quickly as possible (without ruining the meat). If one has the skill and opportunity, a head-shot is probably best in many cases. Anybody who would deliberately shoot to injure and animal as opposed to kill is not a hunter but a sadist.
As for the "food" animals, their lives are often ones of terrible neglect. As you say, I'd rather be a buck living a happy life of grass and rutting and then suddenly *blam*, than be a pig stuck in a small pen, hearing the painful squeels and smelling the blood as others are taken off to be processed and knowing somehow that my turn is next...
Lets be honest the vast majority of Americans in Iraq rarely get beyond the Green zones except when in armed convoys. As such they only ever meet quisling Iraqis that work in Green zones or Iraqis that are saying whatever they think the American wants them to say because there's a heavily armed convoy backing the American up.
The only living things that are going to be shot are the PETA members who throw themselves into the line of fire or attempt to sabotage the platform. This reminds me of the Hegins Pigeon shoot. It's like shooting fish in a barrel.
For those of you who have asked questions about someone hacking into a computer and turning off the safety and shooting someone, or the safety malfuncitoning or something, did you ever consider that you can UNLOAD the rifle? If you UNLOAD the rifle then it's pretty hard to get killed by the rifle unless the guy includes a bludgeon function as well.
I'm by no means saying that this is a good idea, but if you go out into the field to work on equipment and don't have the presense of mind to unload the gun, then you're probably going the way of the dodo bird before too long anyway.
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Have any of you thought of if someone set this up in the window of a bulding in dense population with a high speed internet connection, and then connected to it from somewhere else and started going rampage on people, how can they allow such home made remote shooting machine to even be used for comercial ends ?! This is wrong on so many levels
Wait just a minute! If you don't have a good view of the target (deer/sheep/tin can/whatever) then you have ABSOLUTELY NO BUSINESS TAKING THE SHOT!
That's how hunting accidents happen.
If I can't clearly see it, it ain't getting shot at. Otherwise I could shoot cousin Earl or some dumbass wandering around in our woods. Also, if you can't see it, you may shoot a doe with a fawn, which is a no-no, least 'round here.
Damn, people, think about this shit! Hopefully you were just spouting off, but anytime you pick up a firearm you have got to be careful.
Let's recap the rules for safe gun handling, shall we?
1) All guns are always loaded!
2) Never let the muzzle cover anything you are not willing to destroy!
3) Keep your finger off the trigger until your sights are on the target!
4) Always be sure of your target!
(Sometimes they're phrased differently, but the content is essentially the same)
-gandalf23@work
Another take:
Some advantages come with disabilities in other areas.
Colorblind individuals often have excellent night vision. Having the Sickle cell gene protects against malaria.
To take this to extreme:
Dolphins gave up manuverability on land for better mobility in water.
I don't read AC A human right
Fact is the vast majority of people in any 3rd world country are too busy surviving to bother with taking up arms against the occupier.
But the fact is most Iraqis are worse off now. Unemployment has doubled with the coming of the Americans (& inflation due to the higher incomes of those that do work & the high incomes of contractors, means that the 50% that are unemployed are worse off than the odd 20% that were unemployed in embargo era Iraq) & death rates in the country have tripled (just ask any morgue employee), meaning a significant percentage maybe a majority sympathise with some insurgents.
I say some because so far more than 300 seperate insurgent groups have been positively identified (there are probably thousands) & it seems most are not of the extremist Wahhabi/salafist variety that go arround executing aid workers.
Generalising about insurgents as all being war criminals & terrorists because of the actions of Zarqawi & co is no more logical & accurate than generalising about all American soldiers being war criminals because a small minority abused prisoners & a Marine shot dead a disarmed wounded insurgent on camera.
If they lost the ability to move well enough to hunt, there was always plenty of work to be done. Whether that meant grinding grain by hand, preparing skins for leather production, the dressing of game, production of arrows or other weapons.
I don't read AC A human right
Out in the country we kill them wherever we can, because it's dinner
If you're looking for as much meat as quickly as possible, then by all means, go ahead. What you're describing is hunting as a chore, not hunting as a pastime.
My grandfather grew up on the plains of North Dakota in the 40's. His father would give him three shotshells and expected him to return with dinner. If he didn't, Grandpa tells me, he was punished. Grandpa had no qualms shooting a flock of mallards in the water at close range.
Every year, I return to the old family farm in North Dakota, to hunt those same mallards. With a bag limit of five, I'd be done hunting in ten minutes if I simply found the first flock sitting on the water and started pounding them. Instead, I set out decoys and wait to shoot them on the wing, and get a full morning of entertainment out of it. I'm not a farmer, I'm an actuary. I have the luxury of time and an unlimited supply of ammo.
And I probably enjoy my hunting a lot more than Grandpa did, 60 years ago.
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The vast majority of shotguns purchased by the US military for both WWI & WWII (like more than 90%) were used by/issued to Airfield security personel , MPs & the Shore Patrol & used as police weapons for things like riot work etc.
Just as many police units keep a shotgun in the Trunk, it was the same for Shore Patrol & MP units during the 2 world wars. When you consider such units existed where ever Americans were based, from Iran to Australia to Africa to China, India, Iceland, etc, etc, etc, let alone combat zones, you'll see that such units were easily able to fully utilise shotguns stocks purchased by the military.
So in reality the use of shotguns as trench guns & jungle guns were more rare exceptions than the rule. Just ask war veterans, I bet at least 98% will say they never saw shotguns being used in combat situations by US forces.
"We were looking at a beautiful white-tail buck and my friend said 'If you just had a gun for that.' A little light bulb went off in my head," he said.
"If I just put strychnine in mine and my good buddies coffee, the world would be two morons closer to perfection!" he elaborated.
Rich Gentlemen Hide - The Existential Comic
My favourite movie gun reference:
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POOM POOM POOM POOM. I blew him out of the gas station, and ever since then, I always carry this.
(He pulls out a revolver)
I hear you. A well-armed populace is the best defense against tyranny.
I'll drink to that. And you know, I haven't fired this for such a long time I don't even know if it'll work.
Well, why don't you pull the trigger and find out.
(BOOM. He shoots the bartender in the chest. The bartender gets up, grabs the gun hidden behind the counter, and shoots the other guy. Both fall dead. Blood is everywhere.)
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Classic
'plex
Rich Gentlemen Hide - The Existential Comic
Just look at the quality of life & they're dead in seconds.
Now compare that to stock animals, whether pasture fed or feedlot stock.
Pasture fed stock can spend days squashed together like sardines as they are trucked/shipped for slaughter hundreds or even thousands of miles away, & then they are more often than not slaughtered in ways that are much crueller than a bullet in the head.
Feedlot animals are even worse. They're penned together like sardines most of their lives knee deep in shit & need to be pumped full of anti-biotics, hormones & suppliments just to survive. Ontop of which they're fed a diet they arn't designed to live off naturally & thus are ill for a signifivant proportion of their lives. Take cattle they're not designed to have a diet consisting of more than 15% grain for any sort of extended period, yet feedlot cattle have a diet that's more than 90% grain. Really feedlots are hell on earth for the animals in them.
Give me game any day - try one year old saltbush fed feral goat & one will never look back.
One thing I do disagree with is the hunting of native wildlife (that hasn't plagued out due to human driven enviromental changes), why someone would shoot a majestic creature like a mountain lion or bear is beyond me. Some people claim that bears & mountain lions can be dangerous, but only when humans intrude in their enviroments, either directly or via housing developments, in which case I feel bears & mountain lions should have every right to kill people, just as one by default should accept being potential shark bait when one swims in the sea.
In a series of what police are calling, "unusual events," a Texas man was slain today when his home computer contracted a virus, and shot him dead via a networked camera and rifle apparatus.
Even though the system was connected to the Internet, and had Windows XP's Service Pack 2, authorities believe there was no foul play involved.
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When *I* go to the grocery store in the morning...
Get the groceries.... check
Memory of sunrise that morning.... check
Sense of achievement.... check.... Ohhhhh I am so sad.
--Rob
Towards the Singularity.
I have been toying with the idea of presenting a similar idea to the government, to sponsor the AC-130. For a fee, you would get gun camera footage of 30 secs of operation of the geteling guns and 3 rounds from the Howitzer. I'd take a DVD of that! I'll buy that for a dollar! -Rich
I don't know about your but I don't like eating Polaroids. They give me gas. They also make some pretty poor summer sausages, IMHO.
In Mt Rogers National Recreation Area in Virginia. It is hunting season. These guys are jokes. I hunted until I was 22 or so then quit because of drunk rednecks shooting at anything that moves and pulling pistols over my dead buck (really happened: he saw me shoot it and stole the deer from me at gunpoint). I saw guys hunting in pairs this past weekend with more equipment than wits. Using GPS, wireless comm, laser sights, etc. What a fucking joke. I shot my first deer when 12 with a .270 that had no scope and had to cut its throat for a coup d'grace. I still get the willys thinking about it.
Comparing it to Windows will be a moot point, since El Dorado is going to have a 40% larger code base than XP.
Another important aspect of hunting that should not be overlooked is population manangement. In most areas of my state, Wisconsin, whitetail deer populations are in excess. This leads to increased crop damage and car accidents, among other negative things. The deer hunting season is viewed as a harvest to bring population numbers back to normal. If someone thinks a quick death by bullet is inhumane, it's much "better" than a long period of starvation due to an overpopulated herd in a harsh winter.
The Constitution was designed to "create" and "limit" the powers of our central government.
It was designed to be a shield between the free people of this land and their public servants (aka elected representatives).
It is not the purpose of The Constitution to define the rights of "We The People". The first ten ammendments were added despite the protests of many drafters of both The Declaration and The Constitution, in the end it was decided to mention those ten rights specifically so that they could never be violated.
It is not subject to (re)interpretation as our language and the meaning of words becomes more vague.
Perhaps most importantly, It is not the purview of either of the three branches of government created by The Constitution to assign it any meaning other than that clearly intended by the people of that time and age who created it.
"Some big-game hunters proudly display the elk trophy they took with a 350-yard shot...[snip]...show me the elk you took with a bow at 25 yards."
So its basically a dick-measuring contest where the shortest wins?
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Who knows, you might bag a rarely spotted Osama.
Once I was a four stone apology. Now I am two separate gorillas.
I wonder if we can set up a rifle/camera combination in Texas and shoot people like that.. you know, for those that can't make the trip to Texas.
Tonight's "All Things Considered" on NPR
reported that the man's name is John Lockewood
(Lockwood/Lokwood?), not John Underwood.
Online audio should be available later today at:
http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/
Just FYI.
whitetail deer populations are in excess
Because natural predators are in depletion, also from human "management" methods. Makes you wonder how nature ever got along without mankind to manage things, don't it?
Not intended as a troll, though you're welcome to see it as such if you like.
--random wildlife biologist posing as a geek
seriously, what could possibly go wrong??
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The moral vegetarians/vegans are the ones you're referring to. And I don't think there's anything wrong with the way they're approaching the problem: Remember, cows eat grain too. Much more of it than we do in fact. But that's not the only reason people become vegans or vegetarians. There are environmental reasons and there are health reasons too.
The environmentals claim that producing enough meat to feed a human takes at least 10 times as much arable land (for the grain to feed the animals), takes much more water, and creates much more waste, than it would to simply cut out the middle-man and eat the grain directly. If everyone suddenly turned vegetarian, we'd have a huge surplus of grain left over. Some of the farms would probably go out of business (sorry, environmentalists don't let businesses get in their way) and return their fields to fallow, giving some precious habitat back to the wildlife.
The health people have some legitimate and some imagined concerns. For certain, factory farms and even family farms are pumping more and more antibiotics, chemicals, drugs, and hormones into the animals, often without any regard for whether they actually need it, it's just standard procedure. I can't say whether this is in fact a health risk or not, but it makes me uneasy personally, and it's one of the main reasons I like to eat vegetarian dishes when I can. At least the pesticides are supposed to wash off...
Random and weird software I've written.
I'm not sure where or what you hunt, but in my experience that is simply not the case. I hunt whitetail deer in the woods of the Applachian Mountains. There are many times when I can watch a deer for several minutes, know exactly what it is, have plenty of "good shots," but never have a clear enough view to get a good picture.
This happens because you can only see parts of the deer at a time, while the rest is behind a tree. But that doesn't mean you can't see the deer's head (to know whether it's a shooter), then wait for it to walk forward enough to get a clear shot at it's vitals.
I'm sure what you're saying might be the case in certain areas, but it's definitely not the case here.
The deer population is so high around my farm due to the great availability of food (corn, soybeans, alfalfa). I'm not sure what the natural predators would be - we have coyote, I don't think wolf and bear would fit in too well with the human population. (in the lower third of Michigan) Before white settlement in Michigan this was 99% mature forest lands, with a very low deer population.
I've nearly given up on planting trees or a garden. The deer eat everything (or kill the trees by rubbing antlers on them). To my mind, the deer population is about three times too high. I think I'll have to put up a tall fence, but that will be expensive and ugly.
(there is also the tuberculosis and chronic wasting issues -- if the deer pop. isn't cut way back, there will be more finacial problems for cow farmers, and you'll be paying more for cheese, milk & steaks)
The military do pretty much the same with Predator UAV, only they are hunting people rather than animals