Geohashing Meets an Angry Rancher With Firearms

katicli writes "Geohashing, an obscure xkcd pastime which involves going to random coordinates generated by md5 hashing, the date, and the opening status of the stock market, appears to have just gotten far more interesting. The official wiki reports a warning for other geohashers intending to go to the spot designated for June 14th in the San Francisco area, as several avid fans of xkcd were met by an angry rancher and firearms."

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Re:Overreactions

[ampmouse]

Last time I checked there were three girls there. Even the poster katicli is a girl^D^D^D claims to be a girl.

Taking photos of license plates...

[azav]

This means that we must outlaw photography.

Quick! Someone call Cory Doctorow!

Re:The reaction scares me (and not the local's)

[Killjoy_NL]

Screw the 2nd amendment, I'd rather not take the chance.
It helps that I live in the Netherlands though ;)

Re:Culture --weird

[Breakfast Pants]

>It always amuses me that the slashdot crowd will defend some technology (e.g. vulnerability detection software, p2p, etc) and claim that the individual is responsible for the use, but then say things like what you've said.

Are you advocating that individuals ought to be able to own atom bombs? After all, maybe they just want to pretend to ride them in their garage.

Re:Overreactions

[Anonymous Coward]

If the wolves are so misunderstood, why don't you take them home with you? I'm sure they'll be just as friendly to you and your family as they are to ours.

Also, they were not "reintroduced". This is a completely different variety of wolf than we had before. They are much larger, and much, much more aggressive. These wolves are newly introduced. They have nothing to do with this part of the country. These wolves are as home here as they would be in Central Park in New York City. Shouldn't we "reintroduce" some of them there, also? It would make every bit as much sense as it did to saddle us with them.

Re:Overreactions

[iq in binary]

Move to Sweden, and then NEVER BITCH AGAIN about personal property rights being non-existant.

In Sweden, there is no right to personal property. You're ALLOWED to "own" certain things, like furniture, electronics, and tv's. That's it.

Here in the states, we're allowed to assert our OWNERSHIP of things. Hence the reason a hold-up man is a criminal, and rustlers can be shot. This Right-To-Roam thing is bullshit.

Re:Overreactions

[STrinity]

Yeah, I don't know why the xkcd folks think they can just get away with this

Well they like xkcd, which makes me seriously question their intelligence -- "Hoo haw! Badly drawn stick figures telling drawn out, badly constructed jokes to each other. I'm so smart for laughing at this. I rule."

Re:Overreactions

[tibman]

hate to feed, but i'm really in the mood to argue a bit :)

If a rancher sees a predator on his land and shoots it. Is that an absurd practice? I doubt it.

If a rancher's livestock are grazing in public land and a few go missing from a predator. Would it be absurd for him to protect his stock by shooting the predator? If you said yes, then how about this. If another rancher comes and steals a few of his livestock. Is there not a mechanism in place to punish the offender?

But shooting endangered animals is seriously not cool.

I'll rant now, if you don't mind. You said "things seem to be going my way, long term." You're a fucking consumer. If you get a flat tire, you don't say hey.. let me try to fix this. You call AAA and consume a service. Urbanites typically embody the "use and throw away" culture.. talk about absurd practices. Try repairing your shit, recycle & compost, send a letter to some poor fuck in Iraq on Christmas, learn how to change your own oil/brakes/sparkplugs, help out your neighbors/community, learn a craft and building something useful.. could be repairing drywall, programming and contributing to an opensource project, making a doghouse instead of buying one, all kinds of stuff.

haha, don't you hate it when you get so offtopic and you just want to close the tab and cancel the post? Meh, i'd hate to waste typing all this though

Re:Overreactions

[plasmacutter]

My knowledge of firearms is just fine, thank you. I grew up using them. I also grew up using blades. You, however, need to study the reality of it more instead of behaving like you do now, thinking guns are some unstoppable thing from which one shot kills instantly, taking half the target's body with it. ah now youre putting thoughts into my head, how very open minded of you.

If i hand you another carton of eggs can you smear them on your face for me too?

Re:Overreactions

[plasmacutter]

You, however, need to study the reality of it more instead of behaving like you do now, thinking guns are some unstoppable thing from which one shot kills instantly, taking half the target's body with it. where's the quote from my post saying it takes half people's body with it?

also, are you familiar with the term "dead before you hit the floor"?

it's much easier to injure someone with bullets than it is with a blade, period. you are deluded to think otherwise.

what weapon are you using with a heavy trigger pull, a liberator?

Geohashan

[MechanicalJesus]

Ok, so these timid nerds decided it would be a good idea to uh, take a trip down to some random urban place -- so they can, er, hang around and talk about D&D and their shitty xkcd webcomic I guess? It's a shame nobody was hurt.

whiners

[alterami]

I would be much more comfortable around gun toting ranchers than a bunch of geocaching crybabies anyday.