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Geohashing Meets an Angry Rancher With Firearms

Posted by Soulskill on from the viral-marketing-for-xkcd-fps dept.

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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  1. Taking photos of license plates... by azav · · Score: 1, Troll

    This means that we must outlaw photography.

    Quick! Someone call Cory Doctorow!

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  2. Re:Overreactions by STrinity · · Score: 1, Troll

    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."
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  3. Re:Overreactions by tibman · · Score: 1, Troll

    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

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