I'm glad someone picked up on that quote. Deer in the US (and I believe Kangaroos in Australia) exist in massive quantities. Hunting deer for hundreds of years has yet to endanger their populations.
Another point I'd like to mention is that these land animals live their entire lives within the borders of a single country (unless they're right on the Canadian or Mexican borders). Hunting deer in America will have no effect on deer populations in Asia or anywhere else in the world. Wales are a migratory ocean species. Hunting those will have an effect on the quantity of whales that visit different countries territorial waters. That makes whale populations and policies that effect their populations a global issue.
For a car to have no gears, the drive shaft directly couples to the drive wheels. Even if there is only one gear ratio, the car has a gear that alters the output of the drive shaft before connecting to the drive wheels.
I could cobble together two different bicycles with a single speed. The gear ratio would vary enough that you would notice a huge difference in riding them. The inability to change the gear ratio does not mean that there is no gear ratio involved.
I was going with a worst case scenario where a hunter takes more than one shot to get a large animal with an estimate of about $1 a round. My point being that it is very much cost effective to hunt wild game for meat.
Nobody in the US hunts because they are doing so for food. They have all the food they need from other sources. They are hunting almost exclusively for entertainment. If you want to kill animals for food, go work on a farm. Work in a slaughterhouse. I raise chickens myself. The "we're hunting for food" explanation is nothing more than a disingenuous justification. If you like to kill animals because it gives you a thrill then own that opinion. Don't think for a moment that the rest of us are so stupid that we cannot understand what is going on. There are several perfectly legitimate reasons to hunt but most of it is done purely for amusement.
Why don't you go spend some time in some villages in Alaska like Bethel or Barrow and then tell me that they have all the food they need from other sources. Everything they consume is either flown or barged in at outrageously high prices, or they get it by hunting and fishing. There are no farms there. The growing season is extremely short and the Tundra doesn't support too much variety of plant life.
Then you can have an informed discussion about how much hunting is done by people that actually need to do it to live.
You are specifically talking about the 'Great White Hunter' travelling the world bagging trophy animals where ever he can. Sure he's real, but he is a tiny tiny fraction of all the people that go hunting. Focusing on this sort of hunter to try and stain and discredit the activity of hunting is disingenuous. It also is clearly seen through by all the people that aren't on either extreme of the debate as a scare tactic.
I might actually give a shit what you have to say if you would actually come out and admit that you and most other hunters go hunting purely for amusement.
Translation: I might actually give a shit about what you say if you'll completely agree with all the points I'm trying to make.
I have no problem with hunting if its to eat. When was the last time thought "Mmmm, how about boiled bear for dinner?". Most hunters kill for the sake of it. They're just borderline psychopaths and would probably kill a human for a laugh if they could get away with it.
This is complete bullshit. You have no idea what any statistics on hunters and their use of the game they get are. Cite something if you think otherwise, but these sort of generalizations make people not want to talk to you about a subject.
You've made a logical fallacy. Hunting != pointless killing. Many people have clear benefits from hunting in the form of food for their family. Unless of course you are a Vegan, then you clearly think that people in Alaska can clearly grow enough tasty veggies to feed themselves through months of harsh winter and you would be wrong.
How is shooting something from hundreds of feet away with a high powered rifle any kind of sport? And now drones? FFS , why not just nuke the whole fucking forest then Billy Bob Smalldick can claim he's killed everything and act the hero to all the toothless hags that inhabit the trailers in the area!
This article is about Alaska, not the hills of Appalachia. There are no trailers in the area full of toothless hags. There are areas with no human settlements within days on foot. If you want to know what the sport is with shooting an animal from hundreds of feet away, just imagine what you would do with a 1000 pound moose carcass in the middle of no where. Here's a hint, you aren't going to be carrying it out on your back, and every hour you spend with that carcass is an hour closer a hungry brown bear is to jumping out of the brush at you. Not exactly the same as killing Bambi and tossing it on the roof of your car.
I'd love to see this hammer approach of yours with a gut shot moose or bear. How about a mountain sheep, are you seriously going to beat it's head in? They do that to each other with no effect.
Stick to things you know about. It takes a few dollars worth of ammo to take down an animal. Subsistence hunters in Alaska pay no fees, and the animals they hunt are large (think moose, caribou, bear, etc.) and are well worth a few bucks in ammo.
On a related note, where is the evidence that thousands and thousands of children are dying in droves due to not being vaccinated? Did Jenny's kids die and I missed it or something?
Here's a breakdown of what preventable diseases killed 2.5 million children under 5 in 2002 PDF document The vast majority of these are outside the US, but the fact remains - thousands and thousands of children are dying in droves due to not being vaccinated.
Regrettably many of these children never had the option to obtain vaccinations. Kids in the US have that option and denying it to them is irresponsible. Every negative aspect of routine vaccinations has been shown to be false. There is no valid reason not to get it done.
I have no right to force anyone to get vaccinations, but if they choose to not do so, their sobs of regret when their child is sick will fall on deaf ears.
What are you saying, that the victims should die first?
It sounds a lot like you are advocating for the torture and inhumane treatment of prisoners, because they're bad people and you'll feel better if they're put through a horrible torturous life.
Plenty of people who don't get them are very, very smart people.
You're going to have to give a citation on who these people are. All I've heard about is a bunch of celebrities.
I also question that they're "very, very smart" if they are willingly putting their children at risk of death by not vaccinating them. You are right that I can't tell them to get their children vaccinated, but they better not want any sort of help when their kid is horribly ill from a completely preventable disease.
Perhaps there is a general consensus that meters should be yellow for safety reasons and Sparkfun wanted to stick with the tradition.
Don't be daft. The concept that they have to be yellow or someone will hurt themselves is idiotic. Maybe all cars should be bright orange so people can see them. Wouldn't want any one to get hit by a car. While we're at it all knives should be fluorescent pink so no one gets hurt.
Sparkfun is a small company with a lot of loyal customers. This sucks for them to go through, but they can just get some DMMs with a different color scheme for the next importation.
You couldn't be more wrong about the war with the Japanese. Russo-Japanese war.
Although they took some time getting to it, the Russians invaded Manchuko routing some of the finest Japanese army units of the war. They pushed all the way into North Korea (the basis of the currently divided Korean peninsula). The loss to Japan was so devastating that many believe that it, along with the nuclear bombings, was what finally broke the Japanese and had them capitulate to complete surrender. The Japanese had their entire war machine set up to defend against the Americans from the Pacific, they had no real plan to stop the invading Soviets.
Or when we stumbled into WWI over an assassination in Serbia. (Yeah, I know that one war was gonna go off anyway, but the event in Serbia kick started it)
Fuck off. You're basically saying there was a non event in California... get ready for the end of the world! You are right that the Richter scale is logarithmic, but even a seismic event 100x stronger would not be much concern.
Which of the "poor countries" right next door to France are causing all the smog in Paris? This is specifically to reduce extreme air pollution in the city that has been peaking quite high recently.
They are not trying to solve all pollution with this measure, nor is it permanent.
Fair enough. The EU and UN would be the most likely precursors to this global government, but they would most likely just be a higher level of government above the nation states. Much like the EU itself is a conglomeration of individual nations.
I think you're being a little too naive about the ability of many different people and cultures on Earth to get along with each other.
Maybe I'm missing out on something here, but I find installing Windows to be extremely easy all around. It's been years since I've had to hunt down drivers after an install.
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I'm glad someone picked up on that quote. Deer in the US (and I believe Kangaroos in Australia) exist in massive quantities. Hunting deer for hundreds of years has yet to endanger their populations.
Another point I'd like to mention is that these land animals live their entire lives within the borders of a single country (unless they're right on the Canadian or Mexican borders). Hunting deer in America will have no effect on deer populations in Asia or anywhere else in the world. Wales are a migratory ocean species. Hunting those will have an effect on the quantity of whales that visit different countries territorial waters. That makes whale populations and policies that effect their populations a global issue.
I see, I'm picking up from the context that "English" in your comment means "Douche".
I think I know the context of my own comment. Good job trying to tell me what I'm saying though.
For a car to have no gears, the drive shaft directly couples to the drive wheels. Even if there is only one gear ratio, the car has a gear that alters the output of the drive shaft before connecting to the drive wheels.
I could cobble together two different bicycles with a single speed. The gear ratio would vary enough that you would notice a huge difference in riding them. The inability to change the gear ratio does not mean that there is no gear ratio involved.
It has one gear. Which makes the idea of shifting gears stupid, which brings us back to the idea that heel toeing is useless in a Tesla Model S.
I was going with a worst case scenario where a hunter takes more than one shot to get a large animal with an estimate of about $1 a round. My point being that it is very much cost effective to hunt wild game for meat.
Nobody in the US hunts because they are doing so for food. They have all the food they need from other sources. They are hunting almost exclusively for entertainment. If you want to kill animals for food, go work on a farm. Work in a slaughterhouse. I raise chickens myself. The "we're hunting for food" explanation is nothing more than a disingenuous justification. If you like to kill animals because it gives you a thrill then own that opinion. Don't think for a moment that the rest of us are so stupid that we cannot understand what is going on. There are several perfectly legitimate reasons to hunt but most of it is done purely for amusement.
Why don't you go spend some time in some villages in Alaska like Bethel or Barrow and then tell me that they have all the food they need from other sources. Everything they consume is either flown or barged in at outrageously high prices, or they get it by hunting and fishing. There are no farms there. The growing season is extremely short and the Tundra doesn't support too much variety of plant life.
Then you can have an informed discussion about how much hunting is done by people that actually need to do it to live.
You are specifically talking about the 'Great White Hunter' travelling the world bagging trophy animals where ever he can. Sure he's real, but he is a tiny tiny fraction of all the people that go hunting. Focusing on this sort of hunter to try and stain and discredit the activity of hunting is disingenuous. It also is clearly seen through by all the people that aren't on either extreme of the debate as a scare tactic.
I might actually give a shit what you have to say if you would actually come out and admit that you and most other hunters go hunting purely for amusement.
Translation: I might actually give a shit about what you say if you'll completely agree with all the points I'm trying to make.
Fuck off dude.
I have no problem with hunting if its to eat. When was the last time thought "Mmmm, how about boiled bear for dinner?". Most hunters kill for the sake of it. They're just borderline psychopaths and would probably kill a human for a laugh if they could get away with it.
This is complete bullshit. You have no idea what any statistics on hunters and their use of the game they get are. Cite something if you think otherwise, but these sort of generalizations make people not want to talk to you about a subject.
You've made a logical fallacy. Hunting != pointless killing. Many people have clear benefits from hunting in the form of food for their family. Unless of course you are a Vegan, then you clearly think that people in Alaska can clearly grow enough tasty veggies to feed themselves through months of harsh winter and you would be wrong.
How is shooting something from hundreds of feet away with a high powered rifle any kind of sport? And now drones? FFS , why not just nuke the whole fucking forest then Billy Bob Smalldick can claim he's killed everything and act the hero to all the toothless hags that inhabit the trailers in the area!
This article is about Alaska, not the hills of Appalachia. There are no trailers in the area full of toothless hags. There are areas with no human settlements within days on foot. If you want to know what the sport is with shooting an animal from hundreds of feet away, just imagine what you would do with a 1000 pound moose carcass in the middle of no where. Here's a hint, you aren't going to be carrying it out on your back, and every hour you spend with that carcass is an hour closer a hungry brown bear is to jumping out of the brush at you. Not exactly the same as killing Bambi and tossing it on the roof of your car.
I'd love to see this hammer approach of yours with a gut shot moose or bear. How about a mountain sheep, are you seriously going to beat it's head in? They do that to each other with no effect.
Stick to things you know about. It takes a few dollars worth of ammo to take down an animal. Subsistence hunters in Alaska pay no fees, and the animals they hunt are large (think moose, caribou, bear, etc.) and are well worth a few bucks in ammo.
I'd appreciate it if you stop making claims for an entire group of people. I have no problems with Win8 and happily use it.
On a related note, where is the evidence that thousands and thousands of children are dying in droves due to not being vaccinated? Did Jenny's kids die and I missed it or something?
Here's a breakdown of what preventable diseases killed 2.5 million children under 5 in 2002 PDF document
The vast majority of these are outside the US, but the fact remains - thousands and thousands of children are dying in droves due to not being vaccinated.
Regrettably many of these children never had the option to obtain vaccinations. Kids in the US have that option and denying it to them is irresponsible. Every negative aspect of routine vaccinations has been shown to be false. There is no valid reason not to get it done.
I have no right to force anyone to get vaccinations, but if they choose to not do so, their sobs of regret when their child is sick will fall on deaf ears.
What are you saying, that the victims should die first?
It sounds a lot like you are advocating for the torture and inhumane treatment of prisoners, because they're bad people and you'll feel better if they're put through a horrible torturous life.
Plenty of people who don't get them are very, very smart people.
You're going to have to give a citation on who these people are. All I've heard about is a bunch of celebrities.
I also question that they're "very, very smart" if they are willingly putting their children at risk of death by not vaccinating them. You are right that I can't tell them to get their children vaccinated, but they better not want any sort of help when their kid is horribly ill from a completely preventable disease.
Perhaps there is a general consensus that meters should be yellow for safety reasons and Sparkfun wanted to stick with the tradition.
Don't be daft. The concept that they have to be yellow or someone will hurt themselves is idiotic. Maybe all cars should be bright orange so people can see them. Wouldn't want any one to get hit by a car. While we're at it all knives should be fluorescent pink so no one gets hurt.
Sparkfun is a small company with a lot of loyal customers. This sucks for them to go through, but they can just get some DMMs with a different color scheme for the next importation.
You couldn't be more wrong about the war with the Japanese. Russo-Japanese war.
Although they took some time getting to it, the Russians invaded Manchuko routing some of the finest Japanese army units of the war. They pushed all the way into North Korea (the basis of the currently divided Korean peninsula). The loss to Japan was so devastating that many believe that it, along with the nuclear bombings, was what finally broke the Japanese and had them capitulate to complete surrender. The Japanese had their entire war machine set up to defend against the Americans from the Pacific, they had no real plan to stop the invading Soviets.
I'd be pissed, but at least I'd be able to target practice against Russian soldiers.
Or when we stumbled into WWI over an assassination in Serbia. (Yeah, I know that one war was gonna go off anyway, but the event in Serbia kick started it)
Fuck off. You're basically saying there was a non event in California... get ready for the end of the world! You are right that the Richter scale is logarithmic, but even a seismic event 100x stronger would not be much concern.
Which of the "poor countries" right next door to France are causing all the smog in Paris? This is specifically to reduce extreme air pollution in the city that has been peaking quite high recently.
They are not trying to solve all pollution with this measure, nor is it permanent.
Fair enough. The EU and UN would be the most likely precursors to this global government, but they would most likely just be a higher level of government above the nation states. Much like the EU itself is a conglomeration of individual nations.
I think you're being a little too naive about the ability of many different people and cultures on Earth to get along with each other.
Maybe I'm missing out on something here, but I find installing Windows to be extremely easy all around. It's been years since I've had to hunt down drivers after an install.