Weasels and ferrets are not rodents. They are mustelids, which are generally predators of rodents. Some other mustelids include otters, minks, fishers, pine martens, black-footed ferrets, and wolverines. It's true that wild mustelids can be vicious, but the domesticated ferret is a quite docile, loving creature and very rarely bites. I have four pet ferrets and the only time one ever bit me was when I stepped on its tail by mistake. Domesticated ferrets cannot even live in the wild, they've lost their hunting instinct.
After saying all of that, I think that the use of the ferret as a mascot by the BSA is silly because it demeans ferrets as pets. I, a pet ferret owner, am outraged.
I own four pet ferrets, and I think that your use of a ferret as an antipiracy crusading mascot is insulting as well as ludicrous. Plus, your mascot is the most stupid thing that I have ever seen and doesn't look anything like a ferret at all. Whoever drew it is a stupid idiot. Jesus, can't you people do ANYTHING RIGHT?!
If you want to find out how ferrets really think and feel, then you need to read two books by Richard Bach: _Rescue_Ferrets_At_Sea_, and _Air_Ferrets_Aloft_.
I demand that you stop using a ferret as your mascot immediately. Believe me, you don't want to incur the wrath of people who own ferrets as pets. We've taken people to court before over things like this. Choose some other animal, like a slug or a leech.
Ferrets and weasels are both mustelids, and yes, they are generally predators of rodents. But the domesticated ferret does not hunt, and in fact cannot live in the wild. I have four ferrets and they make great pets. I feed them kitten chow with some raisins mixed in (ferrets love raisins), I don't feed them bunnies.
BTW, the BSA ferret mascot looks nothing like a real ferret. The person who drew it is a stupid idiot.
Ferrets are not rodents. They are mustelids, and they are generally predators of rodents. The domesticated ferret, however, does not hunt, is typically neutered and descented, and has rabies shots as well as canine distemper shots, so there is very little chance that a pet ferret will have rabies.
read _Cadillac_Desert_, a really good book about water and the Western United States. It not only talks about the Phoenix Metro area, but also, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego, which are all in pretty much the same situation as Phoenix, even if they are located on the ocean.
I saw a movie where someone was tortured by being tied up and a funnel shoved in his mouth and large amounts of castor oil being poured down his throat through the funnel. Ick.
The reverse situation actually happened in New Mexico. A nuclear device got TOO hot. As part of Project Plowshare, operation "Gasbuggy" was an underground detonation of a nuclear fission device to see if it natural gas would be released from the surrounding rock strata. The test didn't go exactly according to plan. I quote from the web site:
QUOTE
After a number of dry runs, a canister containing the bomb and associated hardware was lowered into the 4200' well and the hole cemented shut. Within hours, a water pump at the bottom of the well quit working. This caused an air conditioning system cooling the bomb to flood and stop working. The temperature at the bottom of the well soared to over 200 degrees. Workers abandoned the site because no one, not even the lab scientists knew what might happen to a nuclear bomb drowning in boiling water. All the public knew was that the test was "delayed."
After several nerve-racking weeks lab employees crept back into the area. After taking some readings they made a decision to try and set the bomb off. Everyone was cleared from the area. Spectators were kept more than five miles back. Holcomb and other managers moved to a command tent for the countdown, the result of which was, at that point, anyone's guess.
The bomb exploded. Closed circuit television cameras on site recorded a seven foot ground wave--the ground and trees and everything in the vicinity rising and falling like an ocean wave. Two and a half miles away from the blast Holcomb and the others were thrown from their folding metal chairs when the wave hit.
UNQUOTE
More information about Operation Gasbuggy can be found here:
Yes, sadly, the only threat to wolverines is man. That is why they are becoming rare in civilized areas. But you could also blow away a grizzly bear with a bazooka... What's the point?
What about the Messerschmitt Me 163B Komet? The first and only operational rocket fighter aircraft? It wasn't very effective, but man, it must have been a helluva ride!
wolverines rule. They are the most badass animal in the forset. You see a wolverine (usually in c ranky mood), saunter into one side of a woods, you see all of the other animals fleeing out the other side of the woods. Even grizzly bears don't fuck with wolverines. Wolverines have even been known to steal food from Grizzlies. Long live wolverines!
Assuming that the item you have purchased is metallic, and will fit in a microwave oven, and you don't mind a bit of char where the rfid tag is, why not just stick the item in the microwave oven for a second or two? Won't that destroy the rfid tag?
Actually, IBM ALMOST chose the 68000 chip for the original IBM PC. ALMOST. Think about that. I think the world would be a lot different today if they had, including Microsoft.
And I think he used the internal newsgroup network to spread REXX around IBM and make it popular enough (internally) for the suits to take notice. That's how a language designed by one person (which is the only time this ever happened at IBM (maybe I am wrong, maybe APL was also designed by one person at IBM)) ever became an IBM product.
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Weasels and ferrets are not rodents. They are mustelids, which are generally predators of rodents. Some other mustelids include otters, minks, fishers, pine martens, black-footed ferrets, and wolverines. It's true that wild mustelids can be vicious, but the domesticated ferret is a quite docile, loving creature and very rarely bites. I have four pet ferrets and the only time one ever bit me was when I stepped on its tail by mistake. Domesticated ferrets cannot even live in the wild, they've lost their hunting instinct. After saying all of that, I think that the use of the ferret as a mascot by the BSA is silly because it demeans ferrets as pets. I, a pet ferret owner, am outraged.
what about jackrabbits?
I own four pet ferrets, and I think that your use of a ferret as an antipiracy crusading mascot is insulting as well as ludicrous. Plus, your mascot is the most stupid thing that I have ever seen and doesn't look anything like a ferret at all. Whoever drew it is a stupid idiot. Jesus, can't you people do ANYTHING RIGHT?!
If you want to find out how ferrets really think and feel, then you need to read two books by Richard Bach: _Rescue_Ferrets_At_Sea_, and
_Air_Ferrets_Aloft_.
I demand that you stop using a ferret as your mascot immediately. Believe me, you don't want to incur the wrath of people who own ferrets as pets. We've taken people to court before over things like this. Choose some other animal, like a slug or a leech.
Have a Nice Day, Assholes.
Ferrets and weasels are both mustelids, and yes, they are generally predators of rodents. But the domesticated ferret does not hunt, and in fact cannot live in the wild. I have four ferrets and they make great pets. I feed them kitten chow with some raisins mixed in (ferrets love raisins), I don't feed them bunnies. BTW, the BSA ferret mascot looks nothing like a real ferret. The person who drew it is a stupid idiot.
Ferrets are not rodents. They are mustelids, and they are generally predators of rodents. The domesticated ferret, however, does not hunt, is typically neutered and descented, and has rabies shots as well as canine distemper shots, so there is very little chance that a pet ferret will have rabies.
read _Cadillac_Desert_, a really good book about water and the Western United States. It not only talks about the Phoenix Metro area, but also, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego, which are all in pretty much the same situation as Phoenix, even if they are located on the ocean.
Why do we need licenses at all for light sport planes? There have been light sport planes on the market for years.
Why does it not surprise in the least that Procter & Gamble is on that list?
A variety of Live CD distros so that people can try out Linux, FreeBSD, etc, without having to install on their hard drives
PDP 11/70 is still in use at the Very Large Array in New Mexico? Why? It does the job. And it does the job very well.
And the world's fastest general purpose database, irreverantly non-relational, Model 204, runs on it. More info on Model 204 can be found here.
I saw a movie where someone was tortured by being tied up and a funnel shoved in his mouth and large amounts of castor oil being poured down his throat through the funnel. Ick.
TANSTAAFL!
-- Robert Heinlein.
May He Rest In Peace.
The reverse situation actually happened in New Mexico. A nuclear device got TOO hot. As part of Project Plowshare, operation "Gasbuggy" was an underground detonation of a nuclear fission device to see if it natural gas would be released from the surrounding rock strata. The test didn't go exactly according to plan. I quote from the web site:
QUOTE
After a number of dry runs, a canister containing the bomb and associated hardware was lowered into the 4200' well and the hole cemented shut. Within hours, a water pump at the bottom of the well quit working. This caused an air conditioning system cooling the bomb to flood and stop working. The temperature at the bottom of the well soared to over 200 degrees. Workers abandoned the site because no one, not even the lab scientists knew what might happen to a nuclear bomb drowning in boiling water. All the public knew was that the test was "delayed."
After several nerve-racking weeks lab employees crept back into the area. After taking some readings they made a decision to try and set the bomb off. Everyone was cleared from the area. Spectators were kept more than five miles back. Holcomb and other managers moved to a command tent for the countdown, the result of which was, at that point, anyone's guess.
The bomb exploded. Closed circuit television cameras on site recorded a seven foot ground wave--the ground and trees and everything in the vicinity rising and falling like an ocean wave. Two and a half miles away from the blast Holcomb and the others were thrown from their folding metal chairs when the wave hit.
UNQUOTE
More information about Operation Gasbuggy can be found here:
Gasbuggy
See a rocket a day.
P.S. www.fourmilab.ch is by far the coolest site on the web.
That's a big twinky! ...
What about the twinky?
Yes, sadly, the only threat to wolverines is man. That is why they are becoming rare in civilized areas. But you could also blow away a grizzly bear with a bazooka... What's the point?
What about the Messerschmitt Me 163B Komet? The first and only operational rocket fighter aircraft? It wasn't very effective, but man, it must have been a helluva ride!
wolverines rule. They are the most badass animal in the forset. You see a wolverine (usually in c ranky mood), saunter into one side of a woods, you see all of the other animals fleeing out the other side of the woods. Even grizzly bears don't fuck with wolverines. Wolverines have even been known to steal food from Grizzlies. Long live wolverines!
Happened in Arizona, reputedly. I quick google yields: http://www.snopes.com/autos/dream/jato.asp
dammit, I meant to say, is NOT, I repeat, NOT, metallic. =D
Assuming that the item you have purchased is metallic, and will fit in a microwave oven, and you don't mind a bit of char where the rfid tag is, why not just stick the item in the microwave oven for a second or two? Won't that destroy the rfid tag?
Actually, IBM ALMOST chose the 68000 chip for the original IBM PC. ALMOST. Think about that. I think the world would be a lot different today if they had, including Microsoft.
The French love Jerry Lewis movies.
And I think he used the internal newsgroup network to spread REXX around IBM and make it popular enough (internally) for the suits to take notice. That's how a language designed by one person (which is the only time this ever happened at IBM (maybe I am wrong, maybe APL was also designed by one person at IBM)) ever became an IBM product.