I'm all for respecting the land, but what would you have someone faced with a scared rattler do, let it bite them? No, I'd kill it if it were in a populated area (rest stop, house), or more likely move far away from it. I've seen plenty of rattlers, and simply left them alone. Never killed one, never needed to. But I certainly would if it were too close to a populated area. Wolves and mountain lions basically NEVER come close to people. Occasionally, coyotes and bears do, so I could see it happening if they weren't nearly extinct... but never seen/heard one nearby.
Regarding copperheads... every report I've heard (firsthand) say those snakes are far more aggressive than rattlesnakes. They scare the crap out of me.
Back on topic, the wolf reintroduction was because they were hunted to near extinction. Now we have deer and elk starving to death (on most years, hunters can't take enough to prevent starvation), and this is due not only to the ranchers killing the natural predators but also grazing the land (for FREE) with herds of cattle brought in from elsewhere.
There's a big difference between killing a rattlesnake and systematically hunting packs of wolves, which is what was done to get rid of them in the first place. Not all ranchers are like this and it's unfair to claim that, but I have no love for those that simply want to exploit the land.
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. You're making things up.
They have major problems with reintroduced wolves. Wrong.
Also, mountain lions and coyotes are responsible for a lot of livestock deaths. Mountain lions are protected in virtually every state. If you shoot one, you are committing a felony, even if it's killing your dogs or livestock.
Wolves are also protected, and they only needed reintroduction because of asshats like you spreading lies about them. There have been issues with them killing livestock, but not major problems as you state. In addition, welfare ranchers are raising their cattle on PUBLIC LAND which everyone pays for, then they have the GALL to act like they should have exclusive rights to it, even over what used to be a natural predator that lived there.
There are a few things about the old west that I really hate... one of them is the disrespect for the land. And wolves and mountain lions are part of the land here, just like the pines and rattlers.
Here in the old west, it's extremely common for ranchers to have a "range rifle" stashed in the back of the truck. I had to lend my dad a shotgun because he was having a bear problem and he's on a small farm. Guns are just a tool... I would've been more alarmed if the rancher showed up with a machete.
What I want to know is how they recognized the guns so well (so clearly they are exposed to them) yet sounded so alarmed that a rancher would have one in his truck. That's bizarre to me.
Hell, I have a mini-14 in arms' reach and I'm in the city (barely).
A nutcase like Kucinich doesn't even bother to make a speech to the House, but has it read into the record after hours??? The Congressional Record is full of dreck read into it after hours by people who wanted things on record (usually for their reelection campaign). It took 5 fucking hours to read it into the record. Are you saying he should've done this while everyone was present? He also introduced it in a way to force a vote. I doubt many chowder recipes were voted upon.
Claiming the record is full of chowder to imply that's all it contains makes you full of shiate.
5 hours to read it in, to put it on record. And you claim that he should've wasted everyone's time, and that the congressional record has nothing but chowder in it. And you dare to call him the nutcase?
I was going to post this anon, but hell... please make me a foe so I won't see your idiocy anymore.
Aye, that line was idiotic. Did phones stop existing? Airwaves gone, too? Granted, this is the UK, so I have no idea if people are sequestered to their houses with only a cable modem, but somehow I doubt it....
The only wire that cuts off all those freedoms is your spinal column.
That is an excellent example of messed up copyright laws, and how the purpose is not working. Due to the perpetual extensions of copyright (which the constitution grants congress to set the time limits) and lobbying by, e.g. Disney, we're stuck with that. For now.
When I said infringement, I guess I was taking a moral examination, not a legal one. If musicians regularly engaged in copyright infringement -- blatantly stealing and performing songs of others -- it would severely harm the less popular artists due to steamrolling by popular artists. No matter how good your song is, if the Rolling Stones performed it, it'd be far more popular. And that would fit most musician's moral compasses as in the "wrong" direction.
It's up to the industry to make it affordable, not the government. But you should stress that they have the power to fix what's broken, and do not need overreaching laws to solve a problem that they're perpetuating through greed and exploitation.
You won't get much support for that from the Slashsheep. Information wants to be free - unless it's information about how much porn and music they've been downloading. -1 for responding to a troll.... Apologies in advance.
Many slashsheep are programmers, and likely not software pirates. Many are musicians and also realize that copyright infringement is wrong. But most also understand the American Home Recording Act and know damn straight that they can make copies of music for their friends, and dislike bullies like the RIAA. Most are also intelligent and believe that examining their own computer's RAM and operation is an inalienable right no matter what a EULA says.
Most are also suspicious of trolls like you, so someone had to make this response.
What's interesting is that, by obscenity laws, porn would be fine. It really would not be hard for a provider to say "When we're made aware of material that's clearly obscene or illegal, we'll take technological steps to filter it."
But like pirate radio, they will never be able to stop it.
Yes, I was surprised this wasn't accompanied by "I was escorted off the premises by an armed guard within an hour of giving notice."
There are places that will escort you off immediately, pay you for two weeks, and a security guard will physically move everything in your desk (after verifying it's not the company's) to an area for you to pick up. These places rarely list this behavior on their job postings, so it might be a surprise.:p
The employee that remains productive is a minority, and the cost can be far less to pay for an extra 2 weeks of vacation than dealing with a lame duck or disgruntled employee, especially because people will always be asking "why are you leaving?"
That's not what MMOs do. MMOs sell software which must connect to a service, which they also sell. That's an online service, not merely an activation. Once you buy the software, you CAN transfer that software. In the case of blizzard, they will issue you a new key when you snailmail them the old key.
The thing about Blizzard suing folks for using private servers is a way to bludgeon anyone encroaching on their service. If it didn't take away the service business, they'd probably be happy to sell you all the WoW copies you can buy @ $30 a pop for use on a private server. But their real money is made on your $15/mo, not on the trivial cost of the CD and packaging.
I actually don't have a huge issue with a moratorium on reverse-engineering, because they spent all the development money creating the front and backends of the MMO. There should, however, be a timeout just like on patents. Blizzard, of course, sees it differently and we're stuck with a poor precedent.
What you said about beating a boss is absolutely true. Gear does make it easier, but a crappy raider is a crappy raider, and you can't expect him to be anything else no matter how much gear you throw at him.
And here's how it is after the patch: Level to 70. Replace gear with low-level dungeon loot. Raid one thing and get better loot. Raid the next thing and get better loot. Raid the next thing and get better loot. Hooray, you beat the game, go outside. Crappy example.
It's now Raid one thing and get better loot. TURN IN BADGES to received from raiding or heroics or daily quests for loot as good as that found in the next two raiding zones.
Removing the attunements makes perfect sense. It's called mudflation which was coined to demonstrate that the demand for gear gets higher and higher. There is no purpose for the powergamer to go after crappy gear in an old raid... they want bigger numbers on anything with a number and more glowies on things without. Keeping obsolete attunements to force a linear progression when your gear already outgears that found in the dungeons makes no sense... thus they went away.
Imagine if it was required to be exalted with Hydraxian Waterlords (old Molten Core) in order to go to Sunwell plateau. That's why the attunements were removed... they stopped performing the purpose of keeping undergeared groups for exploiting low-hanging fruit of dungeons they have no business even looking at. Those groups are now geared up through badge loot.
So, what's the second hammer for? A redundant array of independent hammers? No, it's so that everyone knows you still have a hammer, and you're not afraid to use it.
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Regarding copperheads
Back on topic, the wolf reintroduction was because they were hunted to near extinction. Now we have deer and elk starving to death (on most years, hunters can't take enough to prevent starvation), and this is due not only to the ranchers killing the natural predators but also grazing the land (for FREE) with herds of cattle brought in from elsewhere.
There's a big difference between killing a rattlesnake and systematically hunting packs of wolves, which is what was done to get rid of them in the first place. Not all ranchers are like this and it's unfair to claim that, but I have no love for those that simply want to exploit the land.
Extirpated species were bred and reintroduced where they used to be.
Same species, same subspecies.
Wolves are also protected, and they only needed reintroduction because of asshats like you spreading lies about them. There have been issues with them killing livestock, but not major problems as you state. In addition, welfare ranchers are raising their cattle on PUBLIC LAND which everyone pays for, then they have the GALL to act like they should have exclusive rights to it, even over what used to be a natural predator that lived there.
There are a few things about the old west that I really hate... one of them is the disrespect for the land. And wolves and mountain lions are part of the land here, just like the pines and rattlers.
Here in the old west, it's extremely common for ranchers to have a "range rifle" stashed in the back of the truck. I had to lend my dad a shotgun because he was having a bear problem and he's on a small farm. Guns are just a tool... I would've been more alarmed if the rancher showed up with a machete.
What I want to know is how they recognized the guns so well (so clearly they are exposed to them) yet sounded so alarmed that a rancher would have one in his truck. That's bizarre to me.
Hell, I have a mini-14 in arms' reach and I'm in the city (barely).
"Sudden" doesn't mean it wasn't delayed... just unexpected.
And this is not an "outbreak". It was 5 to 4.... It was more like a "sudden, long overdue realization of common sense by a narrow majority."
It's also a well-established fact that you DIE when a barbarian sneaks up on you, stuns and knocks you down, then lops your head from your shoulders.
Stupid hollywood... if not for them, we'd all pay $15/mo to stay dead. How dare they make a game where they're not simulating reality?
Solar power is green and all, but I'm really concerned about the environmental damage if it crashes.
Claiming the record is full of chowder to imply that's all it contains makes you full of shiate.
5 hours to read it in, to put it on record. And you claim that he should've wasted everyone's time, and that the congressional record has nothing but chowder in it. And you dare to call him the nutcase?
I was going to post this anon, but hell... please make me a foe so I won't see your idiocy anymore.
... but how many coconuts can an SUV carry?
Aye, that line was idiotic. Did phones stop existing? Airwaves gone, too? Granted, this is the UK, so I have no idea if people are sequestered to their houses with only a cable modem, but somehow I doubt it....
The only wire that cuts off all those freedoms is your spinal column.
Now I'll be able to understand what those chinese gold farmers are actually saying.
"Go ahead, do your worst, Referee Tunis. I will continue to do my best."
We've seen your best. That's why you're being disbarred, dumbass.
defying categorization as a planet, star, or brown dwarf
:-)
Sounds like the Oprah Phenomenon to me.
That is an excellent example of messed up copyright laws, and how the purpose is not working. Due to the perpetual extensions of copyright (which the constitution grants congress to set the time limits) and lobbying by, e.g. Disney, we're stuck with that. For now.
When I said infringement, I guess I was taking a moral examination, not a legal one. If musicians regularly engaged in copyright infringement -- blatantly stealing and performing songs of others -- it would severely harm the less popular artists due to steamrolling by popular artists. No matter how good your song is, if the Rolling Stones performed it, it'd be far more popular. And that would fit most musician's moral compasses as in the "wrong" direction.
It's up to the industry to make it affordable, not the government. But you should stress that they have the power to fix what's broken, and do not need overreaching laws to solve a problem that they're perpetuating through greed and exploitation.
Many slashsheep are programmers, and likely not software pirates. Many are musicians and also realize that copyright infringement is wrong. But most also understand the American Home Recording Act and know damn straight that they can make copies of music for their friends, and dislike bullies like the RIAA. Most are also intelligent and believe that examining their own computer's RAM and operation is an inalienable right no matter what a EULA says.
Most are also suspicious of trolls like you, so someone had to make this response.
"Did they just violate the prime directive again? Maybe we can make them give us the secret of warp travel. And a lighter."
I can't give a definition, but I'll know it when I see it!
What's interesting is that, by obscenity laws, porn would be fine. It really would not be hard for a provider to say "When we're made aware of material that's clearly obscene or illegal, we'll take technological steps to filter it."
But like pirate radio, they will never be able to stop it.
Yes, I was surprised this wasn't accompanied by "I was escorted off the premises by an armed guard within an hour of giving notice."
:p
There are places that will escort you off immediately, pay you for two weeks, and a security guard will physically move everything in your desk (after verifying it's not the company's) to an area for you to pick up. These places rarely list this behavior on their job postings, so it might be a surprise.
The employee that remains productive is a minority, and the cost can be far less to pay for an extra 2 weeks of vacation than dealing with a lame duck or disgruntled employee, especially because people will always be asking "why are you leaving?"
That's not what MMOs do. MMOs sell software which must connect to a service, which they also sell. That's an online service, not merely an activation. Once you buy the software, you CAN transfer that software. In the case of blizzard, they will issue you a new key when you snailmail them the old key.
The thing about Blizzard suing folks for using private servers is a way to bludgeon anyone encroaching on their service. If it didn't take away the service business, they'd probably be happy to sell you all the WoW copies you can buy @ $30 a pop for use on a private server. But their real money is made on your $15/mo, not on the trivial cost of the CD and packaging.
I actually don't have a huge issue with a moratorium on reverse-engineering, because they spent all the development money creating the front and backends of the MMO. There should, however, be a timeout just like on patents. Blizzard, of course, sees it differently and we're stuck with a poor precedent.
Level to 70. Replace gear with low-level dungeon loot. Raid one thing and get better loot. Raid the next thing and get better loot. Raid the next thing and get better loot. Hooray, you beat the game, go outside. Crappy example.
It's now Raid one thing and get better loot. TURN IN BADGES to received from raiding or heroics or daily quests for loot as good as that found in the next two raiding zones.
Removing the attunements makes perfect sense. It's called mudflation which was coined to demonstrate that the demand for gear gets higher and higher. There is no purpose for the powergamer to go after crappy gear in an old raid
Imagine if it was required to be exalted with Hydraxian Waterlords (old Molten Core) in order to go to Sunwell plateau. That's why the attunements were removed... they stopped performing the purpose of keeping undergeared groups for exploiting low-hanging fruit of dungeons they have no business even looking at. Those groups are now geared up through badge loot.
Here's the Google cache
Muhahahahahahhaha!!@1!!
No, no, there's some dust on it.
The real title is "How to Cook For Humans"
*sigh of relief*