So what you're saying is... if we just bury our head in the sand and just ignore these diseases, no one will ever get sick from them. Wow.... whoud'a thunk that'd werk!

Which is nice, but we're also not talking about the knee-jerk, hoard everything mental cases that bought into "the big bad government is coming" bullshit hysteria of the past 5 years.... we're talking hunters. I don't think you hunt moose with a 223, and while i can't find rules about pistols off hand, a 9mm would not be advisable... which is a big understatement; minimum effective would be a 44+. F&G has a page of info/suggestions (for rifle):

http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/ind...

For a subsistence hunter, you want a weapon that will bring in food... not a toy that gives you a hard-on when you talk about it at the local bar.

No clue on the regs for transporting ammo, but i think you'd find the bigger problem the actual cost of transporting, although obviously someone is doing it... but it might not be the goldmine you think or more people would be doing it as hunting has been part of the Alaskan lifestyle for pretty much ever.

You haven't been keeping up on the current insanity/stupidity driven ammo market. Common game rounds are running $1+ per, if you can find it... and that here in the lower US. As for the "that, or ammo is insanely expensive where you hail from," we're talking about Alaska.... no need to guess.

http://www.avcp.org/apps/Agend...

Used to be, some years ago now, you could go onto Ebay and sell those Wu's Fighting Gauntlets for $4-5. The difference between those gloves and bitcoins is: bitcoins are absolutely useless against giant spiders the size of small huts.

At least they didn't invest (aka: give a private company) billions to provide them with a completely useless computer system over the course of a decade that was totally outdated before the first dollar was spent, and wasn't compatible with anything.

In the past 35,000 to 50,000 years that our ancestors have had some form of religious or shamanistic practices, there has never, ever, not even once, ever, been a single piece of evidence for a god, gods, goddesses, or maker.... ever. If creationism were to be given a second of consideration out of a decade of time, that would already be more than it's fair share.

Extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence; in this case, the claim of "creationism" at least need a single piece of actual evidence.... and the delusions of mentally ill people does not count.

The problem with writing is that sarcasm and humor sometimes don't work well, and come out looking like someone making a sarcastic, humorous comment is actually making a statement which they believe. If your comment is an attempt to use sarcasm and humor, i apologize ahead of time.

If, on the other hand, you're actually putting forth what you honestly believe.. then you are a fucking idiot. Worse than that, you're a fucking idiot who's either incredibly stupid and refuses to actually learn what's in the Bible, or you're a lying idiot trying to minimize all the sociopathic bullshit that God not only condoned, but commanded people do.... all written in the Bible.

Pielke earned a B.A. in mathematics (1990), a M.A. in public policy (1992), and a Ph.D. in political science, all from the University of Colorado Boulder.

Point, set, match. You don't go to a car mechanic if you're having a heart attack. Pielke isn't a actual scientist, he's a political scientist who doesn't understand real science enough to make use of it, but he has a big enough mouth and the tenacity of diarrhea of that same orifice to gather a following of other incredibly intentionally ignorant dipshits who's world view his basic stupidity confirms.

If we're losing more money to natural disasters because we have more money in general, we be losing more money to ALL natural disaster types across the board, not just seeing a spike from weather related ones.

This Pielke numbnut is basically like a radical religious homeschooled idiot trying to debunk The Theory of Natural Selection using the Bible; only already true believers without a functioning ability to use logic will agree with his clearly incorrect screed.

Yes, like Laetrile. That wonder drug saved so many lives and cured cancer and made hair grow back and... wait... what? Cyanide kills people? No shit. Well, at least it made some con artists a bunch of money while it was killing people because they took it instead of medicine that might actually have helped.

Plover said it perfectly in a post above:

More on point, all this study says is that, once again, we have a bunch of stupid fucking ignorant people in the US who don't even have a passing acquaintance with reality.

I'm immediately reminded of the "news" articles about about the "religious archeologist" who found a sliver of iron from a site in Israel, and pronounced they had found a nail from the crucifixion. What a complete pile of bullshit you get anymore when some social science dumbass tries to figure out anything.

.... and it was just as sensitive back in the 1970's when the courts said police could use it without a warrant (Smith v Maryland). Does no one remember the past anymore?

I'd argue that you don't have a basic understanding of tyranny. I'd also argue that you need to spend a few bucks on a dictionary and look up words before you use them. I'd also argue you need to go back to a 10th grade US History and Government class, and actually pay attention this time around.

Conservatives like to often bring up that we are a republican, not a democracy. Part of the reason is they never met a poly sci class they could pass, but the other reason i'm sure is they somehow want to equate the name of their party, "republican," as somehow innately better because it's named after what our founders called our form of government. They also like to point out that our founders, in various writings, explicitly talk about the negatives of "democracy," and did not want one in this country. This is where the lack of being able to understand the basics of government seem to drag them into intentional ignorance.

The only form of "democracy" around when our founding fathers set up the Constitution was what we now call "direct democracy." It's basically what Switzerland has, where everyone gets to vote on whether people, or smaller groups of people, have the same rights as everyone else.... which was a bad thing from our founding fathers viewpoint; they called this the "tyranny of the majority," because after a vote of all the people, there were no safeguards for any minorities rights. This "tyranny of the majority," it should be noted, is exactly what conservatives try to invoke when the ask to put same-sex marriage up for a vote so the voters can decide. THAT is tyranny.

Because of the way the world of politics and government has evolved, there are multiple types of democracy now. One of those types is a "representative democracy," which is what we have. It is the same thing as a "constitutional republic." We vote for representatives, who then are stewards of the country until they're out of office. They in turn vote for the various laws, rules, and regulations to govern our country. BECAUSE they pass a law you don't like, doesn't mean jack shit. If it passes constitutional muster (which the ACA HAS), it is not "tyranny of the majority," it is simply a law YOU don't agree with.

Now... my advice to you is, buy that dictionary, and go on back to high school and learn something.

Perhaps you're too young to remember what he's alluding to.

In the "old" days (way back in the 60's and early 70's), your phone bill came with an extra charge that was MANDATORY called "phone rental." You were required to pay for renting the actual phone that sat in your house. You were barred from using any phone that was not provided by the phone company. There were lawsuits, and it was eventually ruled that a common carrier could not tether their service to rental of equipment that only they were allowed to provide.

In more recent times, the shift from government protecting consumers to government being bought by corporations has led to the whole locked cell phones and ISP's charging rental for modems they require you to rent from them.