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Comment PETA is anti-hunting which = anti-animal (Score 1) 370

The vast majority of the money used for land management comes from hunting and fishing license sales, and the same people buying those licenses make up a bulk of membership in the non-profits that actually care about animals (World Wildlife Federation, Trout Unlimited etc). Additionally, many hunters manage their own private land to naturally support healthy animal populations (this is how it's done where I hunt). PETA has never done anything to help any animal in anything but a crazy stupid way to get attention and get more members to get more money. As a non-profit their administrative costs are astronomical, meaning the people in charge get paid A LOT. And by opposing hunting, and opposing everything else that they oppose, and basically through every action they take, PETA is the most anti-animal, anti-conservation group that exists. I've seen piles of deer congregated to die of starvation and mange, smelled it and heard the disturbing noises they make when it happens. The most generous thing one could say about PETA is that they are pro this, and the truth is that they are far worse than that. Anyone that cares about animals should oppose PETA more than any other group. I would guess that, as a comment above mentioned, PETA is over-charging their members for cheap drones because, as usual, PETA exists to extract money from their membership.
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AP Will Sell You a "License" To Words It Doesn't Own 340

James Grimmelmann performed an experiment using the AP's form to request a license to use more than four consecutive words from one of their articles. Except that he didn't paste in words from the (randomly chosen) article, but instead used 26 words written by Thomas Jefferson 196 years ago: If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea. The AP cheerfully charged him $12 to use Jefferson's 26 words. Both Boing Boing and TechDirt have picked up the story so far. Grimmelmann adds an update to his blog: the AP has rescinded his license to Jefferson's words and issued a refund for his $12. They did not exhibit the grace to admit that their software is brain-dead.
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Submission + - How do you re-sell a domain name?

dclayman writes: What's the best way to go about selling a domain? I've never sold a domain before. I just received a $400 offer for a domain I own (radicaltrust), but I don't know if I should sell it or auction it off. And if I auction it, what site should I use? eBay? I could really use the extra cash. I was hoping to get some ideas from others here at Slashdot.
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How Scientific Paradigms Relate 163

Here is a giant chart mapping relationships among scientific paradigms, as published in the journal Nature. This map was constructed by sorting roughly 800,000 published papers into 776 different scientific paradigms (shown as pale circular nodes) based on how often the papers were cited together by authors of other papers. Information Esthetics, an organization founded by map co-creator W. Bradford Paley, is giving away 25" x 24" prints of the Map of Science (you pay postage and handling via PayPal). There are also links to a 3000+ pixel wide jpg of the chart. It would be all one long spectrum except for Computer Science, which makes the connection (via AI) between the hard sciences and the soft sciences.

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