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Comment Public Lands (Score 1) 65

This is especially concerning due to the ever decreasing levels of public land available. I hunt and participate in wildlife conservation. The North American model of conservation has been the most successful of any other model in the world. Sure, many species suffered before regulations were in place. But, since then we've brought several species (whitetail deer, turkey) from the brink of extinction and from the Pittman-Robertson act the participants contribute to the conservation of wildlife and public lands. The ever reducing volume of public land threatens access to participate in this conservation. It also further cements the wider public's need for a commercial solution for something as simple as food. I don't depend on hunting to feed my family, but we eat wild game year-long a couple nights a week. Currently, I have a sense of food security for my family because I participate in a regulated natural system that anyone can participate in. With the increasing development of land and further lack of opportunities for future generations the only option is to depend on commercial systems. The lands held in trust for the public should not be allowed to dwindle forcing a profitable wedge to be driven between people and the land they have natural rights to.

Comment As a squirrel hunter (Score 4, Interesting) 45

I can attest, when the woods assume natural sounds of 'chatter' and being, squirrels are active. If a person, or bird, or another animal, or whatever, alerted, they will become alerted as well. During this time they'll hunker down, sometimes in place by flattening themselves on the limb they stand, for 20-30 min until 'normal' activity resumes. That's why sometimes, if a hunter suspects being detected, they take two quarters with the ridges on the outside, and rub them together. This is a good imitation of the sound of squirrels cutting (eating) various nuts. It relaxes the squirrels and encourages them to resume normal behavior. Same with some aggressive rustling of leaves, imitates the sound of a squirrel burying or foraging. TL;DR Natural sounds are relaxing, but they also know when other species become alerted to a threat and act accordingly.

Comment Muscle memory (Score 5, Insightful) 42

A physiological theory for something that's been observed and widely believed true, that it's easier to regain lost muscle size/strength than to develop the same for the first time. I wonder over what timeframe this effect could be observed, months, years? Interestingly, this is also an argument against transgender athletes, who were born male but transition to female, competing in female competition. Even though you may be on hormone therapy to get a few markers within a certain range, your training history as a male still provides an unfair advantage as muscle satellite cells will still contribute to strength and hypertrophy even with varying hormone levels.

Comment click-click-click-click (Score 2, Interesting) 585

How about the click-click-click-click-click-click-click of someone directly behind me in class. After about the 20th click or so, less if they text slower, I start to feel a rage. I don't even own a cell phone, way overrated. Oh, and spare me the "But you'd be glad you had one if......", even in hindsight, never would a situation have been resolved better with a cell phone. Believe it or not, you can stay outside the bubble, and things happen just as fast or slow as they do in it.

Comment Time to shoot (Score 1) 830

What's interesting is watching the clock on the stove count about an hour total to film this 6 minutes. Yet everything they say just has that nonstop cheesy flow. Multiple takes or they actually managed to cut out the 'cheesier' parts and still leave us with this? One thing this does is open to plenty of parody, which is still much desired attention. Imagine the mock launch parties... windows 7 porn party, windows 7 BSOD party, windows 7 installation sleepover.

Comment bbs.l0pht.com (Score 2, Interesting) 110

a comeback is logging into bbs.l0pht.com via p23. a comeback is chatting with razer or dark dante on darkcartel.com... a comeback is beigeboxing on ess. nostalgia is great, i live for it. but as for l0pht there is no 'comeback'. only born anew as something worthy to this 'generation'. what you got up your sleeve now?

Comment Atoms Maybe. (Score 1) 2

I always like to compare galaxies with their stars and such orbiting a black hole to a single atom, being orbited by electrons and such. What if at the center of every atom lived a black hole that couldn't be observed much like at the heart of every galaxy contains a black hole which can't directly be observed. What if our universe was just one spec orbiting a much larger 'central' mass. Given the fractal nature of our universe none of this seems at all unlikely to people like me.

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