Ironclad wrote:Fucking mother fuckers, do you sons of bee-hatches really have to spill minor flame-wars & straw-man this - straw-man that into every sacred nook and cranny? Really? This was just about little birdys you humps.. shit!
* hastily searches internet thesaurus for other word like 'sacred' *
Isn't anything err.. inviolable anymore?
*wipe brow*
Seth wrote:Fuck that, I like opening Pandora's box and shoving my tool inside it
Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
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Tourism? You could recompense that way.Seth wrote:No, in point of fact they were not. They did not arrive there till more than 20 years after my family bought the ranch and began vigorous conservation efforts to rebuild the ecosystem, which had been devastated by over-grazing and cultivation.Gawdzilla wrote:The eagles were there first.
When I arrived, the place was denuded of almost all vegetation, and there were very few trees suitable for eagle nests, and nothing for them to eat.
Over the next few decades, my efforts (as ranch manager) recovered the pastures and made them healthy, and permitted the growth of trees along the riparian corridor along the creek that flows through the property. These trees contributed to the abundance of prey species that took residence, and a carefully-managed prairie dog population brought raptors to the property, which was a particular priority for us.
They also grew into suitable nesting trees.
The eagles arrived to nest in 1985, and have nested there every year since, thanks to our efforts at creating both a suitable nesting and foraging environment for them, and our willingness to preserve that environment at our own expense.
I'm sure he wouldn't have done it he knew it might cost him some money.Ein Ubootsoldat wrote:“Ich melde mich ab. Grüssen Sie bitte meine Kameraden.”
Ein Ubootsoldat wrote:“Ich melde mich ab. Grüssen Sie bitte meine Kameraden.”
We don't know if it was co-operative however.Clinton Huxley wrote:Seth's parents worked together to create him. Bloody socialists!
Ein Ubootsoldat wrote:“Ich melde mich ab. Grüssen Sie bitte meine Kameraden.”
Feck wrote:I'm sorry that my outburst was in the lounge .
Maybe they found Seth in a tree?Gawdzilla wrote:We don't know if it was co-operative however.Clinton Huxley wrote:Seth's parents worked together to create him. Bloody socialists!
You are going to cop a reply so long and detailed, it may actually bust the Ratz server.Gawdzilla wrote:That's the problem with folks who "only want to pay for what I use". The Interstate Highway System in the US connects the whole country, so we can share, explore and develop. But you can't do that if it's not a national effort. I remember the 1960s, when I could be on a two lane highway that turned into an Interstate and then back into a two lane highway a few miles down the road (especially when we crossed a state line.) Only an effort on a national level made it possible for our 4,000,000+ miles of paved roads to be so "user friendly". It's theoretically possible for someone to travel from San Diego to the top of Maine without ever hitting a stop light. You can't do that with "I'll pay only for what I'm using." Seth, what happens to the highways when you're not using them? And, if you buy food in a store, how do you even know what parts you're using. The power for your computer, was it produced locally? Or did somebody build a network of power companies and they buy and sell available power amongst them.
You can bunker down and claim to be "independent", but if you're not living in a cave and wearing animal skins, you're part of a larger whole. It's ironic that the opportunity to be a selfish bastard comes because so many people worked together to give you the option to act that way.
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