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i feel bad for infinityshock
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2019-03-14 at 10:06 PM UTChurrrr
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2019-03-14 at 10:48 PM UTCHe can't just "put a stop to it". There are only limited options, when you back yourself into a corner due to your own incompetence.
1. ban every IP on the Innernetz
2. ban every user on the Innernetz
3. Close registration
4. Bitch and post meaningless comments and then point fingers at everyone else for your own failings
5. Fix your fuckups and do the right thing
There are your options for such a situation. -
2019-03-14 at 11:26 PM UTCban muh plurals
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2019-03-14 at 11:37 PM UTC
Originally posted by -SpectraL He can't just "put a stop to it". There are only limited options, when you back yourself into a corner due to your own incompetence.
1. ban every IP on the Innernetz
2. ban every user on the Innernetz
3. Close registration
4. Bitch and post meaningless comments and then point fingers at everyone else for your own failings
5. Fix your fuckups and do the right thing
There are your options for such a situation.
Imagine if he was your son spectral.
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2019-03-14 at 11:39 PM UTCI would be SO proud.
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2019-03-14 at 11:43 PM UTC
Originally posted by -SpectraL I'll bet you're not afraid of wild turkeys either.
Everyone stops their cars in California for them. some afraid to run them over and some to take photos. Again, I don't know who the fuck brought them to California, but I never grew up seeing turkeys before. it happen 10-15 years ago and they're everywhere now. they breed like rabbits almost. nice for the homeless to eat. I would kill one if I was on the street. I mean shit, you can walk right up to them. They don't fear cars.
they cause accidents. Who the hell brought them out this way? Climate change? -
2019-03-14 at 11:49 PM UTCHank Hatebeak
the vicious Turkey of Santa Cruz. Fucking hunting ranches let them go
stalks a UC Santa Cruz parking lot during the daylight hours, threatening those who come too close to his turf. His adoring fans have endowed him (and his offspring) with a Facebook fan page. The students even gave him a name — Hank Hatebeak. And he has a bad habit of attacking car tires while they’re in motion:
But here’s the thing about Hank Hatebeak and the rest of the wild turkeys around here: they’re newcomers — at least, in this geologic epoch — to the Bay Area. When I was an undergrad at UCSC 10 years ago, I never once saw a turkey. Friends and professors with whom I spoke all said the same thing. And my father, who grew up in the heavily forested woodland behind Stanford, never once saw one during his youth.
Now wild turkeys are so common (and brazen) that they’re chasing people daily in Santa Cruz and Berkeley. Indeed, Berkeleyside has been documenting the myriad sightings (and attacks) in Berkeley since 2012.
“Originally, these turkeys were brought for hunting at private hunting clubs and on state-managed lands … it’s been sort of a continued population growth from that time, from the 1950s to the 1980s, when these releases were happening.”
Still, it seems a bit weird that a big urban area would be such a great environment for these wild animals. So what exactly is it that’s bringing wild turkeys to the urban parts of the Bay Area — especially towns like Berkeley and Santa Cruz?
Apparently, it’s been a long journey here for our feathered frenemies. Alan Krakauer, a UC Davis biology professor who specializes in the behavioral ecology of birds, explained that turkeys were brought back to California in the mid-20th century. “Originally, these turkeys were brought for hunting at private hunting clubs and on state-managed lands,” said Dr. Krakauer. “It’s been sort of a continued population growth from that time, from the 1950s to the 1980s, when these releases were happening.”
The wild turkeys’ range once extended across most of the United States, and the birds were a common sight in New England around the time of the Revolutionary War. Founding-father Benjamin Franklin famously defended the bird’s “respectability” as a symbol — though he did not, as the legend goes, propose outright that we use the turkey (rather than the bald eagle) as the symbol of the country.
Wild turkeys were almost eliminated from the United States between the late 1800s and early 1900s, said Krakauer. “Now that we have more regulations on when and where you can hunt, that’s made a big difference in the recovery of these populations … you don’t see people in the middle of these urban areas hunting them.” Hence, without any predators, once they invade an urban area, they can be hard to get rid of.
Plus, wild turkeys love all the open space in the Bay Area: Tilden Park, the vast wilderness of the Santa Cruz mountains and all our other open-space preserves, nestled between populous towns, make for good living for wild turkeys. But problems arise when brazen turkeys like Hank Hatebeak venture to the edge of the wilderness and hang out around people (and cars).
Native Bay Area residents might wonder whether the turkeys are technically transplants. “It’s a contentious issue: whether to call turkeys in California ‘native’ or ‘introduced,’” said Dr. Krakauer. Turkeys have certainly been in California before. Wild turkeys are one of the most common fossils found in the La Brea tar pits and were present in Southern California in the Pleistocene. But “most of the introduced ones here were brought from the Texas or Oklahoma area,” said Krakauer. “The landscape here is similar, so the turkeys adapted easily to California.”
Still, with Thanksgiving around the corner, you might be thinking what I’m thinking: there sure are a lot of these birds in parts of the Bay Area, and many of them are quite big. And plump. Could a hungry, carnivorous citizen, er, kill and eat one?
“You’d need to check with the city or county,” said Krakauer, laughing. “I don’t think you can just go into Tilden and shoot.”
The long answer to this question is “It’s complicated.” You need a permit, which can take a while, and the hunting season is open only for a month this year — from November 12 to December 11. (The SF Chronicle put together a guide last year as to where and how to hunt turkey.) In other words, in lieu of a rogue coyote or mountain lion busting in, Hank Hatebeak is untouchable, the king of UC Santa Cruz — and our cars will just have to take his abuse. -
2019-03-14 at 11:55 PM UTCITT EVERYONE HAS THE MORAL OBLIGATION TO EAT MORE CHICKEN!
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2019-03-15 at 12:04 AM UTC
Originally posted by Krow Everyone stops their cars in California for them. some afraid to run them over and some to take photos. Again, I don't know who the fuck brought them to California, but I never grew up seeing turkeys before. it happen 10-15 years ago and they're everywhere now. they breed like rabbits almost. nice for the homeless to eat. I would kill one if I was on the street. I mean shit, you can walk right up to them. They don't fear cars.
they cause accidents. Who the hell brought them out this way? Climate change?
Learn to clean turkeys, entice and then murder them all, sell their frozen carcasses for big $$$. -
2019-03-15 at 12:04 AM UTCwhy isn't he spamming the forum is dead :(
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2019-03-15 at 12:05 AM UTC
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2019-03-15 at 12:17 AM UTC
Originally posted by -SpectraL He can't just "put a stop to it". There are only limited options, when you back yourself into a corner due to your own incompetence.
1. ban every IP on the Innernetz
2. ban every user on the Innernetz
3. Close registration
4. Bitch and post meaningless comments and then point fingers at everyone else for your own failings
5. Fix your fuckups and do the right thing
There are your options for such a situation.
There's way more options than that. For one, he could just shadow ban the dude, that way he'd have to check to see if his posts show up for other people every time he tries to spam. Shadow banning of course means that he's the only one that would see his posts. That would inconvenience him quite a lot, and the IPs that he's checking from would be found out pretty quick.
Lanny likes to f i l t e r words so much, it wouldn't be difficult at all for him to come up with an easy solution. So I think he really just enjoys the spamming, and may actually be infinityshock. -
2019-03-15 at 12:34 AM UTCHow do you shadow ban someone that uses different accounts and IP addresses every day?
fucking retards.. this is how we are able to get away with spamming you idiots because you are too dumb to realize whats going on. The ONLY thing that works is closing registration which is a victory for us because it means nobody can join the forum and it slowly dies. -
2019-03-15 at 12:42 AM UTC
Originally posted by We'reAllBrownNosers There's way more options than that. For one, he could just shadow ban the dude, that way he'd have to check to see if his posts show up for other people every time he tries to spam. Shadow banning of course means that he's the only one that would see his posts. That would inconvenience him quite a lot, and the IPs that he's checking from would be found out pretty quick.
Nah, doesn't work that way, bud. -
2019-03-15 at 12:52 AM UTC
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2019-03-15 at 12:52 AM UTCAMATEURS!
ITS LIKE YOU PEOPLE NEVER SPAMMED A FORUM
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2019-03-15 at 1:03 AM UTCShut the fuck up Acronym.
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2019-03-15 at 1:04 AM UTC
Originally posted by Ghost How do you shadow ban someone that uses different accounts and IP addresses every day?
fucking retards.. this is how we are able to get away with spamming you idiots because you are too dumb to realize whats going on. The ONLY thing that works is closing registration which is a victory for us because it means nobody can join the forum and it slowly dies.
There are easy ways. -
2019-03-15 at 1:06 AM UTC
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2019-03-15 at 1:13 AM UTC
