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Don’t be surprised if you start seeing more and more bears in Georgia[^]
Bears have been sighted in areas that they have not been seen before. (At least not since neighborhoods started going in.) Likely a result of much less cars on the road making it less scary for bears to wander around looking for food.
 The unintended consequences.
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I had heard that Maryland and Main are both experiencing similar happenings with dear and moose. I am sure it this way for all areas in the world and its local wildlife.
We humans are really parasites to this earth and a scourge to its original inhabitants, IMHO. Earth was just fine without us. (Many will argue that I am full of crap here, but I don't care. lol)
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Slacker007 wrote: Many will argue that I am full of crap here
With this group? My bet is more agree with you than disagree.
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Just curious, I assume you are saying we are parasites because we are bad for local wildlife? (Probably an oversimplification).
So, are bear's parasites? Fish population would go up without them.
Most everything will take from nature.
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We are bad for everything.
We kill flora and fauna and we take, take, take.
We take plants, animals, water, sand, dirt, rocks, minerals, metals and we spew pollution in its place.
And with nearly 8 billion people we do so at an alarming pace.
In fact, we're not only killing plants and animals, I am pretty certain we'll end up killing ourselves.
If not from global warming, we'll all die from pollution or maybe some nuclear war because we're all fighting over the last bits of resources.
Did you know we'll have an alarming sand shortage (used for building houses) within 30 years if we don't come up with an alternative?
It's not even a matter of if, but when.
Sure, a bear eats a fish, but it doesn't kill all fish until there are no more left, like we are currently doing.
Basically every other plant and animal keeps the ecosystem in balance, except us.
We destroy the ecosystem until nothing but we can live in it.
That's why we're parasites 
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Sander Rossel wrote: within 30 years if we don't come up with an alternative?
It's not even a matter of if, but when.
Could be. But I've been hearing the same doom and gloom stories all my life and none of them have actually happened. Zero.
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I hope you're right.
We'll see in thirty years.
Maybe later.
Maybe not us, but your children or their children.
The fact is that our resources aren't endless, while people are.
I'm just sort of thankful I'll probably have died a natural dead before sh*t really hits the fan 
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ZurdoDev wrote: Most everything will take from nature.
but humans take too much. We don't take what we need, we take what we want.
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Slacker007 wrote: but humans take too much. We don't take what we need, we take what we want.
Hey, who you calling fat? Is my web cam on?
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I've heard that if all worms and insects are exterminated today, then all life will end on this earth in 2 or 3 years. Same with any other non-human species.
But, if humans were to get exterminated today from the surface of our earth, then all other life will actually FLOURISH.
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Amarnath S wrote: Same with any other non-human species.
Except mosquitoes I think.
Those buggers are really just here to bug us.
Probably our only real natural enemy.
They kill more than 14 times as many people a year than the number 2 deadliest animal, snakes.
Perhaps if mosquitoes disappeared, all life would end because we could flourish instead
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And just how are humans NOT original inhabitants of this planet Earth?
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answer depends on whether or not you believe in the creation story Genesis creation narrative - Wikipedia[^].
If you believe in evolution then you know without a doubt that animals were first, humans later. And the human evolution started as primates. Homo Sapiens (us, more or less) showing up in Europe around 70-100 thousand year's ago, originally migrating from Africa.
Our ancestors only hunted and gathered what they needed, not what they wanted. We, present day, can't even do that. As a species, we suck.
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By that logic anything before the first replicating protein is not an original inhabitant.
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I live about ten minutes walking from the forest. On my way up there, I quite frequently see moose in between the houses, passing through the gardens.
Old people tell that before the houses were built, there was a moose track there, a path where the moose used to walk. Today, they walk exactly the same path, crossing road where the road was built over that track, through the grvove between the houses, and through the gardens where the track used to run.
But those houses and gardens are like 40 years old! How many moose generations is that? I guess the calves learn where to go from their mothers, yet: for 40 years? They must jump over fences, cross the road twice, humans are around everywhere... One would think that they would consider making a new path. But something makes them insist that This Is THe Way.
This is not a corona phenomenon, so it is not an exact parallel. But if those bears have inherited the urge to walk exactly that path, for 40 years, but the human activity has been the drop making the cup run over, it could be similar to the moose in my area.
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I think I saw that video on youtube or netflix about the moose. Very interesting.
Are they protected or can you hunt them? I bet that's a lot of meat.
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Moose hunting is a big activity in Norway - by far the most important game (and the reason why so many people in Norway have weapons!) According to Norwegian Wikipedia, 30,000 animals are hunted ever year. (Scaling it up by population size, that would be 1.8 millon in the USA.) A male is usually around 500 kg, a female 300-350 kg - so you are right: That is a lot of meat! Yet, you won't find much of it in the grocery stores. The hunters want it all to themselves ... and I am not a hunter, so I havent tasted moose for several years.
The hunting authorities regulate the hunt quite strictly: Essentially, hunting is allowed only during October, and one hunting party is alotted so-and-so many males, so-and-so many adult females, and so-and-so many calves (typically 3-6 in total for a party, which may have typically 5-15 members). The number is set based on the number of observed animals the previous year(s) and how much nutrition is available in the area; if the food supply has been abundant for several years, fewer calves and females are taken out, for the population to grow. If it is appearent that they have a food shortage, more are hunted to reduced the size to what the vegetation can support.
Fun fact (or at least a fun story - I believe that it is true!): About a hundred years ago, moose riding was forbidden by law in Sweden. The reason was that smugglers up north, smuggling goods over the border to Finland, had trained moose like horses to carry goods through the dense forests, across the border. (In some areas, there were a number of semi-domesticated moose in those days; I believe some farmes event tried using them to pull the plow.) The police and customs officers were riding horses, that could certainly run fast on the roads, but in the dense forests and ragged terrain, they were hindered by branches and logs and creeks. To the moose, this was their home, they just rushed on, with the smuggler as jockey and the goods tied to his back. In order to curb this activty, moose riding was made illegal.
(I am not sure when this was, it may have been back in the 1800s)
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The world's northernmost brewey, Mack in Tromsø, Norway, makes a beer they call "Polar beer". Guess what the the labels look like!
They claim to be the first beer to both the North and South Poles: Our history - Mack[^], so you can't accuse them of false advertising
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Well, I am going to have to approach the monster and take the bull by the horns. My primary C: drive is full (and I mean F.U.L.L.) so I guess it is time to reformat and reinstall Windows 10 and all the dev and games stuff. THis is going to take a while - I need to clear the 1GB SSD (save all important stuff) reformat, and then reload all the software, some of which I have no idea what it does. Have to take proper use of the other 2 1GB SSDs for installation. This is going to take a while....
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1GB? No wonder it's full.
1TB? How could it be full?
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Greg Utas wrote: 1TB? How could it be full?
Windows 10
90GB of music
Thousands of high-resolution pictures of my two greyhounds, Bacchus and Hera
My daughter's wedding pictures and videos
Several classic TV series in their entirety
Visual Studio 2008, 2015, and 2019
A copy of almost every piece of code I've ever written
Copies of current work projects and related data
...
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote: Windows 10
Visual Studio 2008, 2015, and 2019
It shouldn't be more than 300 Gb even installing all options.
Gary R. Wheeler wrote: 90GB of music
Thousands of high-resolution pictures of my two greyhounds, Bacchus and Hera
My daughter's wedding pictures and videos
Several classic TV series in their entirety
A copy of almost every piece of code I've ever written
Copies of current work projects and related data
Secondary partition (or even better a secondary drive)
M.D.V. 
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote: my two greyhounds, Bacchus and Hera
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Bacchus is named for the Greek and Roman god of wine and revelry. My wife picked his name based on his picture before we got him. When we picked him up, the folks who fostered him told us he didn't bark, just whined. [rim-shot]
Hera is also named appropriately. She's the dominant of the two, so being named after Zeus' wife (boss lady) is also appropriate.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I have moved all my several hundred CDs over to a harddisk (magnetic, not flash) on my PC. The 7-800 vinyls have been digitized. I had a couple hundred CCs with rips of "strange" music that has never been available in the record shops around here. I also have a large collection of radio plays captured over the last 30 years. So my "Sound" disk has 1.5 TB of data at the moment (with 2.5 TB to go before it is full).
Sound is really nothing: I got my first digital video camera almost 25 years ago (earlier than anyone I know personally) - that really pulls some gigabytes! Especially after I upgraded to HD equipment. Before going digital, I had ten years of analog video, which I have digitized. And before that, I had Super-8 movies, in my early childhood my parents had a standard 8mm camera ("double 8mm") - all of that I have had scanned to digital format. The video fills up more than 2 TB of my "private" disk.
The (still) "Photos" directory on the "private" disk will grow quite a bit once I get through the several thousand film negatives I have from my younger years as an eager amateur photographer. I also have collected old photo albums from all sorts of relatives, with photos all the way back to the start of the 20th century, from when my grandmother was a young girl. I do not yet know how much space it will require when I have completed scanning of it all - my back-of-envelope estimates says in the order of 1 TB.
I have got a quite large collection of DVD/Bluray movies. There is a small problem: I have bought a lot of movies from non-European countries (mostly USA, of course, but some from Latin America, Australia, Japan, ...). For DVDs, I had a modification to my player to make it "region free", able to play DVDs from all over the world. For Bluray, I have no similar mod. So to watch the movie, I must rip the entire disc to the PC, using a ripper ignoring the zone protection. That has lead me to do with movies as I did with CDs: Move them all over to the PC. (I use the same screen/projector with the settop player as with my PC; the viewing is the same.) This job is not yet complete; at the time, almost 7 TB has been moved over. Before the job is done, I will have to buy another 8 TB "DVD/BD"-harddisk. They are down to around USD 200 today; compared to the cost of the DVD/BDs, that is "small change".
If I had kept my CC and vinyl players alive, or spent hours searching through my CD collection to find a recording, if I had the 8mm projector ready to use, the VHS player, the Video-8 and DV cameras lined up next to the DVD/BD player and disc collection and the old photo albums -- then I guess my PC would be satisfied with a couple of TB disk space. But it sure is convenient to have it all one place, where I can search for a given movie, song, or image by title or metadata, rather than endless searhes through my bookshelves. Also, making backups for off-site storage is far easier. (For CD, DVD and BDs I consider the original disk to be a good enough backup.)
Thinking of my very first harddisk of 40 Mbyte ...
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