How to Get Rid of a Critter Problem.


Do you have a problem with squirrels, chipmunks, or other outdoor critters? If so, there's now a solution - the squirrel catapult. Hit play or go to the http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6245089974900018205 [Google Video] to watch this useful, and less cruel than poison or a gun, homemade contraption. via Random Good Stuff.

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This is AWESOME!!!
And all you bed-wetting tree-huggers make me want to vomit. This is what you call "exercising your dominion."
It's a stinkin' rat with a bushy tail people.
Get real...
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I must say, there are some fun comments around here. One of them, however, caught my eye:

# Solo Says:
June 21st, 2007 at 12:29 pm

I hope the squirrel is ok. I think the author should be shot.

Now please, excuse my French, but are you _fucking_ kidding me? You would seriously shoot a human being because he flung a critter across his yard?
You should really re-shuffle your priorities; or maybe you should feed yourself to a crocodile to ease its suffering from food. You know, just a suggestion.
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Poison is cruel, it kills slowly and indiscriminately.

These, at least, get what you wanted to mess-with / hurt / kill. But flying animals will become injured, and injured animals die slowly. So its still cruel.

Guns put a hole in what they are used to shoot. So long as the gun owner is responsible, they kill quickly and kill only what was desired. It might not be pretty, but putting down pests is far less cruel than flinging them to their (eventual) deaths.
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I'm a squirrel and am enjoying your comments here.
A 'rat with a fuzzy tail'- excuse me?
Get a close up look at me- a rat is MUCH cuter.

Anyway, I'll be chewing various holes in your home and pooping all over your attic if you need me?

Think about that, next time you swat a bug or other vermin..
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This is a video of blatant animal cruelty, something I wouldn't expect to see here. As a long time Neato fan I'm really disappointed that you would encourage this kind of behavior. Cruelty towards living creatures is always wrong, period. There are humane ways of dealing with a bothersome animal like humane traps. I'm sure you didn't mean to offend anyone and I'm sure you're a kind person but this was in bad taste. If I see something like this here ago I won't be coming back.
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One thinks immediately of the autistic savants who have perfect memory of all the events of their life, including eidetic images of every page of every book they have looked at.

It emphasizes how pitifully little of our brains we utilize on a regular basis.
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The brain might have a TOTAL capacity of around 2.5 petabytes - but how much space does the multi-tasking, multi-threaded, realtime embedded OS with all of it's 24/7 monitoring/managing utility apps use up?
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I've asked this question before- not to anyone who would be likely to know the answer, just people who I thought would find it an interesting question whose ough,der-of-magnitude answer might tell us quite a lot. Similarly, I asked questions about how much ram we have,and how many operations per second we can perform.

What I usually got back was a strong sense that somehow the brain just doesn't work this way. That memories and working memory aren't measurable in bits, and thinking isn't measurable in numbers of logical operations or big-O notation.

I'm glad to see a more numerical answer to this kind of question, even if it is (necessarily) very approximate.
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**FACT CHECK**
Actually, there are over 100 Billion neurons in the brain and since the connections for each neuron multiply exponentially (eg. 2 neurons connect twice, 4 neurons connect 64 ways, 8 neurons connect 32,000 ways, etc.) After all is said and done, there are more possible synaptic connections in the human brain than there are particles in the known universe. Far, FAR more than a trillion which really is quite meager compared to the numbers we are talking about here.
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"One thinks immediately of the autistic savants who have perfect memory of all the events of their life, including eidetic images of every page of every book they have looked at.

It emphasizes how pitifully little of our brains we utilize on a regular basis."

I love this myth that we don't use the considerable amount of our brain capacity. Abstract thought of even the most basic sort is the result of the carefully controlled cooperation of numerous disparate regions of the brain. Our brain don't just have huge dead zones.
As for this romantic idea of the autistic savant, it's also silly. The normal human brain receives and processes a massive amount of data every second. It discards the input it deems irrelevant and focuses on the most important. If it didn't, you would be overloaded constantly with trivial, distracting information that impaired your higher functions. This is essentially what disables the autistic. While they may like Temple Grandin be geniuses about very specific topics, they are unable to function on more abstract levels such as comprehending social interaction.
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