daddyholes posted:

Ironicwarcriminal posted:

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/you-die-real-quick-snake-handlers-appeal-after-daughter-bitten-20130521-2jy2y.html

oh shit Raymond Hoser

http://www.selu.edu/acad_research/depts/biol/faculty/pdf/kaiser_et_al2013.pdf

Between January 2000 and September 2012, Raymond Hoser named two superfamilies, one family, three subfamilies, 89 tribes and subtribes, 113 genera, 64 subgenera, 25 species, and 53 subspecies of reptiles, including Old and New World snakes, geckos, skinks, and crocodiles (Table 1). These names constitute 76% of genera and subgenera and 16% of species and subspecies newly proposed for snakes over that time period (Uetz 2012). . . .

Most recently, Hoser (2009a–e, 2012a–ac) has published in the Australasian Journal of Herpetology (AJH), a vehicle produced and mailed by Hoser himself, and primarily geared towards taxonomic articles of which he is the exclusive author and editor. Although the AJH masquerades as a scientific journal, it is perhaps better described as a printed “blog” because it lacks many of the hallmarks of formal scientific communication, and includes much irrelevant information (Ross et al. 2012). Examples of the latter include private email messages in their entirety, as well as polemics against taxonomic herpetologists (e.g., Hoser 2001:48–56; Hoser 2009a:3–21, 30; Hoser 2012a:1–34), taxonomic journals (Zootaxa; Hoser 2012a:15ff), wildlife officials (e.g., Hoser 2012f:12), and even judges in courts of law (e.g., Hoser 2012i:45).

here's an issue of his "journal"

http://www.smuggled.com/AJHI11.pdf

Etymology

Named in honour of herpetologist Pete Whybrow, who has
made a valuable contribution to herpetology in Australia. It is
unfortunate that his head is so large that when his wife Judy
gave birth to his child (named James) the baby’s head was
so large that an assisted birth was necessary.

lmao

Lykourgos posted:

Human geography/Urban studies are you bloody joking mate, unbloodybelievable. at least study something relevant and enriching like the classics. you sound like a fucking american

also i can't take your Noble schtick seriously now that you let it slip in the other thread that you talk about fucking Nikita in real life lol.

Maybe if your precious ancients had given some thought to urban planning and supply chains they wouldn't have been overrun by a bunch of savages lmao

Edited by Ironicwarcriminal (May 23, 2013 19:55:38)

LaserJew posted:

reasons why planes > trains:

1) increased class consciousness by forcing you to trudge past 3 rows of first class on your way to the back 30 rows of coach.

2) more spectacular crashes.

3) better subject for vocal mimicry by humans (neeeeeeeeeeeer, powpowpowpow vs. toot toot; COME ON)

4) 9/11

LaserJew posted:

reasons why planes > trains:

2) more spectacular crashes.

you serious bro? you serious?

train wrecks are so spectacular that "train wreck" has come into usage to describe any spectacular fuck up.

train crashed today in maryland

(CNN) -- A CSX freight train collided with a tractor-trailer and derailed in the Baltimore area Tuesday, officials said, seriously injuring the truck's driver and leading to an explosion that a witness said could be felt blocks away.
The crash happened in Rosedale, just to the east of Baltimore, Baltimore County firefighter Jonathan Meehan said. The truck driver was taken to a hospital, said Baltimore County police and fire spokeswoman Elise Armacost.
An explosion followed, and a resulting hazardous-materials situation prompted the evacuation of a half-mile area, according to a Baltimore County police official who declined to be named, citing department policy.
Later, Armacost said "there is no community evacuation at this time."
Video from CNN affiliate WBAL showed at least five of the train's cars off the track, and white and black smoke rising in separate columns from the wreckage.

while airplanes just explode into bits or whatever the fuck they do when they crash, a train wreck is defiant, it confronts us with itself, the evidence of its wreckage sprawled out in derailed train cars, a monument to disorder and chaos, biohazardous spillage seeping out, totally majestic in its catastrophic spectacle for the epic win even during the most epic fail

LaserJew posted:

1) increased class consciousness by forcing you to trudge past 3 rows of first class on your way to the back 30 rows of coach.

lol if you aren't living the first class life

daddyholes posted:

i like to detonate a bomb on the way through so they have something to mull over for the rest of the flight

TEXAS PENAL CODE § 22.07. TERRORISTIC THREAT.



	(a) A person commits an offense if he threatens to commit any offense

	    involving violence to any person or property with intent to:

		(1)  cause a reaction of any type to his threat by an official or

		     volunteer agency organized to deal with emergencies;

		(2)  place any person in fear of imminent serious bodily injury;            

		(3)  prevent or interrupt the occupation or use of a building, room,

		     place of assembly, place to which the public has access, place

			 of employment or occupation, aircraft, automobile, or other form

			 of conveyance, or other public place;

		(4)  cause impairment or interruption of public communications, public

		     transportation, public water, gas, or power supply or other public

			 service;

		(5)  place the public or a substantial group of the public in fear of

		     serious bodily injury;  or

		(6)  influence the conduct or activities of a branch or agency of the

		     federal government, the state, or a political subdivision of the

			 state.

	(b)  An offense under Subsection (a)(1) is a Class B misdemeanor.            

	(c)  An offense under Subsection (a)(2) is a Class B misdemeanor, except

	     that the offense is a Class A misdemeanor if the offense:

		(1)  is committed against a member of the person's family or household

		     or otherwise constitutes family violence;  or

		(2)  is committed against a public servant.                                   

	(d)  An offense under Subsection (a)(3) is a Class A misdemeanor, unless the

	     actor causes pecuniary loss of $1,500 or more to the owner of the

		 building, room, place, or conveyance, in which event the offense is a

		 state jail felony.

	(e)  An offense under Subsection (a)(4), (a)(5), or (a)(6) is a felony of

	     the third degree.

	(f)  In this section:                                                          

		(1)  "Family" has the meaning assigned by Section 71.003, Family Code.      

		(2)  "Family violence" has the meaning assigned by Section 71.004, Family

		     Code.

		(3)  "Household" has the meaning assigned by Section 71.005, Family Code.   

	(g)  For purposes of Subsection (d), the amount of pecuniary loss is the

	     amount of economic loss suffered by the owner of the building, room,

		 place, or conveyance as a result of the prevention or interruption of the

		 occupation or use of the building, room, place, or conveyance.



Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 883, ch. 399, § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974.  Amended by Acts

1979, 66th Leg., p. 1114, ch. 530, § 2, eff. Aug. 27, 1979;  Acts 1993, 73rd Leg.,

ch. 900, § 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1994;  Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 139, § 1, eff.

Sept. 1, 2003;  Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 388, § 2, eff. Sept. 1, 2003;  Acts 2003,

78th Leg., ch. 446, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2003;  Acts 2005, 79th Leg., ch. 728,

§ 16.003, eff. Sept. 1, 2005.