“The biggest Burmese python ever caught in Florida’s wild has been captured in the Everglades, US scientists say.
The snake measuring 17ft 7in (5.18m) and weighing 164lb (74kg) was found in Everglades National Park, the University of Florida announced.
The python – now dead – was pregnant with 87 eggs, also believed to be a record.”
I don’t know a lot about pythons but I thought it might be an endangered species and checked. It is. In its native habitat its numbers are plunging. So why is the USA killing them off? Because it eats birds and mammals in the Florida Everglades. If ever there was a reason to deport a species back to its native land this is it.
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Actually USA slaughters thousands of people all over the world, USA used dirty nuclear bombs (depleted uranium) in Iraq and Serbia, USA stages anti-people revolutions all over the world and is preparing to kill its own citizens.
And you care about a python?
And you care about a python?
He meant the programming language. You see, he had too much corn.
He meant the programming language.
So Google and Python’s benevolent tyrant are to blame for braking backward compatibility. But it is not a rare gift in the FLOSS world
You see the FLOSS people are so advanced enlightened, they want to implement brand new features (like a clumsy clone of Mac interface — Unity, or another clone of 15 years old game, or something like a Windows registry) that they simply do not care about anything that can be characterized with “backward”.
Maybe one day they will create a working clone of Active Directory for Linux. Or an AAA game. Or a good open source video driver, or will be able to support current OpenGL specification. Or something else.
braking backward compatibility
What a funny mipsinrt!
Wherever the Burmese python is endangered, those nation/s should be invited to take as many as they can catch from the Florida Everglades. It’s not the United States responsibility to ship the critters out to their native habitats.
They are an invasive species in the Everglades and are totally screwing up the balance of nature there. If their native countries don’t want to spend the money to ship them out then they will end up as lunch meat at the local prison.
Well, then better elect Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan. They’ll sure take care of these illegal immigrants. But as for serving them as lunch… I don’t know. Wouldn’t it be better to serve them prisoners as lunch? The prisons are overcrowded. Cheap solutions are rare. And this one you get for free. Almost like Debian GNU/Linux. As the UN charter isn’t really important in the US, it should be doable. Perhaps make a spectator sport out of it while you’re at it.
kozmcrae wrote, “It’s not the United States responsibility to ship the critters out to their native habitats.”
As all humans do, USA has a responsibility to protect biodiversity. No doubt the world would gladly pay for shipping costs and perhaps collecting the animals as well if the USA cannot afford it. It’s is strange to hear that USA which is one of the wealthiest countries on the planet and apparently can afford over-priced IT cannot afford a simple means of making the world a better place. USA / FL could boost tourism by creating “python parks” where the animals could be enclosed, protected, fed and bred with an export to native habitats.
Robert Pogson wrote:
“As all humans do, USA has a responsibility to protect biodiversity.”
Killing the snakes *is* protecting the biodiversity of he Everglades. The pythons are stressing the natural fauna. To let the snakes take over the Everglades would be to sacrifice its entire ecosystem. All that to become a snake farm for one species in a few habitats? How many species have to disappear in the Everglades to call it even?
Let the Burmese come in and trap all the snakes they want. From what I understand there are tens of thousands of them. It’s enough of a job just to try to eliminate them. To add to that the job of making sure you have the right ones and shipping them out is a lot to ask even for a rich country like the USA. Working together with another country would make a lot more sense.
The current wisdom is that the Burmese python will never be eradicated from the Florida Everglades. That means it will never face extinction. There will always be pythons in the Everglades if Burma/Myanmar runs out of them.
Actually USA slaughters thousands of people all over the world, USA used dirty nuclear bombs (depleted uranium) in Iraq and Serbia, USA stages anti-people revolutions all over the world and is preparing to kill its own citizens.
US government kill people. Burmese government kill people. People kill people.
Welcome to Earth, iLiA and CW!
Wherever the Burmese python is endangered, those nation/s should be invited to take as many as they can catch from the Florida Everglades. It’s not the United States responsibility to ship the critters out to their native habitats.
The declining population of Burmese pythons in native habitats is mainly due to illegal pet trade. Demands of exotic pets from afflunent countries and poverty provide incentives for poachers and smugglers to capture and export them for income. This is not just a problem specific to the Burmese python or snakes in general but also lorises, gorillas, parrots, etc. and there is no way to stop it from happening unless all the underlying soical issues are resolved on both ends of the trade and everything in between. International efforts have hardly stopped diamonds from getting out of conflict zones – let alone a variety of animal species you can hardly identify without looking up a book or two out of everywhere.