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Mayonnaise doesn't go bad. It turns into Miracle Whip.
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Some idiots in my area had them as pets with a breeding pair.
Of course, they escaped and I am sure we will be overrun in a few decades.
Team Coyote, do your thing!
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It's just the one species that is a naughty word.
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And I think the assumption that it can chew through internet fiber might make it worse!
Horrible pictures come to mind... LOL
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WE LOVE OUR BEAVERS.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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Leave It to Beaver?[^]
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Did a beaver chew through a cable? Fell a tree that took out infrastructure? Have a burst dam take out infrastructure?
I recall reading that much of North America's topography was shaped by beavers, whose dams backfilled low-lying areas and made them more fertile.
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From what I read, a single beaver felled a tree that took out some fiber optic lines.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I used to work for a power company in Vermont. My boss heard a loud bang at his house and the power goes out. He goes out into his yard and finds a smoking fried squirrel on the ground and the fuse on his utility pole was blown.
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My uncle had the same thing, except it was a squirrel nest on top of a transformer. The casing rusted through and one night during a storm, the transformer exploded.
Software Zen: delete this;
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We lived on Guam in the mid-70’s and occasionally had island wide power outages that were supposedly caused by suicidal snakes crawling into some power stations or whatever.
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But what about the squirrels?!?
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They became squirrel-infused confetti.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Exact same thing has happened to me. Except the power pole was across the county road from my house. Called the utility company and they came out and put a new fuse up on the transformer that fed my house.. . . .and a prickly thing over the terminal where the line attaches to it to attempt to keep the critters from being a conduit for the electricity there.
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/ravi
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Beavers are no laughing matter. They'll build dams wherever they damned well please, causing water streams to get rerouted and causing floods. Destroy a dam and they'll be back at it the next day. And since it's illegal to kill them in Canada, you have to get so-called experts involved.
I witnessed that firsthand 2+ decades ago. I can just imagine the stupid paperwork nowadays.
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And we're just trying to re-introduce them here in the UK...
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Ah man, this is such a rooster-up!
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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It could pretty easily happen here in Michigan too, but I think squirrel-based outages are more common.
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Quit encasing cables in yummy plastics.
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A question on bubble sort got 7 (seven!) solutions at QA .
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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I was was looking for cool 3 line (or less) STL solution from you.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Unfortunately C++ was not allowed: I was was looking for a cool metaprogramming solution by the CodeWitch.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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