16 year old stranded on ice floe, shoots polar bear

[KD5NRH]

EPIRB, is that some kind of location tracker or something?

Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon.

[Perd Hapley]

It's not Emergency Polar bear Interdiction Railgun, Battery-powered? 

Shucks.   

[Balog]

It is a minor thing and I don't get too worked up over it, but calling hunting harvesting has always seemed a little creepy to me.

One can use "harvesting" and it is correct, the same as if one had used "killing." However, neither are an accurate representation of the act of hunting.

[Matthew Carberry]

Chocolate is not as silly as it sounds. Polar expeditions used to take it along, it's excellent when it's really, but really cold.

No one was criticizing the chocolate, it was the lack of anything else rational in the box.

[AZRedhawk44]

One can use "harvesting" and it is correct, the same as if one had used "killing." However, neither are an accurate representation of the act of hunting.

I wonder how far back "harvest" has been used to refer to the act of hunting.

I bet it transcends any of your guys' attempts to turn it into some sort of liberal academia-originated conspiracy.

Harvest is a very artful word and implies a skilled investment of labor to obtain a tangible good, brought forth from nature for man's consumption.  In that light, how is a successful hunt, not a harvest?

It's association with Death is quite natural too.  Harvests come in autumn as everything winds down and winter cold descends.  We pluck sustenance from plants that grow from the earth and sever its ability to live, so that we might draw life from it through the winter.  The Reaper even carries a scythe with which he harvests the souls of those he has been sent to claim.

It wouldn't shock me in the least to read some 17th or 18th century text and see a reference to a successful hunt as a harvest.

[Balog]

Dude, ok so you like to say harvest. No ones calling you a liberal because of it. Apparently a little poetical but that's all.

[AZRedhawk44]

I don't have any affectation one way or another to the word.

[Balog]

I don't have any affectation one way or another to the word.

I do not think it means what you think it means...   

Just saying I'm not picking a fight with you. Maybe it's been around a long time, but I do know that some people use it in the way I'm thinking of.

[AZRedhawk44]

You dare enter into a battle of wits with me?

Ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates?  Morons!

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/affectation

Check out 4a and 4b.  Older uses and obsolete according to Random House... but then again "harvest" is rather obscure for a reference to hunting.

You fell victim to one of the classic blunders!  The most famous is "never get involved in a land war in Asia" but only slightly less well known is this:  Never go in against the Redhawk, when death is on the line!  Hah hah! Hah hah! Hah hah hah!

Looks around, comes to senses, got way too into this post.

[Balog]

If you can make smilie Inigo the right size I will totally make it my avatar... 

[AZRedhawk44]

It's no Tuttle... but it should do the trick.

[Balog]

Can I use it from that host, or would you prefer I throw it up on mine?

[AZRedhawk44]

Go ahead and copy it... It's all yours.

[stevelyn]

psssssst, hey little boy, want some candy? EPIRB, is that some kind of location tracker or something? I was thinking a radio beacon or gps type thingy
woulda been a good thing to drop too.
Cubs, poor things, probably will be eaten by a boar bear or a shark.

EPIRBs are locator beacons that are used on boats. The signal is picked up by satellite and relayed to the CG with location and vessel name. Every now and then the USCG will call us or the harbormaster to locate and check on a specific vessel in our harbor because their EPIRB is actvated. The EPIRBs are serial numbered to the vessel and generally only activate when the vessel goes under and the beacon floats free.