压缩、修改PDF之种种

目前在共享里面下载了一大堆的电子书,部分书下载之后毛病一堆,譬如加上无节操的各种水印,压缩方案不对体量过大,或者直接就是各种一触即弹的广告图片。

自然看不过去,必须压缩!修改!

针对两个顽疾,请看全文,细细道来。

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浅海捕蟹记

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过完两德统一日,一切变得很无聊,市场不会给没多少准备的人太多的机会,而事有凑巧的是,恰好钓鱼老手的老舅正在A市,而我与长子无事可做,两相计划,便发车钓鱼去。

这个时代随手一搜索就知道A市弹丸地方哪里有钓点,但是毕竟小众娱乐,信息滞后,不多准备几个点恐怕都开不了局。我们第一目标是某游艇码头,这个阔佬们拥着比基尼美女出海的日子里,在远方的长堤上,边远眺边等待,顺便做做白日梦,还是蛮享受的。

于是,出发……

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自译文:禁猎无益于保育(Hunting Bans Bad For Wildlife)

首先是原文链接:http://bowhunting.net/2014/06/hunting-bans-bad-for-wildlife/

On the surface, it would seem that if you stop hunting, animal numbers will go up. For example, what if we stopped hunting for white-tailed deer. For sure, numbers would increase for a while. Same for other big game species. But rabbit numbers and most small game animals, would see no change simply because hunting doesn’t impact their numbers. The average life expectancy for a cottontail is less than a year, with or without hunting. And there has been lots of research showing that hunting doesn’t impact many hunted species at all. Areas with dove hunting have same dove numbers as areas without hunting. Same for many other bird and mammal species.

从表面上看,似乎有这么个逻辑——如果禁止狩猎,动物数量就能得以恢复。譬如说,如果我们停止狩猎白尾鹿,自然,鹿的数量将增加一段时间,其他大型猎物一样都有这个规律。但兔子以及多数小狩猎物种,数量将没什么变化,原因很简单,证据表明狩猎不会影响它们的数量。如棉尾兔,它们的平均预期的寿命不足一年,有或没有狩猎都不会改变这一点。出现了大量的研究显示,狩猎不会影响到众多被猎物种。如狩猎与非狩猎区的鸽子数量并无区别,正如其他许多鸟类和哺乳类动物的数量表现一样。

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