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  1. Re:Good call on Court to Decide If Man Can Keep His Moon Rock · · Score: 2

    The curator was Andersons foster father. The curator was likely the person who took it. The only evidense for the trash thing is Andersons testimony.

  2. Re:He didn't take it out of the trash. on Court to Decide If Man Can Keep His Moon Rock · · Score: 1

    well to be devils advocate to myself. Anderson was 17. So it was possible they weren't living together.

  3. Re:He didn't take it out of the trash. on Court to Decide If Man Can Keep His Moon Rock · · Score: 1

    From a different article:

    Second, a man named Coleman Anderson is listed in the obituary for the transportation museum's last curator, Phil Redden. It says that Anderson was Redden's foster son.

    So it was his literal father. IE we have to believe that Phil Redden never noticed his foster son had the missing moon rocks in his bedroom. http://community.adn.com/adn/node/157506#ixzz1RpF9Xh2B

  4. The Facts Not in the Summary. on Court to Decide If Man Can Keep His Moon Rock · · Score: 2
    They can't charge him with anything the statute of limitations has expired. This is a civil case to determine ownership. The facts are pretty simple.

    The last people to see the plaque, Henrikson said, were two museum employees who walked through the building after the fire. According to them, the moon rocks were intact, in a glass case. After that, museum staff discussed taking the plaque out of the burned-out area and putting it in a more secure part of the museum. A few days later, a museum employee noticed it wasn't in the case. Instead there was just a clean square in the ash and dust where it had been sitting. She assumed Phil Redden, a museum curator, took it home for safe-keeping. But later, when he was asked, Redden denied it.

    a man named Coleman Anderson is listed in the obituary for the transportation museum's last curator, Phil Redden.

    Coleman Anderson has the rock. http://community.adn.com/adn/node/157506

  5. Re:Good call on Court to Decide If Man Can Keep His Moon Rock · · Score: 2

    Except that it was his FATHER who was the curator for the musuem. If I place something belonging to my employer in the trash and my son takes it out that is THEFT.

  6. He didn't take it out of the trash. on Court to Decide If Man Can Keep His Moon Rock · · Score: 1

    He didn't take it out of the trash. His dad was the curator for the museum. His dad likely stole the rocks after the fire.

  7. Pretent to be TSA on TSA Employee Stole $50k Worth of Electronics · · Score: 1

    So all anyone has to do to get past secuirty at an airport is pretent to be a TSA agent.

  8. Re:analog != mechanical on Digital Generation Rediscovers Analog Wristwatches · · Score: 1

    I have thought about it. A sundial is an analog clock.

  9. Re:Mechanical on Digital Generation Rediscovers Analog Wristwatches · · Score: 1

    Although any watch that displays time with the hands on clock face could technically be called an analog display. The display shows time as continuous. Though having the hands tick from second position to second position would be closer to a digital display.

  10. Re:Mechanical on Digital Generation Rediscovers Analog Wristwatches · · Score: 1

    The term 'mechanical' would be more appropriate, though I guess mechanical is still analog.

    Nope. Mechanical is not analog. Mechanical is closer to digital. Analog implies a waveform. Digital implies descrete states. A mechanical gear would be a digital device. Each tooth representing a specific state.

  11. Re:analog != mechanical on Digital Generation Rediscovers Analog Wristwatches · · Score: 1

    An analog (not mechanical) watch would be interesting. How would that work I wonder? Truly would be news for nerds.

  12. Re:Yeah... it's called "prior art" on Ask Slashdot: Open Patent Licenses? · · Score: 1

    Don't just release it. Write something up and get it published in dead tree form. You need to be able to show that your product on such and such a date implemented your invention in such and such a way. If no ones knows how your product works then first to file may screw you. Think of it as preparing evedence for an eventual court case. There are 'scholarly' journals that will print your article if you pay them.

  13. Re:Expensive cables work fine until ... on Retailer Calls Rivals' Bluff On "HDMI Scam" · · Score: 1

    ... they break. Then both the 0's and the 1's cannot get through. Result: no sound, no picture. Just because they charge more for it doesn't mean the build quality is better.

  14. Re:But the Best Buy guy said it does on Retailer Calls Rivals' Bluff On "HDMI Scam" · · Score: 2

    But it doesn't really matter. Gold electroplating is cheap. The $4 cables offered are gold plated connectors.

  15. Re:An HDMI cable is not just an HDMI cable on Retailer Calls Rivals' Bluff On "HDMI Scam" · · Score: 1

    Or you could just buy two cheap $4 cables and replace the first cable in the unlikely event that it fails. These cables are not hard to build. They are less likely to fail than the TV your buying.

  16. Re:Horrifying on Court on Video Games: Less Cleavage, More Carnage · · Score: 1

    The problem with that is, liberal-sex doesn't lead to a fun and healthy life. It only does that if you shut off your brain and ignore hundreds of years of cause and effect. I guess I have to ingnore all those examles of lovers killing each other over infedelity. All those poor kids with no dads getting terrible educations. I guess we can ignore HIV. We can ignore the cost of divorce. We can ignore that married people live longer and report to be happier than single people. You have hundreds of cultures over thousands of years coming to the same conclusions. People who are liberal with sex are fools. But I guess this time is different. Your a genius that knows better huh.

  17. Re:Seven words you can't say on television on Court on Video Games: Less Cleavage, More Carnage · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You don't know what the word hypocrisy means. A person is not hypocritical when their choices are different from the ones you would make. They are hypocritical when their choices are different from prior choices they have made.

  18. Re:Old Testament on Court on Video Games: Less Cleavage, More Carnage · · Score: 1

    Taboo on incest are the result of the genetic defects that result in children born from incest. A person has a radom genetic defect in part of their code. It doesn't express itself because they still have a working section of code from their other parent. When that person has children that recessive trait is passed on to their offspring. It is unlikely the recessive trait will exist in anyone else at the exact same section of DNA. So the genetic defect would only express itself through incest. The first few generations after creation would be reletively safe from genetic deseases. I would also say that most Christians have a very humble view of the creation story. (nice way of saying that don't belive it is the whole story)

  19. Re:Puritan America - different elsewhere on Court on Video Games: Less Cleavage, More Carnage · · Score: 1

    Different places, different cultures. Violence is ok in the USA, sex is ok in Europe. You take your choice and live where you feel comfortable I suppose...

    I would like to point out that is what the Puritans literaly did. They didn't like the the culture in Europe. And Europe didn't like the Puritans. So the Puritans left.

  20. Re:Horrifying on Court on Video Games: Less Cleavage, More Carnage · · Score: 1

    You can take your culture war and stuff it. The truth is: Sex outside of a commited relationship is bad. People have been killing each other for thousands of years over adultery. Children born out of wedlock are more likely to starve to death. The baby boomers tried that whole sex is good thing. It led to misery, divorce, desease, and ultimately early death for many people.

  21. Re:Seven words you can't say on television on Court on Video Games: Less Cleavage, More Carnage · · Score: 1

    How is that hypocritcal? Seems very consistant. Bad things are not shown on tv, good things are.

  22. Re:Sex vs. Carnage.... on Court on Video Games: Less Cleavage, More Carnage · · Score: 1

    Nonsense, drug transactions take place equally in the suburbs and in urban areas. Studies haven proven this. But cops don't patrol white suburbs and pull people over randomlly for searches. Selective enformcement based on stereotypes is the new racism.

  23. Re:Smoke and Mirrors on Amazon Drops California Associates to Avoid Sales Tax · · Score: 1

    Anyone paying rent is contributing to property taxes. The poor also pay sales taxes.

  24. Re:Man some of these "activists" are dumb as rocks on Video Game Free Speech Ruling Aftermath · · Score: 1

    Tradition tells us what the law said when it was passed. Without tradition laws would change with changes in language. Laws should only change when an elected body purposely goes out and makes those changes. If you don't like the Constitution then it your purogative to get it changed through legislation. Doing it through the courts is not democratic.

  25. Re:How effective are the restrictions? on Video Game Free Speech Ruling Aftermath · · Score: 1

    Well maybe not all mammals. But dogs, monkeys, and human boys certianly play fight. Its nothing unusual. Nothing that began with video games.