Hes definition of species was incomplete. Its the inability to mate outside a genetic group and produce fertile offspring. A mule is not fertile so horses and donkeys remain separate species.
It's an event so rare that the Romans had a saying, "when a mule foals" - the equivalent of "when hell freezes over."
By Nancy Lofholm, Denver Post Staff Writer
Colbran - When it reportedly happened in Morocco five years ago, locals feared it signaled the end of the world. In Albania in 1994, it was thought to have unleashed the spawn of the devil on a small village.
But on a Grand Mesa ranch, the once-in-a-million, genetically "impossible" occurrence of a mule giving birth has only drawn keen interest from the scientific world. That, and a stream of the locally curious driving up from the small town of Colbran to check out and snap pictures of a frisky, huge-eared, gangly-legged foal.
"No one has run away in fear yet," laughed Laura Amos, the owner of the foal, along with her husband, Larry.
The foal is being called a miracle because mules aren't supposed to give birth. Mules are a hybrid of two species - a female horse and a male donkey - so they end up with an odd number of chromosomes. A horse has 64 chromosomes and a donkey has 62. A mule inherits 63. An even number of chromosomes is needed to divide into pairs and reproduce.
But those numbers added up to implausibility in late April when the Amoses awoke to a braying and whinnying ruckus in the corral behind their house.
Running to the rescue
They spotted a foal peeking out from between the front legs of one of their favorite black mules, Kate. They tore outside to save the baby from the male mules - the johns - that were trying to stomp the little critter and the other female mules - the mollies - that were trying to steal it.
And then the Amoses began to ponder how the foal had fooled mule sterility, a phenomenon first noted by the Greek philosopher Aristotle.
The Amoses, who have about 100 horses and mules at their Winterhawk Outfitters business, knew that what they were seeing is considered scientifically impossible - as much so today as in ancient Greece. They began doing research and found that in the past two centuries about 50 cases of mules giving birth have been recorded. Only two of those were proved with genetic testing.
It's an event so rare that the Romans had a saying, "cum mula peperit," meaning "when a mule foals" - the equivalent of "when hell freezes over."
Genetic testing at the University of Kentucky and the University of California at Davis confirmed that Kate is indeed a mule and that the still unnamed foal really is her offspring. That ruled out factors that have explained away some of the past births mistakenly attributed to mules. Those mules had stolen foals or they were not really mules themselves. They were donkeys or mulish-looking horses.
Now, the Amoses are waiting for chromosome testing from the University of California to determine exactly what is the fast-growing foal cavorting clumsily around their corral. He could be a smidgen of horse and a lot of donkey or mostly horse with just a bit of donkey genes.
"He's got a donkey look now, but they all do at that age," Larry Amos said.
Surprise findings
Dr. Oliver Ryder, associate director of the Conservation and Research of Endangered Species division at the San Diego Zoo, said the answer to how Kate could give birth could be surprising. There were very unexpected - and still unexplained - findings when a molly mule gave birth to two foals in Nebraska in the mid-1980s.
It's like the "120 hz lcd display" stuff. The dvd they use to show you the difference in-store is bogus. If you want REALLY sharp, you'd buy a 600hz plasma. The whole screen changes from one image to the next in 1/600 of a second, with no interpolation (and interpolation algorithms are just "best guesses", so they're no better than an upscaler would be).
As far as I'm aware horizontal gene transfer is not exactly common except in bacteria.
It was shown to take place in frost-resistant Frenkenstrawberries decades ago, but deemed "not to be a real risk" since all it did was make other strawberries frost-resistant.
Almost. Mule's are sterile and thus are not technically viable offspring.
Most mules are sterile, but the offsprings' sterility is completely beside the original point. The original poster claimed that species couldn't inter-breed, and the mule is just too darned stubborn to admit is shouldn't exist:-)
According to that definition, modern domestic turkeys shouldn't be classified as a species, since they're so big they can't even reproduce with each other without human intervention. So, if you're going to say that if it can't reproduce, it's not a species, then domestic turkeys aren't any more a life form than a flu virus is. They both need their human host.
You appear not to understand what a lie is. Or you understand it too well. Take your pick.
Ubuntu took a run at the corporate market, and have admitted that they failed. Now they're taking a similar run at the consumer market, and that will also fail, because they're playing to open source weaknesses, not strengths. People who want "Window-like" already HAVE Windows. People who don't, don't want a Windows-like system. Apple doesn't copy Windows (they do like Microsoft - they copy Xerox ha ha). You're not going to get them to switch when your ideal of "Long-Term Support" (LTS) is only 3 years. That means the average user can only count on 18 months of support before they have to upgrade. Long-term is 6 to 10 years for Windows, 20 years to "forever" in some businesses. 3 years is a joke.
but with below-minimum-wage foreign labor and generic Roundup too cheap to bother,
and why exactly should cheaper methods be outlawed simply because you don't like them?
So you think that "below-minimum-wage" is okay? That we shouldn't have minimum-wage laws? Or that producing a monoculture that leaves an essential part of the the economy vulnerable to bubble-burst cycles is a "good thing?"
Drink some more kool-aid. You can have mine - I won't be needing it.
I'm sure it doesn't help that the plants that are resistant to roundup will cross-pollinate with the weeds that are supposed to be killed with roundup,
The definition of species is the inability to reproduce outside a given genetic group. Corn doesn't reproduce with ragweed. Nice try though.
This was predictable for anyone who believes in evolution. We've known since the early '70s that bacteria can pass genes back and forth. We've known for a while that plants can pass genes on to animals (http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/05/02/2215251/Aphids-Color-Comes-From-a-Fungus-Gene?from=rss). A combination of natural selection and gene transfer makes this not only expected, but inevitable.
> "a right-handed user's left hand, for example, can be used for coarse manipulations of objects, while the right can be used for fine manipulation, such as with a pen"
Or you can just plug a second mouse in. People freak out when they see it ("that can't work!") but it does. Just pick two mice with a different number of "mickeys" resolution.
Exactly. doubling the fees won't stop a large business - 10x the fees still won't do anything, since even that represents only a small portion of the cost to them - but to the little guy, it's a knife in the neck.
Easier fix - get rid of software and business method patents. "Oh, but we can't do that - we'd have so little work to do that we'd have to lay off people!"
Our work is driven by a philosophy on software freedom that aims to spread and bring the benefits of software to all parts of the world. At the core of the Ubuntu Philosophy are these core philosophical ideals:
Every computer user should have the freedom to download, run, copy, distribute, study, share, change and improve their software for any purpose, without paying licensing fees.
Every computer user should be able to use their software in the language of their choice.
Every computer user should be given every opportunity to use software, even if they work under a disability.
Our philosophy is reflected in the software we produce and included in our distribution. As a result, the licensing terms of the software we distribute are measured against our philosophy, using the Ubuntu License Policy.
we are working to ensure that every single piece of software you need is available under a license that gives you those freedoms.
Currently, we make a specific exception for some "drivers" which are only available in binary form, without which many computers will not complete the Ubuntu installation. We place these in a restricted section of your system which makes them easy to remove if you do not need them.
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Free software
For Ubuntu, the 'free' in 'free software' is used primarily in reference to freedom, and not to price - although we are committed to not charging for Ubuntu. The most important thing about Ubuntu is that it confers rights of software freedom on the people who install and use it. It is these freedoms that enable the Ubuntu community to grow, continue to share its collective experience and expertise to improve Ubuntu and make it suitable for use in new countries and new industries.
Quoting the Free Software Foundation's 'What is Free Software', the freedoms at the core of free software are defined as:
The freedom to run the programme, for any purpose.
The freedom to study how the programme works and adapt it to your needs.
The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help others.
The freedom to improve the programme and release your improvements to the public, so that everyone benefits.
Open source
Open source is a term coined in 1998 to remove the ambiguity in the English word 'free'. The Open Source Initiative described open source software in the Open Source Definition. Open source continues to enjoy growing success and wide recognition.
Ubuntu is happy to call itself open source.
I'm sure Ubuntu is happy to call itself "open source". I'm going to call it "Quisling".
Oh, and it's STILL fugly. Can't you get someone who isn't chromatically challenged to at least make this pig look a bit less like a sows' ear?
Trade Mark : 1120005 International Registration : 885058
Word: iPAD Image: Lodgement Date: 20-MAR-2006 Notification Date: 22-JUN-2006 Convention Details: 28-FEB-2006 004 928 859 EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
Registered From: 20-MAR-2006 Date of Acceptance: 05-JUL-2006 Acceptance Advertised: 20-JUL-2006 Registration Advertised: 16-NOV-2006 Entered on Register: 30-OCT-2006 Renewal Due: 20-MAR-2016 Class/es: 7, 9 Status: Registered/Protected Kind: n/a Type of Mark: Word Endorsement Owner/s: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft Wittelsbacherplatz 2 80333 Munchen GERMANY Address for Service: International Bureau, WIPO 34, chemin des Colombettes P.O. Box 18 1211 Geneva 20, SWITZERLAND
as opposed to IPAD
Trade Mark : 1177855
Word: IPAD
Image:
Lodgement Date: 04-JUN-2007
Registered From: 04-JUN-2007
Date of Acceptance: 17-JUN-2007
Acceptance Advertised: 04-OCT-2007
Registration Advertised: 18-FEB-2010
Entered on Register: 01-FEB-2010
Renewal Due: 04-JUN-2017
Class/es: 9
Status: Registered/Protected
Kind: n/a
Type of Mark: Word
Owner/s: Apple Inc.
1 Infinite Loop
Cupertino
California 95014
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Address for Service: Clayton Utz
PO Box H3
AUSTRALIA SQUARE NSW 1215
AUSTRALIA
Goods & Services
Class: 9 Electronic information display terminals including electronic information kiosks and public access display apparatuses
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I IPAD
So as you can see, when you say "A word mark is always registered as all upper case. Lower and mixed case are still covered."", it's simply not true. the United States is only 5% of the world, and shouldn't be taken as definitive.
Ignore the rest -it's just a bunch of filler text to get around the "Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 22.0). " lameness filter. Why they don't fix this so that it ignores blockquotes that actually have valid content is beyond me, but then again, what can you do, right? Yadda, yadda, yadda, Please try to keep posts on topic. Try to reply to other people's comments instead of starting new threads. Read other people's messages before posting your own to avoid simply duplicating what has already been said. Use a clear subject that describes what your message is about. Offtopic, Inflammatory, Inappropriate, Illegal, or Offensive comments might be moderated. (You can read everything, even moderated posts, by adjusting your threshold on the User Preferences Page) If you are having a problem with accounts or comment posting, please yell for help.
You still need to explain why people would buy an iPad as a gaming platform when there are better ones, with better games, out there for a lot less. You can buy the games + platform for less than the iPad by itself.
HDMI out, runs flash, works as a hotspot for up to 8 other devices, Yes, it even does pinch-to-zoom. And at 4.3", it's got 50% more surface area than the current iPhone (and the leaked iPhone's screen is even smaller).
A tablet's too big to just shove in your pocket or purse. The iPhone's screen is too small to really share. This is "just right". It's a tablet-killer. So maybe HP sees that the tablet market, after more than a decade of trying to take flight, is going to nosedive, and will come out with something Palm-ish in a 4.3" format?
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For developers that get their software into bricks and mortar stores, guess what percentage they lose? Well on a average $30-$50 product, they'll net about $1-$2. In other words, they are losing >95% of the retail price of the software. You didn't know that did you.
I'm well aware of the retail margins - and no, the publisher doesn't get $1 - $2 on a $50. A buck doesn't even cover the cost of packaging and production. Look in the trades - $10 to $20 is the norm on a $40-$50 retail product. Why do you think the retailers are screaming about thin margins - they're the ones who only get a 5% to 10% markup.
Nintendo actually published their figures. Look around for them. ISTR that Microsoft also did for their XBox titles.
Still, this doesn't address the real issue - control. As long as people have to funnel through the App store, you have a chance. However, the iPhone is under serious attack, and the leaked next-gen phone doesn't hold up all that well against the competition - especially against the latest droid from HTC. Android phones might outsell iPhones this year - they already surpass iPhones in terms of web surfing activity.
And the leaked iPhone falls short when set beside the Evo 4g. I'm not a google fan, but this phone just looks NICE!
You yourself claimed "only one or two viruses a month."
Prove the posts in "the guide" aren't shills. Your posts would tend to indicate that they are. After all, you seem to think that "one or two viruses a month" is an acceptable failure rate, even when contrasted against my zero point zero per decade.
Oh, btw - if you ever do go for a job interview in IT, don't say that you "subscribe to Windows IT Pro" - it makes you look really pitiful.
Real IT professionals recycle our complementary subscriptions.
Why don't I just cancel and "save the environment?" Because every so often, there's some swag to be had. Or invites. Discounted crap. REAL IT pros know this. You of course don't qualify. So sad. To bad. You no has cheeseburger? Awww...
What would have happened if they HAD called the police, and said that they had contacted the owner - Apple? The cops would have said "fine, not our problem."
The statute you quoted is clear - it only applies to lost items - not to items that the owner has been located and contacted. If you had read the article in the first place, you would have known that Apple had already been contacted, and had blown it off. How is it "lost"? at that point?
That's like me finding a wallet, calling up the owner, and they say "I don't care." If I were to at that point call the police, they'd probably confirm the call, then say "okay, the wallet's not lost - the owner knows where it is, isn't interested, so there's nothing for us to do here. Have a nice day and don't spend it all in one place."
Or are you going to continue arguing that something that isn't lost is covered by a statute that only covers lost items? Apple screwed up. Not the guy's fault.
Even if you were to get past that hurdle, the law only covers items with a value of $100 or more.
Until the item was opened up, there was no way anyone could know it was anything other than a bricked knock-off - value closer to $0.00 than the $100 minimum for the law to kick in. What's a bricked LEGIT iPhone worth? Not much, so one that's obviously NOT a 3g but pretends to be... that screams $25 knock-off. Way under the laws $100 minimum.
What it sold for after Apple confirmed that they had indeed lost a prototype is irrelevant - the guy doesn't have a time machine, and by that time, Apple had already been informed anyway, so again, the increased value at that point in time means nothing because Apple had already been contacted.
BTW - I'm not the one being dense here. You cited a law, I showed how it doesn't apply. If you want to see REAL dense, wait a bit - watch for the AC who's going to post under this... you're invited to join the party, btw:-)
This AC thinks they're an expert because they "read Windows IT Pro magazine" and "post from a 400 hz computer" using a hosts file to "only get one or two viruses a month."
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dozens of stubborn mules that have bred would disagree with you
Here's one documented case (the second story, further below, confirms the results of the gene testing)
It's like the "120 hz lcd display" stuff. The dvd they use to show you the difference in-store is bogus. If you want REALLY sharp, you'd buy a 600hz plasma. The whole screen changes from one image to the next in 1/600 of a second, with no interpolation (and interpolation algorithms are just "best guesses", so they're no better than an upscaler would be).
Evolution == natural selection + time. If you can see this sort of thing happening in a couple of decades. imagine what millions of years can do.
It was shown to take place in frost-resistant Frenkenstrawberries decades ago, but deemed "not to be a real risk" since all it did was make other strawberries frost-resistant.
Most mules are sterile, but the offsprings' sterility is completely beside the original point. The original poster claimed that species couldn't inter-breed, and the mule is just too darned stubborn to admit is shouldn't exist :-)
According to that definition, modern domestic turkeys shouldn't be classified as a species, since they're so big they can't even reproduce with each other without human intervention. So, if you're going to say that if it can't reproduce, it's not a species, then domestic turkeys aren't any more a life form than a flu virus is. They both need their human host.
You appear not to understand what a lie is. Or you understand it too well. Take your pick.
Ubuntu took a run at the corporate market, and have admitted that they failed. Now they're taking a similar run at the consumer market, and that will also fail, because they're playing to open source weaknesses, not strengths. People who want "Window-like" already HAVE Windows. People who don't, don't want a Windows-like system. Apple doesn't copy Windows (they do like Microsoft - they copy Xerox ha ha). You're not going to get them to switch when your ideal of "Long-Term Support" (LTS) is only 3 years. That means the average user can only count on 18 months of support before they have to upgrade. Long-term is 6 to 10 years for Windows, 20 years to "forever" in some businesses. 3 years is a joke.
Look who they appointed - Matt Asay, a guy who had no Ubuntu experience
Appointing a Mac-head to COO was just another "flailing around for something that might work" fail.
So you think that "below-minimum-wage" is okay? That we shouldn't have minimum-wage laws? Or that producing a monoculture that leaves an essential part of the the economy vulnerable to bubble-burst cycles is a "good thing?"
Drink some more kool-aid. You can have mine - I won't be needing it.
Nonsense. Horse, meet donkey. Go, mule, go!
This was predictable for anyone who believes in evolution. We've known since the early '70s that bacteria can pass genes back and forth. We've known for a while that plants can pass genes on to animals (http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/05/02/2215251/Aphids-Color-Comes-From-a-Fungus-Gene?from=rss). A combination of natural selection and gene transfer makes this not only expected, but inevitable.
Franken-weeds.
Or you can just plug a second mouse in. People freak out when they see it ("that can't work!") but it does. Just pick two mice with a different number of "mickeys" resolution.
Easier fix - get rid of software and business method patents. "Oh, but we can't do that - we'd have so little work to do that we'd have to lay off people!"
Retard said:
Yeah, right. Since when is Android 2.1 from Microsoft? And all the reviews say it's a killer.
What ever happened to "Don't feed the patent trolls?"
Ubuntu LIES
Is an h264-enabled web browser a core application? An h264-enabled video player? Etc., etc.
So much for their "philosophy"
I'm sure Ubuntu is happy to call itself "open source". I'm going to call it "Quisling".
Oh, and it's STILL fugly. Can't you get someone who isn't chromatically challenged to at least make this pig look a bit less like a sows' ear?
This is simply not true. For example, in Australia, the word "iPAD" (Siemens) vs "IPAD" (Apple) http://pericles.ipaustralia.gov.au/atmoss/Falcon_Users_Cookies.Run_Create
as opposed to IPAD
So as you can see, when you say "A word mark is always registered as all upper case. Lower and mixed case are still covered."", it's simply not true. the United States is only 5% of the world, and shouldn't be taken as definitive.
Ignore the rest -it's just a bunch of filler text to get around the "Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 22.0). " lameness filter. Why they don't fix this so that it ignores blockquotes that actually have valid content is beyond me, but then again, what can you do, right? Yadda, yadda, yadda, Please try to keep posts on topic. Try to reply to other people's comments instead of starting new threads. Read other people's messages before posting your own to avoid simply duplicating what has already been said. Use a clear subject that describes what your message is about. Offtopic, Inflammatory, Inappropriate, Illegal, or Offensive comments might be moderated. (You can read everything, even moderated posts, by adjusting your threshold on the User Preferences Page) If you are having a problem with accounts or comment posting, please yell for help.
Definitely looks weird. I always write it in all-lowercase. But apparently the trademark is either all-caps ("LINUX®") or the standard capitalized form ("Linux®")
Someone should remind them to register "linux®" (all lowercase), before Darl tries to. A capital first letter just doesn't look right.
That's Goldman-Sach's job, you insensitive clod!
You still need to explain why people would buy an iPad as a gaming platform when there are better ones, with better games, out there for a lot less. You can buy the games + platform for less than the iPad by itself.
Let me guess - you work for the SEC and need it for your porn collection
50% bigger screen than Apple's next-gen iPhone that was leaked, (4.3"), and yet it's still a smartphone, Small enough to fit comfortably in one hand, unlike the iPad.
HDMI out, runs flash, works as a hotspot for up to 8 other devices, Yes, it even does pinch-to-zoom. And at 4.3", it's got 50% more surface area than the current iPhone (and the leaked iPhone's screen is even smaller).
A tablet's too big to just shove in your pocket or purse. The iPhone's screen is too small to really share. This is "just right". It's a tablet-killer. So maybe HP sees that the tablet market, after more than a decade of trying to take flight, is going to nosedive, and will come out with something Palm-ish in a 4.3" format?
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You can get your KowalskiSockPuppet to follow you all over the place like the pitiful lost puppy^slug that they are. They'll take abuse that would be illegal in all 52 states (yes, I know there are only 50, but we're throwing in an extra two to make KowalskiInABox feel real REAL important).
And for a limited time, if you order a KowalskiInABox, we'll throw in the Petey Kowalski Sock Puppet Random Quote Generator - part of the KowalskiInABox Special Edition game pack. Just look at the latest gems:
"I post from a 400 hz computer"
"it's true because I'm a subscriber to Windows IT Pro"
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But wait - theres MORE
Act now, and we'll throw in a Second KowalskiInABox absolutely free. That's right folks! Two for the price of one. Who can resist? Put them together and you'll swear you hear "Dueling Banjos". They may even start squealing like a pig.
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And that's not all - theres MORE
That's right. With KowalskiInABox, you also get our free guide - "Troll trolling." Written by trolls, for trolls, it's your insiders guide to competitively scoring your KowalskiInABox. Remember, the more of these fails your KowolskiInABox says, the higher your score. Because ...
That's not all - theres MORE - you get entry into the "Trolling Petey Sweepstakes and Beerfest"
That's right! When slumming on Craigslist just isn't enough, you can test your troll-bashing skills against other KowolskiInABox owners. Compete head-on for pink slips. Put your KowalskiInABox in a claim race. Try to win the big one with the KowalskiInABox Bullshit Bingo competition - does YOUR KowalskiInABox have what it takes to fill the whole card?
And as a final bonus
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I'm well aware of the retail margins - and no, the publisher doesn't get $1 - $2 on a $50. A buck doesn't even cover the cost of packaging and production. Look in the trades - $10 to $20 is the norm on a $40-$50 retail product. Why do you think the retailers are screaming about thin margins - they're the ones who only get a 5% to 10% markup.
Nintendo actually published their figures. Look around for them. ISTR that Microsoft also did for their XBox titles.
Still, this doesn't address the real issue - control. As long as people have to funnel through the App store, you have a chance. However, the iPhone is under serious attack, and the leaked next-gen phone doesn't hold up all that well against the competition - especially against the latest droid from HTC. Android phones might outsell iPhones this year - they already surpass iPhones in terms of web surfing activity.
And the leaked iPhone falls short when set beside the Evo 4g. I'm not a google fan, but this phone just looks NICE!
You yourself claimed "only one or two viruses a month."
Prove the posts in "the guide" aren't shills. Your posts would tend to indicate that they are. After all, you seem to think that "one or two viruses a month" is an acceptable failure rate, even when contrasted against my zero point zero per decade.
Oh, btw - if you ever do go for a job interview in IT, don't say that you "subscribe to Windows IT Pro" - it makes you look really pitiful.
Real IT professionals recycle our complementary subscriptions.
Why don't I just cancel and "save the environment?" Because every so often, there's some swag to be had. Or invites. Discounted crap. REAL IT pros know this. You of course don't qualify. So sad. To bad. You no has cheeseburger? Awww ...
What would have happened if they HAD called the police, and said that they had contacted the owner - Apple? The cops would have said "fine, not our problem."
The statute you quoted is clear - it only applies to lost items - not to items that the owner has been located and contacted. If you had read the article in the first place, you would have known that Apple had already been contacted, and had blown it off. How is it "lost"? at that point?
That's like me finding a wallet, calling up the owner, and they say "I don't care." If I were to at that point call the police, they'd probably confirm the call, then say "okay, the wallet's not lost - the owner knows where it is, isn't interested, so there's nothing for us to do here. Have a nice day and don't spend it all in one place."
Or are you going to continue arguing that something that isn't lost is covered by a statute that only covers lost items? Apple screwed up. Not the guy's fault.
Even if you were to get past that hurdle, the law only covers items with a value of $100 or more.
Until the item was opened up, there was no way anyone could know it was anything other than a bricked knock-off - value closer to $0.00 than the $100 minimum for the law to kick in. What's a bricked LEGIT iPhone worth? Not much, so one that's obviously NOT a 3g but pretends to be ... that screams $25 knock-off. Way under the laws $100 minimum.
What it sold for after Apple confirmed that they had indeed lost a prototype is irrelevant - the guy doesn't have a time machine, and by that time, Apple had already been informed anyway, so again, the increased value at that point in time means nothing because Apple had already been contacted.
BTW - I'm not the one being dense here. You cited a law, I showed how it doesn't apply. If you want to see REAL dense, wait a bit - watch for the AC who's going to post under this ... you're invited to join the party, btw :-)
There's more - lots more. If you want to have some fun teasing a pimply-faced kid wannabe (and aren't worried about going to hell for enjoying it) join the fun :-)
So - how many Happy Meals did you serve yesterday, Mr. "I read Windows IT Pro magazine"?
Because it's obvious you never had a real paying job in IT.