silentphate - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Dont' call your lawyer? (Score 1) 851

by silentphate on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @06:10PM (#33888392) Attached to: College Student Finds GPS On Car, FBI Retrieves It

Hmmm. Call your lawyer. Possession is 9 tenths of the law. At least where I live. I have had property disputes with other people, not FBI or Police, but the police did get involved and have told me that even though I had provided proof of ownership and receipt of the said property, since it was in possession of another person it is there right to keep possession of said property. The Item happened to be a laptop computer, which I would consider very similar to the device mentioned in the article.

Comment Re:UhOh (Score 1) 373

by silentphate on Friday June 11, 2010 @10:01PM (#32545528) Attached to: For taking notes by hand, I prefer ...

What about printer paper? I couldn't even guess how many times I've grabbed paper out of a printer tray because that was the most readily available.

Ummm. Wouldn't that be plain paper?

Comment Re:Paradox alert (Score 1) 256

by silentphate on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @12:01AM (#28686339) Attached to: NASA Has the Lost Tapes

NASA doesn't have any lost tapes. If they have found them, they are by definition not lost anymore. I bet there are dozens of tapes that are lost because nobody knows their location but these tapes are not one of them. Correct headline would be "NASA has the found tapes". Sounds redundant? In the human mind that may be the case but if you think about it long enough, you can only come to this conclusion. Being lost is quite a fleeting and interesting feature and has no doubt been studied by filosophers around the ages.

BTW philosophers is spelled with a ph. Furthermore, maybe there should say NASA has found the tapes that were once lost.

Comment Re:Great Depression? (Score 1) 873

by silentphate on Saturday December 20, 2008 @03:36PM (#26185609) Attached to: The US economy is heading toward ...

I'm tired of people thinking that the government needs to give away money. Where does that money come from? It comes from us, the taxpayers, and from loans from the federal reserve. Every time this happens we are just building up more debt and interest for the next generation to pay off. It's a never ending cycle that is just going to get worse. What the government needs to do is to re-evaluate our monetary system. We need a system that is based on debt but value.

Comment Re:US news (Score 1) 302

by silentphate on Saturday August 30, 2008 @12:50AM (#24806549) Attached to: Labor Day, to me means primarily ...

Cinco de Mayo is hardly even celebrated in mexico, apart from two small villages where it originated. But those bloody americans like to find any excuse to excuse to drink. Well that's all I feel like typing right now, it's friday and i gotta crack open a few beers with the boys.

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