OT: T-Rex to be confiscated by homeland security

Mark Buchanan

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Jun 20, 2012, 11:01:32 AM6/20/12

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Be ware of what you buy at an auction:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/06/20/sci-dinosaur-seizure.html?cmp=rss

Mark

Walter Bushell

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Jun 20, 2012, 11:51:02 AM6/20/12

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In article <d85595ff-59e5-4a28...@googlegroups.com>,

Cheap Chinese imports!

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UC

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Jun 20, 2012, 12:56:16 PM6/20/12

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On Jun 20, 11:01 am, Mark Buchanan <marklynn.bucha...@gmail.com>
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> Be ware of what you buy at an auction:
>

> http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/06/20/sci-dinosaur-seizu...
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> Mark

what little arms you have!

Mark Buchanan

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Jun 20, 2012, 5:20:43 PM6/20/12

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Except it's from Mongolia

Mark

Klaus Hellnick

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Jun 20, 2012, 5:36:52 PM6/20/12

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Wrong species! T. Rex is a North American species.

wiki trix

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Jun 20, 2012, 6:30:02 PM6/20/12

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On Jun 20, 5:36 pm, Klaus Hellnick <khelln...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 6/20/12 10:01 AM, Mark Buchanan wrote:
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> > Be ware of what you buy at an auction:
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> >http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/06/20/sci-dinosaur-seizu...

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> > Mark
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> Wrong species! T. Rex is a North American species.

I read that Tarbosaurus is either the same species or closely related
to T Rex. No way to tell for sure now.

Klaus Hellnick

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Jun 20, 2012, 6:46:38 PM6/20/12

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The report identified it as a T. Bataar.

wiki trix

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Jun 20, 2012, 7:24:43 PM6/20/12

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Same thing... see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarbosaurus

chris thompson

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Jun 20, 2012, 8:48:30 PM6/20/12

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On Jun 20, 5:20 pm, Mark Buchanan <marklynn.bucha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 20, 2012 11:51:02 AM UTC-4, Walter Bushell wrote:
> > In article <d85595ff-59e5-4a28...@googlegroups.com>,

> > Mark Buchanan <marklynn.bucha...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > Be ware of what you buy at an auction:
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> > >http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/06/20/sci-dinosaur-seizu...

> > > mp=rss
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> > > Mark
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> > Cheap Chinese imports!
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> > --
> > This space unintentionally left blank.
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> Except it's from Mongolia
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> Mark

My Chinese wife insists there's no difference.

Chris

wiki trix

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Jun 20, 2012, 9:32:17 PM6/20/12

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On Jun 20, 8:48 pm, chris thompson <chris.linthomp...@gmail.com>
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My mongoloid wife says there is.

wiki trix

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Jun 20, 2012, 9:58:57 PM6/20/12

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On Jun 20, 11:01 am, Mark Buchanan <marklynn.bucha...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Be ware of what you buy at an auction:
>

> http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/06/20/sci-dinosaur-seizu...
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> Mark

But what does this have to do with Homeland Security? Homeland
Security is about security and protecting the U.S. from terrorists.

Richard Norman

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Jun 20, 2012, 10:09:18 PM6/20/12

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Customs has been put into the same group with border protection, both
in the general category "Homeland Security". It was a massive
reorganization of departments.

One of the funcitons of Customs is "assuring that goods arriving in
the U.S. are legitimate and that appropriate duties and fees are
paid." That is the problem.

chris thompson

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Jun 20, 2012, 11:13:35 PM6/20/12

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"Mongoloid" is a term used by one Dr. Down to describe people with
trisomy 21. His goal (as a Victorian-era physician) was to show that
white western Europeans were superior to other races. While those
other labels quickly fell into disfavor, for some reason "mongoloid"
stayed in use until well into the 1970's.

If you are married to a woman who has 3 copies of chromosome 21, I
applaud you. It must take infinite patience.

Chris

chris thompson

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Jun 20, 2012, 11:15:16 PM6/20/12

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On Jun 20, 10:09 pm, Richard Norman <r_s_nor...@comcast.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:58:57 -0700 (PDT), wiki trix
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> <wikit...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >On Jun 20, 11:01 am, Mark Buchanan <marklynn.bucha...@gmail.com>
> >wrote:
> >> Be ware of what you buy at an auction:
>
> >>http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/06/20/sci-dinosaur-seizu...
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> >> Mark
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> >But what does this have to do with Homeland Security? Homeland
> >Security is about security and protecting the U.S. from terrorists.
>
> Customs has been put into the same group with border protection, both
> in the general category "Homeland Security". It was a massive
> reorganization of departments.

As has the Coast Guard, which used to be under the Department of
Commerce.

Chris

wiki trix

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Jun 20, 2012, 11:55:11 PM6/20/12

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On Jun 20, 11:13 pm, chris thompson <chris.linthomp...@gmail.com>

I applaud me too. I think she has like about 120 trillion copies of
that dang chromosome 21 in total. Christ.

Burkhard

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Jun 21, 2012, 3:51:17 AM6/21/12

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The skeleton was to be used by an evil mastermind and his mad
scientists in their underground lair to create an army of super
intelligent T-Rexes to take over the world

jillery

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Jun 21, 2012, 6:18:43 AM6/21/12

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Since China claims Mongolia, it's a reasonable assertion.

Mark Buchanan

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Jun 21, 2012, 7:42:25 AM6/21/12

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Speaking of genetics, Mongols, Chinese, and several other populations:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/02/0214_030214_genghis.html

Sometimes one prolific person can have quite an influence. I read somewhere that Khan was so successful because he (and his sons) used pro-creation as their main strategy for extending their rule.

Mark

wiki trix

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Jun 21, 2012, 12:31:59 PM6/21/12

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On Jun 20, 9:32 pm, wiki trix <wikit...@gmail.com> wrote:

Why she has an opinion, I do not know. I don't think she has ever even
been there. But then, some people call her a cretan, and she has never
been to Crete either.

Klaus Hellnick

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Jun 21, 2012, 1:28:59 PM6/21/12

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Even if Tarbosaurus actually is in the same genus as Tyrannosaurus Rex,
it still is clearly a different species, which is what I said. The
heading of the original post claimed it was a "T-Rex".

wiki trix

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Jun 21, 2012, 2:19:29 PM6/21/12

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OK already...