An MP3 file can be presented in many ways. Try opening an MP3 as raw waveform data in a sound player. It'll still play, but it won't play the song the MP3 represents. You could compare it to the fact that two different VCRs might play the same tape differently.
Actually, that's quite true. Someone could make a totally defective MP3 decoder that plays an MP3 completely wrong, even though a proper one plays it correctly. Therefore, what the MP3 actually represents all depends on the codec used to decode it.
Looting the Ministry of Oil would have serious repercussions on the country - and upon rebuilding in particular - since oil is nearly the only source of wealth. Sounds like they did the right thing to me.
You do realize that's utter crap, right? The reason Saddam Hussein has so much money today is that he forced the Iraqi oil companies (if you can even call them that) to give him all sorts of royalties, taxes, etc. That "only source of wealth" didn't even go to the Iraqis in the first place.
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An MP3 file can be presented in many ways. Try opening an MP3 as raw waveform data in a sound player. It'll still play, but it won't play the song the MP3 represents. You could compare it to the fact that two different VCRs might play the same tape differently.
Actually, that's quite true. Someone could make a totally defective MP3 decoder that plays an MP3 completely wrong, even though a proper one plays it correctly. Therefore, what the MP3 actually represents all depends on the codec used to decode it.
Looting the Ministry of Oil would have serious repercussions on the country - and upon rebuilding in particular - since oil is nearly the only source of wealth. Sounds like they did the right thing to me. You do realize that's utter crap, right? The reason Saddam Hussein has so much money today is that he forced the Iraqi oil companies (if you can even call them that) to give him all sorts of royalties, taxes, etc. That "only source of wealth" didn't even go to the Iraqis in the first place.