Whoever so places or connects together different parts of two or more notes, bills, or other genuine instruments issued under the authority of the United States, or by any foreign government, or corporation, as to produce one instrument, with intent to defraud, shall be guilty of forgery in the same manner as if the parts so put together were falsely made or forged, and shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both.
Whoever fraudulently alters, defaces, mutilates, impairs, diminishes, falsifies, scales, or lightens any of the coins coined at the mints of the United States, or any foreign coins which are by law made current or are in actual use or circulation as money within the United States; or
Whoever fraudulently possesses, passes, utters, publishes, or sells, or attempts to pass, utter, publish, or sell, or brings into the United States, any such coin, knowing the same to be altered, defaced, mutilated, impaired, diminished, falsified, scaled, or lightened -
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
It is against the law. Men with earpieces and black suits could come knocking.
Defacement of currency is a violation of Title 18, Section 333 of the United States Code. This comes under the jurisdiction of the United States Secret Service.
Whoever mutilates, cuts, defaces, disfigures, or perforates, or unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt issued by any national banking association, or Federal Reserve bank, or the Federal Reserve System, with intent to render such bank bill, draft, note,or other evidence of debt unfit to be reissued, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.
10 billion? With a b, billion? Why on Earth would Microsoft spend half of their money on a search engine? Guess that's another one to submit to Snopes.com.
Huh? Microsoft has a market capitalization of $290 billion. Yes, that's billion, with a b. Even if they decided to pay cash, they could easily do this with some of the $50 billion in cash on their balance sheet. Again, billion with a b.
From the speculation I've seen on the valuation of Google after an IPO, it looks like the markets are expected to value Google somewhere between $10 billion and $30 billion. Yes, that's a ton of moolah. Moolah with an m.
Here's a quick snapshot of Microsoft's financial profile.
Perhaps this chess-playing element of the human method is far more elegant, but we humans have our disadvantages. For example, our self-consciousness can make us aware that we are insigificant, we can have bad skin, we can die horribly, and we can barf in the Japanese prime minister's lap.
These are just the things that come to mind quickly-- there are probably others.
Guam would be a bad choice. It's on the other side of the International Date line, so it's already tomorrow there. Should procrastinators use the server you suggest, their taxes will be stamped one day later than they would be in the continental US.
On a related note, this is one of the most elegant apps on the Web.
I've been an April 15 filer the last five years. The Post Offices stay open late (at least the bigger ones do), and there's a long line of people and cars dropping off taxes at the last possible minute. It's usually a festive occasion-- ("Hey! We're all filing taxes at the last possible minute!"). It's like the way I've seen New Orleans funerals portrayed. Sad, but happy.
I think wrong is too strong a term, but I believe *your* comment is misguided.
Of course Apple benefits from the widespread distribution of the codec they have chosen. It might be a codec developed by someone else, but Apple was the one that backed AAC in a heavy way. They took it to the mass market, and it's in Apple's best interest to get as many people using it as possible.
>> this is about increasing iPod sales.
By introducing more people to AAC, Apple will sell more iPods, Macs, software, printers, cables and t shirts. From my viewpoint, this is all about increasing Apple profits.
Well, it's not like she killed Americans or anything.
not funny.
from the article:
Gulbahar Attila, 26, and her two daughters, Seda, 4, and Eda, 2, were all killed in the crash Aug. 10. Fikret Attila, 40, died of his burns 17 days later.
Fikret and Gulbahar Attila emigrated from Bulgaria 10 years ago. They had lost two previous children to cancer. Friends said the couple suspected radiation from the 1986 Chernobyl meltdown in Ukraine.
Friends say Fikret Attila was so enthusiastic about his American opportunities that he had "American Dream" tattooed on an ankle.
That dream became a nightmare when the family's 1988 Honda Accord broke down in the middle lane of Interstate 405, just north of the Kirkland city limits.
You're at Pizza Hut, dining from their all-you-can-eat salad bar, singlehandedly trying to put them out of business with your furious consumption of iceberg lettuce, shredded carrots, and (low fat) ranch dressing. You're almost looking at the bottom of your bowl after your fourth trip, when you notice something in mired in the dressing below. Still chewing, you fish an envelope from the bowl and using the side of your fork you scrape the dressing off the paper. In runny ink, you read "scabs from vaccination of W.B. Yarrington's children"...
From the article:
RealNetworks claims that Microsoft has used its monopoly power to restrict how PC makers install competing media players while forcing every user of Microsoft's ubiquitous Window's operating system to take Microsoft's media player, whether they want it or not.
Huh? How so? My Dell box came with Musicmatch, which last I checked was a "Media player". I think HP/Compaq boxes also ship with Musicmatch. I imagine Musicmatch pays for this OEM relationship... is Real simply not interested in paying? They do seem to prefer to keep their lawyers employed at Real...
Granted, the article didn't go into specifics about what MS is doing to tick Real off. But, what PCs don't ship with a media player in addition to WMP? What is Real's beef? Someone enlighten me.
Slashdot Mirror
>> Is my x going to be positive or negative?
This isn't a complex problem requiring carefully-planned methodology. Your x is going to be positive.
You provided a helpful clue here:
> I have a value of x somewhere between 0 and pi.
Please tell me how to collect my cash and valuable prizes.
>> Group it into: ( 2 * 3 ) * 2/3$
Dang, they've thought of EVERYTHING.
US Code, Title 18 Sec. 484. Connecting parts of different notes
Whoever so places or connects together different parts of two or more notes, bills, or other genuine instruments issued under the authority of the United States, or by any foreign government, or corporation, as to produce one instrument, with intent to defraud, shall be guilty of forgery in the same manner as if the parts so put together were falsely made or forged, and shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both.
US Code, Title 18, Section 331: Mutilation, diminution, and falsification of coins
Whoever fraudulently alters, defaces, mutilates, impairs, diminishes, falsifies, scales, or lightens any of the coins coined at the mints of the United States, or any foreign coins which are by law made current or are in actual use or circulation as money within the United States; or
Whoever fraudulently possesses, passes, utters, publishes, or sells, or attempts to pass, utter, publish, or sell, or brings into the United States, any such coin, knowing the same to be altered, defaced, mutilated, impaired, diminished, falsified, scaled, or lightened -
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
There's a ton of great things in the US Code if you know where to look.
>> Once you aquire the money by legal means, it becomes yours so you can do to it as you please.
It is not yours to do with as you please. Ask the guy at WheresGeorge about his run in with the Secret Service.
Stuff here and here.
I assume that the parent was modded "Informative" because there's no "Counter-informative" tag?
It is illegal in the United States too.
It is against the law. Men with earpieces and black suits could come knocking.
Defacement of currency is a violation of Title 18, Section 333 of the United States Code. This comes under the jurisdiction of the United States Secret Service.
Here's the relevant bit of the US Code:
Whoever mutilates, cuts, defaces, disfigures, or perforates, or unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt issued by any national banking association, or Federal Reserve bank, or the Federal Reserve System, with intent to render such bank bill, draft, note,or other evidence of debt unfit to be reissued, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.
10 billion? With a b, billion? Why on Earth would Microsoft spend half of their money on a search engine? Guess that's another one to submit to Snopes.com.
Huh? Microsoft has a market capitalization of $290 billion. Yes, that's billion, with a b. Even if they decided to pay cash, they could easily do this with some of the $50 billion in cash on their balance sheet. Again, billion with a b.
From the speculation I've seen on the valuation of Google after an IPO, it looks like the markets are expected to value Google somewhere between $10 billion and $30 billion. Yes, that's a ton of moolah. Moolah with an m.
Here's a quick snapshot of Microsoft's financial profile.
the human method is far more elegant....
Perhaps this chess-playing element of the human method is far more elegant, but we humans have our disadvantages. For example, our self-consciousness can make us aware that we are insigificant, we can have bad skin, we can die horribly, and we can barf in the Japanese prime minister's lap.
These are just the things that come to mind quickly-- there are probably others.
>> I'd guess the reason it's invite only is to keep things manageable. If you had a community in beta, would you want it slashdotted with new users...
Google News is also in "Beta", as is Froogle. For some reason, they're not using exclusionary practices to limit traffic to these sites...
I'll be surprised if Google keeps it closed like this, as it seems so, well, anti-Google.
For what it's worth, even Friendster is still labled "Beta".
...NASA putting advertising on the side of the Space Ship.
You're missing the bigger opportunity. What would Pepsi or Target pay to have the moon papered with their enormous logos?
Think of it, after the sun sets, we would walk by Pepsilight.
Guam would be a bad choice. It's on the other side of the International Date line, so it's already tomorrow there. Should procrastinators use the server you suggest, their taxes will be stamped one day later than they would be in the continental US.
On a related note, this is one of the most elegant apps on the Web.
I've been an April 15 filer the last five years. The Post Offices stay open late (at least the bigger ones do), and there's a long line of people and cars dropping off taxes at the last possible minute. It's usually a festive occasion-- ("Hey! We're all filing taxes at the last possible minute!"). It's like the way I've seen New Orleans funerals portrayed. Sad, but happy.
Here are the definitions of spirit. I've never thought of it as necessarily quasi-religious.
Here's a picture of the guy.
There's a store in Mountain View, CA that sells, according to the sign on their window, Ergonomic Seating Solutions.
"Chairs", people! These are called "chairs"!
You're right.
:)
I bet ISO IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 and the MPEG-4 Industry Forum were thrilled when Apple backed AAC in a heavy way.
I think wrong is too strong a term, but I believe *your* comment is misguided.
Of course Apple benefits from the widespread distribution of the codec they have chosen. It might be a codec developed by someone else, but Apple was the one that backed AAC in a heavy way. They took it to the mass market, and it's in Apple's best interest to get as many people using it as possible.
>> this is about increasing iPod sales.
By introducing more people to AAC, Apple will sell more iPods, Macs, software, printers, cables and t shirts. From my viewpoint, this is all about increasing Apple profits.
>> From Apple's point of view, I'm not sure what they gain.
You're kidding, right?
There's a standards war going on. In three years, do you want to be listening to MP3, WMA, Ogg, or AAC?
Apple wants you to listen to AAC. HP can introduce this format to millions of customers. That's one of the things that Apple gains.
That depends on whether that something has developed ray guns.
It depends which side of the wall you're on. Sucks for the astronauts, blows for mission control.
SETI finds something?
You forgot to do the conversion. On Mars, the Greens are Reds.
Well, it's not like she killed Americans or anything.
not funny.
from the article:
Gulbahar Attila, 26, and her two daughters, Seda, 4, and Eda, 2, were all killed in the crash Aug. 10. Fikret Attila, 40, died of his burns 17 days later.
Fikret and Gulbahar Attila emigrated from Bulgaria 10 years ago. They had lost two previous children to cancer. Friends said the couple suspected radiation from the 1986 Chernobyl meltdown in Ukraine.
Friends say Fikret Attila was so enthusiastic about his American opportunities that he had "American Dream" tattooed on an ankle.
That dream became a nightmare when the family's 1988 Honda Accord broke down in the middle lane of Interstate 405, just north of the Kirkland city limits.
It could be worse...
From the article: RealNetworks claims that Microsoft has used its monopoly power to restrict how PC makers install competing media players while forcing every user of Microsoft's ubiquitous Window's operating system to take Microsoft's media player, whether they want it or not.
Huh? How so? My Dell box came with Musicmatch, which last I checked was a "Media player". I think HP/Compaq boxes also ship with Musicmatch. I imagine Musicmatch pays for this OEM relationship... is Real simply not interested in paying? They do seem to prefer to keep their lawyers employed at Real...
Granted, the article didn't go into specifics about what MS is doing to tick Real off. But, what PCs don't ship with a media player in addition to WMP? What is Real's beef? Someone enlighten me.
>Wait this is America... :)
>>25% is considered passing!
>>
>>It can certainly get you elected President
Or at least governor of California.