but during a radio program I was listening to, it was reported that the $2 bills were sequentially numbered and that the anti-counterfeit ink smeared on one of the bills. If this is true, then it may not be so far fetched that the police would have been contacted. Does this justify an immediate arrest in handcuffs? No, but if true, it does lend some light to why Best Buy would have acted the way they did, and it would give them one hell of a defense against a defimation suit.
As a person who works in the US Circuit board industry, I am offended that they start the production at the stuff stage on this explaination. Agreed, PC motherboards are not as complex as the boards we make for telecommunications and servers, but the actual beginning of this porocess starts with copper sheets and laminate material. The circuit board is produced before the stuffing with components. If you want to talk about margins, you have to factor in the complexity of this manufacturing as well. Some boards have 40 layers, each with dense circuitry and 30000+ 0.0010" holes per panel. If anything goes wrong with any of this, the time, labor, and material used in this board is lost. I can tell you that once you get to more difficult designs, chronic issues begin to eat into your margins a little bit. The reason motherboards are so inexpensive (yes I said inexpensive) is because they are not as complex as the othe types of main boards (or ICs), and labor in China is cheap.
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Oh wait, that already happened in Event Horizon using the same design for the engine.
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This is like something directly out of Jennifer Government, the book by Max Barry.
does the $2 bill have a strip? The $1 does not.
but during a radio program I was listening to, it was reported that the $2 bills were sequentially numbered and that the anti-counterfeit ink smeared on one of the bills. If this is true, then it may not be so far fetched that the police would have been contacted. Does this justify an immediate arrest in handcuffs? No, but if true, it does lend some light to why Best Buy would have acted the way they did, and it would give them one hell of a defense against a defimation suit.
As a person who works in the US Circuit board industry, I am offended that they start the production at the stuff stage on this explaination. Agreed, PC motherboards are not as complex as the boards we make for telecommunications and servers, but the actual beginning of this porocess starts with copper sheets and laminate material. The circuit board is produced before the stuffing with components. If you want to talk about margins, you have to factor in the complexity of this manufacturing as well. Some boards have 40 layers, each with dense circuitry and 30000+ 0.0010" holes per panel. If anything goes wrong with any of this, the time, labor, and material used in this board is lost. I can tell you that once you get to more difficult designs, chronic issues begin to eat into your margins a little bit. The reason motherboards are so inexpensive (yes I said inexpensive) is because they are not as complex as the othe types of main boards (or ICs), and labor in China is cheap.