Someone should try printing those U.S. treasury images and scanning them in again. It would be awesome if it didn't work

He's watching you!

Big Brother is watching your photocopied ass.

This may be a little off-topic, but as an American, I'm always secretly proud that we have Andrew Jackson and U.S. Grant on our money.

Andrew Jackson turned traditional politics on its ear when he was elected, hosting an open inaugural ball at the White House, which ended up with partiers stomping all over the house with muddy boots, tearing down the curtains and turning the whole place into your worst frat party. He had also blown someone away in a duel, given a would-be assassin a personal beat-down with his walking stick, and no doubt more that we don't even know.

Grant was a drunk who managed to become a successful general with the "Grant Doctrine" -- throw everyone to the front and even if you lose half of them, you'll win eventually, because we've got lots of backup. As a president, he was a disaster, appointing all his buddies to office and reaping the expected scandals. His memoirs are pretty cool, though. Mark Twain published them, and was Grant's friend later on.

For Xerox machines, when you try to copy a $1 bill, the copier gives an error, and then it stores the data locally, after which it contacts the other machines in the immediate vicinity, who then rise up and throw office supplies at you and curse obscenities until you leave.

Simple sollution:

Print this image about 50 times.



the copier will be out of yellow ink.

I just want to rant about the phrase, "beg the question"

vcoui

We should start out by clarifying something. "Begging the question" is entirely separate from "prompting the question" or "suggesting the question." Many people incorrectly use the term "begging the question" to refer to anything which makes people curious or puts them in mind of a question they'd like answered. That's wrong. Begging the question refers to the practice, in argument, of assuming something which is material to the point you're trying to make. Another way of putting this is that you beg the question when the truth of your conclusion is assumed by the premises that purport to prove it.
For example: "We should not adopt gun control because unacceptable impositions on our liberty cannot be tolerated." If the premise of this argument, i.e. that "unacceptable impositions on our liberty cannot be tolerated," is construed to be relevant to the conclusion about gun control, then the premise must assume that gun control is an unacceptable imposition. If that's the case, then of course we shouldn't adopt it, but that argument begs the question of whether or not gun control is a good thing.

Zaago
I just want to rant about the phrase, "beg the question"

At last! Another rhetorician!
Try posting a few "straw man" or "tu quoque" explanations on Fark. I actually tried. Go ahead, see what happens.

JacksBlack

hehe...hehe....the government said "specimen"....hehe...hehe

To all of you who are so naive as to think, "Everything is fine so long as you are not doing anything wrong," lots of luck. Bet you, too, never got spanked for pooping in your diaper when you were three months old. But things change, don't they? Don't take my word for this, stick around and find out for yourselves.


2004-11-22 09:20:21 PM ski_adk115

I've only got plastic wrap around. Do I really need to go buy tin-foil for my hat?

Put duct tape on your plastic wrap. Lots and lots of duct tape.


2004-11-22 09:27:26 PM mygirlsaysno

50 counterfeit dollars to anyone who can translate 'ritalinchild 54's post!

If you mean, 2004-11-22 08:58:50 PM ritalinchild 54

then the translation is: I am off my meds.


2004-11-22 09:39:11 PM mercurial

If you believe what you see on CSI, then you should seriously take some time to reflect on your gullibility and what you think is the "truth."

Yah. The Miami one last night first said an RPG had enough recoil to seriously blacken and bloody the user's eye, then that enough of the backblast came out the rear to blow out a car window. I wonder what kind of morans would steal these weapons and not have the slightest clue how to actually use them. Or, alternatively, what kind of drugs the show's writers are using.

And how they can "enhance" surveillance camera tapes, which are teh shiat in the first place, so that one tiny piece is suddenly in high-definition quality and they can read the label on a pack of cigarettes... With enhancement like that available, who needs penis enlargement pills?

/Certainly not me.

Amigajoe
I am glad that you stopped playing "King of Chicago" long enough to use the term "false dichotomy", was bifurcation already used up the thread?
I grew up watching cloak and dagger movies, Bond and many other clandestine heavy plots. After you research how much of the "fantasy" was fact, it falls short. I love how idiots say that the government is going to watch you do this and track you doing that, but yet the government can't manage ever then most mundane of every day bookkeeping or clerical tasks without mucking it up. Where are they going to hire the army of spies to watch us? They could just outsource them. Conspiracies are for weak minds. Black helecopters are complete cra

Don't confuse the ability of the govt to instantly track you down based on the doc you produced with the govt being able to use your print device to confirm what they alrady know about you (ie they get a warrant and find your printer). thin line. welcome to the machine.

Xerox has been in cahoots with the Feds for decades. They designed some copiers to store photos of everything copied and sold them to the Soviets. Every so often, the "copier tech" would come in to change the "toner."

No lie.

This thread is useless without pictures of photocopied butts.

I won't believe it till I see it.

"Standard mischief won't get you around it," Crean adds.


/BS

oh my ghod! i just went and tested this out and the spooler subsystem app asked to use the internets! how did they know??

/out of everything but cyan anyway, hope the cashier's colorblind
//yeah, i know, anything but zonealarm

People actually register their products? What happened to the good old faithful "Register later" button?

vamana:

People actually register their products? What happened to the good old faithful "Register later" button?


really dunno

don't counterfeit, but here's some advice.
this system only helps them find you if somebody knows you have a certain printer.

buy in cash and destroy after printing. don't forget that you need to get the right paper! if it feels fake to you then it won't work. and only shop at stores run by the kiddies cause not only do they not know, but they don't care.

oh, and don't siyoba

What if the printer you paid for in cash sends its serial number somewhere on teh internets?

In case you guys didn't know... all these "advanced" currency detections algorithms can be bypassed completely by simply scanning two bills (same side down) side-by-side. Flip over, repeat.

So let me get this straight... That copier is somehow managing to print out microprint serial numbers, but a simple letter comes out blurry? BS.

Yeah. Big Brother is watching!

The beauty of this is that it's the same right-wing nut jobs that voted for Bush that will freak out about it. Liberals would trade away all their personal freedoms for a vegan burrito - it's the gun nuts that really love this conspiracy stuff.

Mmmmm... vegan burrito....

What about masking half the bill, scanning... masking the other half, scanning then opening both halves in PS CS, combining and Voila... full copy of a 20$ opened in PS CS... would that work?

!!AN IMPORTANT WARNING TO CONSPIRACY THEORISTS!!

I've just heard a secret report that manufacturers have been secretly encoding their tinfoil for years with tracking data encoded in an invisible radioactive barcode. Not only does this data encode the date and location where the tinfoil was made, but it also lists your social security number, hat size, turn ons and turn offs, and the electrolyte balance of your precious bodily fluids. On top of that, the radioactive isotope used has been found to cause brain tumors and monsterism among people wearing tinfoil hats. All you fellow conspiracy nuts are hereby advised to bury your tinfoil hats and start wearing skullcaps made out of scooped-out watermelons which are proven to be just as effective at stopping those mysterious Z-Rays.

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*KA-BANG*

everyone who doesn't already have a Government mind control chip in their head knows that is it all ONE GIANT PLAN.

what is this plan?

A giant plan for an absolute NEW WORLD ORDER!

Who is behind this plan?

The Illuminate.


well, them or it is just a way to to track down documents that may be used in counterfeiting money and other such illegal activities.

But I say its the Illuminate.

first of all they could only track a paper back to the machine which printed it, not the person using the machine. So if you used the office copier that hundreds of people have access to, I wouldn't worry about it (I wouldn't worry about it anyway). Secondly, unless you registered the product with the manufacturer (who does that anyway?) they have no idea who owns the printer with serial number xxxxx. Especially if you bought it from ebay or second hand or with cash, etc. Probably the reason nobody's heard of this before is because it really hasn't been that useful or lead to any arrests.