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No less irresponsible than charging a man with a felony over an obvious joke.
How is using fake IDs to board airplanes a joke? Only because we are mostly sure this particular man is an innocent manchild, but how exactly does that generalize?
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How is using fake IDs to board airplanes a joke? Only because we are mostly sure this particular man is an innocent manchild, but how exactly does that generalize?
It was the mid 80's, well before 9-11. Airport security was far more lax. Everything was far more lax. There was no way to easily verify ID anyway.
Related US Mint page for $2 bill sheets: https://catalog.usmint.gov/paper-currency/uncut-currency/?&p... Basically he tells story in a way that average person assume he’s printing fake bills, when in reality he’s just cutting and binding sets of uncut bills into a notepad. Lying to a federal investigator though is a federal crime and one that’s frequently resulted in prison sentences. Worth noting that Jobs & Woz fir…
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Looks like every single thing is out of stock, so maybe not.
Wow, checked that link an hour ago and almost everything was in stock then.
The true spirit of Woz is not to copy existing social hacks.
> Brian: Look, you've got it all wrong! You don't need to follow me. You don't need to follow anybody! You've got to think for yourselves! You're all individuals!
> Crowd: Yes! We're all individuals!
> Brian: You're all different!
> Crowd: Yes, we are all different!
> Man in crowd: I'm not...
> Crowd: Shhh!
Source: Monty Python
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I mean, it’s a neat idea, but … what do you do with them? Framing one as a picture would seem to invite a burglary, and as a source of individual notes it’s much cheaper to go to a bank. Edit: Not intended as a critical question, btw - I was just wondering how you’d use them.
The hundreds could be Sweet 16 birthday gift wrap for the keys to a Lamborghini.
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Isn't it pretty irresponsible to commit a felony while you have a daughter and wife to take care of? I find his nonchalant delivery quite jarring. I don't understand what's going through his head here.
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Most dare devils do it for the thrill, and don't really think past the moment. And many of the extreme negative examples end in prison or death or similar, regardless of race.
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I am quite an upstanding person, didn't commit crimes and when I see police I change the side of the street I am walking on even. As a minority, the police is scary. It only takes one bad apple for my life to take a turn for the worse. As it turns out, there is a non-negligible percentage of the population that hates my guts because of colour, so might as well be safe.
Police can be scary, regardless if their skin color matches yours or not. They have near absolute authority to do nearly anything, and you'll lose in a he said-he said court case. But good officers can also be a substantial positive impact on society.
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Isn't it pretty irresponsible to commit a felony while you have a daughter and wife to take care of? I find his nonchalant delivery quite jarring. I don't understand what's going through his head here.
I don’t understand why you presume woz had a responsibility to ”take a care of his wife”?
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If this isn't something tellers see quite regularly, then what do other cruise passengers do? I asked for a lot of £5 (smallest denomination note in UK) at the bank once because I was going to a music festival (before mobile card payment was routine). They asked me casually why I wanted them and I explained. Seems to be a Know Your Customer thing.
My bank tells me it's to help protect vulnerable customers - for example, if you want £2000 cash to pay some builders, they'll ask whether the builders have started work yet. Although who knows if that's the whole reason?
Edit: digging up a citation suggests that it might be a voluntary code that banks are signed up to [1], but the regulatory regime has still swung much more in favor of the customer.
[1] https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/debt-and-money/banking/ban...
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That was the most surprising thing to me by far. Dangerous game to play, imagine trying to convince a judge that "I was not intentionally looking for trouble".
Yeah, no government likes it when you mess with their currency.
It also would seem likely that at least one protector of said currency (the agent in the story) didn't know his domain (currency sheets are legit).
Unless he just wanted to harrass Woz, or maybe because they suspected him of other mischief and wanted to see if he misstepped.