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Re: Steve Wozniak used to tip from printed sheets of $2 bills

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ShamelessC wrote: post #56
082349872349872 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It ended on (a) a yet more unbelievable note than everything up until that point, and (b) noting that lots of money changed hands that day, but that all the financial details are ancillary to the story, which is what was important. I don't know if I'd say "edgy", so much as a hacker — and there have been hackers in all generations, eg https://books.google.ch/books?id=V3ByEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA575&lpg=P...

This definition of "hacker" is effectively synonymous with "edgy and deviant". You can maybe add "intelligent", but eh, that's giving too much credit.

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Re: Steve Wozniak used to tip from printed sheets of $2 bills

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Post by NikolaNovak »

fsloth wrote: post #71
dist1ll wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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”?

In most western marriages, people agree to take care of each other, frequently explicitly as part of their ceremony.

Source: attended 100+ weddings as a photographer.

Re: Steve Wozniak used to tip from printed sheets of $2 bills

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Post by davidgrenier »

haunter wrote: post #2

You can still buy uncut sheets https://catalog.usmint.gov/paper-currency/uncut-currency/

Why is everyone here assuming uncut sheets aren't legal tender? A look at their faq reveals:

``Because the individual notes on uncut currency sheets are legal tender, they may be cut apart and spent.''

Re: Steve Wozniak used to tip from printed sheets of $2 bills

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Post by kingkawn »

dist1ll wrote: post #36
yreg wrote: post #3

> [The Secret Service agent] asked my for some picture ID. I have some fake photo ID's that a friend made for me years before, when we could make realistic photo ID's from our computers. Almost nobody else could do this because printers weren't good enough. But I had an expensive early generation dye sublimation printer and made some fake ID's for fun. I had one favorite fake ID that I'd used for almost every airplan…

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.

Ffs man just stop

Re: Steve Wozniak used to tip from printed sheets of $2 bills

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Post by rwalle »

dist1ll wrote: post #88
fsloth wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t understand why you presume woz had a responsibility to ”take a care of his wife”?

People in a romantic relationship usually take care of each other.

Yeah. It would never occur to me to ask such a question. I guess time has changed and people will find problem in each and every sentence.

Re: Steve Wozniak used to tip from printed sheets of $2 bills

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Post by lizknope »

iSnow wrote: post #83
O__________O wrote: post #42

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…

Why on earth do they even sell those sheets? It'll just cause confusion.

I bought some in 1987 when I went on a tour of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. It was in the gift shop and I was 12 and thought it was really cool so my parents bought it for me. I still have them in a folder along with other souvenirs. I would never think of actually cutting them up and spending them. The novelty souvenir value is that they are uncut.

Re: Steve Wozniak used to tip from printed sheets of $2 bills

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Post by lizknope »

implements wrote: post #9
haunter wrote: post #2

You can still buy uncut sheets https://catalog.usmint.gov/paper-currency/uncut-currency/

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.

I bought some in 1987 as a souvenir at the gift shop after I toured the Bureau of Printing and Engraving. I still have them in a folder and to me it is a pretty cool souvenir to remember that trip as a 12 year old kid. I would never think of cutting them up and using them.

Re: Steve Wozniak used to tip from printed sheets of $2 bills

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Post by filchermcurr »

curiousgal wrote: post #32

> But I had got a big point on him and I was quite satisfied in that. I hate this attitude so much.

Agreed. I found this whole story made him sound very unlikable. Like he considers everybody to be below him to the point of being playthings. Kind of gross.
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