If you asked me for a famous modern formatted document generally, I might say the screenplay for The Godfather would be a good candidate. But there's no canonical PDF for that. :P Plus, copyright would prevent that.
I was trying to make a document for work, using Apple Pages for the first time. Pages had a template that seemed good for the kind of document I had to make so I used that.
The template included "Lorem Ipsum" text. But since I hadn't heard of it before I thought it was some sort of sample document showing how to use the template but in a language I didn't recognize.
I figured that I'd somehow gotten Pages configured to default to a foreign language and spent the next couple of hours trying to figure out how to set it to English. Eventually it occurred to me to search for some of the exact text from the template, hoping to find someone else had already dealt with this problem, and found the Wikipedia article that explained what "Lorem Ipsum" is.
* holoalphabetic sentences like "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." or "Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs."
* Etaoin shrdlu
* Hamburgevons
* New Petitions Against Tax. Building Code Under Fire.
* foo, bar, baz, qux, quux, corge, grault, garply, waldo, fred, plugh, xyzzy, and thud
* famous texts like Alice in Wonderland, Kafka, the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, etc
* Postmodernism generator, snarXiv, Chomskybot, etc
> The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks
So 2019 was a good time to buy but maybe the mind share moment for bitcoin was 2017, when even TV news were talking about it every night.
Waiters in the exurbs were giving me opinions on bitcoin in 2015
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna
"In today’s age of high-resolution digital image technology, it seems difficult to argue that a 512 × 512 image produced with a 1970s-era analog scanner is the best we have to offer as an image quality test standard".[2]
And I’m sorry but I just can’t fathom the controversy. The cropped version is the only one I’ve ever seen used in the context of a sample image. It is utterly unremarkable unless you’re aware of the image’s provenance, (which I bet most people didn’t). Even the uncropped version, which I have only ever saw because of the controversy, isn’t any more racy than many historically important paintings hanging in art galleries.
I’m not saying this is an appropriate canonical test image. But I am saying that it’s disingenuous to single it out as a problem. There is so much of mainstream culture that is orders of magnitude more degrading of women than this image.
I am certainly not equating the two, but I do see parallels in the hysterics around “Lenna” and hysterics around David of Michelangelo’s little noodle.
If not, in what way is this image being singled out?
Bringing mainstream attention to it was an extreme example of the Streisand Effect.
e.g. see the final quote in this piece https://www.insidehook.com/daily_brief/arts-entertainment/ho...
Forsén was interviewed in a documentary that featured the image. The entire point of which was to bring more attention to the fact the image existed and how it had been/was being used. Claiming this is an example of the Streisand effect is nonsense.
I'd be interested to hear what other specific images you feel should be getting a similar amount of discussion.
The supposedly "deeper" part of their argument is even more pathetic, maternalistic, infantilising nonsense. Are they seriously claiming that women are so fragile that they will forego pursuit of their intellectual passion because sometimes, some academic papers use the image of a women wearing a fancy hat and bare shoulders? What a low view of women these documentarians have. What a vile insult to half the population.
I can only imagine that the movie was made by freak puritanical zealots who would literally explode if they ever saw a television advertisement for shampoo. And these zealots seem to have zero concept of how technology works. The movie's tagline falsely claims that "There's a secret hidden in almost every website and every digital image you've ever seen." The fact that anyone took it seriously is itself a sick joke.
IRS Tax Form 1040
The 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The US Constitution and Declaration of Independence
The Treaty of Versailles
The Paris Treaty
The Kyoto Protocol
The Bible, King James Version
Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream" speech
Martin Luther's 95 Theses
The Communist Manifesto
https://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-arnell...
https://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/new_log...
"The Pepsi DNA finds its origin in the dynamic of perimeter oscillations. This new identity manifests itself in an authentic geometry that is to become proprietary to the Pepsi culture."
In the US*. The Bitcoin paper has surely been distributed far wider than any US-specific tax forms.
Edit: Now that I think about it, the W-2 probably is even larger than 1040, because you get one from each employer, plus families can file jointly, and not everyone has to file taxes if they make below a certain amount. So a household with 4 people working 2 jobs each generates one 1040 but 8 W-2s per year.
For Google search numbers, that would be different considering PDF searches in China wouldn't be done using Google. But perhaps taxes aren't done using PDFs either, that important detail I don't know.
Well, no, because each is more than double the US population, and only half the US population files tax forms (2021 had 165 million individual filers, on 332 million US population.)
The number of people filing taxes on a computer in India rounds to zero. For example, a quarter of India is illiterate. And 97+% of them don't make enough money to owe tax. And of the final 3%, many have someone else file for them. https://www.ibtimes.com/how-many-people-india-pay-income-tax....
I believe the actual situation is 3% file for income tax and the majority of the rest don’t need to, but tax evasion is quite common there.
Tax evasion as I know it, and as has been informed to me by many financial consultants I've talked to, is now increasingly difficult. You really need to have back-channel contacts with the right people and spectacular know-how of the loopholes to pull it off. I'm talking about large-scale evasion here, but much of it stands true for small-scale as well.
Basically anyone who ever opened investment account know about it.
If you open investment account to buy any US stock, index funds or a some other US-based financial instruments you have to fill W-8BEN. Otherwise you might be charged 30% tax on your investment income by IRS.
So even if you open brokerage account in UK, EU, India, Russia or any other country you'll surely know about this form.
> If you open investment account to buy any US stock, index funds or a some other US-based financial instruments you have to fill W-8BEN
You seem to directly contradict yourself. Dealing with any US-based financial instrument obviously has to do with dealing with something US related.
In contrast, if I only invest in any non-US financial instruments, I don't have to deal with W-8BEN.
It works for most cases, but I can see why changing every year might be a deal breaker for some.
Actually I just wnat the card information and text as per isotropic plus the statistics generated e.g. how good or bad were you if a particular card was in the kingdom.
(I was actually shocked the mobile app is so poorly optimized that I needed a new phone to run it at full speed...)
Amazing site, even if it was only targeted at the true enthusiasts!
I like bwok quook more.
http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/agbkb/lehre/programmiers...
Dang. That's just an arrangement for voice and one guitar (or ukulele?). The song pretty clearly includes accompaniment from a cymbal and some kind of metallic pitched percussion too.
"Smashing the stack for fun and profit" by aleph1??
A while back we figured that the system we work on technically allows loading nigh anything as a texture, including stuff like SVG and PDF. So we also ended up with a bitcoin whitepaper textured surface used as a test, even though the actual project formed in part around opposition to cryptocurrency.
The darn thing is just that famous.
Is it though? The whitepaper wasn't released with any license. The original author still holds the copyright.
I'm going to guess someone from Apple's legal team is pretty pissed right about now.
The justice system is broken, with enough money you can make a mockery of it. The guy has filed so many lawsuits and sometimes they do go to trial. He's sued Bitcoin devs to change BTC Core code to unlock "his" lost Bitcoins that he says he doesn't have the keys to anymore. This was not admitted in the past but then his lawyers found a gullible British judge and they actually heard the case - although he ultimately lost.
He's also tried to sue Coinbase and Kraken for violating his supposed IP. Then he sued Peter McCormack for calling him a liar and "a moron". Although the court noted there's no evidence that he is Satoshi, the court still awared him £1 for his tarnished reputation. He's fabricated a story and lies to the entire world, then sues anyone who calls him out.
(Whatever past "proof" signatures from faketoshis have been verifiable false)
Anyway as it's already released under MIT license, this is moot.