It depends on how your W-2 comes. Years ago they were carbon paper forms, copy A (the top copy) was sent to the IRS by the employer, copy B was the next layer that you sent to the IRS, and so on. These days your W-2 is likely to be a pdf file or something mailed to you that has 4 copies on a single folded up piece of paper that you tear or cut on a dotted line to separate. At the bottom of each copy there is a statement that says "COPY B--To be filed with employee's federal tax return" or "COPY C" or whatever.
What if you could get the latest Nike shoes or premium Rolex watch at half the price or even lower? You should definitely say no. Because they are never the original product. These are often termed as First-copy products and it is something that can be used to fool consumers into believing they are buying a real, authentic product at a regular price.
Unfortunately, first-copy products have a bad reputation among retailers and brands. Without realizing this, the consumer may assume that the product is genuine, which can lead them to make poor purchasing decisions.
There are different sets of replicas. Some of them are first-copy products, second-copy products and then there are 10A and 7A replicas which are counterfeits of the highest quality. Such products and their quality vary according to the price they hold. But still, they are all counterfeit copies that do not hold any legal existence.
The primary reason is that these are not manufactured by the brands but made by counterfeiters who are trying to get the money mimicking the name. However, a manufacturer can take inspiration from a brand and make a product that can look the same but should not use the same brand name or logo. But this is not the case in first-copy products. These products are said to have the same design, colour or even weight and will use the same brand name and logo. And this is illegal across the world.
These first-copy products can damage the image of a brand or product name. Most consumers may be tricked into believing they are buying a genuine product when they are not. This is the worst thing that can happen to any business. If a store is selling first-copy products, most probably they are encouraging shady sales practices. Consumers should be careful about where they buy their items and how much they spend.
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Suppose the cover price of a book is $24.95, but the bookstores get a 40% discount. Shipping costs $3 for the first copy and 75 cents for each additional copy. What is the total wholesale cost for 60 copies
By Mississippi law, a portion ($1.00) of the fee collected for each certified copy is deposited in the Children's Trust Fund administered by the Mississippi Department of Human Services to fund programs to prevent child abuse and neglect.
If you are applying for a birth certificate for yourself, a relative, or someone you legally represent, you must provide a copy of a valid photo identification with your application. Accepted forms of identification are:
Complaints of failure to receive certified records will be honored within 6 months of the original request. If the copy was to be returned to you by U. S. Postal Service, please allow 4 weeks after mailing the request before inquiring. Inquiry about copies ordered with payment for special courier delivery should be made within 7 days of the request. Mail returned because of insufficient address or address changes will be re-mailed if this office is notified of the correct address within 6 months of request.
The Court of Justice of the European Union opined that a patient has the right to a free first copy of their medical records under the EU General Data Protection Regulation. The question came before the court after a German resident asked his dentist for a copy of his medical records and was told he needed to pay for it. The case still has to be decided by the German Federal Court of Justice.
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Copy machines can be found in every office, and most of us take them for granted. But 75 years ago, the technology that underpins the modern photocopier was used for the first time in a small apartment in Queens.
"There was a distinct need for simple copying like this, and it just took off," says Ray Brewer, historical archivist for Xerox Corp. "We sold thousands of these machines, and the demand was such that we were manufacturing them in large quantities."
"I make perfect copies of whatever my boss needs by just turning a knob and pushing a button. Anything he can see I can copy in black and white on ordinary paper. I can make seven copies a minute. ... Sometimes my boss asks me which is the original, and sometimes, I don't know."
Now here comes the problem: after I posted my answer, the author of the first answer edited theirs to copy my solution.
If we end up having the same score, the bounty will go to them, since their answer was the first one to be posted, even if it was later changed. Bit unfair, isn't it?
So, in a more general sense, what can be done to deter the above behavior?Making the bounty go to the answer with the oldest last revision, maybe? As in, if you edit your answer after other answers have been posted, then your answer should not be considered the "first" anymore?
It was you that offered, in my opinion, a fix to my flawed logic of using new line replacement to hack my way towards the desired result. However, the mechanics of the solution were already there in the very first version of the answer.
Having said all that, I do not think I have committed plagiarism. I have improved the answer based on what you've provided. I didn't merely copy-paste your entire approach, as I've already had that figured out (most of it, I reckon).
Well, they are VERY similar. It looks like you pretty much copied badukers answer and reworded it a bit. My point here is that often there is one or very few obvious solutions to a problem. You cannot really blame someone for copying your answer just because they include the necessary parts.
I often cite the source when I copy code. It can be another answer or a completely different site. However, I usually don't do it when there's basically only one way to do it. Let's say that the question is "How do I error check malloc?", then I would not cite a source for a snippet like this:
In other words, due to system design, answering fast > answering well. Answers posted first will almost always receive more eyes, and often more votes, than answers arriving later, even if later answers are better, more thorough, or actually more correct (the recent Outdated Answers project is on some level dealing with this same phenomena); this is especially true on questions and tags with larger numbers of viewers.
This problem has been around since the literal beginning of Stack Overflow (that Meta SE post linked above predates the public beta of SO). We've been dealing with this issue for a long, long time in some form, and there still isn't a great solution for it. The system incentivizes answering first, and this case as originally described is just a specific flavor of that same issue/ design quirk.
No one was intentionally exploiting this for profit in this case, but the effect of the quirk stands, because if someone answers first on a bountied question and it ties for top score with another answer, age breaks the tie, and that post will receive the automatic bounty if OP fails to award it.
Posting a quick answer that is not fully complete is something that even John Skeet does. I think it's fine becuase SO is not supposed to do the programming for you. A quick, incomplete answer to your question can set you on the path to the solution you want. Once a question has an answer it deters others from answering so maybe have a option to search for questions where the answers have not been upvoted. Also I've suggested before the idea of delaying high reputation users from answering to give others a chance to answer. e.g. My rep is 600 approx so give 2,000 rep users the opportunity to answer my questions first and then allow 20,000 rep users an hour later. The idea is to have to top people focused on answering the hard questions.
It took around one month for a copy of my printed book to get here. If you remember my previous post where I made a reflection of who I chose a Print on Demand service, you will remember that Lulu was the chosen one.
In order to start distributing paperback copies and have your book listed under services like Amazon, Barnes & Nobles, Kobo, Google Books, and others, they send you a printed copy of your book for you to approve it. It makes sense, especially when you design the interior and take care of all the formatting needed for the book. You want to make sure that the book is printing well, and the format and design you uploaded are showing correctly before it is distributed to other websites.
Something strange is happening, a copy/download zip file from HTTP to Azure dataLake was working fine 2 weeks back, now I am getting following error, same question asked by another user,
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