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Telexfree (stylized as TelexFREE), a trade name owned by Telexfree Inc., was a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme disguised as an internet phone service company. Prosecutors have described it as the largest fraud of all time in terms of the number of people affected - more than 1 million, with victims in various countries.
A pyramid of energy shows how much energy is retained in the form of new biomass from each trophic level, while a pyramid of biomass shows how much biomass (the amount of living or organic matter present in an organism) is present in the organisms. There is also a pyramid of numbers representing the number of individual organisms at each ...
A get-rich-quick scheme is a plan to obtain high rates of return for a small investment. Most schemes create an impression that participants can obtain this high rate of return with little risk, skill, effort, or time. The term "get rich quick" has been used to describe shady investments since at least the early 20th century. [1] [2]
American pale ale (APA) is a style of pale ale developed in the United States around 1980. [ 1 ] American pale ales are generally around 5% abv with significant quantities of American hops, typically Cascade . [ 2 ]
The MECE principle (mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive) is a grouping principle for separating a set of items into subsets that are mutually exclusive (ME) and collectively exhaustive (CE). [1]
Double Shah's Ponzi Scheme was at its peak when it was exposed by The Nation (Pakistan), a Lahore daily newspaper in an investigative piece published on the front page on April 6, 2007. [1] Double Shah was arrested by the Gakkhar town police on 13 April 2007 from his Nizamabad house on charges of Rs. 30,000 robbery.
Hyphanet (until mid-2023: Freenet [5]) is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant, anonymous communication. It uses a decentralized distributed data store to keep and deliver information, and has a suite of free software for publishing and communicating on the Web without fear of censorship.
Publishing another's art as one's own is sometimes called "art theft", particularly online. [105] This usage has little direct relationship to the theft of physical works of art. Ruth Graham quotes T. S. Eliot—"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. Bad poets deface what they take."—she notes that despite the "taboo" of plagiarism, the ...