Prosecutor: Greed drove Coke plot

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[redy2fiyt]

So what's the crime?

Anyone know the laws on industrial espionage?

[redy2fiyt]

Here's the link to the Industrial Espionage Act of 1996

http://nsi.org/Library/Legis/bill1556.html


Here are the definitions of Industrial Espionage (per the Act):

`Sec. 1832. Criminal activities affecting proprietary economic information

`(a) Any person, with intent to, or reason to believe that it will, injure any owner of proprietary economic information having a value of not less than $100,000 that is produced for, or placed in, interstate commerce, and with intent to convert it to his or her own direct use or benefit or the direct use or benefit of another, knowingly--

`(1) steals, wrongfully appropriates, takes, carries away, or conceals, or by fraud, artifice, or deception obtains such information;

`(2) wrongfully copies, duplicates, sketches, draws, photographs, downloads, uploads, alters, destroys, photocopies, or replicates such information;

`(3) receives, buys, or possesses such information, knowing the same to have been stolen or wrongfully appropriated, obtained, or converted;

`(4) attempts to commit any offense described in paragraphs (1) through (3);

`(5) wrongfully solicits another to commit any offense described in paragraphs (1) through (3); or

`(6) conspires with one or more other persons to commit any offense described in paragraphs (1) through (3), and one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, shall, except as provided in subsection (b), be fined not more than $250,000 or imprisoned not more than 15 years, or both.

At the end of the Act, you'll notice the USC is now amended to include this Act.

[fulltitle]

Without Prejudice.
Greed? You mean it wasn't the taste?

[redy2fiyt]

Originally Posted by fulltitle

Without Prejudice.
Greed? You mean it wasn't the taste?

Dude, that would have been Diet Coke. LOL!

[fulltitle]

The Secret Recipe
The secret is out! Finally, you can make your own Coca-Cola with the recipe below. I have never tried it, so if you decide to give it a try, please email me and let me know how it turns out. I'm anxious to hear how the real thing is homemade!



Ingredients:
1 oz. Citrate Caffein
3 oz. Citric Acid
1 oz. Ext. Vanilla
1 Qt. Lime Juice
2 1/2 oz. Flavoring
30 lbs. Sugar
4 oz. F.E. Coco
2 1/2 gal. Water
Caramel sufficient Flavoring:
80 Oil Orange
40 Oil Cinnamon
120 Oil Lemon
20 Oil Coriander
40 Oil Nutmeg
40 Oil Neroli
1 Qt. Alcohol Directions:
Mix Caffeine Acid and Lime Juice
1 Qt. Boiling water add vanilla
and flavoring when cool.
Let stand for 24 hours.

Some Notes on Preparing The Coca-Cola Formula

1. It takes 1 oz. of syrup mixed with carbonated water to make a 6.5 oz. serving of Coca-Cola.
2. "F.E. Coco" means fluid extract of coca (the plant that produces cocaine), however the recipe does not go into details as to how this extract was prepared. Another ol Coca-Cola formula in the possession of Frank Robinson's great-grandson1, indicates that 10 pounds of coca leaf are required to flavor 36 gallons of syrup. It is also believed that the coca plant with lower cocaine levels was used to produce the extract. This is based on some of Pemberton's writings that indicate some coca plants were too bitter (that was because of cocaine).
3. The cola in Coca-Cola comes from the kola nut, yet kola nuts are not mentioned in the above Coca-Cola formula. This was because the reason for using kola nuts was for their caffeine content, and Pemberton almost positively bought his "Citrate Caffein" from a company that derived their caffeine from kola nuts. (Pemberton had previously praised the German firm Merck of producing a superior form of the stimulant from kola nuts)

If only they'd have just used google?

[charlesa6]

Thanks for the recipe, worth to try.