Categories: Disambiguation In broad terms, political corruption is the misuse of public office for private gain. ... Bribery is the practice of offering a professional or an authority person money or other favours in order to circumvent ethics or other rules in a variety of situations. ... Intimidation is the act of making others do what one wants through fear. ... Extortion is a criminal offense, which occurs when a person obtains money, behaviour, or other goods and/or services from another by wrongfully threatening or inflicting harm to his person, reputation, or property. ... Influence peddling is the practice of using ones influence with persons in authority to obtain favors or preferential treatment for another, usually in return for payment. ... Data Corruption refers to computer data that when transmitted it arrives at its destination is different when it was transmitted from the source. ... A datum is a statement accepted at face value (a given). Data is the plural of datum. ... In communications and information processing, a transmitter (sometimes abbreviated XMTR) is an object (source) which sends information to an observer (receiver). ... In computer science and information theory, error correction consists of using methods to detect and/or correct errors in the transmission or storage of data by the use of some amount of redundant data and (in the case of transmission) the selective retransmission of incorrect segments of the data. ... In language, text is a broad term for something that contains words to express something. ... The otherkin subculture is made up of people who describe themselves as non-human in some way, usually as a mythological or legendary creature. ...