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Greenbacks No More
Chacham writes "The Financial Times has an article about the US adding colors to some denominations of US currency. Apparently, with both size and color the same, foreigners have a hard time differenciating between the bills.I still haven't gotten used to the larger pictures. And now this? As Kermit the frog sang, It's not easy being green." The Federal Reserve has a press release. At least there's no mention of RFID tags.
oh damn. nevermind.
"foreigners have a hard time differenciating between the bills"
does the phonecian numbering system still present a problem for some corners of the earth? I wasn't aware that the roman or summerian numerals where still in use.
Or is the next 'new math' going to be based on adding colors, instead of numbers? Yeah, you gave me two blues ($5) and a yellow ($10), so thats a blue-green ($20.)
Right. There are better reasons that this.
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms should be the name of a store, not a government agency.
I take it you have a hard time recognizing the numbers in the corner of the bill? My sympathies for your dyslexia or whatever it is.
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you need to go here. Ive had not one problem in 20 years discerning the value of currency, on the fly. I was so good at it, they even ley ne tend the cash drawer at the hardware store, but i digress.
I want 2D games back.
You have a problem with "tradition" and "national pride"? People wear uniforms and die for that you ignorant little motherfucking worm.
What's so hard?
The "foreign" stuff is just there to throw bigots off the track. Colors make it easier for everyone. No one ever said it was imposible to tell the old bills apart like you sarcastically imply.
Of course, I prefer that people can't tell how much money I have from a distance. It gives me the creaps when I'm in Mexico that some guy half a block away can see I how much money I have. I have to keep my green bills in a seporate pocket.
But I can count out Mexican money faster than American money. Colors do help people, but you're too mean to care.
As a foreigner, English actually, and living in the US, I can tell you that your paper money sucks. The big number is about the _only_ distinguishing feature on any of the notes. Taking a quick peek in your wallet to see roughly how much cash you have is not so quick when:
:)
a) all notes are the same size
b) all notes are the same colour
US money is often referred to as monopoly money because of its uniformity - only, even monopoly money recognizes the value of colour coding.
Mind you - the real thing to worry about would be dollar coins - from the day they made the pound a coin people have been wondering where all their money went not realizing they had 25 quid in coins in their pocket
The U.S. government has never recalled or devalued its currency.
Explain why they're raising the amount of money in circulation (scarcity decreases, so does value). And why I can't exchange my old silverbacks for pounds of silver?
They have been devaluing currency for as long as I can recall. So I reiterate my subject line.
Someone set us up the bomb, so shine we are!
Actually, this thing we're on is called the WORLD wide web, and most of the WORLD has access to most servers. There really are very few AMERICAN web sites.
What are you...nucking futs?
You're right about one thing, one shouldn't have to check twice that one isn't handing over a twenty instead of a dollar bill...but one shouldn't be such a moron as to not tell the difference between a 1 and a 20...if you can't tell the difference between those two visual images at a glance, you must be daft.
Besides that, who gives a rat's ass what color the damn things are? As long as the new purple $10 will buy me the same stuff a green $10 will, I couldn't care less...
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If numbers are too tough, then you shouldn't be playing with that much money anyway. In 2004, we get to hear about how this system discriminates against the color blind. By 2006, John Ashcroft will assign each foreign tourist his own government "helper" to keep track of his money for him. by 2008 the system will be working so smoothly that all citizens will be "entitled" to the same help. All because of a few morons who couldn't count.
I spent a year in Iraq looking for WMD and all I found was this lousy sig.
Or, perhaps, you're just busy setting up strawmen because you don't understand/agree with the USian point of view? Maybe?
Oh, gosh, it's so damn hard to actually look at numbers! I'd rather look at pretty colors because I NEVER GRADUATED FROM PRESCHOOL.
Why do we have to have a bunch of fruity colors on our money? The greenback is easy and it works. All the bills are the same size and color, and the value of each bill is printed in moron-proof obviousness EIGHT TIMES on each bill.
Changing that means BILLIONS in losses for us because now all our bill counters (how many Coke machines are there in the USA?) and bank cash sorters and ATMs and other devices will have to be retrofitted. Guess who pays for that? Hmm, let me think...
No, wait, it'll come to me...
THE CONSUMER.
I sure am looking forward to paying an extra $.50 each time I buy my Lipton brisk iced tea and a $2.47 "currency update fee" every month for the next year plus the $2.29 "bill counter upgrade fee" at the gas pump (excuse me... "petrol" pump). I suppose the next thing we'll do is make our coins ring-shaped and color-coded so that Canadians who don't like to read numbers can hang them around their dicks for easier sorting.
All of this is for the benefit of foreigners who want to come here, but for some reason, can't fire the 9 extra neurons to look at a number printed in 24-point font ALL THE FUCK OVER OUR CURRENCY? Doesn't make sense to me.