It's interesting to see the various defenses being posted here. Again, there's no actual explanation of *why* the currency is deisgned as it is, just a lot of variations on 'you must be an idiot if you can't handle it'.Again, it's not that I can't handle it, it's just sub-optimal. How does it hurt to make money *easier* to identify, or possible to identify for various minorities? Think about the illiterate, those with numeric dyslexia, people with s**tty eyesiight, people in dark places or whatever. It's so obvious that having denominations in diffrerent colours is helpful, what is the harm in doing that?As for the difficulty in changing, this is not an issue. Countries all over the world have changed currency completely before, it's not very difficult. Australia changed from Pounds and Pence to Dollars and Cents in the 1960s. The whole of Europe got a brand new currency called the Euro. If you think simply adding colours to the different US bills is too difficult, that's a pretty low bar for the country that put a man on the moon.I will confess that the current paper bills do have a lot of cultural cachet. Thanks to movies, mostly, a ransom just doesn't feel right if the stacks of bills aren't all green 100s.But that's hardly a reason to refuse to change things. Ideally, currency should have three attributes to help identify different amounts: Words and numbers, Colours, and Texture. I can't think of a country that uses the texture of a note, and it would be good if I could 'feel' my way to the correct note in my wallet. But the majority of countries have had different coloured denominations for decades already.It just seems that the US has a real cultural/mental roadblock when it comes to large-scale change. Currency, Metric system, Healthcare, the old-fashioned 'red menace' paranoia about other political systems... it seems that the country that has introduced more scientific innovations than any other over the last 150 years is super-quick to adopt new tech in many areas but in others it just won't budge no matter what.I'm not being critical, not really, but it *is* very entertaining to see people react to what seems to be a raw nerve.
i dunno, i think the secret service might consider that threatening the life of president Lincoln.. ohh yeaa... nevermind.. now if only mr shrub would appear on some cash...
Closed AccountOct 6, 2009
More than... diggs are a' goin up!
kanojo1969Oct 6, 2009
It's interesting to see the various defenses being posted here. Again, there's no actual explanation of *why* the currency is deisgned as it is, just a lot of variations on 'you must be an idiot if you can't handle it'.Again, it's not that I can't handle it, it's just sub-optimal. How does it hurt to make money *easier* to identify, or possible to identify for various minorities? Think about the illiterate, those with numeric dyslexia, people with s**tty eyesiight, people in dark places or whatever. It's so obvious that having denominations in diffrerent colours is helpful, what is the harm in doing that?As for the difficulty in changing, this is not an issue. Countries all over the world have changed currency completely before, it's not very difficult. Australia changed from Pounds and Pence to Dollars and Cents in the 1960s. The whole of Europe got a brand new currency called the Euro. If you think simply adding colours to the different US bills is too difficult, that's a pretty low bar for the country that put a man on the moon.I will confess that the current paper bills do have a lot of cultural cachet. Thanks to movies, mostly, a ransom just doesn't feel right if the stacks of bills aren't all green 100s.But that's hardly a reason to refuse to change things. Ideally, currency should have three attributes to help identify different amounts: Words and numbers, Colours, and Texture. I can't think of a country that uses the texture of a note, and it would be good if I could 'feel' my way to the correct note in my wallet. But the majority of countries have had different coloured denominations for decades already.It just seems that the US has a real cultural/mental roadblock when it comes to large-scale change. Currency, Metric system, Healthcare, the old-fashioned 'red menace' paranoia about other political systems... it seems that the country that has introduced more scientific innovations than any other over the last 150 years is super-quick to adopt new tech in many areas but in others it just won't budge no matter what.I'm not being critical, not really, but it *is* very entertaining to see people react to what seems to be a raw nerve.
osokOct 8, 2009
i dunno, i think the secret service might consider that threatening the life of president Lincoln.. ohh yeaa... nevermind.. now if only mr shrub would appear on some cash...
pihaOct 16, 2009
Yeah the statement is dollars. (Because it doesn't have any cents)
pixiemom1970Oct 20, 2009
$119.00
liquidgreyOct 29, 2009
make a Pedo Bear one!