10 Jan
1999
10 Jan
'99
4:56 p.m.
At 12:53 PM 1/9/99 +1030, you wrote:
The US could have hundreds of millions of dollars by
doing that (at least
$1 coins) but it has been demonstrated around the world that the only way
to do that *successfully* is to pull the bills out of circulation
immediately as the coins are released.
Our "Susie B" dollar was a failed attempt -- becuase the bill was not
pulled. People claim silly things like it was too close in size to the
quarter (BS - try it sometime) or it was too heavy.
This is really getting off-topic.
But... I heard a debate on NPR between a coin advocate and a bill advocate.
I think they both had vested interests (i.e., the bill advocate works for a
company that makes bill acceptors). It was a ridiculous argument -- you
could tell that each man had an axe to grind.
And on another subject, have you had any luck rounding up a Grid floppy
cable or the laptop you were going to look for? In a pinch, I could bring
the Grid in my closet to class (if I had a way to put software on the hard
drive, that is). I'm still interested in a plasma display, however.
-- Derek