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[asterroc]

Judge rules paper money unfair to blind, gives the US Treasury 30 days to start working on a solution. It's about time!

Comments

[gemini6ice.livejournal.com]

This would really screw over the entire vending machine industry, unless the new bills were all no larger than the current ones.

[tiurin.livejournal.com]

We may as well overhaul that industry by going to $1 coins too. I think we're one of few(and maybe the only) First World countries which don't have a coin for the amount of money equivalent to $1.

[gemini6ice.livejournal.com]

um...

But we do. O_o

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Well, tiurin probably meant "eliminate the $1 bill so the $1 coin becomes standard." Ever try handing a $1 coin to a cashier? Watch as they go to put it in the drawer - they'll move their hand towards each and every one of the other coin slots at least twice each before they realize there's no separate slot. It's great fun.

[tiurin.livejournal.com]

Okay, no commonly circulated coin. Satisfied?

[sammka.livejournal.com]

Plenty of machines for other things, like farecards or more costly refreshments, take fives, tens, even twenties.

[marquiswildbill.livejournal.com]

As long as singles remainded the current size it wouldn't make much of a difference I don't think.

[gemini6ice.livejournal.com]

If others were larger, then they'd have to make a new bill insertion slot mechanism. But I hadn't thought that most machines don't take anything larger than a $5 anyway.

[marquiswildbill.livejournal.com]

I use vending machines pretty reguarly, and I can't recall the last time I used something other than a single. I know there are a few things where you have larger demoninations, but it should only require a pretty small changeover in vending machine types.