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| Thread ID: 117479 | 2011-04-20 19:44:00 | Obama Hears A Hu (Apologies To: Winnie, Poo the) | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 1195890 | 2011-04-20 19:44:00 | It seems to be going along with my prophesy a few months ago: The US greenback is gonna get the axe! Standard & Poor's rating of the Quad-A US Credit Line has gone to Questionable or as they put it: 'Negative' . Renewed and closed-door-to-the-US talks have all come away with the feeling that now's the time to call the Federal Reserve Notes (better known as "Wish & Hope" (or Kennedy) Dollars) and re-issue a North American, unified dollar . Now the biggie is: unified with WHOM? I still think it's one of a couple of possibilities: The EURO € (a bad bad idea!) The Yuan ¥ (a worser idea) OR unite it with another proposed Canadian-Mexican mashup and call it The Continental in deference to going to either of the two aforementioned coins of the realm . The latter is what I think will happen . Hellzapoppin'! This is gonna get nasty . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1195891 | 2011-04-20 20:59:00 | Our $ of course since it is so much nicer to look at than the greenback | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1195892 | 2011-04-20 22:34:00 | Our $ of course since it is so much nicer to look at than the greenback And they're all different colours so we can tell them apart :p |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1195893 | 2011-04-20 22:37:00 | There's been some wolf-cries about counterfeiting the greenback too - all sorts of security measures are in place all over them - but they are the most copied bill in the illegal world. | SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1195894 | 2011-04-21 00:41:00 | I would run with the luck countries currency Australia as an international trading peg. Well lucky if you exclude the snakes |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 1195895 | 2011-04-21 00:47:00 | There's been some wolf-cries about counterfeiting the greenback too - all sorts of security measures are in place all over them - but they are the most copied bill in the illegal world. I read a book of fiction where the bad guys were collecting US$1 bills then bleaching them so they could be re printed as $100 bills because the mix of paper and cotton used in the notes was unobtainable any other way |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 1195896 | 2011-04-21 01:09:00 | I read a book of fiction where the bad guys were collecting US$1 bills then bleaching them so they could be re printed as $100 bills because the mix of paper and cotton used in the notes was unobtainable any other way Yeah - we are warned to only make change and take bills by watching the back of the bill . Seems that counterfeits aren't as detailed on the obtuse side and it's easy to spot . The biggest problem with bleach-outs is that they destroy the mag-strip embedded in the bill and that's what the vending machines read as a back-up security device . No strip - no transaction . There is also a holographic image that can only be seen by the correct wavelength of light from a bill reader too - although the holograph has elements that are naked-eye-visible - this is another layer of security . One of the trickiest ways to forge a small bill to a larger denomination is to rip the corners off a $100 . 00 bill - one corner off each of four different c-notes - and then glue them onto a $1 . 00 bill . The $100 . 00 is still 100% good - but it gives up enough material to create a phony $100 . 00 that way . Every once in a while I get some bills that are red-dye stained from a dye capsule going off in a bank robbery . This dye turns the robber red and makes him easy to catch . The stain on him is very permanent and even if it is somehow washed away, it leaves a black-light readable stain/image for months . |
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