2002-10-13 Exactly how does holding paper money make it feel more valuable? Does a dollar bill really feel more valuable then a coin? A golden coloured coin seems more valuable to me then a dirty, crumpled, old piece of paper. Even the machines have trouble with most dollar bills. The condition of most bills is so bad it takes many tries and a lot of patience before a machine may take the paper. What will the Greeks do if they get their wish and the machines refuse to accept Euro notes once they've become disgusting?
In times of trouble, it is coins of precious metal that have the real value. Paper is worthless. The Americans are the only ones still using paper for the unit denomination. Everyone else is using a coin and happy with it. What utter nonsense!! "Nur wenn die Leute Scheine haben, werden sie endlich begreifen, wie viel Kaufkraft der Euro wirklich besitzt", sagten Wirtschaftsexperten im griechischen Rundfunk. "Die Amerikaner wissen ganz genau, warum sie Ein-Dollar-Scheine haben." John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Markus Kuhn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, 2002-10-13 11:05 Subject: [USMA:22668] Re: Voluntary metrication > Pat Naughtin wrote on 2002-10-13 04:46 UTC: > > As another example, you might like to consider a range of women's wear made > > for a market in Bangkok in Thailand. As Thai women tend to be quite small it > > would not be feasible to buy a whole series of garments from Thailand and > > transport them (say) to a market in Iowa. > > Which is exactly the reason, why the new European Standard Clothes Sizes > Desigations offer the use a a two-dimensional size system, with a > primary size and a secondary size. American cusomers are already well > familiar with two-dimensional sizes from bras and jeans sizes. > > Markus > > P.S.: Related to the previous dollar bill/coin discussion: The Greek > government is pleading to the European Central bank to introduce a one > and two eurobill quickly, because it seems deeply rooted in Greek > culture that accepting change in coin is seen by the public as greedy, > which was no problem as long as the greeks had only coins of > ridiculously small value. > > http://www.tagesschau.de/aktuell/meldungen/0%2c2044%2cOID1188494%2c00.html > (Ask for translation via http://babelfish.altavista.com/ if you can read > the *very* bad SYSTAN English better than German.) > > -- > Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK > Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/> >
