Now it is Italy and Greece who want these ridiculous 1 and 2 euro notes. Let's hope that their requests end up where they belong: in the trash. The Greeks use the same arguments the Italians use: paper money is supposed to be anti-inflationary and we should accept them because they are used in the USA. Let's abandon metric and adopt ifp! That is also used in the USA! BTW there was a news item about a leaking water mains in San Francisco. The Dutch commentator stated that about 4 500 L/m flowed into the streets. I think that was a conversion from 1000 gallons per minute. And the Dutch commentator did not know that the US gallon differs from the Imperial one.
Han ----- Original Message ----- From: "kilopascal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, 2002-10-13 17:58 Subject: [USMA:22672] Re: Voluntary metrication 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 <snip>
