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<p>[QUOTE="Drago the Wolf, post: 1384730, member: 22476"]HEY! Are you mocking me? Naughty Naughty!!! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, I was thinking about giving up the $200, $500, and $1,000 bill crusade now, due to the fact that, I have read that, it seems more and more European countries are BANNING the 500 Euro note, due to them being the "prefered currency" of organized crime. I wish we did not have to base our currency off that issue, but I guess that is the way things are.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am, however, going to continue the push for a widely circulating $2 bill and half dollar coin, NO MATTER how "futile, trying to get halves back into circulation might be. Speaking of which, I spent some brand new 2001 Mint sewn bag halves at my local 7 Eleven, and my friend who works there, said that he was handing them out, and no one complained, and then, some guy came in and bought the rest (I spent $10 in halves, there) But sadly, I spent a little over $11.50 and paid in halves, and I asked, "Hey, do you guys give these back out in change?" and one guy said "No, we just turn them in to the bank for "regular" money" and I said, "You should try handing them out to people" and they just let out a little chuckle, and I told them about how I want to become a cashier somewhere, so I can use halves and $2 bills as needed, took my food and left. So I guess there are both, positives and negatives to $2 bills and halves, but halves are a reason I really do not want to see the $1 bill go, because the dollar coin would take the half's place in cash registers, and with all of the opposition to dollar coins, and the fact that the government is finding a way to make $1 bills last longer, what is the point of dollar coins, as long as $2 bills and halves did circulate?</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, and we can NOT "nuke" North Korea. Ever heard of "mutually assued destruction"? Its where, if one country has launched nukes on another country, that country will launch its nukes out on the other country, to make sure that BOTH sides are destroyed. NO BENEFITS. NOT GOOD!!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Drago the Wolf, post: 1384730, member: 22476"]HEY! Are you mocking me? Naughty Naughty!!! :D By the way, I was thinking about giving up the $200, $500, and $1,000 bill crusade now, due to the fact that, I have read that, it seems more and more European countries are BANNING the 500 Euro note, due to them being the "prefered currency" of organized crime. I wish we did not have to base our currency off that issue, but I guess that is the way things are. I am, however, going to continue the push for a widely circulating $2 bill and half dollar coin, NO MATTER how "futile, trying to get halves back into circulation might be. Speaking of which, I spent some brand new 2001 Mint sewn bag halves at my local 7 Eleven, and my friend who works there, said that he was handing them out, and no one complained, and then, some guy came in and bought the rest (I spent $10 in halves, there) But sadly, I spent a little over $11.50 and paid in halves, and I asked, "Hey, do you guys give these back out in change?" and one guy said "No, we just turn them in to the bank for "regular" money" and I said, "You should try handing them out to people" and they just let out a little chuckle, and I told them about how I want to become a cashier somewhere, so I can use halves and $2 bills as needed, took my food and left. So I guess there are both, positives and negatives to $2 bills and halves, but halves are a reason I really do not want to see the $1 bill go, because the dollar coin would take the half's place in cash registers, and with all of the opposition to dollar coins, and the fact that the government is finding a way to make $1 bills last longer, what is the point of dollar coins, as long as $2 bills and halves did circulate? Oh, and we can NOT "nuke" North Korea. Ever heard of "mutually assued destruction"? Its where, if one country has launched nukes on another country, that country will launch its nukes out on the other country, to make sure that BOTH sides are destroyed. NO BENEFITS. NOT GOOD!!![/QUOTE]
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