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07-23-2020, 08:21 PM | #362 | |
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Meanwhile in the USA...
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07-23-2020, 11:38 PM | #363 | |
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Then they started charging 12% to do it. Fuck that, fuck them.
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07-24-2020, 04:34 AM | #364 |
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Its been a year since I have done it, but the coinstar machines at our local store gave you the best deal if you bought a credit on Amazon with the balance. The receipt had a number you typed in to your Amazon account. It may have even been zero fee.
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07-24-2020, 01:44 PM | #365 |
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Our grocery store had a Coinstar machine for years, then they got rid of it. I guess no one was ever using it, or else the store felt they weren't getting a big enough cut to justify it.
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07-24-2020, 04:22 PM | #366 |
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One cannot buy a flat washer even with a penny nickel or dime. Why do useless coins exist? A Congress with too many extremists - not moderates who can make intelligent decisions.
A dime once bought a Coke. Even a dollar bill is insufficient. A dime was what a $1 bill is today. Why do we still have paper $1 and $5 bills? So many extremists who so hate America by not thinking for themselves. Even threaten the Constitutional rights of others by not wearing a mask - because Trump said it is unnecessary. Conservative: he knows it must be true because Trump said so. We all need guns to protect what Trump says. A penny was good enough. So it will always be necessary. We spend about $1 billion annually making ridiculous paper $1 bills. Directly traceable to extremists who supported Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. People who know because a Central Committee of the Party (ie Fox News) has ordered us what to think. How hard is it to eliminate a penny? How hard is it to eliminate the paper $1 and $5 bills? Same logic also proved Saddam had WMDs. "I was told what to believe. So it must be true."| Let's attack China. That will solve everything. Propaganda said so. It must be true. "I know because I am a conservative." "Beam me up Scotti. There's no intelligent life down here any more." How curious. Even he is now in space. |
07-24-2020, 07:05 PM | #367 |
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Please Scotti. Please.
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07-26-2020, 08:26 PM | #368 |
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God yes, Scotti, take the raving lunatic away, he's trying to make everything more expensive and every purchase traceable by the government.
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07-27-2020, 12:17 PM | #369 |
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Once upon a time (some decades ago), smallest denomination was a dime. So a soda cost a $1 (a dime in those day). Now that we have 0.1 and 0.5 cent denominations (called the penny and nickel), soda costs more than $1. We also waste a $billion every year foolishly making paper dollar bills. We know costs are higher because extremists love to 'wreck shit' by doing nothing. Even use pervert reasoning to claim otherwise.
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07-27-2020, 01:08 PM | #370 |
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Did you mean a dime and a half dollar?
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07-27-2020, 05:11 PM | #371 | |
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You're intertwining denominations with legal tender status. US 1’ and 5’ coins didn't become legal tender until 1873 (over a century ago). The total amount they were legal tender for was limited though. It was the Coinage Act of 1965 ("some decades ago") that codified legal tender status for all US circulating coins without limit. The US 1’ and 5’ denominations previously existed as have 1/2’, 2’, 3’ and Half Dime denominations for periods of time in the past. |
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07-27-2020, 05:48 PM | #372 |
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An extremely useful question that should be asked by everyone several times a day is "Cui bono?". Who benefits?
When the price of something is $.99 instead of a dollar, you might wonder is the merchant is fooling you or are you fooling yourself to think there is a difference. But the real question is: Who benefits? All the coins we have to use instead of even money is good for somebody, just not us. Anyone ever clerk at a store where every cash register had a well worn tax table? You had to follow down the column of the total of taxable items to find the rounded-off break set at the current percentage rate to add to the total that would eventually be backfigured to pay the franchise boards. WTF benefited from that? We still do it most everywhere except the cash register steals the money without the hassle. I remember marveling on trips to England how everything came out even, no small change (coins) involved. Cui bono? |
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In London in dark bars, it can be too much trouble to take out glasses to read those numbers. I would throw some coins on the bar and ask a bar tender to take what she needed. She would select a few coins. It only took maybe two coins to buy a pint of beer - because their currency has value.
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08-12-2020, 04:22 PM | #374 |
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Meanwhile at Arecibo Observatory
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08-12-2020, 09:41 PM | #375 |
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Ow, my giant ear!
That's gonna cost at least a hunderd dang dollars.
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