Subject:
|
Re: New Web Page
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.off-topic.debate
|
Date:
|
Tue, 25 May 1999 15:21:31 GMT
|
Reply-To:
|
johnneal@uswestNOSPAM.net
|
Viewed:
|
2513 times
|
| |
|
|
Steve Bliss wrote:
> On Tue, 25 May 1999 06:27:05 GMT, Mr L F Braun <braunli1@pilot.msu.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > Augh! is right! Oh, that's just plain idiotic. The only rationale I can see is
> > that they don't want to have to retool all of the old coin-op machines in the post
> > office and public transit around the country (provided it will be about the same
> > mass). If it's the same size, no problem--but it'll end up "quarterized" too.
>
> That's a better explanation than anything I thought up. It especially
> makes sense, if the major rationale for a new dollar coin is for it to be
> used in vending machines. And if the size limit for vending machines is
> the 26.5mm quarter.
>
> > This just sucks.
>
> It seems like there is enough of a gap in size between the nickel and the
> quarter that a new coin could be made with a diameter halfway between the
> two, and all the coins would be easily differentiable. Especially if the
> new coin was smaller.
>
> My main drag with a larger coin is the extra weight.
>
> Steve
Don't forget-- this is America where a) bigger is better, b) bigger is more valuable,
and 3;) therefore a dollar coin must be the size of a coaster. I point to Suzy B as an
attempt to the contrary to rest my case. Oh, and I forgot-- the land of the stupidest
collection of invertebrates (our electorate) who couldn't make an intelligent decision
if their exoskeletons depended on it. Case in point. New gun control legislation in
the wake of Columbine-- as if what they did wasn't illegal enough!
-John
|
|
Message is in Reply To:
 | | Re: New Web Page
|
| (...) That's a better explanation than anything I thought up. It especially makes sense, if the major rationale for a new dollar coin is for it to be used in vending machines. And if the size limit for vending machines is the 26.5mm quarter. (...) (...) (27 years ago, 25-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
|
298 Messages in This Thread:
(Inline display suppressed due to large size. Click Dots below to view.)
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
