Many things

[Tom Jennings]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Stan Barr wrote:

> (Are your bills still all the same size, or have you copied everyone
> else and made the larger dominations bigger to stop people bleaching
> small bills to print big ones?)

Same size, but the artwork on thr 20's has radically changed.
Metal strips, reactive inks, etc ad nauseum.

I'm sure there's a large and serious counterfeit problem and I can
understand the need to worry about it, and that there will be Side
Effects. It's just the current downward spiral seems to me to be a
paranoid/fascist approach. I think fascist is the right word, now,
not a screechy exaggeration.  'The use of force to acheive
political ends' especially domestically (we've (U.S., not me
personally) exported force of course for many decades :-)

Tom Jennings <tomj at wps.com>