Brain Drain

The Outlands
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Having similar issues I was forced to mount a blackout shade on the outside of the windowframe, on the molding, so that the cheapy blinds could remain there. I had to get 'em to block out light from the neighbors at night but I’m enjoying the side benefits of brighter, lower-temperature rooms fwiw.

Are the curtains you use those blackout curtains that are white on the side facing the window?

Sadly my endeavors to use fans in windows ended when it caused the screen to rip. It worked, but I had the issue of the incoming air rush causing airborne junk to build up on the screen so that it looked like a giant dryer lint filter :frowning:

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While visintg a coin collecting forum s I usually do for what reason I am unsure because they are mostly people jsut showing off collections which amounts to a bunch of braggarts which I deplore…

It comes up a USA Act to remove the dollar bill in favor of the dollar coin, and to remove the nickel and penny due to “losses” due to the higher cost to make them over their face value.

Well after figuring that the Mint made $400 million dollars more coinage face value than it cost them and the fact that someone has to pay that $400 million to buy the coins in order for them to be released, people still claim we are losing money on the nickel and penny.

Longer story somewhat short, I keep saying it wold be foolish to get rid of the penny as then you would still have the quarter to deal with even though everything would round to the dime. Nobody addresses it, only that the penny costs more than face value to make.

Maybe someone here has some brain power and can tell me, in what world would the quarter still have a point to exist without the nickel and the penny, since the concept of getting rid of them is based on Canada, while they only got rid of the penny and have the nickel to still support their quarter.

So why would we even have a quarter is no nickel or penny?

Why not just get rid of the quarter and nickel and keep the dollar, nickel and penny coins to same money. Sure the penny will still cost more than face, but we aren’t losing money and they have usefulness.

So why keep the quarter with no function for it, as it would always have to be used 2 at a time, which there is a coin for that, called the half dollar if we are rounding to dimes?

are people just so brain dead or that bad at math they would have refused to address the quarter? Are we so poor as a country we are having to count pennies, literally, so much that we can only survive by getting rid of the penny? :blink:

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I honestly do not see how it is “supporting” the quarter. A quarter is not just 25 pennies or 5 nickels, it is 25% of a dollar. I can use quarters in basically any machine that requires some kind of currency to function; however, I cannot use pennies. Nickles are sometimes accepted.

Because the quarter is not losing us money and the penny and nickle are. Pennies are such a small division of the dollar (the currency we formulate basically everything around) that we basically do not need them. I am quite sure we have spent a lot of money where the half-penny could have been used, but the cost was rounded up to the penny, and I do not think our economy has collapsed quite yet. ^_^;

Always 2 at a time? Gumballs cost one quarter, so do many candies at local shops, including those of novelty; additionally, many things in the vending machine cost 75¢. 1/4[sup]th[/sup] and 3/4[sup]ths[/sup] of a dollar are much more easily processable currency amounts other than 1/100[sup]th[/sup] and 1/20[sup]th[/sup] to the average person.

No… because the quarter is not what is losing us money.

http://youtu.be/77C47XYm_3c I hope it helps. :slight_smile: And hopefully my crack at it was not too bad.

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We can’t get rid of change, not without imposing ridiculous hardship on businesses as they struggle to cope with our wonky sales taxes that don’t lend themselves to even-number fees. Ultimately places with sales tax will see items cost more and places with sense, and thus no sales tax, like Delaware will give a big grin.

Perhaps the Mint should find a more efficient way to make these coins, and/or make them from less expensive materials. It’s not as though the coins derive their face value from their composition, same with the dollar bill.

My experiences in Canada have not left me with a good impression of dollar coins but if they should come to replace paper money in the US then I’d like to see them have a 2 dollar variant and feature more meaningful American art (eg:like what is on the back of the current 2 dollar bill) and depict more significant persons than the likes of Sacajawea and SBA.

This whole problem could have been avoided if FDR (and Nixon) hadn’t made our money intrinsically valueless. If only the people of those generations had born this in mind when mucking around in DC: “No State shall…make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts…”

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tager, you missed the point. If the penny and nickel is gone and everything is rounded to dimes, what good is the quarter? It will always take 2 UNLESS you are shoving them into a machine and never get the change back for them, so you might as well shove dimes in instead. You will never be able to give change bck for the quarter as you will have no 4 cents value ever everything will be rounded to the nearest dime.

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They want us to adopt dollar coins but abandon the nickel and penny. Why don’t we just adopt Bank of America’s “keep the change” plan and round everything up to the nearest dollar and eliminate all coins with face value less than a dollar?

Businesses get a few cents more per purchase, customers rip themselves off and lower their buying power and, as an added bonus, if inflation should really take off then we’ll have already compensated by turning the dollar of tomorrow into the penny of today. :wink:

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shadzar, I guess I did miss the point for the most part. Maybe I am getting too much sun and not enough sleep. :pinch:
Well, I guess the simplest solution then would be to simply ditch to quarter as well. Though it is probably my favorite coin, if we do not so much as have the nickle, then the quarter would not work very well. I am all for switching to dimes and half dollars. As for dollar coins, I am not for or against them, but if it is only the single dollar that is being turned to a coin it would be much more expensive to bulk up a wad of cash. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Facts about dollar bills of all denominations that may make anyone change their mind about wanting to continue to use them:

  1. the court ORDERED the treasury in 2006 to make changes to help the blind and visually impaired better recognize them, and 8 year later we have monopoly money that still looks the same except for a few color changes. Blind cannot tell the color coding and the bills are ALL still the same size. way to discriminate against the blind USA!

  2. Tests done prove positive for 90% of ALL US federal reserve notes to contain amounts of cocaine.

  3. 70& contain Meth

  4. a dollar bill of any amount has to be burned and buried when it reaches the end of its lifespan while a coin can be recycled.

  5. a bill should have a lifespan of 5.4 years, but many last only 18 months, while coins have an average lifespan of 50 years.

  6. it takes 6 cents to make a $1 bill, add in disposal costs and that bills are only lasting 18 months, then those costs are incurred every year and a half, while the coins will last 50 years.

yes, only the 1 bill will be switched to coin since we have a new size/shape that will not be confused with a quarter, and we have a stockpile of several billion from 2000~2011 where people did not adopt the SACs and the Pre didn’t attract as many collectors as they had hoped.

some of the arguments heard to keep the $1 bill are: strippers, you cannot fill a money clip with 1’s if they are coins, and other nonsense. IF people actually spend them, then they won’t build up since you would need up to 4 and anything over that will take a 5, and when you get that many you just spend them.

Mostly businesses are adverse to the switch and we ALL know how business run the company because “We the People” has been changed to “We the Businesses/Corporations”, and the PEOPLE don’t matter two spits. :angry:

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The bills in my wallet are bringing up the average then :slight_smile:

The best reason for not abandoning the penny? Doing so would make it harder for the average guy to achieve Scrooge McDuck levels of money-swimming opulence:

If the Mint loses $400 million then I’m not too concerned about that as we have bigger, more costly problems to deal with in government.

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So last Tuesday I went to an Oral Surgeon and had the last 3 of my molars removed. My morning breath smells like rotting flesh… lol. Antibiotics and a cup of warm salt water for rinsing… yummy. Did I mention that awesome feeling of slipping into a drug induced sleep??

Yes… yes they do. :wink:

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Drug induced sleep? Man, when I had my wisdom teeth extracted I was conscious and rather cognizant. I could feel the sawing and scraping but it didn’t hurt. Very weird. I imagine that’s what the entirety of the 1960s must have been like to those who lived 'em lol.

The hardest part about the surgery was getting the surgeon to let me keep the extracted teeth.

So when you say the last 3 of your molars does that mean that you’ve parted ways with all 12 of 'em ?

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Had my wisdom teeth taken out as a 14 year old because they were not coming in and would only be a problem later on.

Took a chisel, literally, to remove them and I woke up on the Orthodontist in spite of the sedatives they pumped me full of. I can still remember his yell to the nurse, “***Hit him again! Now!***”.

The procedure was supposed to only take a couple of hours, started at 9 AM in order to go home before Noon on a Saturday, I didn’t wake up from the sedative until well after 5 PM.

The Orthodontist and his Nurse were not very happy, they’d had to cancel their Saturday plans. I was such a bad boy. :evil:

It turned out that I don’t react normally to most conventional sedatives, they just make me irritable. It takes a lot more of them to put me to sleep. I react the same way to Alcohol, which is why I don’t drink.

Mark Gosdin

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I remember when I had my Wisdom teeth out . It was uneventful ,but I guess someone thought it was ok to take me to Best Buy after . I ended up buying I think Anime standing in line the whole time blood slowly coming down the two canine and out my mouth . I remember the look of fear on the little girl that was in line in front of me .

Now before that I had two baby teeth that had to be removed and the permanent ones pulled down . That did not go as well . About midway through I burst from the straps they had on me , pull out the IV , and start screaming Why . Mom said she came in to find me standing there fighting staff that were trying to get me back down with my lower jaw and white tee shirt covered in blood and saliva . After that they have never put me fully under .

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You were not alone in being combative, I was 6 years old and seriously ill with what was then called Infectious Mononucleosis now known as the Epstein-Barr virus. My family doctor was having blood work done for me at the Catholic hospital in Sherman, Texas. The poor Nun / Nurse came to take the sample with what looked to the very ill me like a needle & syringe sized for a horse. I snapped.

It took 5 nuns, one each on each limb, one to take the sample and my mom holding my head to keep me from biting.

I didn’t know that it was possible for a 6 year old boy to knock an adult woman off her feet. The nuns told me later that I wasn’t the worst they had dealt with, but I did put on a good show. :blink:

Mark Gosdin

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[quote=“celestial_being” post=174464]Drug induced sleep? Man, when I had my wisdom teeth extracted I was conscious and rather cognizant.
So when you say the last 3 of your molars does that mean that you’ve parted ways with all 12 of 'em ?[/quote]

I was awake when the 1st one was pulled back in late 2011. This new doctor I went to only removes teeth under sedation. My wisdom teeth/back molars.

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As I was watching my Watamote DVDs, I noticed that Sentai finally updated their animation, it’s 16:9 now. Yet we still have the 4:3 ad for Anime Network (with the circle logo instead of the… whatever shape we have now)… And the fav icon was never updated here…

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After extensive experimentation I have come to the conclusion that someone in this very room is in fact, a tit-baby for their karma.

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And as a first-time poster, you have come to this conclusion how?

(And I see that you are probably just an alias for someone… that’s illegal, you know)

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[quote=“Slowhand” post=174776]

And as a first-time poster, you have come to this conclusion how?

(And I see that you are probably just an alias for someone… that’s illegal, you know)[/quote]

The amount of posts I’ve made is irrelevant. Internet aliases are illegal?

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[quote=“Oppai” post=174790]

And as a first-time poster, you have come to this conclusion how?

(And I see that you are probably just an alias for someone… that’s illegal, you know)

The amount of posts I’ve made is irrelevant. Internet aliases are illegal?[/quote]

Having more than one alias here on TAN goes against the conditions of the site.