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In message , at 06:13:27 on
Sun, 22 Jun 2008, Charles Ellson remarked: Aren't US banknotes also all the same size Yes, they are. -- Roland Perry |
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Charles Ellson wrote:
Aren't US banknotes also all the same size Yes, it's a pain in the a*se when you're looking in your wallet to find the right notes to pay with... -- Jeremy Double {real address, include nospam} Rail and transport photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/jmdoubl...7603834894248/ |
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Roland Perry writes:
In message , at 06:13:27 on Sun, 22 Jun 2008, Charles Ellson remarked: Aren't US banknotes also all the same size Yes, they are. Does the USA not have disability discrimination legislation? Having all banknotes the same size is surely discrimination against blind people. |
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Graham Murray wrote:
Having all banknotes the same size is surely discrimination against blind people. Not really. There are plenty of situations in life where one group of people is advantaged/disadvantaged with respect to another. It's only discriminatory if it is done either with the desire of causing a specific outcome of that kind, or else in contravention of relevant rules that are designed to avoid such an outcome. That is not to say that the blind and those who lobby on their behalf couldn't make sufficient noise to shame the US Federal Reserve into doing something about it. -- http://gallery120232.fotopic.net/p13857120.html (20 309 at Morecambe, 6 Apr 2005) |
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On Jun 22, 11:57*am, Graham Murray wrote:
Roland Perry writes: In message , at 06:13:27 on Sun, 22 Jun 2008, Charles Ellson remarked: Aren't US banknotes also all the same size Yes, they are. Does the USA not have disability discrimination legislation? Having all banknotes the same size is surely discrimination against blind people. Yes. A US Federal appeals court decided exactly that last month. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7412051.stm PaulO |
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Stephen Sprunk wrote:
Hmmm, Canadian bank machines routinely dish out our $50's, though the machines are usually identified and at locations where "regular" $20 dispensers are also available. US ATMs generally only dispense $20 bills; it makes them simpler and requires less refilling if there's only one bill type. There are still a few that give out $5 and $10 bills as well, though they're rare. Ones in casinos will give you $100 bills, since they accept them at the tables and that's where they want you spending your money. I've never seen a US ATM dispense $50 bills. There are at least 3 ATMs within a 5 mile radius of my residence that dish out $50 bills. So they do exist. |
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John Mara wrote:
Chris Tolley wrote: Graham Murray wrote: Having all banknotes the same size is surely discrimination against blind people. Not really. There are plenty of situations in life where one group of people is advantaged/disadvantaged with respect to another. It's only discriminatory if it is done either with the desire of causing a specific outcome of that kind, or else in contravention of relevant rules that are designed to avoid such an outcome. In a 2 to 1 decision, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said the existing currency system violates the federal Rehabilitation Act. The judges said that the Treasury Department must find a way to accommodate the needs of the visually impaired. I didn't know that the Rehabiltation act had such provisions; I thought it was just concerned with employment and communications. I suspect that in a typical lawyerly way some unrelated provision has been claimed to have been written with the intention of conferring such rights. Still, it is progress of a sort, no matter how it has been arrived at. -- http://gallery120232.fotopic.net/p14104754.html (43 101 at Peterborough, 3 Sep 1979) |
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"Graham Murray" wrote in message
... Roland Perry writes: In message , at 06:13:27 on Sun, 22 Jun 2008, Charles Ellson remarked: Aren't US banknotes also all the same size Yes, they are. Does the USA not have disability discrimination legislation? Having all banknotes the same size is surely discrimination against blind people. I thought that the US Federal Reserve had added colour to their notes in recent years, which should help. One would think that they would also put some form of braille on notes to help delineate. A least one European states that I can think of had been doing that well before the euro was introduced. Don't euro notes have a form of braille? I can't remember off hand. |
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In message
wrote: "Graham Murray" wrote in message ... Roland Perry writes: In message , at 06:13:27 on Sun, 22 Jun 2008, Charles Ellson remarked: Aren't US banknotes also all the same size Yes, they are. Does the USA not have disability discrimination legislation? Having all banknotes the same size is surely discrimination against blind people. I thought that the US Federal Reserve had added colour to their notes in recent years, which should help. One would think that they would also put some form of braille on notes to help delineate. A least one European states that I can think of had been doing that well before the euro was introduced. Holland. Don't euro notes have a form of braille? I can't remember off hand. Strangely enough, no. -- Graeme Wall This address is not read, substitute trains for rail. Transport Miscellany at http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail/index.html |
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