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May 25 2008, 01:27 PM
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![]() Oh baby bring me down Group: Agents Posts: 4,115 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Way out yonder Member No.: 68 |
You know offering money scanners would probably be better. Counterfeit Braille would be easy enough to do. I agree with Spivey that everyone wants to be treated well, and is a good thing to aim at. Truth is that everything is compromise and that is why we have different classrooms for smart and dumb kids. We are not created equal, but everyone should be treated with justice.
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May 26 2008, 02:48 PM
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Group: Admin Posts: 6,906 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Austin Member No.: 9 |
They're redesigning our money every other year anyway. What's the big deal about including braille or other tactile features in the next design?
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May 26 2008, 04:03 PM
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![]() GORILLA FLUFFER Group: Agents Posts: 7,711 Joined: 23-February 06 From: lubbock Member No.: 50 |
punch yourself in the dick
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May 26 2008, 04:34 PM
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![]() Group: Members Posts: 10,620 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Houston, TX Member No.: 48 |
what about blind people with hooks for hands? OMG they're gonna get ripped off by crooked clerks! it must be the money's design that's at fault, not the crooked clerk or anything!!!
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May 26 2008, 06:17 PM
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![]() Group: Members Posts: 2,329 Joined: 20-June 07 Member No.: 1,243 |
what about blind people with hooks for hands? OMG they're gonna get ripped off by crooked clerks! it must be the money's design that's at fault, not the crooked clerk or anything!!! /adds to pussification of america They're actually at an advantage because they can claw the clerks eyes out when they get ripped off. OMG I don't have a hook hand now I'm the begrieved minority. I'm suing someone -------------------- ![]() ![]() |
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May 26 2008, 07:27 PM
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Fool Group: Members Posts: 2,127 Joined: 23-February 06 From: LBB Member No.: 56 |
As much as money is handled, can it take the punishment and still be legible? Honestly, I don't think it can. Same applies to any possible tactile solutions you could implement. Just use the card and suck it up.
-------------------- Spam? Isn't that something poor people eat?
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May 26 2008, 08:18 PM
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No day but today... Group: Members Posts: 773 Joined: 22-February 06 Member No.: 5 |
catering to the minority by inconvieniencing the majority. How is changing the money "inconveniencing" you? If anything it would be a way for blind people to be more self-sufficient and to figure it out themselves instead of always having to ask someone to help them distinguish between certain items. -------------------- Forget regret
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May 26 2008, 08:20 PM
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No day but today... Group: Members Posts: 773 Joined: 22-February 06 Member No.: 5 |
if someone is swapping money, who's to stop them from swapping the products too? What type of product swapping are we talking about? Giving me the off-brand cookies instead of the Oreos? How does that benefit me if I'm the switcher - switching money means I could monetarily gain from it, switching the product doesn't benefit me except for possible amusement? -------------------- Forget regret
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May 26 2008, 08:57 PM
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![]() Group: Members Posts: 10,620 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Houston, TX Member No.: 48 |
What type of product swapping are we talking about? Giving me the off-brand cookies instead of the Oreos? How does that benefit me if I'm the switcher - switching money means I could monetarily gain from it, switching the product doesn't benefit me except for possible amusement? if you're the owner of the store? swapping a 20GB ipod for an 80GB? I just find it funny that when reading this story, people immediately start talking about how the money should be changed. like it's the fault of the money design that this occured, when this really occured because it's human nature to steal from someone when the chance presents itself. I'm sure there are many other ways to cheat a blind person other than short changing them. I just think there's a point when you become too accomodating. |
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May 26 2008, 09:10 PM
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![]() Group: Members Posts: 2,329 Joined: 20-June 07 Member No.: 1,243 |
As much as money is handled, can it take the punishment and still be legible? Honestly, I don't think it can. Same applies to any possible tactile solutions you could implement. Just use the card and suck it up. Sure, use a credit card....but what happens when some retail merchant overcharges the credit card and the blind/visually impaired/rectally challenged/whatever bullshit PC term is now en vogue signs for it? Eliminate credit cards? Completely revamp the receipt printing system? Where does the idiocy end? Oh wait. It doesn't. -------------------- ![]() ![]() |
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May 26 2008, 09:22 PM
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![]() Group: Members Posts: 2,329 Joined: 20-June 07 Member No.: 1,243 |
Speaking of pussification, I just brought my roommates laptop in to my room. Seems the wifi we're leaching doesn't work as well here as it does in the living room
Who should I sue? My roommate, whose laptop I borrowed without asking? Dell, the company who made his laptop? My neighbor whom I'm stealing wifi from? The architect who designed the house I live at? The construction workers who built the house? Time Warner, our ISP? God? Al Gore, who invented the internet? Brianna Banks, the skank I'm trying to jack off to on the internet? Need some help here people. Cause god knows, this isn't my fault. -------------------- ![]() ![]() |
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May 26 2008, 09:48 PM
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![]() Group: Members Posts: 10,620 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Houston, TX Member No.: 48 |
definitely the neighbor... you should knock on his door and tell them to move the AP closer to your apartment
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May 26 2008, 11:36 PM
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![]() Do they ignore parts of reality? Group: Moderators Posts: 2,935 Joined: 23-February 06 From: South Overton!!! Member No.: 46 |
I'm glad i'm not the only one that leeches internet.
-------------------- A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long have we known this? Faced this? And--how many of us do know it? Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally. Waking up. I suppose only a few are aware of all this. Isolated persons here and there. But the broad masses... what do they think? All these hundreds of thousands in this city, here. Do they imagine that they live in a sane world? Or do they guess, glimpse, the truth...?
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May 27 2008, 12:16 AM
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![]() New son Donovan Charles Mummert born July 17, 2008 Group: Members Posts: 8,635 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Port Wentworth, GA Member No.: 15 |
They're redesigning our money every other year anyway. What's the big deal about including braille or other tactile features in the next design? Because our dollar is already weak. Do we really need to put more money into more features on it? I think the scanner thing is the best idea.And Impala, there are a lot of blind people in the world. There aren't very many blind people with hook hands. That's the difference. |
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May 27 2008, 12:30 AM
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![]() GORILLA FLUFFER Group: Agents Posts: 7,711 Joined: 23-February 06 From: lubbock Member No.: 50 |
How is changing the money "inconveniencing" you? If anything it would be a way for blind people to be more self-sufficient and to figure it out themselves instead of always having to ask someone to help them distinguish between certain items. who do you think has to pay for that money change? -------------------- |
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