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[jonathankaplan]

I've been thinking a lot lately about the Richard Nixon entry I promised to make, but seriously, it is too bleak and ugly (and not done yet) so now for something completely different.

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[john_j_enright]

There's a nice 500 Euro note, just by the way, but you probably are well aware of that.

[jonathankaplan]

Those big spending Europeans. Bring on the high priced French champagne!
They're just getting ready, perhaps.

[zeakk]

It's wonderful because it's pretty much the same color as the monopoly $500 bill.

[john_j_enright]

Maybe I can bring some of those monopoly 500's on my next trip to Europe and pass them off!

I've seen a few movies/videos where American gangsters are dealing in 500 euro notes. It's a lot more valuable than the American 100, which is the biggest bill we currently print.

I gather we used to make 1000's, and there may still be some circulating in Vegas or somewhere, but we don't print them anymore.

[prock]

If you count RFID in bills plus readers in every cash register.

[jonathankaplan]

We are getting tracked every which way.
Tell me the government wouldn't like RFID on every bigger bill?
They go semi-randomly coptering over some southwestern country side, and a little trailer down there in the wilderness lights up like a christmas tree, and oh boy, we got something illegal going on.
No warrant, no clarification of what it specifically means, nothing.
But now they know.
Heck, the other criminals are going to need advanced RFID locators too....

[prock]

I expect the current IR from the copter works just fine. RFID at the register seems just so darned easy that I think it's inevitable.

[jonathankaplan]

A pile of bills in a room filled with currency (but not people) would light up on IR identifiably as a stack of bills?