[geeks] Hrm. Suspicious

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Dave McGuire wrote:

>   In this country there exists a general feeling that dealing in cash
> is wrong or "shady" in some way.  While I generally don't consider
> myself to be a conspiracy theorist, I believe this idea has been
> propagated by our government because cash is much more difficult for
> them to track than more "respectable" methods of money transfer.


Yep. You ever notice the poly/metal threads in $10 and higher
denomination currency for the past ten years or so? I have a friend who
firmly believes it's detectable, and that large amounts of cash in
private posession *are* tracked by sensors of some sort, down to
quantity of individual denominations.

He and I used to pull the threads out. He kept them in a box and swore
he was going to make a sweater out of them and wear it to the airport to
test his theory. 

For all I know, he may have done it, I haven't heard from him in
years...


---sambo