I know how much money you have
(I generally hate to blatently repost things Ii saw on another blog but this is just too damn fascinating not to spread the word.)
I have a vague memory of an elementary school teacher telling our class that we should all pay close attention to the laws that congress considers, because you never know what they might do. For example, she said, every year congress re-considers a bill to change US Currency so that the FBI can drive down your street in an unmarked van and detect how much money is in your house: “so they can track down drug dealers”.
It seems I should have paid more attention to that teacher. Alex Jones has found that not only can the security features in new bills allow stores to detect your money, but if you try to nuetralize them your money will explode.
March 2nd, 2004 at 1:43 pm
This would be more interesting if it were actually true. Go put a new $20 in the microwave and turn it on for a while. Nothing happens as far as I can tell. Compare this to a CD, which is spectacular to watch.
Btw, if you want to avoid hurting your microwave, put in a glass of water at the same time.
March 2nd, 2004 at 1:55 pm
while I have no first hand knowledge that this actually works, it’s important to note that they did all of the bills in one stack, with teh same orientation.
Presumably if there is heat being generated by the chips, that heat would be compounded by 20 or so of them stacked directly on top of eachother … which might be enough to start combustion.
Or it could be total bullshit … you can’t be 100% certain unless you try it yourself.
March 3rd, 2004 at 11:10 am
Verification: I put a new $20 in the nicrowave. Mr. Jackson looks like a burn victim :(
March 3rd, 2004 at 4:26 pm
Let’s look at that statment:
“I put a new $20 in the nicrowave. Mr. Jackson looks like a burn victim.”
Yeah, so? $20 bills have conductive ink in them for to foil counterfeiters. Microwave energy + conductive materials = sparks and heat.
“I put a ball of tinfoil in the microwave. My microwave blew up! Therefore the government can track my tinfoil usage!!!”
Don’t be an idiot.
March 4th, 2004 at 5:00 am
Let’s realize that the whole bill didn’t burn, or that no place other than AJ’s right eye area combusted. Last I checked the ink was on the entire bill.
Go ahead, try it.
March 4th, 2004 at 8:25 am
This was discussed at length on Slashdot.org, and they came up with what is a very plausible explanation: there is conductive ink in the right eye, not everywhere on the bill.
If you want to prevent the FBI from knowing how much money you have, wrap it in aluminum foil. You know, just like the stuff you made that hat out of so they can’t read your mind.
March 4th, 2004 at 1:36 pm
Over 90% of the $20’s I have aren’t new anyway. I’m more insulted (if the RFID tags are in there) that the information wasn’t publicly released by the gov’t.
RFID tags are indeed going to be put into Euros, so what makes it so implausable that they would be put into the U.S. Dollar?
AR, thanks for the possible explanation of the conductive ink only being in the right eye, though I don’t know how particularly plausable that is. Also, your insinuation that I’m some conspiracy nut is childish — I’m just a curious person. Not everyone who questions what they’re told instead of just believing or disbelieving without proof is out of their mind. And I don’t consider the fable “Slashdot” to be difinitive proof.