I Love This Concept

[lxskllr]

Fsck the feds. Take matters into your own hands, and support the people you deal with directly.

The Havelbluete, the Augusta and the Chiemgauer might sound like the names of locally brewed beers, but they are in fact micro-currencies which, like micro-breweries, are in abundance in Germany. There are more than two dozen local currencies in circulation, and 40 or so initiatives are about to start printing their own banknotes. These notes are not gimmicks. They're recognized legal tender -- at least within each local region.

Listen to the short article here...

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...ryId=128546325

[dxh]

Fsck the feds. Take matters into your own hands, and support the people you deal with directly.



Listen to the short article here...

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...ryId=128546325

I love the computer lingo...

[daruckis]

thats awesome!

[dxh]

I think we would find our system had lots of corrupt data if we ran Fsck

[lxskllr]

I think we would find our system had lots of corrupt data if we ran Fsck

Indeed :^D

[justintempler]

The guberment don't like competition.

[lxskllr]

The guberment don't like competition.

Lame, but not unexpected. Yay! for the land of the free. I feel freer and freer every day :^/

[c.nash]

Yeah, this would NEVER fly in the US.

[deadpool99]

I think there are some places in the US that are doing that.

[texasmade]

The guberment don't like competition.

THE FXCKING US DOLLAR ISN't "FEDERAL" THE FED IS GODDAMNED PRIVATELY OWNED!

why would other PRIVATE currency be illegal, when the us dollar is technically PRIVATE. wtf

[Simplysnus]

If Walt Disney World can make Disney Dollars and Club Med can print its own currency, then this Iowa town, founded by practitioners of Transcendental Meditation, figured it, too, could make its own money.

The Raam Mudra, as the colorful notes are called, began circulating last month in this city incorporated last year by 125 followers of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the Beatles' guru and founder of the TM movement.

The idea behind the special money was to promote the city -- a collection of onion-dome buildings set amid farmland about 100 miles from Des Moines

[LaZeR]

File System Check the feds? I'm so confused....



had to google that term.