No, sorry, FIRST doesn’t have their own monetary system.
Anyway, you know how people are always writing things on dollar bills, I got an idea today from it.
Just for fun, FIRSTers should start writing their team number on dollar bills. It would be fun to recieve a dollar bill as change and have 2 or three team numbers on them. It also will show you the different regions the money has been in.
So, if you want, write your team number in the upper left hand corner of the front (face) of dollar bills.
Sounds like a good idea IF you don’t get caught. I did a little looking and found this…
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U.S. Code as of: 01/22/02
Section 333. Mutilation of national bank obligations Whoever mutilates, cuts, defaces, disfigures, or perforates, or
unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank
bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt issued by any national
banking association, or Federal Reserve bank, or the Federal
Reserve System, with intent to render such bank bill, draft, note,
or other evidence of debt unfit to be reissued, shall be fined
under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.
I dont think that writing in ball point pen at most 4 digits in a corner would be considered an attempt to deface money to the point where it is no longer legal tender.
Regardless of that, noone is going to get caught for having a bill with writing on it. Even if you did, they can’t prove you did it. I get money with marker and stuff on it all the time.
I’m not saying you should go write on money. Use your own judgement, not mine
It’s legal to mark money–just as long as you don’t make it unfit for reissue.
Although given the volume of money in our country today and the relatively small number of FIRST teams, I highly doubt that any team would be able to find another team’s bills outside of FIRST-heavy events…namely regionals and the championship. But then at the championship, any place much away from the Georgia Dome would have a significantly lower probability of sending out FIRST money, since it’d get heavier civilian (for lack of a better term) traffic.
I’m up for it, although i must say, this one time, i got a dollar bill with people’s phone numbers on it…i was tempted to call but never did.
Actually i think that eventually, if you tag enough money, you could have a FIRST collection in your wallet…
Lisa: How much money you got?
Jeff: I got 3 254’s, 4 173’s, 2 181’s and a 571
Lisa: Sweet, let’s go get ice cream, i only got a 190 and 3 121’s…
(note…these team # just came randomly to my head!!!)
Yeah, as long as that one-person navy stays in the docks. (grin)
Uhm, in the order they appear…
-Desecrating our money supply would not topple the economy–the BEP can always print more money. Counterfeiting would do the trick, however, since we’re on a fiat money system.
-I recall the original idea as teams writing their number on the bills. Unless Dean Kamen has said “Team 1293 is t3h h4x0r,” then I fail to see how that’s one of his messages. (And if he did say that–shoot, even if he said anyone is t3h h4x0r–I’d love to hear a soundbyte.)
-Treason, defined by Article 3, Section 3, Clause 1 of the US Constitution:
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
Writing one to four numbers on money doesn’t even come close to that definition. And even then, it wouldn’t cover the canadian/international teams!
Interesting idea of writing team numbers on bills. I’ve gotten a lot with the “Where’s George” stamped on them. The only thing I’m not sure of is how would you know for instance that “237” written on the bill is in reference to the FIRST team and not “237” meaning something else without some other reference to FIRST on the bill?
we would have to come up with some signal to indicate that it is in reference to FIRST. how about drawing the FIRST logo above the number?
another thought… if we get enough people to start doing this, not only would it be cool to see several team #s on one bill, but it may spark interest and media coverage for FIRST. i can just imagine the article in the New York Times… “Been noticing numbers on your money with a triangle, circle, and square logo above them? This is the signature of people involved in a robotics competition known as FIRST. FIRST is…” and it can go on and on from there if everybody in FIRST started doing this, the competition would be known by most of the population within a few years
<edit> OK… so afflictionblade beat me to the punch… but here is my elaboration on his concept! </>
Where’s George is a whole lot of fun!
Why don’t we change this into “Where’s FIRST” everybody draws the Triangle-Circle-Square on bills (double points if you do it in color!). Then, since we have enough techie brain’s here… create a subset of delphi to be something like chiefdelphi.com/wheresfirst/ and we can start the great big FIRST bill collection!
It is now quite obvious to me that it is the intention of certain members of this Forum are now seeking to destablize the American economy by printing fake money and instituting a shadow currency. This is obviously a NWO conspiracy instigated by the trilateral commission and the Satanic Illuminati.
I shall report you promptly to the American treasury department and Secret Service (if there aren’t in on the conspiracy…)
