[Noisebridge-discuss] looking for the origin of the dollar

Shannon Lee shannon at scatter.com
Fri Mar 5 01:22:04 UTC 2010


D'oh.  This is what i get for scanning my email via iphone while in
meetings.

--S

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Lee Sonko <lee at lee.org> wrote:

>  Please re-read my post and question.
>
> Lee
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> *From:* noisebridge-discuss-bounces at lists.noisebridge.net [mailto:
> noisebridge-discuss-bounces at lists.noisebridge.net] *On Behalf Of *Shannon
> Lee
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 04, 2010 2:02 PM
> *To:* Lee Sonko
> *Cc:* NoiseBridge Discuss
> *Subject:* Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] looking for the origin of the dollar
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> "Dollar" comes from the dutch "thaler," which was fairly common currency in
> the new world at the time of the American revolution.
>
> --S
>
> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Lee Sonko <lee at lee.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> At a recent 5MoF someone spoke about "community hours", Ithaca Hours and
>> currency replacements. This might have been Michael Rogers during his talk
>> "Corporate Peoplehood - Can a corporation become the embodiment of a
>> people?"
>>
>> I recall at recent 5MoF event someone talking about the origin of the word
>> "dollar" and how stemed from the phrase "days of labor". I want to find
>> this
>> person and tap them lightly with a truth stick. Does anyone recall this
>> talk
>> and presenter?
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> Shannon Lee
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> "Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from science."
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Shannon Lee
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"Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from science."
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