From:	Darrell L. Bowman darrell@******.dhr.state.nc.us
Subject:	How exactly does a real SIN work?
Date:	Thu, 5 Aug 1999 23:37:50 -0400

On 5 Aug 99, at 17:13, Dennis Steinmeijer wrote:

> > Hmmm,... well, I don't know. I was looking at the table on
> > P.239 of SR3. and it says transaction amount. The paragraph
> > at the top of the page (and I checked for errata) says (third
> > paragraph) "Registered credsticks come in five types,
> > distinguished by the amount of funds one can access and the
> > amount of ID cross-referencing each requires for use, as noted
> > on the Credstick Table."
> >
> > Given that it says "amount of funds one can access" I would
> > say that's a limit on how much a particular stick can hold.
>
> You have a point. The table says "Transaction Amount", that would indicate
> how much a single transaction is restricted to. The quote on page 239 SR3
> could also be interpreted this way. But then again, this always the
> problem with these things. I would say choose whatever suits you the best.
> I think it would be a bit strange for a bank to say; "I'm sorry sir, we
> will not accept any more of your money, because your credstick does not
> allow it. Either you get another credstick, then we will be happy to take
> your money, offer you a scandalously low intrest rate, and make meganuyen
> with ourselves, or you can stuff it underneath your matress." Somehow, it
> doesn't seem right :)

No, no, no,.. think of a credstick like a bill of US
denomination today? A twenty is a twenty, and it can be
broken down into two tens or 4 fives or 20 ones,.. but you
can't get $30 out of it.

What I mean is, if you go into a bank to withdrawl yer money
with a silver stick in hand, they can only transfer 20K to it, you
ned another stick.

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Darrell Bowman
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