There is not going to be any revolution. Anywhere. Ever.
Yeah, I'm sure the leaders of all the Arab Spring countries thought exactly the same thing. It would be difficult, but not impossible, for it to happen in a 1st-world country, but the consequences for the rest of the world would be devastating.
Even the most cutting-edge AIs still can't pass the Turing test, and that's just text chatting on a screen; I've interacted with some of those myself, and in less than a minute I could trip them up enough to declare beyond a shadow of a doubt that they were definitely a computer and not a human being. On the front page of Slashdot right now is a story posted about how the Human brain is still far and away better at so many things that any so-called 'AI' is, and how far behind the curve they are. These are simple things compared to the operation of a motor vehicle in real-world situations where all conditions are very fluid and dynamic and, as some have insightfully pointed out, where sometimes the best and safest decision is to break the law. Also, a question I like to ask people on this subject (which you don't have to answer for me, but answer it for yourself at least): Do you really want to lock yourself inside of a metal box on four wheels, that has no manual controls of any kind (other than maybe a big red 'STOP' button), that is controlled by a computer program that you really know nothing about, that can go in any direction it wants, and that if it makes the wrong decision, this metal box becomes your coffin? I will tell you that nobody I've ever asked this in person has ever said they would be OK with that idea; I sure as hell wouldn't be. As a thought experiment, it would be like allowing yourself to have a straitjacket, blindfold, and leg shackles put on you, then having a stranger, chosen completely at random, lead you around to wherever they wanted to -- even if it was somewhere dangerous, like back and forth across a busy street; you have NO control over what's happening. The vast majority of people will never be comfortable with a vehicle that they can't actually control, and the people in the world who are responsible for deciding what is and isn't safe are more likely than not going to require that vehicles fitted with such a system still have a failsafe way for a human being to control the direction and speed of the vehicle in case of an emergency or a catastrophic failure. Human lives matter more than anything else, therefore in transportation the safety of human beings is paramount, and as ironic as it may seem to some of you, that means it must ultimately be in the hands of human beings.
How about this idea: 1. Lets give the decision-makers at Twitter credit for wanting to do something to fight back against the big-league assholes of the world, which at the moment happens to be a certain group of Sunni extremists who laughingly refer to themselves as the 'Islamic State', and appreciate that it must take some courage on their part to do so, because in doing so they're going to draw fire (perhaps in the literal sense) from the aforementioned Sunni extremists.
2. Let's also recognize that having made the decision to act, now they're presented with the formidable, perhaps impossible, task of actually implementing that decision; there won't be anything easy about it, and it'll either take monstrous amounts of manpower, or it'll take a software-driven approach, and in either case Mistakes Will Be Made. So let's give them some breathing room, shall we? Pointing a finger at every mistake they make along the way, screaming "Help, help, I'm being oppressed!" isn't going to improve the situation for anyone on any side of things.
If I haven't made myself clear on this: I, for one, applaud them in trying to prevent one of the most popular social media platforms on the worldwide Internet from being used as a communications and recruiting system for literally the worst Humanity has to offer, and hope what they're trying to do is a success, because if it is then, in my opinion, they're striking a blow for civilization and for Freedom of Speech, because the people they're trying to reign in are actually against Freedom of Speech.
I'm not really sure what your point is? What we're discussing is protecting your device from a potentially malicious public USB port, and a regular data cable won't do that.
That 20 minutes worth of, essentially, a tease for a production that hadn't even been started yet, is better than the entirety of the last two J.J. Abrams 'Star Trek-themed' movies put together. So far as I'm concerned, it's settled: CBS and Paramount are suing because they see that this independent company, funded by fans, is going to produce a feature-length film that, for a fraction of the budget, will be better than what they've been producing with a major budget. Color them massively butthurt. Of course their lawsuit may backfire on them by producing the Streisand Effect; before today I hadn't even heard of 'Axanar', and now I'm all over it. How many other people will now have their attention drawn to it? I can only hope.
If you haven't watched Prelude to Axanar, go watch it, you won't be disappointed.
This is the Star Trek Universe we're talking about. Duranium alloy is pretty damned tough stuff all by itself, but you add structural integrity fields to bolster it, and it can withstand a literally astronomical amount of abuse before it fails on you. Warp drive alters the local gravity constant of the ship, and you have internal artificial gravity and inertial dampers (I refuse to say 'dampeners', call me a wet blanket for that if you like) to compensate for acceleration effects (and some, but not all, impact effects). Navigational deflectors insulate the ship from any number of effects. There's a reason it's called 'science fantasy'. If we had replicators and matter/antimatter reactors (skip fusion), we'd solve most of the world's current problems in one fell swoop.
Yeah, exactly, except someone who is handy could just get a short USB extension cable, strip back the outer jacket, expose the data pair (white and green twisted pair, I believe) and just cut them, then put heatshrink or electrical tape over where you modded the cable and you're done. Would cost you less than a dollar and take all of 10 minutes of your time.
Of late the fan-created content (Star Trek Continues, for instance) has been more watchable than the high-budget pseudo-Trek crap that J.J. Abrams has been shoveling at us, so CBS and Paramount can go fuck themselves so far as I'm concerned.
You're not at all paranoid, at least not in a bad way, for thinking that. I was just thinking that, so long as the device you want to charge just needs the 5 volt supply and not the data pair active, a good accessory to have would be a USB cable that has the data pair disconnected. That way if you do plug in somewhere in public, there's no chance of your device being compromised by malware. Now of course that won't protect you against someone sabotaging the port so it outright damages someone's device; has anyone heard of someone intentionally sabotaging USB ports so anything you plug into them gets damaged?
How cute that you think this will only be applied to ISIS. Naivete at its finest.
Oh I'm sorry I didn't realize you live in the United States of Twitter, and that what the administrators of that site do is what you live and die by! Twitter is a business not a country. They can create and enforce any rules for using their FREE service that they want, and it doesn't infringe on your 1st Amendment rights whatsoever, you can always go somewhere else -- or is your life so sadly limited that without Twitter you'll wither away and die? If so then I pity you. Otherwise you can always 'vote with your keyboard' and NOT use Twitter at all, and furthermore express your opinions of their rules directly to Twitter's management, which I'd recommend instead of whinging and whining about it on Slashdot.
Can't tell for sure if you're male or female from your alias, but I will tell you this, friend: To appearances, I'm the sort of person these so-called 'SJWs' target, because they don't know me. In half a century of life I've known people from all walks of life, all different lifestyle choices, all different circumstances of birth, and to be specific for the topic of this whole discussion thread, I've known 'real' feminists, and I've known so-called 'feminazis', and I can tell you that there's a huge difference between the two, and that just like the evening TV news, only the flashiest, loudest, and most sensationalistic of the two types gets noticed. Also, many of you seem to not realize that at least 50% (if not an even larger number) of your so-called 'social justice warriors' online, are just trolls leveraging something that's sure to get everyone's underwear in a bunch; it's a low-hanging-fruit subject to use. Sadly discerning the difference between the trolls and the True Zealots isn't easy.. but I diverge; the takeaway here is that women can get as terminally butthurt and bitter as men can, as you can see from their behavior. I urge you to not fall into the downward-spiral trap of lumping all of them -- and their male cronies -- together with everyone else, it's a negative-sum game.
So Iran teaching it's schoolchildren to chant 'Death to America' is a 'dissenting political opinion' and you're OK with it, then? So-called 'Islamic state' assholes tweeting about cutting off people's heads is a 'dissenting political opinion'?
You would be correct, sir. Mainly, though, there appears to be a very vocal minority that has 'rose colored glasses' on when it comes to this subject; they don't seem to understand that what can go wrong and the consequences thereby are not things to be ignored and dismissed as 'unimportant', especially where the ultimate safety and preservation of lives, especially human lives, is at stake. Furthermore they apperently insist that human beings are wholly and completely incapable of safely operating motor vehicles, and should be banned from doing so as soon as possible, instead allowing our 'new autonomous car overlords' to be in charge of our transportation, and ultimately, our lives. Of course this notion is completely absurd. What I envision all this so-called 'autonomous car' R&D being ultimately used for, will be a very sophisticated automotive autopilot feature, likely on high-end luxury vehicles as an option, not a replacement for human drivers in all vehicles, which aside from all the technical and practical problems that would pose, would likely raise the price-point of even a modest car beyond the reach of the average consumer -- and as such would be a non-starter. Plug-in electric cars are having a hard enough time gaining a foothold as is without adding the expense of such a system.
Not my problem if some people can't make responsible decisions in the first place, prompting the government to step in and force people to be responsible, or face prosecution and/or fines. As is I'm happy that they're not being wishy-washy about the subject, before someone actually gets hurt because some fool with his toy drone couldn't be bothered to play with it responsibly. If you want to get mad at someone get mad at the fools who flew them into the way of tanker aircraft or emergency vehicles or into places like the Whitehouse grounds, not me for telling it like it is, and by the way IDGAF if you're mad or not so bugger off.
Did you go to the link? The one with the actual text of the laws regarding hitchhiking in various states? If you're on the shoulder and not in the actual traffic lane you're not in violation of the law. I suggest you go actually read it since you apparently did not.
I can fix their problems and everyone else's easily: Shut the place down, fire everyone, sell off the assets, and issue an apology in every Human language for being such jerks in the first place. Microsoft is a Cancer that needs to be excised.
Then I'd have to have a shitty smartphone that's so full of security holes that a swisscheese has more structural integrity, and I'd be going to from shitty AT&T to even shittier Verizon. Honestly, I wish I could get along with NO phone of any kind, wireless or landline, and not have to bother with any of these wanker companies, but occasionally people do need to be able to get a hold of me without having to knock on my door. Thanks so much for taking something that should be simple and cheap and turning it into an expensive nightmare, shithead phone companies!
Plain and simple. You may as well be parading around in public wearing a T-shirt with all your most private information printed on it front and back, along with a link to a filesharing service download for all your other data. Given the choice between Windows 10 and no computer at all, I'd rather have no computer.
Glad to see the FAA isn't dragging it's feet on this. Guess you kiddies will just have to play with your toys indoors if you live in the proscribed area. Or just don't waste your money on one in the first place; I'm sure you can find more important things to do with that money than waste it on a little flying toy.
On the subject of 'autonomous cars', I see many people here on Slashdot who think that they'll be designed with no manual controls for a human operator, and that you'll just give it instructions and off you go. I maintain that so-called 'autonomous vehicles' will always be designed with a full set of manual controls for a human operator, the ability to override the autonomous system without delay, and that furthermore human operators will always be required to be fully and completely educated, trained, tested, licensed, and insured, because where the safety of human beings is concerned, the final 'backup system' must always be a human being, since any automated system can theoretically fail at any time. What is your opinion on this? Thanks for your time and consideration.:-)
Sure thing, let's put all our eggs in one data-basket and make it easier for the identity thieves and fake ID creators to do their thing, and when some hackers break into the National database for it and come away with 300M citizen ID records, then it'll be worse than useless.
30 seconds of Google shows me that it's not illegal to get rides, it's illegal to stand in the middle of the traffic lane for the purpose of trying to get a ride. If you're on the shoulder you're fine. Also you can ride a bicycle, rollerskate, or hike on foot all you want. You can ask people at places they stop off the road for a ride. All I had to do is read them to see these so-called 'anti-hitchhiking' laws you're concerned with are what I'd refer to as 'nuisance laws', or laws that are not usually enforced, unless someone is creating a nuisance by doing it (like standing in the middle of the road, creating a traffic hazard). Travel anonymously all you want, friend, nobody is going to stop you. Not that I personally think hitchhiking as a regular practice is terribly smart, but if it's an emergency then you do what you have to do and take your chances.
Patent and copyright laws can require you to only do business with the stores authorized by the IP holder to sell those goods.
If some fucking corporation can manage to 'copyright' basic foodstuffs and limit what stores you can buy them at? Then it's time for Civil War II in the United States, and I'll happily lead the first charge. Otherwise? For the most part they can kiss my ass. I can't think of much of anything that fits into your theoretical criteria that I can't get along without. Besides which I think what you're describing is called 'a monopoly' and anti-trust laws exist to protect everyone from them, and again: if we find ourselves living in a world where you literally can't get the basics for survival without having to comply with some fucking copyright or IP bullshit? Then it's clear that the Soap Box, Ballot Box, and Jury Box have failed us completely, and it's time for the Ammo Box to be used.
So what happens once all grocery stores within walking distance go cashless?
Won't happen. I'm not the Lunatic Fringe, I'm far from alone in my opinions and attitudes, people are not going to easily accept a world where you can't ever use cash for anything. Notice in TFA, that people aren't terribly happy about this, and that's a small country compared to the U.S.
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There is not going to be any revolution. Anywhere. Ever.
Yeah, I'm sure the leaders of all the Arab Spring countries thought exactly the same thing. It would be difficult, but not impossible, for it to happen in a 1st-world country, but the consequences for the rest of the world would be devastating.
Even the most cutting-edge AIs still can't pass the Turing test, and that's just text chatting on a screen; I've interacted with some of those myself, and in less than a minute I could trip them up enough to declare beyond a shadow of a doubt that they were definitely a computer and not a human being. On the front page of Slashdot right now is a story posted about how the Human brain is still far and away better at so many things that any so-called 'AI' is, and how far behind the curve they are. These are simple things compared to the operation of a motor vehicle in real-world situations where all conditions are very fluid and dynamic and, as some have insightfully pointed out, where sometimes the best and safest decision is to break the law. Also, a question I like to ask people on this subject (which you don't have to answer for me, but answer it for yourself at least): Do you really want to lock yourself inside of a metal box on four wheels, that has no manual controls of any kind (other than maybe a big red 'STOP' button), that is controlled by a computer program that you really know nothing about, that can go in any direction it wants, and that if it makes the wrong decision, this metal box becomes your coffin? I will tell you that nobody I've ever asked this in person has ever said they would be OK with that idea; I sure as hell wouldn't be. As a thought experiment, it would be like allowing yourself to have a straitjacket, blindfold, and leg shackles put on you, then having a stranger, chosen completely at random, lead you around to wherever they wanted to -- even if it was somewhere dangerous, like back and forth across a busy street; you have NO control over what's happening. The vast majority of people will never be comfortable with a vehicle that they can't actually control, and the people in the world who are responsible for deciding what is and isn't safe are more likely than not going to require that vehicles fitted with such a system still have a failsafe way for a human being to control the direction and speed of the vehicle in case of an emergency or a catastrophic failure. Human lives matter more than anything else, therefore in transportation the safety of human beings is paramount, and as ironic as it may seem to some of you, that means it must ultimately be in the hands of human beings.
How about this idea:
1. Lets give the decision-makers at Twitter credit for wanting to do something to fight back against the big-league assholes of the world, which at the moment happens to be a certain group of Sunni extremists who laughingly refer to themselves as the 'Islamic State', and appreciate that it must take some courage on their part to do so, because in doing so they're going to draw fire (perhaps in the literal sense) from the aforementioned Sunni extremists.
2. Let's also recognize that having made the decision to act, now they're presented with the formidable, perhaps impossible, task of actually implementing that decision; there won't be anything easy about it, and it'll either take monstrous amounts of manpower, or it'll take a software-driven approach, and in either case Mistakes Will Be Made. So let's give them some breathing room, shall we? Pointing a finger at every mistake they make along the way, screaming "Help, help, I'm being oppressed!" isn't going to improve the situation for anyone on any side of things.
If I haven't made myself clear on this: I, for one, applaud them in trying to prevent one of the most popular social media platforms on the worldwide Internet from being used as a communications and recruiting system for literally the worst Humanity has to offer, and hope what they're trying to do is a success, because if it is then, in my opinion, they're striking a blow for civilization and for Freedom of Speech, because the people they're trying to reign in are actually against Freedom of Speech.
I'm not really sure what your point is? What we're discussing is protecting your device from a potentially malicious public USB port, and a regular data cable won't do that.
That 20 minutes worth of, essentially, a tease for a production that hadn't even been started yet, is better than the entirety of the last two J.J. Abrams 'Star Trek-themed' movies put together. So far as I'm concerned, it's settled: CBS and Paramount are suing because they see that this independent company, funded by fans, is going to produce a feature-length film that, for a fraction of the budget, will be better than what they've been producing with a major budget. Color them massively butthurt. Of course their lawsuit may backfire on them by producing the Streisand Effect; before today I hadn't even heard of 'Axanar', and now I'm all over it. How many other people will now have their attention drawn to it? I can only hope.
If you haven't watched Prelude to Axanar, go watch it, you won't be disappointed.
This is the Star Trek Universe we're talking about. Duranium alloy is pretty damned tough stuff all by itself, but you add structural integrity fields to bolster it, and it can withstand a literally astronomical amount of abuse before it fails on you. Warp drive alters the local gravity constant of the ship, and you have internal artificial gravity and inertial dampers (I refuse to say 'dampeners', call me a wet blanket for that if you like) to compensate for acceleration effects (and some, but not all, impact effects). Navigational deflectors insulate the ship from any number of effects. There's a reason it's called 'science fantasy'. If we had replicators and matter/antimatter reactors (skip fusion), we'd solve most of the world's current problems in one fell swoop.
Yeah, exactly, except someone who is handy could just get a short USB extension cable, strip back the outer jacket, expose the data pair (white and green twisted pair, I believe) and just cut them, then put heatshrink or electrical tape over where you modded the cable and you're done. Would cost you less than a dollar and take all of 10 minutes of your time.
Of late the fan-created content (Star Trek Continues, for instance) has been more watchable than the high-budget pseudo-Trek crap that J.J. Abrams has been shoveling at us, so CBS and Paramount can go fuck themselves so far as I'm concerned.
You're not at all paranoid, at least not in a bad way, for thinking that. I was just thinking that, so long as the device you want to charge just needs the 5 volt supply and not the data pair active, a good accessory to have would be a USB cable that has the data pair disconnected. That way if you do plug in somewhere in public, there's no chance of your device being compromised by malware. Now of course that won't protect you against someone sabotaging the port so it outright damages someone's device; has anyone heard of someone intentionally sabotaging USB ports so anything you plug into them gets damaged?
How cute that you think this will only be applied to ISIS. Naivete at its finest.
Oh I'm sorry I didn't realize you live in the United States of Twitter, and that what the administrators of that site do is what you live and die by! Twitter is a business not a country. They can create and enforce any rules for using their FREE service that they want, and it doesn't infringe on your 1st Amendment rights whatsoever, you can always go somewhere else -- or is your life so sadly limited that without Twitter you'll wither away and die? If so then I pity you. Otherwise you can always 'vote with your keyboard' and NOT use Twitter at all, and furthermore express your opinions of their rules directly to Twitter's management, which I'd recommend instead of whinging and whining about it on Slashdot.
Can't tell for sure if you're male or female from your alias, but I will tell you this, friend: To appearances, I'm the sort of person these so-called 'SJWs' target, because they don't know me. In half a century of life I've known people from all walks of life, all different lifestyle choices, all different circumstances of birth, and to be specific for the topic of this whole discussion thread, I've known 'real' feminists, and I've known so-called 'feminazis', and I can tell you that there's a huge difference between the two, and that just like the evening TV news, only the flashiest, loudest, and most sensationalistic of the two types gets noticed. Also, many of you seem to not realize that at least 50% (if not an even larger number) of your so-called 'social justice warriors' online, are just trolls leveraging something that's sure to get everyone's underwear in a bunch; it's a low-hanging-fruit subject to use. Sadly discerning the difference between the trolls and the True Zealots isn't easy.. but I diverge; the takeaway here is that women can get as terminally butthurt and bitter as men can, as you can see from their behavior. I urge you to not fall into the downward-spiral trap of lumping all of them -- and their male cronies -- together with everyone else, it's a negative-sum game.
Twitter ban 'dissenting political opinions'.
So Iran teaching it's schoolchildren to chant 'Death to America' is a 'dissenting political opinion' and you're OK with it, then? So-called 'Islamic state' assholes tweeting about cutting off people's heads is a 'dissenting political opinion'?
You would be correct, sir. Mainly, though, there appears to be a very vocal minority that has 'rose colored glasses' on when it comes to this subject; they don't seem to understand that what can go wrong and the consequences thereby are not things to be ignored and dismissed as 'unimportant', especially where the ultimate safety and preservation of lives, especially human lives, is at stake. Furthermore they apperently insist that human beings are wholly and completely incapable of safely operating motor vehicles, and should be banned from doing so as soon as possible, instead allowing our 'new autonomous car overlords' to be in charge of our transportation, and ultimately, our lives. Of course this notion is completely absurd. What I envision all this so-called 'autonomous car' R&D being ultimately used for, will be a very sophisticated automotive autopilot feature, likely on high-end luxury vehicles as an option, not a replacement for human drivers in all vehicles, which aside from all the technical and practical problems that would pose, would likely raise the price-point of even a modest car beyond the reach of the average consumer -- and as such would be a non-starter. Plug-in electric cars are having a hard enough time gaining a foothold as is without adding the expense of such a system.
Not my problem if some people can't make responsible decisions in the first place, prompting the government to step in and force people to be responsible, or face prosecution and/or fines. As is I'm happy that they're not being wishy-washy about the subject, before someone actually gets hurt because some fool with his toy drone couldn't be bothered to play with it responsibly. If you want to get mad at someone get mad at the fools who flew them into the way of tanker aircraft or emergency vehicles or into places like the Whitehouse grounds, not me for telling it like it is, and by the way IDGAF if you're mad or not so bugger off.
You, and everyone who responds to this like you do, are not thinking realistically, you're thinking like you're living in a science fiction novel.
Did you go to the link? The one with the actual text of the laws regarding hitchhiking in various states? If you're on the shoulder and not in the actual traffic lane you're not in violation of the law. I suggest you go actually read it since you apparently did not.
I can fix their problems and everyone else's easily: Shut the place down, fire everyone, sell off the assets, and issue an apology in every Human language for being such jerks in the first place. Microsoft is a Cancer that needs to be excised.
Then I'd have to have a shitty smartphone that's so full of security holes that a swisscheese has more structural integrity, and I'd be going to from shitty AT&T to even shittier Verizon. Honestly, I wish I could get along with NO phone of any kind, wireless or landline, and not have to bother with any of these wanker companies, but occasionally people do need to be able to get a hold of me without having to knock on my door. Thanks so much for taking something that should be simple and cheap and turning it into an expensive nightmare, shithead phone companies!
Plain and simple. You may as well be parading around in public wearing a T-shirt with all your most private information printed on it front and back, along with a link to a filesharing service download for all your other data. Given the choice between Windows 10 and no computer at all, I'd rather have no computer.
Glad to see the FAA isn't dragging it's feet on this. Guess you kiddies will just have to play with your toys indoors if you live in the proscribed area. Or just don't waste your money on one in the first place; I'm sure you can find more important things to do with that money than waste it on a little flying toy.
Hi Ray,
:-)
On the subject of 'autonomous cars', I see many people here on Slashdot who think that they'll be designed with no manual controls for a human operator, and that you'll just give it instructions and off you go. I maintain that so-called 'autonomous vehicles' will always be designed with a full set of manual controls for a human operator, the ability to override the autonomous system without delay, and that furthermore human operators will always be required to be fully and completely educated, trained, tested, licensed, and insured, because where the safety of human beings is concerned, the final 'backup system' must always be a human being, since any automated system can theoretically fail at any time. What is your opinion on this? Thanks for your time and consideration.
Sure thing, let's put all our eggs in one data-basket and make it easier for the identity thieves and fake ID creators to do their thing, and when some hackers break into the National database for it and come away with 300M citizen ID records, then it'll be worse than useless.
30 seconds of Google shows me that it's not illegal to get rides, it's illegal to stand in the middle of the traffic lane for the purpose of trying to get a ride. If you're on the shoulder you're fine. Also you can ride a bicycle, rollerskate, or hike on foot all you want. You can ask people at places they stop off the road for a ride. All I had to do is read them to see these so-called 'anti-hitchhiking' laws you're concerned with are what I'd refer to as 'nuisance laws', or laws that are not usually enforced, unless someone is creating a nuisance by doing it (like standing in the middle of the road, creating a traffic hazard). Travel anonymously all you want, friend, nobody is going to stop you. Not that I personally think hitchhiking as a regular practice is terribly smart, but if it's an emergency then you do what you have to do and take your chances.
Patent and copyright laws can require you to only do business with the stores authorized by the IP holder to sell those goods.
If some fucking corporation can manage to 'copyright' basic foodstuffs and limit what stores you can buy them at? Then it's time for Civil War II in the United States, and I'll happily lead the first charge. Otherwise? For the most part they can kiss my ass. I can't think of much of anything that fits into your theoretical criteria that I can't get along without. Besides which I think what you're describing is called 'a monopoly' and anti-trust laws exist to protect everyone from them, and again: if we find ourselves living in a world where you literally can't get the basics for survival without having to comply with some fucking copyright or IP bullshit? Then it's clear that the Soap Box, Ballot Box, and Jury Box have failed us completely, and it's time for the Ammo Box to be used.
So what happens once all grocery stores within walking distance go cashless?
Won't happen. I'm not the Lunatic Fringe, I'm far from alone in my opinions and attitudes, people are not going to easily accept a world where you can't ever use cash for anything. Notice in TFA, that people aren't terribly happy about this, and that's a small country compared to the U.S.