The scare quotes are warranted. They identify that there IS a very serious inconsistency.
Since this is slashdot and most slashdot readers will already know the swedish rape charges are mostly horse shit theres no need to clarify it again and again, now stop astro turfing in an attempt to get people to stop treating the rape charges as what they are: a fucking joke.
Oh, I'm aware of what would happen with the interest rate increasing.
Also: The recession didn't start in 2001. What mostly happened in 2001 was a lot of rich people got a little less rich, a few formerly-rich people went bust, but overall nothing too serious for the average american. Bush cut taxes which decreased tax revenue directly, if the tax cuts weren't incorporated tax revenue would have leveled off for a year and then continued to climb.
Clinton is the best of the modern presidents. He got rid of the actual red tape that was impeding progress. Bush then hit the regulations with a nuke from orbit, creating a perfect storm for things to spiral out of control quickly. If the clinton-era red tape cutting hadn't happened, we still would have had the same result, it just would have taken longer.
At least you see the problem. Its a vicious circle that isn't going to end until china and co decide the green back is now totally worthless.
Hmm, that reminds me, I could be violating some sort of NDA... whoops. I know I signed something, but as to what it all entailed I was a bit too excited about the prospect of breathing water to bother with that.
Oh well, its not like I know anything that could actually hurt whatever company it was(I can't even recall who, lol)
It has been attempted in at least one extreme case here at the Health Science center that I know about. Its a zipper job at the moment however. They crack you open and essentially detach the lung, rinse it out, reattach and stitch you back up. Its been attempted successfully in the one case I know of here, someone inhaled a pea and it was causing infection but was difficult to dislodge without surgery for some reason(I think maybe it had some sort of fibers growing around it in the lung?). It was a last ditch before they basically removed the chunk of lung the pea was lodged in
They used some of this sort of fluid so that they didn't damage the lung further from what I recall. It only made the local news I think so it'll be pretty hard to find on the web. Its a pretty fringe case where its useful. I don't know if it could be used for any sort of "cleaning" of harmful contaminants, though it seems likely to me that something of the sort could be accomplished. I'll tell you one thing, I breathed better after I recovered from it than I had since I was quite young. That could partly have been due to the extreme workout my cardio system got though.
From what I could get out of them(which wasn't much) when I was doing it they were testing it as an emergency process to keep someone alive in the event that their lungs were collapsed/collapsing etc. This is both harsher and more gentle than current methods. It can be used to flush blood out of someones lungs and get them oxygenated at the same time while surgeons repair rips, tears, and stop the bleeding etc, plus, you know, the benefit of them actually living long enough to make it to a surgeon.
Traditional respirators cause even more blood to pour in and are at best a stop-gap that only helps because they'd die even faster without any oxygen. The liquid would actually be a bit of a treatment for the problem, life expectancy could extend a LOT for some cases and theoretically could often push someone into "Getting their asses onto a surgeons table" range, plus give the surgeon more time to actually fix the injuries, drastically increasing survival rates for those sorts of injuries.
The worry was someone waking up during and having their lungs full of fluid might send them over the edge and cause a heart attack immediately, basically killing them outright and making the surviving due to the fluid a moot point. The worry was extremely well-founded as it turns out.
They wouldn't say exactly how the system would work to do this etc, but that was the general idea. The fluid is actually perfectly safe for your internal organs to be exposed to for short periods of time, so it leaking out of your punctured lungs isn't a huge problem.
Given that 28 out of 30 lasted less than 2 minutes before their vitals went so wild that they yanked the plug... I don't think we'll be seeing this application any time soon. Maybe once they come up with some better drugs to keep someone under while injured. Morphine et al just dull pain, this is an entirely different sensation.
I doubt the results were even ever published since they were pretty much a total disaster.
Any sort of use of this stuff for medicine is going to require some heavy drugs along with it unless they figure out a drug to shut off the "I'm drowning" feeling. It takes a very large amount of will power to keep it down. They did give me something beforehand but I never did find out what it was. It could be that the thing they were testing was the shit they gave me instead of the procedure itself. It was a private testing company, though they were using government facilities.
Well, it DOES suck for the first few minutes, and anyone that can last more than a few minutes with it without having already had experience in situations that cause similar breathing forces(IE Fighter pilots and deep divers) is relatively rare.
I did not have this experience and was one of two out of 30 that didn't get yanked back out of the procedure almost immediately. I did have some volunteer fire department training with oxygen tanks and like one scuba lesson under my belt. I believe most of the volunteers they had were in a similar boat. The other guy that pulled it off was an actual fire fighter.
However, I should mention, that after the first like 3 ish minutes of near-agony its not that terrible. You get used to it and relax a bit. You still feel like you're being crushed(I guess an extra 30kg of what is essentially water in your lungs will do that) but as you get used to it it feels more like a heavy weight, as though you just put on 100lbs in 2 minutes.
Occasionally the instinct of "What the fuck, I'm not supposed to have water in my lungs, I'm drowning" starts to resurface again and your heart rate goes back up and you start to panic reflexively but that happened to me twice at around the 8 and 15 minute mark and then I was good for a solid 15, told them I could keep going, and they stopped it because they said they had what they needed.
At first it was just me trying to NOT think about what I was doing and then after a little bit I just used the excitement about the tech to basically psych myself back up and get comfortable with it. At least, as comfortable as I think anyone could ever get with that. In reality: Breathing water like a fucking fish, even if its engineered water, and not really water, is really fucking cool, and I'm still glad to have gotten the chance to do it.
As a side note: That has to be the best chest/core workout anyone could ever do. I could barely move for days afterwards. My back was sore, my diaphragm was fucking killing me, it was nuts. It didn't feel like that extreme of a workout while it was happening though. I can't imagine the kind of cardio system you'd have if you did that on a regular basis. Assuming some side-effect of having that much fluid in your lungs for long-ish periods of time didn't completely destroy your lungs.
It was 30 minutes when I did it. I was lucky enough to get a shot at it while they were doing some broader range testing to see about potential emergency medical uses. Short answer: It will likely never be used.
Thats something sci-fi pulled out of the US Air Force books actually. Also Canadian Air Force books. It was originally thought up as a concept in canada to combat the massive g-forces the avro arrow could generate. It turned out it wasn't needed. Its been tested extensively by the US since(and there was some testing done in canada as well) but never used for any regular procedures afaik. It has also seen some testing for under water purposes, deep diving(Similar problems to massive g-forces and ridiculous altitudes)
I've actually tried it myself at a marine research facility. Its extremely fucked and you can choke to death while being fully oxygenated(if you're a wuss, essentially). Also excess fluid left in the lungs can cause infections etc to set in.
Doing something dangerous enough to have a paramedic crew standing next to you when you start it is a bit of a head trip too.
Once you're in there tho... its not even slightly comfortable. It feels like your chest is being heavily pressed on and you have this constant drowning feeling that takes a bit to get over. Overall, I'd say thats probably the main reason it hasn't been used much. On paper the whole deal is fantastic. In reality, not so much.
Movies, not music. We have similar numbers here in Canada for movies. Movies people understand because there is a huge expense in producing them.
Music is an entirely different ball of wax. What it costs to do HIGH QUALITY producing of a track is about $60k. Cost goes down rapidly with volume so you could do a 15 track album for about 200-250k Meanwhile we have record labels raking in 100's of times that in profits and passing almost none of it on to the artists.
If it wasn't for the big record labels we wouldn't have this problem.
Well, they wouldn't be bombing my neighbourhood, but thats besides the point.
Also; If there were for some reason someone in my neighbourhood that had attacked, say, the pentagon. I would understand when some shrapnel happened to fly my way afterwards.
I sure as hell wouldn't be happy about it, but I'd understand.
I'm not saying that. I'm saying that the current system is beyond broken, and until such a time as it is fixed, no one is really harming the artists by downloading songs. The artists don't get sweet fuck all out of it anyways. N-Sync sold millions of records and ended up with over a million dollars on a BILL from the record label at the end of the day. They had to go do all of those massive tours to make back the money to both pay off the record label and actually have something for themselves.
Most artists don't make a living wage from their recordings. The ones that do have basically set up their own record companies and said F U to the big record labels.
Even if what you said was 100% true(its not) that one posture could have saved your country. The government might have had capital to re-institute massive capital works projects a la the 1920s highway projects.
As it was they had everything they could do to keep half of the citizens of the US from having their houses foreclosed on for no other reason than the bank holding their mortgage went under.
Government debt is NOT a good industry to keep around. We had analysts supporting the idea that this was a "good thing" for governments to have debt. Its not. Its money gone into thin air every time to pay an interest bill.
Even in these trying economic times, if you didn't have such massive debt the budget would be either balanced or nearly balanced. A full 20% of the fucking US budget goes to interest payments. TWENTY PERCENT. Thats beyond insane.
Its so insane that lets run some numbers real fast:
Your interest paid out annually on debt: 778 Billion.
Your total annual budget deficit for the last 4 years: 300-650b.
You could have INCREASED government spending without actually incurring any further debt if it wasn't for the bush era tax cuts -ALONE-. Lets not mention the fact that half of the debt exists entirely because of the war in afghanistan(which I actually support) and for the vastly larger chunk of it, in Iraq(which no one should support).
If you're not generating propaganda, you're clearly overly influenced by it.
The pirate bay didn't even make enough money from Ad revenue to pay for a single persons living wage in sweden. It had something like 20,000 kronors on hand after server expenses and that money was ear-marked for hardware upgrades needed just to keep the site running. Up until very shortly before the trial the pirate bay was a LOSS generating activity for those involved.
"If you don't like it change the law" is total bullshit as well.
When you've got multi-billionaires waving money at every government official in the world, who the hell is going to change anything?
Be perfectly honest with yourself too: You or anyone wouldn't do anything much differently than all of the government officials around the world have already been doing.
Most government postings have either time limits or a cycle of elections that mean you having or not having a job is a very fickle or finitely determined thing. You NEED money from lobbyists etc to ensure your financial security after you get out of office. Until this changes, nothing will change.
Whats hilarious is that in general the places with the most progressive and sensible copyright and patent laws are actually the ones with what we often consider the most backwards forms of government.
If you mean many people, absolute numbers wise, you would be correct.
If you mean many people, percentage wise, you couldn't be more wrong. Less than 25% of the public view downloading music as illegal, and to be fair NONE should. The recording industry is entirely fabricated. Artists get next to nothing out of it and have to tour to make money.
When signatures are required in triplicate all forms of printing that are not dot-matrix lose. This particular purpose is essentially the entire reason dot-matrix printers still exist.
Even now it tries, and could be called directly responsible for the implementation of some of Canada's best social programs.
However its currently being silenced on most issues by the Harper Government. Its actually ridiculous the amount of control he's been exerting over the CBC.
Putting women on a pedestal has stunted the emotional and personal growth of more than one man I know. Men pretty much NEED to think of every woman but mom as sluts in order to have the confidence to approach them successfully at all. Otherwise they think of every woman as Mom, and no woman wants that. I have a boarder right now who is stuck in that loop. Completely denied sex education through home schooling, doesn't watch porn etc for religious reasons. Has never had a girlfriend, but definitely isn't gay, or at least if he is he's the best closeted gay I've ever seen. He claims to be asexual but I've seen the way he treats my fiance and other women. He treats them all like his mother except he feels safer around my fiance because she's taken. The rest he looks at and appreciates but treats them like they're his mother whenever he actually talks to them.
If things got bad enough and my families survival depended on me killing someone else or stealing something? I'd be capable of a lot of things that I normally am not.
Now, I personally will likely never get to that point as I have land and know how to use it for survival farming if I need to, as well as how to hunt, build, etc. So stealing is highly unlikely. Killing someone thats trying to steal the shit I made to feed my family could very easily happen however. It all depends on how bad you think it can get.
P.S. without the safety net what I describe above is exactly how bad it can and will get. Its already that bad in other parts of the world.
And there needs to be more uproar about this. Chip and pin is ridiculously easy to defeat. They used to steal data from the mag strips and get your pin before the banks made ATMs that were resistant to the type of tampering required to get an additional mag stripe reader into them.
Now all they need is an RFID reader and a camera set an an ATM anywhere and they can pick up every fucking card in your wallet from 6-10 feet away plus have your pin with a camera that could be set up with a good zoom up to 100ft away. You can literally throw an RFID reader into the plastic trash can with a wireless transmitter on it and get every single card that passes the atm that day, then have the evidence (the RFID reader) destroyed for you because the banks incinerate their garbage.
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I'm amazed theres a sleeper astro turfer with such an old UID. Must only come out for the important Fed astro turfing.
The scare quotes are warranted. They identify that there IS a very serious inconsistency.
Since this is slashdot and most slashdot readers will already know the swedish rape charges are mostly horse shit theres no need to clarify it again and again, now stop astro turfing in an attempt to get people to stop treating the rape charges as what they are: a fucking joke.
Oh, I'm aware of what would happen with the interest rate increasing.
Also: The recession didn't start in 2001. What mostly happened in 2001 was a lot of rich people got a little less rich, a few formerly-rich people went bust, but overall nothing too serious for the average american. Bush cut taxes which decreased tax revenue directly, if the tax cuts weren't incorporated tax revenue would have leveled off for a year and then continued to climb.
Clinton is the best of the modern presidents. He got rid of the actual red tape that was impeding progress. Bush then hit the regulations with a nuke from orbit, creating a perfect storm for things to spiral out of control quickly. If the clinton-era red tape cutting hadn't happened, we still would have had the same result, it just would have taken longer.
At least you see the problem. Its a vicious circle that isn't going to end until china and co decide the green back is now totally worthless.
Oh, I would understand still.
Doesn't mean I be pissed and try to kill the bastards responsible.
But I would understand.
Hmm, that reminds me, I could be violating some sort of NDA... whoops. I know I signed something, but as to what it all entailed I was a bit too excited about the prospect of breathing water to bother with that.
Oh well, its not like I know anything that could actually hurt whatever company it was(I can't even recall who, lol)
It has been attempted in at least one extreme case here at the Health Science center that I know about. Its a zipper job at the moment however. They crack you open and essentially detach the lung, rinse it out, reattach and stitch you back up. Its been attempted successfully in the one case I know of here, someone inhaled a pea and it was causing infection but was difficult to dislodge without surgery for some reason(I think maybe it had some sort of fibers growing around it in the lung?). It was a last ditch before they basically removed the chunk of lung the pea was lodged in
They used some of this sort of fluid so that they didn't damage the lung further from what I recall. It only made the local news I think so it'll be pretty hard to find on the web. Its a pretty fringe case where its useful. I don't know if it could be used for any sort of "cleaning" of harmful contaminants, though it seems likely to me that something of the sort could be accomplished. I'll tell you one thing, I breathed better after I recovered from it than I had since I was quite young. That could partly have been due to the extreme workout my cardio system got though.
From what I could get out of them(which wasn't much) when I was doing it they were testing it as an emergency process to keep someone alive in the event that their lungs were collapsed/collapsing etc. This is both harsher and more gentle than current methods. It can be used to flush blood out of someones lungs and get them oxygenated at the same time while surgeons repair rips, tears, and stop the bleeding etc, plus, you know, the benefit of them actually living long enough to make it to a surgeon.
Traditional respirators cause even more blood to pour in and are at best a stop-gap that only helps because they'd die even faster without any oxygen. The liquid would actually be a bit of a treatment for the problem, life expectancy could extend a LOT for some cases and theoretically could often push someone into "Getting their asses onto a surgeons table" range, plus give the surgeon more time to actually fix the injuries, drastically increasing survival rates for those sorts of injuries.
The worry was someone waking up during and having their lungs full of fluid might send them over the edge and cause a heart attack immediately, basically killing them outright and making the surviving due to the fluid a moot point. The worry was extremely well-founded as it turns out.
They wouldn't say exactly how the system would work to do this etc, but that was the general idea. The fluid is actually perfectly safe for your internal organs to be exposed to for short periods of time, so it leaking out of your punctured lungs isn't a huge problem.
Given that 28 out of 30 lasted less than 2 minutes before their vitals went so wild that they yanked the plug... I don't think we'll be seeing this application any time soon. Maybe once they come up with some better drugs to keep someone under while injured. Morphine et al just dull pain, this is an entirely different sensation.
I doubt the results were even ever published since they were pretty much a total disaster.
Any sort of use of this stuff for medicine is going to require some heavy drugs along with it unless they figure out a drug to shut off the "I'm drowning" feeling. It takes a very large amount of will power to keep it down. They did give me something beforehand but I never did find out what it was. It could be that the thing they were testing was the shit they gave me instead of the procedure itself. It was a private testing company, though they were using government facilities.
Well, it DOES suck for the first few minutes, and anyone that can last more than a few minutes with it without having already had experience in situations that cause similar breathing forces(IE Fighter pilots and deep divers) is relatively rare.
I did not have this experience and was one of two out of 30 that didn't get yanked back out of the procedure almost immediately. I did have some volunteer fire department training with oxygen tanks and like one scuba lesson under my belt. I believe most of the volunteers they had were in a similar boat. The other guy that pulled it off was an actual fire fighter.
However, I should mention, that after the first like 3 ish minutes of near-agony its not that terrible. You get used to it and relax a bit. You still feel like you're being crushed(I guess an extra 30kg of what is essentially water in your lungs will do that) but as you get used to it it feels more like a heavy weight, as though you just put on 100lbs in 2 minutes.
Occasionally the instinct of "What the fuck, I'm not supposed to have water in my lungs, I'm drowning" starts to resurface again and your heart rate goes back up and you start to panic reflexively but that happened to me twice at around the 8 and 15 minute mark and then I was good for a solid 15, told them I could keep going, and they stopped it because they said they had what they needed.
At first it was just me trying to NOT think about what I was doing and then after a little bit I just used the excitement about the tech to basically psych myself back up and get comfortable with it. At least, as comfortable as I think anyone could ever get with that. In reality: Breathing water like a fucking fish, even if its engineered water, and not really water, is really fucking cool, and I'm still glad to have gotten the chance to do it.
As a side note: That has to be the best chest/core workout anyone could ever do. I could barely move for days afterwards. My back was sore, my diaphragm was fucking killing me, it was nuts. It didn't feel like that extreme of a workout while it was happening though. I can't imagine the kind of cardio system you'd have if you did that on a regular basis. Assuming some side-effect of having that much fluid in your lungs for long-ish periods of time didn't completely destroy your lungs.
It was 30 minutes when I did it. I was lucky enough to get a shot at it while they were doing some broader range testing to see about potential emergency medical uses. Short answer: It will likely never be used.
Thats something sci-fi pulled out of the US Air Force books actually. Also Canadian Air Force books. It was originally thought up as a concept in canada to combat the massive g-forces the avro arrow could generate. It turned out it wasn't needed. Its been tested extensively by the US since(and there was some testing done in canada as well) but never used for any regular procedures afaik. It has also seen some testing for under water purposes, deep diving(Similar problems to massive g-forces and ridiculous altitudes)
I've actually tried it myself at a marine research facility. Its extremely fucked and you can choke to death while being fully oxygenated(if you're a wuss, essentially). Also excess fluid left in the lungs can cause infections etc to set in.
Doing something dangerous enough to have a paramedic crew standing next to you when you start it is a bit of a head trip too.
Once you're in there tho... its not even slightly comfortable. It feels like your chest is being heavily pressed on and you have this constant drowning feeling that takes a bit to get over. Overall, I'd say thats probably the main reason it hasn't been used much. On paper the whole deal is fantastic. In reality, not so much.
Movies, not music. We have similar numbers here in Canada for movies. Movies people understand because there is a huge expense in producing them.
Music is an entirely different ball of wax. What it costs to do HIGH QUALITY producing of a track is about $60k. Cost goes down rapidly with volume so you could do a 15 track album for about 200-250k Meanwhile we have record labels raking in 100's of times that in profits and passing almost none of it on to the artists.
If it wasn't for the big record labels we wouldn't have this problem.
Well, they wouldn't be bombing my neighbourhood, but thats besides the point.
Also; If there were for some reason someone in my neighbourhood that had attacked, say, the pentagon. I would understand when some shrapnel happened to fly my way afterwards.
I sure as hell wouldn't be happy about it, but I'd understand.
To clarify: I support the idea of what they were trying to do. Not the piss-poor implementation of it that we have.
I'm not saying that. I'm saying that the current system is beyond broken, and until such a time as it is fixed, no one is really harming the artists by downloading songs. The artists don't get sweet fuck all out of it anyways. N-Sync sold millions of records and ended up with over a million dollars on a BILL from the record label at the end of the day. They had to go do all of those massive tours to make back the money to both pay off the record label and actually have something for themselves.
Most artists don't make a living wage from their recordings. The ones that do have basically set up their own record companies and said F U to the big record labels.
Even if what you said was 100% true(its not) that one posture could have saved your country. The government might have had capital to re-institute massive capital works projects a la the 1920s highway projects.
As it was they had everything they could do to keep half of the citizens of the US from having their houses foreclosed on for no other reason than the bank holding their mortgage went under.
Government debt is NOT a good industry to keep around. We had analysts supporting the idea that this was a "good thing" for governments to have debt. Its not. Its money gone into thin air every time to pay an interest bill.
Even in these trying economic times, if you didn't have such massive debt the budget would be either balanced or nearly balanced. A full 20% of the fucking US budget goes to interest payments. TWENTY PERCENT. Thats beyond insane.
Its so insane that lets run some numbers real fast:
Your interest paid out annually on debt: 778 Billion.
Your total annual budget deficit for the last 4 years: 300-650b.
You could have INCREASED government spending without actually incurring any further debt if it wasn't for the bush era tax cuts -ALONE-. Lets not mention the fact that half of the debt exists entirely because of the war in afghanistan(which I actually support) and for the vastly larger chunk of it, in Iraq(which no one should support).
If you're not generating propaganda, you're clearly overly influenced by it.
The pirate bay didn't even make enough money from Ad revenue to pay for a single persons living wage in sweden. It had something like 20,000 kronors on hand after server expenses and that money was ear-marked for hardware upgrades needed just to keep the site running. Up until very shortly before the trial the pirate bay was a LOSS generating activity for those involved.
"If you don't like it change the law" is total bullshit as well.
When you've got multi-billionaires waving money at every government official in the world, who the hell is going to change anything?
Be perfectly honest with yourself too: You or anyone wouldn't do anything much differently than all of the government officials around the world have already been doing.
Most government postings have either time limits or a cycle of elections that mean you having or not having a job is a very fickle or finitely determined thing. You NEED money from lobbyists etc to ensure your financial security after you get out of office. Until this changes, nothing will change.
Whats hilarious is that in general the places with the most progressive and sensible copyright and patent laws are actually the ones with what we often consider the most backwards forms of government.
If you mean many people, absolute numbers wise, you would be correct.
If you mean many people, percentage wise, you couldn't be more wrong. Less than 25% of the public view downloading music as illegal, and to be fair NONE should. The recording industry is entirely fabricated. Artists get next to nothing out of it and have to tour to make money.
Carbon Paper copies.
When signatures are required in triplicate all forms of printing that are not dot-matrix lose. This particular purpose is essentially the entire reason dot-matrix printers still exist.
The CBC was pretty left-leaning.
Even now it tries, and could be called directly responsible for the implementation of some of Canada's best social programs.
However its currently being silenced on most issues by the Harper Government. Its actually ridiculous the amount of control he's been exerting over the CBC.
That ban could be helping everyone. Our natives here in Canada could certainly benefit from it.
Note: Sluts may be too strong a word... but its the best one I have to get the point across.
The women have to be viewed as horny potential mates.
This actually needs to be modded up.
Putting women on a pedestal has stunted the emotional and personal growth of more than one man I know. Men pretty much NEED to think of every woman but mom as sluts in order to have the confidence to approach them successfully at all. Otherwise they think of every woman as Mom, and no woman wants that. I have a boarder right now who is stuck in that loop. Completely denied sex education through home schooling, doesn't watch porn etc for religious reasons. Has never had a girlfriend, but definitely isn't gay, or at least if he is he's the best closeted gay I've ever seen. He claims to be asexual but I've seen the way he treats my fiance and other women. He treats them all like his mother except he feels safer around my fiance because she's taken. The rest he looks at and appreciates but treats them like they're his mother whenever he actually talks to them.
You are exactly right.
He might not, but I might.
If things got bad enough and my families survival depended on me killing someone else or stealing something? I'd be capable of a lot of things that I normally am not.
Now, I personally will likely never get to that point as I have land and know how to use it for survival farming if I need to, as well as how to hunt, build, etc. So stealing is highly unlikely. Killing someone thats trying to steal the shit I made to feed my family could very easily happen however. It all depends on how bad you think it can get.
P.S. without the safety net what I describe above is exactly how bad it can and will get. Its already that bad in other parts of the world.
And there needs to be more uproar about this. Chip and pin is ridiculously easy to defeat. They used to steal data from the mag strips and get your pin before the banks made ATMs that were resistant to the type of tampering required to get an additional mag stripe reader into them.
Now all they need is an RFID reader and a camera set an an ATM anywhere and they can pick up every fucking card in your wallet from 6-10 feet away plus have your pin with a camera that could be set up with a good zoom up to 100ft away. You can literally throw an RFID reader into the plastic trash can with a wireless transmitter on it and get every single card that passes the atm that day, then have the evidence (the RFID reader) destroyed for you because the banks incinerate their garbage.
I should mention he didn't vet the second part because as it is written there I can't remember enough about it to point to a specific law.
The rest I did.