My take: Parallel construction (i.e. law enforcement criminally lying under oath)
How does this get modded up? Just because you thought something up doesn't make it so. Luckily for us our legal system requires a little bit more evidence than what you happen to think on the day.
Not sure, but I have newer seen a tourist without a credit card. Do they even exists?
I take it you've never travelled far from home.
Even if everyone accepted credit (which they mostly don't out in the real world), my bank charges a $11 fee per transaction, plus $8 for currency conversion for all international transactions. Would be rather stupid to buy a $3 lunch in say Thailand, then get stung $19 in fees.
I travel a lot. The best strategy I've found is to load up a travel debit card in your local country, use that at an ATM when you arrive overseas to withdraw local cash, and use cash for all transactions. Everyone everywhere accepts cash (except apparently Sweden, so I'll take that off my travel list)
I wonder what kind of measures the Sweden have against losing it. And if I'm not mistaken most payments go through the Internet and of course the Internet is supposed to be 100% reliable... oh, wait.
One side effect of all this is that those handful of fibres running under our cities are increasingly becoming a more attractive target for disruption. How long before a targeted attack involving a simple cutting a dozen cables brings an entire city to it's knees?
There is an increasing imbalance of value versus risk at play here.
I'm not sure who "Miss Whiplash" is, but if you're talking about your landlord, she almost certainly deposits the money in her own bank account.
Dude, he's talking about a prostitute.
Even if she spends it, the second she goes to a store to break the bill, it goes to the bank.
Your cash is only ever a transaction or two away from being tracked.
She doesn't go to the store, the money goes to her boss, and he most likely trades it to some other guy for drugs. That guy uses it to buy more drugs, and that guy spends it in a night club. At that point the cash is then distributed to dozens of regular Joes as change, who each might spend some of it in a shop, but that shop then redistributes it out to their customers also as change. By the time it gets to the bank it could be years, and completely untraceable to my original transaction.
Crims have know this for years which is why they prefer small bills. They are easier to redistribute into get lost in the wash of small cash transactions that happen millions of times a day.
In that case, will it be a crime to buy something before becoming an adult? I was under the impression that only an adult could hold a bank account in his own name; anyone younger than 18 (or thereabouts depending on jurisdiction) has to make do with cash.
Interesting. When I grew up, all kids got bank accounts when at a certain level at school so they could learn about managing money. We were encouraged to put our pocket money in the bank, and learned how interest worked (back then banks were paying out about 10% on savings).
"I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies" - Thomas Jefferson.
It seems not much has changed in the last couple of hundred years...
Well they might tell you it's taxable, but good luck trying to enforce it.
And what's to stop people still hanging on to cash and using among themselves? As long as you don't take it to the bank, just keep on using it.
No. If I was, I would've died while on the waiting list.
So why is the US life expectancy lower than the OECD average, where most other countries have socialised medicine?
What's even more embarrassing is that the US spends nearly twice as much as the OECD average on medicine, yet still has some of the worst outcomes.
I've done work for govt depts and even the smart people are limited on what they can do because of accountability. And the bigger the project, the more accountable you have to be. The other problem is that domain experts don't want to work in an environment like that. If you're the best, you're not going to last long stuck knee deep in bureaucracy
Govt can't work like Apple or Google.
It constantly amazes that idiots like you think America (a.k.a. the USA) is homogenous in anything including it's thinking. We're a melting pot with a lot more variety than almost any country, perhaps any country, because the USA was settled by and built by immigrants from around the world. There is no "American Mentality".
True, but it's still remarkably 'mono-cultured' for its size. Compare any other similar land mass or population size and the diversity is far greater everywhere else.
My wife is an early childhood teacher, and when we had kids she advised me that her going to work while the kids were under 5 was not negotiable. In her experience, there is a strong correlation between child development and parental care in the early years. It's never black and white, but even in her school in the one of the wealthiest suburbs in the country, the worst behaved kids are the ones with the least devoted parents.
Apparently you missed the "even close to the scale of nuking cities" part. Not sure how many times the US killed millions of civilians in a single encounter in any of those countries..
No-one said anything about only the US doing the killing.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki totalled about 200k deaths compared to say the genocide in Rwanda of up to 1 million, or the Cambodian genocide of over 2 million.
Shit is still happening...
Once you get to country sized populations it does. You could easily disprove this with one or two examples where millions of people have performed co-ordinated charitable acts without a central administration, but since there are none, let's just agree to disagree.
Apart from that, it is a rather braindead thing to say that my views are irrelevant because I use a word you wouldn't use, don't you agree?
If you're claiming to speak for what words mean in today's world, then use old fashioned words which people don't use anymore, then yes your opinion of today's words is irrelevant (to me at least).
Basicallly its a single sign on portal to other government services that appears to be designed by a committee of very user unfriendly elderly people.
The problem with public service is that process takes priority over outcomes, and it has to be that way since it is public money at stake.
You never get greatness with this model, but you hopefully never get Enron style failures either (ie bankrupt government). So you have to take the good with the bad.
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Which does not sound credible to me.
My take: Parallel construction (i.e. law enforcement criminally lying under oath)
How does this get modded up? Just because you thought something up doesn't make it so. Luckily for us our legal system requires a little bit more evidence than what you happen to think on the day.
Not sure, but I have newer seen a tourist without a credit card. Do they even exists?
I take it you've never travelled far from home.
Even if everyone accepted credit (which they mostly don't out in the real world), my bank charges a $11 fee per transaction, plus $8 for currency conversion for all international transactions. Would be rather stupid to buy a $3 lunch in say Thailand, then get stung $19 in fees.
I travel a lot. The best strategy I've found is to load up a travel debit card in your local country, use that at an ATM when you arrive overseas to withdraw local cash, and use cash for all transactions. Everyone everywhere accepts cash (except apparently Sweden, so I'll take that off my travel list)
... is a bitch.
I wonder what kind of measures the Sweden have against losing it. And if I'm not mistaken most payments go through the Internet and of course the Internet is supposed to be 100% reliable ... oh, wait.
One side effect of all this is that those handful of fibres running under our cities are increasingly becoming a more attractive target for disruption. How long before a targeted attack involving a simple cutting a dozen cables brings an entire city to it's knees?
There is an increasing imbalance of value versus risk at play here.
I'm not sure who "Miss Whiplash" is, but if you're talking about your landlord, she almost certainly deposits the money in her own bank account.
Dude, he's talking about a prostitute.
Even if she spends it, the second she goes to a store to break the bill, it goes to the bank.
Your cash is only ever a transaction or two away from being tracked.
She doesn't go to the store, the money goes to her boss, and he most likely trades it to some other guy for drugs. That guy uses it to buy more drugs, and that guy spends it in a night club. At that point the cash is then distributed to dozens of regular Joes as change, who each might spend some of it in a shop, but that shop then redistributes it out to their customers also as change. By the time it gets to the bank it could be years, and completely untraceable to my original transaction.
Crims have know this for years which is why they prefer small bills. They are easier to redistribute into get lost in the wash of small cash transactions that happen millions of times a day.
It's also an Aussie thing for both credit and debit cards.
But not EFTPOS, which is what the GP was talking about. If you click SAV instead of CR on the pinpad, there is no fee.
Electronically shifting money from my account to an account in a different bank takes at least a day to "process".
Banks process inter-bank transactions overnight via a batch process.
Cheques take three business days to "clear".
Who uses a cheque? What is this 1980?
ATM machines charge $2-3 per transaction.
Only if you use an ATM that doesn't belong to your bank.
In that case, will it be a crime to buy something before becoming an adult? I was under the impression that only an adult could hold a bank account in his own name; anyone younger than 18 (or thereabouts depending on jurisdiction) has to make do with cash.
Interesting. When I grew up, all kids got bank accounts when at a certain level at school so they could learn about managing money. We were encouraged to put our pocket money in the bank, and learned how interest worked (back then banks were paying out about 10% on savings).
I'll always accept gold for anything I sell
Yeah but who has gold in easily divisible quantities to give to you?
Only criminals will have cash.
But I'm not sure what they will spend it on.
Drugs and prostitutes, just the same as now...
Nobody is paying that much for a gram of coke.
Come to Australia. Street price is $350/g, maybe $300 if you know the right guy...
"I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies" - Thomas Jefferson.
It seems not much has changed in the last couple of hundred years...
Well they might tell you it's taxable, but good luck trying to enforce it.
And what's to stop people still hanging on to cash and using among themselves? As long as you don't take it to the bank, just keep on using it.
No. If I was, I would've died while on the waiting list.
So why is the US life expectancy lower than the OECD average, where most other countries have socialised medicine?
What's even more embarrassing is that the US spends nearly twice as much as the OECD average on medicine, yet still has some of the worst outcomes.
I've done work for govt depts and even the smart people are limited on what they can do because of accountability. And the bigger the project, the more accountable you have to be. The other problem is that domain experts don't want to work in an environment like that. If you're the best, you're not going to last long stuck knee deep in bureaucracy
Govt can't work like Apple or Google.
Yet another academic propaganda post implying socialism as the answer. I am sick of these.
If you had socialised medicine you wouldn't be sick :)
Which side is 'upside'?
It constantly amazes that idiots like you think America (a.k.a. the USA) is homogenous in anything including it's thinking. We're a melting pot with a lot more variety than almost any country, perhaps any country, because the USA was settled by and built by immigrants from around the world. There is no "American Mentality".
True, but it's still remarkably 'mono-cultured' for its size. Compare any other similar land mass or population size and the diversity is far greater everywhere else.
My wife is an early childhood teacher, and when we had kids she advised me that her going to work while the kids were under 5 was not negotiable. In her experience, there is a strong correlation between child development and parental care in the early years. It's never black and white, but even in her school in the one of the wealthiest suburbs in the country, the worst behaved kids are the ones with the least devoted parents.
Yet another reminder about why we need space programs to get colonies of people off Earth..
As anyone with any data knows, the solution is RAIP, (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Planets). So if we kill one there's one spare to carry on.
Apparently you missed the "even close to the scale of nuking cities" part. Not sure how many times the US killed millions of civilians in a single encounter in any of those countries. .
No-one said anything about only the US doing the killing.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki totalled about 200k deaths compared to say the genocide in Rwanda of up to 1 million, or the Cambodian genocide of over 2 million.
Shit is still happening...
So, do you want us to be the World Police or not?
Is too much to ask for a police force to not be the Keystone Cops?
Once you get to country sized populations it does. You could easily disprove this with one or two examples where millions of people have performed co-ordinated charitable acts without a central administration, but since there are none, let's just agree to disagree.
Apart from that, it is a rather braindead thing to say that my views are irrelevant because I use a word you wouldn't use, don't you agree?
If you're claiming to speak for what words mean in today's world, then use old fashioned words which people don't use anymore, then yes your opinion of today's words is irrelevant (to me at least).
Payment through the government of other people's medical expenses does not involve giving, it involves legalized theft.
Oh boohoo, if you don't like it, try living in Somalia or Afghanistan and see how much better no govt works out for you...
He oversaw the creation of the EPA, opened diplomatic relations with China, enforced desegregation of Southern schools, withdrew US military forces out of Vietnam and signed the Paris Peace accords, and initiated détente with the Soviet Union in the wake of his diplomacy with China which lead to the SALT I and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
Isn't it funny how much politics has shifted so far right that even the Dems in 2015 are further right than Nixon era Republicans?
Basicallly its a single sign on portal to other government services that appears to be designed by a committee of very user unfriendly elderly people.
The problem with public service is that process takes priority over outcomes, and it has to be that way since it is public money at stake.
You never get greatness with this model, but you hopefully never get Enron style failures either (ie bankrupt government). So you have to take the good with the bad.