This is the "have you stopped beating your wife yet?" argument. Give up choices? Someone has to give something up here. Either A) the customer has to give up choice of payment type or B) the restaurant has to accept a payment type they might not prefer.
No. Go to a restaurant that wants your cash business. This one is closed to cash, just like other restaurants are closed at night. It's not your choice to make a restaurant open up at 2 AM and cook you food. Restaurant employees aren't your slaves. They don't have to accept your transaction terms. They can say no.
This is what the POLICE should be doing, though. Enforcing civil rights. In this case, the tacit right to privacy, to not having to use a method of payment that's easily tracked by banksters, tech companies, and G-d knows who else.
The only bad thing about this proposal is that the proposed fines aren't high enough. $5000 would be more like it.
Go to another restaurant. You don't have the "civil right" to anything you want on whatever terms you want.
The restaurant doesn't want your cash. Restaurant owners and employees have rights too.
Politician wants you to give up your choices, want to use the police to force his own choices upon you.
Politician justifies this by telling stories, trying to make you afraid, or angry, or resentful, or otherwise too emotional to ask yourself how any of this is his business, or the business of the police, or anyone else's business. Why can't the people involved in the transaction simply choose for themselves? (Don't ask. Don't think. Emote! Otherwise politicians won't have power over you.)
So yeah, ISIS is defeated. Thanks for elaborating it for people. In 2019 maybe the last 1-2% will get cleaned up and you can complain that ISIS still has 3 guys left, so defeating them doesn't count as an accomplishment.
Your entire message up to here made zero sense. One reason I may seem "literal" is because I can't decode half of the idiom-laden gobbledygook that some people use to attempt communication.
But again, hydrocarbons/fossil fuels are a FINITE resource, don't you want to use them more responsibly and try to make them last as long as possible?
"As long as possible" is a useless amount of time. Better would be until we have better substitutes for all necessary uses.
As the years since Peak Oil have shown us, fossil fuels are abundant and every year they become more abundant. Meanwhile, search for alternatives for most uses has been making steady progress. Fossil fuels may be literally "finite", but they will last at least a couple hundred more years at economic prices. That should be (a lot) more than long enough.
So no. I don't want to "use them more responsibility" than warranted by actual real-world concerns. And even if I did, others have a right to live their own lives and choose their own choices, regardless of what either of us want them to do.
China isn't giving the gift of permanent resident status in return for maintaining good social credit.
People have a human right to live and pursue happiness in their homeland. Entry and permanent residence in someone else’s homeland is a gift, not a right.
Your credit score (vaguely) indicates whether you earn a paycheck, are self sufficient and pay your bills. It answers: How likely are you to become somebody else's expensive problem?
Homeland Security doesn't want people coming to the US to become America's expensive problem.
You can quit the cult of rage and denial any time, you know. You don't have to join up with any alternative philosophy either. You can just chill, skip the hours of being trolled by the news media, and focus on improving your life and (if you want) helping the individual people around you.
Your friends and family will like you better. Even the very bitter fellow cult followers you probably socialize with will secretly enjoy your company more.
Does being relentlessly negative make you happy? It doesn’t seem to. Does it help anyone? Do you hope to convince others to be as negative and unhappy as yourself?
Really, do you want the resource wars of Fallout to become reality?
You seem to be making up stories and deciding to believe them. I guess it's emotionally satisfying?
Believing stories that I know are made up is harder for me. But if I wanted to, why wouldn't I make up a story where everything turns out fine, and decide to believe that? It's more consistent with how things have gone the last 500 years or so.
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The problem is that SOMEONE is going to have their options restricted.
Everyone always has restricted options. I don't have the option to eat at restaurants for free, for example. So what?
Use of (police) force is not needed.
I'm actually hatless. Stop sending the police to bully people when you can just go to a different restaurant.
Do you want to live in a world where you are ubiquitously tracked?
I'd rather be passively tracked than be bullied by police at every turn. But I can just go to another restaurant if I want to use cash.
This is the "have you stopped beating your wife yet?" argument. Give up choices? Someone has to give something up here. Either A) the customer has to give up choice of payment type or B) the restaurant has to accept a payment type they might not prefer.
No. Go to a restaurant that wants your cash business. This one is closed to cash, just like other restaurants are closed at night. It's not your choice to make a restaurant open up at 2 AM and cook you food. Restaurant employees aren't your slaves. They don't have to accept your transaction terms. They can say no.
This is what the POLICE should be doing, though. Enforcing civil rights. In this case, the tacit right to privacy, to not having to use a method of payment that's easily tracked by banksters, tech companies, and G-d knows who else.
The only bad thing about this proposal is that the proposed fines aren't high enough. $5000 would be more like it.
Go to another restaurant. You don't have the "civil right" to anything you want on whatever terms you want.
The restaurant doesn't want your cash. Restaurant owners and employees have rights too.
Somehow I don't think the guy on the side of racial equality is somehow the scary, resentful fascist police state. You might want to re-think that.
You've just proclaimed blind faith in the utterance of politicians. Congrats.
Politician wants you to give up your choices, want to use the police to force his own choices upon you.
Politician justifies this by telling stories, trying to make you afraid, or angry, or resentful, or otherwise too emotional to ask yourself how any of this is his business, or the business of the police, or anyone else's business. Why can't the people involved in the transaction simply choose for themselves? (Don't ask. Don't think. Emote! Otherwise politicians won't have power over you.)
Specially when it's others doing the work. Party on!!!
What work? Did you invent blue LEDs or a practical fusion power reactor or something like that? If not, I'm doing about as much as you are.
Yeah, right up until countries start to kick deadbeats, like you, out.
You may want to rethink telling genocide jokes like that.
So yeah, ISIS is defeated. Thanks for elaborating it for people. In 2019 maybe the last 1-2% will get cleaned up and you can complain that ISIS still has 3 guys left, so defeating them doesn't count as an accomplishment.
More judges coming.
Yeah, we had the highest tax rate and now our tax rates are competitive. Previous leaders failed for decades to solve it, now it's solved.
(Even Obama acknowledged it was a problem, BTW. But here you are, pretending it never existed.)
No one will steal any of these cars. There's nothing worthwhile to do with them after they are stolen, and the thieves would get caught right away.
It's still an indication, even if it is incorrect in a small minority of cases.
...azi's!
Your entire message up to here made zero sense. One reason I may seem "literal" is because I can't decode half of the idiom-laden gobbledygook that some people use to attempt communication.
But again, hydrocarbons/fossil fuels are a FINITE resource, don't you want to use them more responsibly and try to make them last as long as possible?
"As long as possible" is a useless amount of time. Better would be until we have better substitutes for all necessary uses.
As the years since Peak Oil have shown us, fossil fuels are abundant and every year they become more abundant. Meanwhile, search for alternatives for most uses has been making steady progress. Fossil fuels may be literally "finite", but they will last at least a couple hundred more years at economic prices. That should be (a lot) more than long enough.
So no. I don't want to "use them more responsibility" than warranted by actual real-world concerns. And even if I did, others have a right to live their own lives and choose their own choices, regardless of what either of us want them to do.
Where is that "human right" limited to, "in their homeland"?
In reality.
China isn't giving the gift of permanent resident status in return for maintaining good social credit.
People have a human right to live and pursue happiness in their homeland. Entry and permanent residence in someone else’s homeland is a gift, not a right.
Your credit score (vaguely) indicates whether you earn a paycheck, are self sufficient and pay your bills. It answers: How likely are you to become somebody else's expensive problem?
Homeland Security doesn't want people coming to the US to become America's expensive problem.
...the detriment of the planet.
But I don't believe in those sorts of stories about the future.
Things have been getting better for people for hundreds of years. Knowledge leads forward and problems get solved.
More happiness from the cheer squad.
You can quit the cult of rage and denial any time, you know. You don't have to join up with any alternative philosophy either. You can just chill, skip the hours of being trolled by the news media, and focus on improving your life and (if you want) helping the individual people around you.
Your friends and family will like you better. Even the very bitter fellow cult followers you probably socialize with will secretly enjoy your company more.
Does being relentlessly negative make you happy? It doesn’t seem to. Does it help anyone? Do you hope to convince others to be as negative and unhappy as yourself?
Which one is false?
Really, do you want the resource wars of Fallout to become reality?
You seem to be making up stories and deciding to believe them. I guess it's emotionally satisfying?
Believing stories that I know are made up is harder for me. But if I wanted to, why wouldn't I make up a story where everything turns out fine, and decide to believe that? It's more consistent with how things have gone the last 500 years or so.
Your post is the sign of true wisdom. Why wouldn’t everyone want to be as happy and deeply thoughtful as you guys?
It's disruptive
But forcing everyone to use non-carbon energy isn't disruptive?