Actually, the transaction costs are not that high. Those "extra" costs are offset by businesses not needing people to handle cash and, especially, checks. Less employee theft of cash. No bounced checks that have to be handled by third-party recovery companies. Businesses, particularly small ones, come out ahead when they go cashless.
Governments everywhere will help facilitate a cashless society. Just think of all that purchasing data they can monitor. Not to mention, they can force people to pay local/state/federal sales tax on person-to-person sales (e.g.: Garage Sale items).
A truly cashless society is the wet dream of the IRS, FBI, NSA....
I must have a crappy provider... I can't even find season 1 of Silicon Valley. (well, I do find encrypted ones with "instructions" to get the password).
The death and rebirth of industries is what made this nation (in the past) great. The natural evolution of business, to big business, to death allows small companies to rise up from the debris of the bloated bodies of old dead old businesses. Sadly, the bailouts of giant corporations and the "to big to fail" ant-evolution mind set are making it harder and harder for America to innovate and stay relevant.
Let the big car companies die and, hopefully, the big bloated government will clear the path for innovation and creativity.
"As much as I hate government" and "Schools should be mandatory"... one of these is a lie.
You do not hate government, you see government as an enforcer of your beliefs, as a powerful ally. The sad part is that you don't seem to recognize just how corrupt our government is on every level. Any government "forced" system will be riddled with cheaters and thieves. The rich will find a way to benefit and there is nothing you can do about it.
Using the government as a hammer will only hurt the middle and lower classes.
Easy, take them out to the Pacific ocean and show them the garbage continent that's been growing there for decades. Push "pollution control" instead of "climate change". You will accomplish the same thing.
Nice spin.... how about this: Since there are so many people who do deny it, why not take a different approach that would accomplish the same thing without making Al Gore even more wealthy?
As a Republican voter, I am dismayed at those who represent the only Conservative party. They have lost their way. Although I don't think "carbon credits" will help anyone but Al Gore, I do see the need to stop polluting our water, air and land.
This whole thing reminds me of the entire "Lead in Gasoline" fight back in the 60's.
I wish liberals would abandon the "climate change" mantra and focus on air and water quality. It's fairly easy to prove that we are poisoning everything.
I'd accept this as an answer but there are many, many, many blighted areas of this country with no jobs for the young or old. If the government was into "jobs for crime control" they'd be paying companies to open up businesses in these areas (not just tax incentives... cash).
It's hard finding programming jobs with so many younger developers willing to work 70+ hours per week at 2/3 the salary I'm used to making.
That being said, let companies hire who they want. I don't really understand the forced-melting-pot concept of hiring. If a company wants young people, who am I to force them to take me?
Seriously, do you think the media will willingly treat a third party candidate the same as a Republican or Democrat? Do you think that the mindless voters would choose a candidate that the media, left or right, isn't promoting?
You do know that we didn't just randomly decide one day to bomb muslims... right?
Muslims have been a problem for the U.S. all they way back to the Barbary Pirate days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Basically, Muslims are responsible for creating the United States Navy.
I'll byte: The Psychologists are sentient humans with the ability to differentiate between good and bad, harm and help. Pliers, on the other hand, do not understand what they are doing or what the repercussions are.
No. jQuery is bloated by their desire to make sure your pages are compatible with ancient Microsoft browsers.
Also, jQuery allows developers to be very lazy. Example: Many sites bring back JavaScript in their AJAX returns. Did you know that jQuery uses EVAL to process any JavaScript returned via AJAX?
jQuery UI is a horrendous memory and performance hog. There are billions of JavaScript code examples to perform the individual functions of jQueryUI without forcing your customers to download that monster.
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For some unknown reason, seeing a BANK funded study makes me not trust it.
Actually, the transaction costs are not that high. Those "extra" costs are offset by businesses not needing people to handle cash and, especially, checks. Less employee theft of cash. No bounced checks that have to be handled by third-party recovery companies. Businesses, particularly small ones, come out ahead when they go cashless.
Governments everywhere will help facilitate a cashless society. Just think of all that purchasing data they can monitor. Not to mention, they can force people to pay local/state/federal sales tax on person-to-person sales (e.g.: Garage Sale items).
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A truly cashless society is the wet dream of the IRS, FBI, NSA
I agree however, when a drug dealer offers you a free "taste".... in the end, there was still a drug dealer starting it all.
They ruined Filezilla
They pissed of GIMP.org
.... now nmap.
I must have a crappy provider... I can't even find season 1 of Silicon Valley. (well, I do find encrypted ones with "instructions" to get the password).
Oh, yeah, that makes sense. NNTP should be revived. I miss newsgroups. Yes, they still exist but they're not the same anymore.
I was under the impression that "piracy" was legal in Canada since they tax the hell out of all media related items.
I guess not.
The death and rebirth of industries is what made this nation (in the past) great. The natural evolution of business, to big business, to death allows small companies to rise up from the debris of the bloated bodies of old dead old businesses. Sadly, the bailouts of giant corporations and the "to big to fail" ant-evolution mind set are making it harder and harder for America to innovate and stay relevant.
Let the big car companies die and, hopefully, the big bloated government will clear the path for innovation and creativity.
"As much as I hate government" and "Schools should be mandatory" ... one of these is a lie.
You do not hate government, you see government as an enforcer of your beliefs, as a powerful ally. The sad part is that you don't seem to recognize just how corrupt our government is on every level. Any government "forced" system will be riddled with cheaters and thieves. The rich will find a way to benefit and there is nothing you can do about it.
Using the government as a hammer will only hurt the middle and lower classes.
Easy, take them out to the Pacific ocean and show them the garbage continent that's been growing there for decades. Push "pollution control" instead of "climate change". You will accomplish the same thing.
Nice spin.... how about this: Since there are so many people who do deny it, why not take a different approach that would accomplish the same thing without making Al Gore even more wealthy?
... the giant, over funded, Federal Government.
As a Republican voter, I am dismayed at those who represent the only Conservative party. They have lost their way. Although I don't think "carbon credits" will help anyone but Al Gore, I do see the need to stop polluting our water, air and land.
This whole thing reminds me of the entire "Lead in Gasoline" fight back in the 60's.
I wish liberals would abandon the "climate change" mantra and focus on air and water quality. It's fairly easy to prove that we are poisoning everything.
I'd accept this as an answer but there are many, many, many blighted areas of this country with no jobs for the young or old. If the government was into "jobs for crime control" they'd be paying companies to open up businesses in these areas (not just tax incentives... cash).
It's hard finding programming jobs with so many younger developers willing to work 70+ hours per week at 2/3 the salary I'm used to making.
That being said, let companies hire who they want. I don't really understand the forced-melting-pot concept of hiring. If a company wants young people, who am I to force them to take me?
"This is the year of Linux"
Seriously, do you think the media will willingly treat a third party candidate the same as a Republican or Democrat? Do you think that the mindless voters would choose a candidate that the media, left or right, isn't promoting?
You do know that we didn't just randomly decide one day to bomb muslims... right? Muslims have been a problem for the U.S. all they way back to the Barbary Pirate days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Basically, Muslims are responsible for creating the United States Navy.
Police departments all over the United States get hand-me-downs from the U.S. military... this includes tanks.
Currently, we kill bears that show no fear of people. I like the way you think.
I'll byte: The Psychologists are sentient humans with the ability to differentiate between good and bad, harm and help. Pliers, on the other hand, do not understand what they are doing or what the repercussions are.
It's not the length that counts... it's the girth.
Can this technology be used to superimpose the body of a hot swimsuit model over the body of any feminist while she's bleating her man hate at you?
jQuery makes for a terrible mobile experience. Maybe you should let your "old" customers go in favor of the younger more up-to-date users.
No. jQuery is bloated by their desire to make sure your pages are compatible with ancient Microsoft browsers.
Also, jQuery allows developers to be very lazy. Example: Many sites bring back JavaScript in their AJAX returns. Did you know that jQuery uses EVAL to process any JavaScript returned via AJAX?
jQuery UI is a horrendous memory and performance hog. There are billions of JavaScript code examples to perform the individual functions of jQueryUI without forcing your customers to download that monster.
Don't be lazy.