Why does every bottle of of everything (salad dressing, ketchup, pickles, etc) have a plastic safety seal around it? Because of the Tylenol thing in 1982 ?
Yes, and that needs to stay the way it is for purposes of public safety. Do you really think for one minute that if they didn't put seals on things some sick fuck out there wouldn't start poisoning things?
Those sort of so-called 'libertarians' are just shy of being 'anarchists' and typically can't see past the ends of their own noses, philosophically speaking.
See this comment: https://slashdot.org/comments....
Everything going cashless would become a crime against basic civil rights.
Furthermore, as more important people than you or I have already pointed out, there is a privacy issue. You may not care who knows about every last thing you purchase, but I and many others do care. Therefore excluding cash is bullshit and cannot be allowed to stand.
Here's one more reason for you: when you have 'all your eggs in one basket' (your bank account) and you sling around electronic payment methods all day every day, every time you use that is one more opportunity for criminals to hack your bank account and drain it. Don't tell me that's paranoia because it happens practically every damn day anymore. Then there's fucktards like Christoper Wray who want to put backdoors in all encryption, which would make it dead simple for criminals to hack anything they choose. At least with cash what you have in your hand is real.
There are many more arguments I could make for cash but those are the important ones.
is an crime to just leave cash at an cashless place and to not pay with card?
Since this is new territory the courts would have to decide, but on the surface it would not be smart since there's no one there to accept the cash or to prevent someone else from scooping it up and walking away with it.
You're about as wordy as me so I had to get through it all to see you're more or less agreeing with me, but yes, what you're pointing out is that what so-called 'cashless' would lead us to is just one more way The Few (read as: The Rich) can effectively exclude The Many (read as: The Poor and The Middle Class, who are rapidly becoming The Poor, too) from being able to spend their money on quality things. Imagine only being able to buy the lowest-tier of low-quality groceries because the upscale gentrified grocery store doesn't accept cash, and you've been excluded from having any sort of plastic means to purchase things. People paying cash get marginalized. This is what must be fought against.
It's not as bad in the county I live in as it is in a certain nearby city, but they keep tightening up the rules on what is and is not 'recyclable', and then they want me to sit there at the sink and wash things out like a ziplock bag? Ridiculous. What I think needs to happen is more packaging, food wrap, and so on, needs to be made from biodegradable materials, preferably that enrich the soil, that you 'recycle' by putting them in the ground. More durable things of course can't really be made from materials like that but single-use things should be. Also things like these 'K-cups', single-use for making coffee, are just the stupidest thing I've ever seen. How hard is it, really, to use a coffee press, for instance, and wash it out after you're done using it? I've been doing that for years now, for a single 16-ounce cup of coffee, and it really doesn't take that much effort.
Cryptocurrency is a meme, and I scoff at and ridicule anyone who falls for it. It goes up and down worse than the stockmarket, blockchain has now been proven to not be unhackable, and it seems like every day I read another story about another cryptocurrency exchange being hacked and everyone losing everything they had in it. LOL no thanks.
IDGAF if The Rich get to hide their questionable purchases so long as everyone has the ability to protect the privacy of what they spend their money on too. It's all part of this concept called "Freedom", which may have a potential for abuse, you must just accept that as part of the cost of freedom.
Because business only cares about the law insofar that they don't want to get sanctioned or arrested, beyond that they'll do whatever they can to benefit themselves.
To reinforce what you're saying with a supplementary perspective: there is a growing divide between "The Rich" and "The Poor", and the middle-class keeps shrinking, forcing people who were once middle-class into the ranks of "The Working Poor". It's not all that bad yet but it keeps getting incrementally worse every year for one reason or another. Something like retailers going 'cashless' will just accelerate the process. Some will say "you can get a prepaid debit card without a bank account" but all of those cards have fees attached to them, some exorbitant, and when every penny counts you can't afford to have some parasite company siphoning off your money because you needed groceries.
How many of those 800,000,000 were voluntary installations or upgrades? How many were installed at the factory and the end-user either didn't care or didn't know they could change it? How many were forced upgrades that the end-user either didn't really understand what happened, didn't know they could revert back to the version they had, or didn't know they had a choice at all? And, last but not least, how many of those 800,000,000 are outright lies, Miscreant-o-soft inflating the figure to make it sound better than it actually is?
Just on guts I'd say the real number, taking all the above into account, is less than half. Maybe even less than a third.
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Oh fuck you.
A good bartender can't be replaced with some shitty robot full of peristaltic pumps and plastic tubing.
Holy crap, what has our world come to when you can buy something like that commercially?
You're fucking stupid, shut up.
Yeah sure I only use 1 ziplock bag every 2 weeks. Fuck off troll.
You (1) over-estimate state-of-the-art for robots, and (2) ignore the fact that running a robot isn't free, and (3) robots are not cheap.
Why does every bottle of of everything (salad dressing, ketchup, pickles, etc) have a plastic safety seal around it? Because of the Tylenol thing in 1982 ?
Yes, and that needs to stay the way it is for purposes of public safety. Do you really think for one minute that if they didn't put seals on things some sick fuck out there wouldn't start poisoning things?
How much does Microsoft pay you for a comment like the one you just made?
Those sort of so-called 'libertarians' are just shy of being 'anarchists' and typically can't see past the ends of their own noses, philosophically speaking.
See this comment: https://slashdot.org/comments....
Everything going cashless would become a crime against basic civil rights. Furthermore, as more important people than you or I have already pointed out, there is a privacy issue. You may not care who knows about every last thing you purchase, but I and many others do care. Therefore excluding cash is bullshit and cannot be allowed to stand. Here's one more reason for you: when you have 'all your eggs in one basket' (your bank account) and you sling around electronic payment methods all day every day, every time you use that is one more opportunity for criminals to hack your bank account and drain it. Don't tell me that's paranoia because it happens practically every damn day anymore. Then there's fucktards like Christoper Wray who want to put backdoors in all encryption, which would make it dead simple for criminals to hack anything they choose. At least with cash what you have in your hand is real.
There are many more arguments I could make for cash but those are the important ones.
Bullshit.
Implying 'creationism' is actually real.
I would strongly argue against that.
is an crime to just leave cash at an cashless place and to not pay with card?
Since this is new territory the courts would have to decide, but on the surface it would not be smart since there's no one there to accept the cash or to prevent someone else from scooping it up and walking away with it.
Take a moment to read this other comment of mine: https://slashdot.org/comments....
No, it's really not, take a moment to not assume that and read it again to find the real meaning.
You're about as wordy as me so I had to get through it all to see you're more or less agreeing with me, but yes, what you're pointing out is that what so-called 'cashless' would lead us to is just one more way The Few (read as: The Rich) can effectively exclude The Many (read as: The Poor and The Middle Class, who are rapidly becoming The Poor, too) from being able to spend their money on quality things. Imagine only being able to buy the lowest-tier of low-quality groceries because the upscale gentrified grocery store doesn't accept cash, and you've been excluded from having any sort of plastic means to purchase things. People paying cash get marginalized. This is what must be fought against.
Fuck off troll.
It's not as bad in the county I live in as it is in a certain nearby city, but they keep tightening up the rules on what is and is not 'recyclable', and then they want me to sit there at the sink and wash things out like a ziplock bag? Ridiculous. What I think needs to happen is more packaging, food wrap, and so on, needs to be made from biodegradable materials, preferably that enrich the soil, that you 'recycle' by putting them in the ground. More durable things of course can't really be made from materials like that but single-use things should be. Also things like these 'K-cups', single-use for making coffee, are just the stupidest thing I've ever seen. How hard is it, really, to use a coffee press, for instance, and wash it out after you're done using it? I've been doing that for years now, for a single 16-ounce cup of coffee, and it really doesn't take that much effort.
Cryptocurrency is a meme, and I scoff at and ridicule anyone who falls for it. It goes up and down worse than the stockmarket, blockchain has now been proven to not be unhackable, and it seems like every day I read another story about another cryptocurrency exchange being hacked and everyone losing everything they had in it. LOL no thanks.
IDGAF if The Rich get to hide their questionable purchases so long as everyone has the ability to protect the privacy of what they spend their money on too. It's all part of this concept called "Freedom", which may have a potential for abuse, you must just accept that as part of the cost of freedom.
Because business only cares about the law insofar that they don't want to get sanctioned or arrested, beyond that they'll do whatever they can to benefit themselves.
To reinforce what you're saying with a supplementary perspective: there is a growing divide between "The Rich" and "The Poor", and the middle-class keeps shrinking, forcing people who were once middle-class into the ranks of "The Working Poor". It's not all that bad yet but it keeps getting incrementally worse every year for one reason or another. Something like retailers going 'cashless' will just accelerate the process. Some will say "you can get a prepaid debit card without a bank account" but all of those cards have fees attached to them, some exorbitant, and when every penny counts you can't afford to have some parasite company siphoning off your money because you needed groceries.
Who says I don't?
How many of those 800,000,000 were voluntary installations or upgrades? How many were installed at the factory and the end-user either didn't care or didn't know they could change it? How many were forced upgrades that the end-user either didn't really understand what happened, didn't know they could revert back to the version they had, or didn't know they had a choice at all? And, last but not least, how many of those 800,000,000 are outright lies, Miscreant-o-soft inflating the figure to make it sound better than it actually is?
Just on guts I'd say the real number, taking all the above into account, is less than half. Maybe even less than a third.