But cash provides a more immediate indicator and a source of pain. Those bills slipping out of your hands HURT a bit. Seeing an Excel spreadsheet is more like "meh, I might be more careful next year."
Not to mention the US's love of violence, both to their own people by the so-called justice system, and to other countries by its military thugs. The Swiss have a military for defense (other than the Swiss Guard) and incarcerate 1/20th as many people per unit of population as the USA, land of the "free."
And that's why the bankscum and corepirations are attempting to ram cashless bullshit down our raw gullets. It's easier to induce sheep to spend money if they aren't literally seeing it disappear from their hands.
I prefer "pig eyes".
The odd thing is that most of the cameras in cafes and such record locally on a 7-day loop (if you're lucky). The footage doesn't get saved and doesn't leave the premises unless there was a major crime committed. I guess that they could do fecial recognition, but most don't.
So basically, you want to destroy privacy in the US (in the name of stinking cowardice about illegal immigration) while keeping it for Europeans? How good of you to say so.
I think that cameras are actually an overblown fear, and that real "mass surveillance" will happen via cashless transactions. Facial recognition is a stone bitch to do accurately under all conditions, whereas pulling up when and where John Q. Doe's card was used in the last 30 days and where his phone has been is much more trivial.
This is also to limit ATM theft. I've heard that most ATMs contain under $10,000 -- an ATM able to dispense $5000 at a time to multiple people would be a hell of an attractive target for theft.
The USA? Please. I'll believe it when the USA stops murdering people in the Middle East and Central Asia to prop up the interests of corrupt dictatorships like Saudi Arabia. Also, when the USA stops stigmatizing cash in the name of the moral panic of the week. ("War on Drugs/Terror/Crime/BlahBlahBlah")
This is overblown -- the top countries for money laundering are probably the USA and Canada at this point. Who do you think is buying condos in NYC and Vancouver for tens of millions of dollars and leaving them vacant? Nah, the Swiss just respect their own citizens' privacy and have a culture of privacy that other countries would do well to emulate.
Because despite being known for banking, Switzerland hasn't been infected with the viruses of monetization and "big pig data," pushed by Wall Street filth. The Swiss actually know to mind their own fucking business, whether it's by maintaining neutrality or by not prying into the private affairs of their own citizens too much. A lesson that nations around the world would do good to follow.
And shows how fucked up the US "justice" system is. Average sentence for murder is something like seven years. He should be given a psych evaluation and made to pay restitution via wage garnishment in the future.
14 hours a day, 6 days a week = 84 hours a week. Are they actually productive for most of that time, or are they goofing off/eating and socializing with their "family" half the time? For any kind of creative work, returns tend to go drastically down after 7 hours a day.
So the heating coils for the heated seats are there, just disabled in software? If the software can't be hacked, sounds like something a $5 fuse, switch, and wire would fix.
Unfortunately, most freight lines in the US aren't electrified. BTW, some locomotives can run both on electric systems and diesel -- i.e. any longer-distance train out of Grand Central in NYC. They run on 750VDC third-rail from Grand Central through upper Manhattan, then start the dlesel when they stop at 125th St/Harlem.
The solution should be massive electrification of freight rail in the US. Regardless of opinions about passenger rail, rail freeight is extremely efficient. Friction from steel wheels on steel rails is much lower than rubber on road, and it can be powered using electricity without lugging fuel, batteries, and/or an engine around.
It's easier to pay cash -- I know exactly how much I paid, and they can't enter an incorrect "tip" amount later. Plus cash is good, cash is private, we should all be doing our part to keep the cash economy humming along. It's our duty to freedom from tracking and bank/government control.
I carry and pay cash as a (small) revolutionary act.
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But cash provides a more immediate indicator and a source of pain. Those bills slipping out of your hands HURT a bit. Seeing an Excel spreadsheet is more like "meh, I might be more careful next year."
Often 2-3 days unless you pay a fee. The US bank transfer system is stuck in the Middle Ages.
Not to mention the US's love of violence, both to their own people by the so-called justice system, and to other countries by its military thugs. The Swiss have a military for defense (other than the Swiss Guard) and incarcerate 1/20th as many people per unit of population as the USA, land of the "free."
And that's why the bankscum and corepirations are attempting to ram cashless bullshit down our raw gullets. It's easier to induce sheep to spend money if they aren't literally seeing it disappear from their hands.
I prefer "pig eyes". The odd thing is that most of the cameras in cafes and such record locally on a 7-day loop (if you're lucky). The footage doesn't get saved and doesn't leave the premises unless there was a major crime committed. I guess that they could do fecial recognition, but most don't.
So basically, you want to destroy privacy in the US (in the name of stinking cowardice about illegal immigration) while keeping it for Europeans? How good of you to say so.
I think that cameras are actually an overblown fear, and that real "mass surveillance" will happen via cashless transactions. Facial recognition is a stone bitch to do accurately under all conditions, whereas pulling up when and where John Q. Doe's card was used in the last 30 days and where his phone has been is much more trivial.
"Growth" and "Consumption" were old names for mortal diseases: tumors and TB. "Growth" is a disease that threatens to kill Mother Gaia.
I'm confused -- I thought you were FOR mass surveillance in other threads on Slashdot. Why the sudden change of heart?
This is also to limit ATM theft. I've heard that most ATMs contain under $10,000 -- an ATM able to dispense $5000 at a time to multiple people would be a hell of an attractive target for theft.
The USA? Please. I'll believe it when the USA stops murdering people in the Middle East and Central Asia to prop up the interests of corrupt dictatorships like Saudi Arabia. Also, when the USA stops stigmatizing cash in the name of the moral panic of the week. ("War on Drugs/Terror/Crime/BlahBlahBlah")
This is overblown -- the top countries for money laundering are probably the USA and Canada at this point. Who do you think is buying condos in NYC and Vancouver for tens of millions of dollars and leaving them vacant? Nah, the Swiss just respect their own citizens' privacy and have a culture of privacy that other countries would do well to emulate.
Because despite being known for banking, Switzerland hasn't been infected with the viruses of monetization and "big pig data," pushed by Wall Street filth. The Swiss actually know to mind their own fucking business, whether it's by maintaining neutrality or by not prying into the private affairs of their own citizens too much. A lesson that nations around the world would do good to follow.
And shows how fucked up the US "justice" system is. Average sentence for murder is something like seven years. He should be given a psych evaluation and made to pay restitution via wage garnishment in the future.
Cops and parking agents can still ticket -- they'll just have to type in a plate # manually to "run" it.
Exaggeration -- the countries where Dieselgate cars were sold most (Western Europe) tend to have the longest life expectencies in the world.
True. And the chances of accidents (the kind that cause loss of limbs) increase a lot.
3. A government job, ideally with a strong union.
That shows a lack of empathy and caring for their wives and kids, though -- not really as "nice" as you make it out to be.
14 hours a day, 6 days a week = 84 hours a week. Are they actually productive for most of that time, or are they goofing off/eating and socializing with their "family" half the time? For any kind of creative work, returns tend to go drastically down after 7 hours a day.
So the heating coils for the heated seats are there, just disabled in software? If the software can't be hacked, sounds like something a $5 fuse, switch, and wire would fix.
Unfortunately, most freight lines in the US aren't electrified. BTW, some locomotives can run both on electric systems and diesel -- i.e. any longer-distance train out of Grand Central in NYC. They run on 750VDC third-rail from Grand Central through upper Manhattan, then start the dlesel when they stop at 125th St/Harlem.
The solution should be massive electrification of freight rail in the US. Regardless of opinions about passenger rail, rail freeight is extremely efficient. Friction from steel wheels on steel rails is much lower than rubber on road, and it can be powered using electricity without lugging fuel, batteries, and/or an engine around.
Credit cards in the US are generally run without a PIN. You write the tip amount on a receipt and they enter it after the card has already been run.
That's a lot harder to match to a face and identity than credit card transactions in a bank's database.
It's easier to pay cash -- I know exactly how much I paid, and they can't enter an incorrect "tip" amount later. Plus cash is good, cash is private, we should all be doing our part to keep the cash economy humming along. It's our duty to freedom from tracking and bank/government control. I carry and pay cash as a (small) revolutionary act.