Probably go back to the old imprint-type credit card machines. Cha-chunk. Cha-chunk. Sign at the X. And you hope everyone's card turns out to be valid after the system comes back up.
Bank with a community bank/credit union; they'd be happy to take your deposits. Many have deals that allow you to use different banks' ATMs for free, so you can deposit and withdraw as needed.
Or just spend the cash the next time you buy groceries or whatever, what's the issue. You have to buy food, gas, etc at some point, right?
As far as "Big Brother" caring, what if hellth insurance companies (misspelling deliberate) start buying purchase data from credit card companies and restaurants? Eat at Burger King more than 2x last month? Cha-ching! Cha-ching! "Unhealthy diet surcharge."
Don't underestimate the ability of the corporatist state to control people's lives. Having all purchases tracked, tabulated, and stuck in a database increases that ability.
I don't want to live in a society where our location is tracked 24/7/365 whenever we buy food, gas, or other necessities. Cash = the ability for people to go off the grid and maintain their privacy.
I don't want to do business with anyone who's doing their part to erode that ability. Thus, I'll vote with my cash and pay cash.
It's not that I personally care about it, but I want to live in a world where people can run away and drop out of sight. It's an important safety valve against authoritarianism.
Other reasons for this:
(1) Classism. "We don't want poor or immigrant customers who don't have a credit card or check card. We cater to millennial hipsters only." Good to know.
(2) Bribery. There was an article last year about a major credit card company paying businesses $10,000 to go cashless.
Good on Chicago for thinking about regulating this and Massachusetts for actually regulating cashfree businesses out of existence. Nice to see that some jurisdictions actually stand up for their constituents' privacy.
Reddit is just Usenet in 2018. It's a communication tool; I don't see a need for every community to be a comfortable space for everyone. Don't like a community? Start your own.
No, they're not required to maintain records tied to names. In a regular taxi, you can pay cash and not have any record of your ride beyond an anonymous trip log from point A to B.
The individual driver may be required to have a camera, but the footage is usually not uploaded to the "cloud", nor is it correlated with a name unless a crime occurred.
There's a middle ground you know. Keep the nuclear deterrent against invasion. Keep a military organized primarily as a self-defense force against invasion. Withdraw from countries we have no business fighting in.
No: it can mean the same amount of taxes if the money is spent intelligently.
Start cutting: (1) The military. Our Minuteman and nuclear sub force is enough to deter invasion. Both are cheap to maintain. Not so about the constant homicide campaigns with boots on the ground. Withdraw from the Middle East, Korea, and Latin America. (2) The "war on some drugs." Focus on treatment, not punishment. And see above about Latin America and our military/DEA. (3) Mass incarceration. See above. Then make sentences realistic and focus on rehabilitation. (4) Subsidies for coal/oil industries.
Right, then we should have a few trillion with which to fund research that actually SAVES human lives without raising taxes much, if at all. The dividends paid by a healthier population may actually be revenue-positive.
Sideloading is enabled by clicking through a disclaimer, no jailbreaking on Android needed. No real risk of bricking the device.
Then you just download from a website and install, basically same as installation of a non "store" app on a PC or Mac. It's trivial and safe if you keep to reputable.apk sources.
I don't want Google OR Apple OR Microsoft in my pants. Fuck all three, and Amazon too.
If you make an average income in CA, you pay average to low taxes since property taxes are low. Drive an older car or motorbike, live in a 1 or 2 bedroom condo in a working-class part of SD county... all of the benefits, none of the costs. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
Problem is that if everyone does it and there's no one left to do business with who doesn't do it, we need laws to throw the data collectors in prison or fine them into bankruptcy.
If only companies like Lyft could make their services privacy-neutral as well. Allow for private forms of payment, delete user records permanently after six months. Environmentally neutral or not, app-based rideshare is still poison.
Nah, it's usually drunken millennial insufferables who plop their phone in a toilet. I suspect plenty of the "older" crowd listen to music via earphones. The iPhone is just a replacement for an iPod or Walkman. iPod was around 15 years ago, Walkmen have existed for ~35 years now.
(1) A smartphone doesn't make life enjoyable. In fact, life was more enjoyable without everyone having e-leashes. (2) My Android phone was $100, not $800. I intend to keep it for 3-4 years. That's $0.0675 per day, an order of magnitude less than your iPhone example. (3) Don't want Google to track you? Don't enable a Google account, sideload bootleg.apks. Mail, web, even navigation work without a Google account. I have no interest in things like Google Drive or clown storage in general. I transfer my pics via an SD card...
I am actually a dual US and EU-country citizen, but Facebook has no way of knowing that unless I "tell" them by logging in from the EU, or specifying an EU city as my place of residence.
North Korea was never a threat to us. Iran could actually be useful to us, keeping the Saudis in check.
Doing South Korea's or Saudi Arabia's dirty work doesn't make a president great. What's needed now is better DOMESTIC policy. Stop spending so much on military adventures. Spend on education, infrastructure (no, not public-private partnerships), healthcare. Amnesty all non-violent drug offenders. Legalize marijuana (happy 4/20!), decriminalize the use (sale should be case-by-case, I don't support legalizing meth sales) of all other drugs.
It's a vicious cycle.
(1) Blow off a nuke or two, make threats, bluster
(2) Get the South and US to negotiate
(3) Get food/technical assistance
(4) When assistance runs out, go back to (1)
We're talking about North Korea -- they have more years' experience with blackmail than the age of the average US official.
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Probably go back to the old imprint-type credit card machines. Cha-chunk. Cha-chunk. Sign at the X. And you hope everyone's card turns out to be valid after the system comes back up.
Why should you have to go through an additional fuckin step if you're poor or wish to maintain your privacy?
Bank with a community bank/credit union; they'd be happy to take your deposits. Many have deals that allow you to use different banks' ATMs for free, so you can deposit and withdraw as needed.
Or just spend the cash the next time you buy groceries or whatever, what's the issue. You have to buy food, gas, etc at some point, right?
As far as "Big Brother" caring, what if hellth insurance companies (misspelling deliberate) start buying purchase data from credit card companies and restaurants? Eat at Burger King more than 2x last month? Cha-ching! Cha-ching! "Unhealthy diet surcharge."
Don't underestimate the ability of the corporatist state to control people's lives. Having all purchases tracked, tabulated, and stuck in a database increases that ability.
I don't want to live in a society where our location is tracked 24/7/365 whenever we buy food, gas, or other necessities. Cash = the ability for people to go off the grid and maintain their privacy.
I don't want to do business with anyone who's doing their part to erode that ability. Thus, I'll vote with my cash and pay cash.
It's not that I personally care about it, but I want to live in a world where people can run away and drop out of sight. It's an important safety valve against authoritarianism.
Other reasons for this: (1) Classism. "We don't want poor or immigrant customers who don't have a credit card or check card. We cater to millennial hipsters only." Good to know. (2) Bribery. There was an article last year about a major credit card company paying businesses $10,000 to go cashless. Good on Chicago for thinking about regulating this and Massachusetts for actually regulating cashfree businesses out of existence. Nice to see that some jurisdictions actually stand up for their constituents' privacy.
If they make that clear before the fact, I walk out.
If they only make that clear when I'm ready to pay, I tip a penny. In cash.
Screw businesses that don't care about customers' privacy and anonymity.
Reddit is just Usenet in 2018. It's a communication tool; I don't see a need for every community to be a comfortable space for everyone. Don't like a community? Start your own.
No, they're not required to maintain records tied to names. In a regular taxi, you can pay cash and not have any record of your ride beyond an anonymous trip log from point A to B.
The individual driver may be required to have a camera, but the footage is usually not uploaded to the "cloud", nor is it correlated with a name unless a crime occurred.
Keep the deficit the same, just spend that 15% on research, education, and other internal programs.
There's a middle ground you know. Keep the nuclear deterrent against invasion. Keep a military organized primarily as a self-defense force against invasion. Withdraw from countries we have no business fighting in.
No: it can mean the same amount of taxes if the money is spent intelligently.
Start cutting:
(1) The military. Our Minuteman and nuclear sub force is enough to deter invasion. Both are cheap to maintain. Not so about the constant homicide campaigns with boots on the ground. Withdraw from the Middle East, Korea, and Latin America.
(2) The "war on some drugs." Focus on treatment, not punishment. And see above about Latin America and our military/DEA.
(3) Mass incarceration. See above. Then make sentences realistic and focus on rehabilitation.
(4) Subsidies for coal/oil industries.
Right, then we should have a few trillion with which to fund research that actually SAVES human lives without raising taxes much, if at all. The dividends paid by a healthier population may actually be revenue-positive.
Which is why governments need to step in and level the playing field, burn the privacy-robbing businesses to the ground and drive them to bankruptcy.
Sideloading is enabled by clicking through a disclaimer, no jailbreaking on Android needed. No real risk of bricking the device.
Then you just download from a website and install, basically same as installation of a non "store" app on a PC or Mac. It's trivial and safe if you keep to reputable .apk sources.
I don't want Google OR Apple OR Microsoft in my pants. Fuck all three, and Amazon too.
If you make an average income in CA, you pay average to low taxes since property taxes are low. Drive an older car or motorbike, live in a 1 or 2 bedroom condo in a working-class part of SD county... all of the benefits, none of the costs. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
Problem is that if everyone does it and there's no one left to do business with who doesn't do it, we need laws to throw the data collectors in prison or fine them into bankruptcy.
If only companies like Lyft could make their services privacy-neutral as well. Allow for private forms of payment, delete user records permanently after six months. Environmentally neutral or not, app-based rideshare is still poison.
Nah, it's usually drunken millennial insufferables who plop their phone in a toilet. I suspect plenty of the "older" crowd listen to music via earphones. The iPhone is just a replacement for an iPod or Walkman. iPod was around 15 years ago, Walkmen have existed for ~35 years now.
(1) A smartphone doesn't make life enjoyable. In fact, life was more enjoyable without everyone having e-leashes. .apks. Mail, web, even navigation work without a Google account. I have no interest in things like Google Drive or clown storage in general. I transfer my pics via an SD card...
(2) My Android phone was $100, not $800. I intend to keep it for 3-4 years. That's $0.0675 per day, an order of magnitude less than your iPhone example.
(3) Don't want Google to track you? Don't enable a Google account, sideload bootleg
I am actually a dual US and EU-country citizen, but Facebook has no way of knowing that unless I "tell" them by logging in from the EU, or specifying an EU city as my place of residence.
Not really, foreign immigration makes up for the Americans that can't cut it in CA and leave for red states :D
Nipple-mouse please, touch pads are for pikers :)
North Korea was never a threat to us. Iran could actually be useful to us, keeping the Saudis in check.
Doing South Korea's or Saudi Arabia's dirty work doesn't make a president great. What's needed now is better DOMESTIC policy. Stop spending so much on military adventures. Spend on education, infrastructure (no, not public-private partnerships), healthcare. Amnesty all non-violent drug offenders. Legalize marijuana (happy 4/20!), decriminalize the use (sale should be case-by-case, I don't support legalizing meth sales) of all other drugs.
It's a vicious cycle. (1) Blow off a nuke or two, make threats, bluster (2) Get the South and US to negotiate (3) Get food/technical assistance (4) When assistance runs out, go back to (1) We're talking about North Korea -- they have more years' experience with blackmail than the age of the average US official.
With a shit interface if you use it as a "laptop." Having to lift your hands off the KB to point and click is beyond irritating.