You say this like it's a bad thing. Way I look at it, is if Google, Apple, and the rest of the rotten tech firms can avoid paying tax, who are we to moralize about someone being paid under minimum wage ("tipped wage") avoiding tax?
People in debt are also more easily controlled. Protest against the system, lose your job, get further into debt, lose your home, etc, etc, etc. The pigs can use economic means to control the public without awkward things like the National Guard shooting at people.
Found the idiot who assumes that the political spectrum is one-dimensional, not multi-dimensional. A continuum of left to right is a simplistic way to talk about politics.
Ah, but it's +2 flamebait. Which is just funny. This is just proof that there are a lot of authoritarians and Kool-aid drinkers on Slashdot -- the place has changed since the late 90s, and not for the better.
This is about authoritarian pigfuckers on all sides of the economic spectrum wanting more control. Conservatives will want to deny people health insurance if they buy too many condoms. Liberals will do the same for soda and fatty meat. Either way, authoritarians are shitty humans.
What could the cops do? Nothing. NYC would be better off if 50% of its police didn't show up to work and didn't enforce anything but violent crimes. There was a time where the NYPD went on "strike" and stopped issuing tickets for "quality of life" and "traffic" offenses. Know what happened? Nothing. Violent crime actually went DOWN that month.
Overpolicing in the US is the problem, not the solution.
Nothing. There's everything wrong with being an IGNORANT tourist, duped into waiting around for a silly ball to drop while not being able to even take a piss. I'm frankly ashamed for my city and the idiots policing it.
10 cents more per gallon of gas for using a crap card instead of real money seems to be the norm. And rightly so -- people using cards and thus buying into the surveillance state deserve to be punished.
Times Square on New Year's Eve has always been a shitshow made for ignorant tourists. Huge crowds, no bathrooms, long lines, pigs in uniform (NYPD) ticketing people for daring to drink alcohol. Go to a local bar, to to the Central Park run, throw a party in your apartment and annoy the prissy neighbors, take a flight to a civilized city that's not so uptight about people having fun in public.
It's a human right. It's not a civil right because some American politicians and judges say "huuuurrr duuurrrrrr not explicitly written in the Constitution gruuuuunt." (as if the Constitution was the be-all and end-all of human rights)
Frankly, megacorps like Apple and Google barely pay taxes. If a mom and pop Chinese restaurant does the same, they're called evil frauds. Hypocrisy much? Especially since, in the US, the tax money tends to be squandered on military homicide sprees abroad anyway.
You're also generally not required to carry your cell phone 24/7 unless you have an "on call" job. Can't reach me? Leave a fucking message and wait like a good boy or girl.
Actually, they don't prohibit a cash discount, they prohibit an extra charge for credit cards. Cash discounts happen all the time in places like gas stations. It just needs to be phrased correctly not to breach the banksters' contract.
California also tends to be highly segregated and classist. The cashless/privacy-less businesses are deliberately set up as such, to keep people like the poor, recent immigrants, etc out. It's a form of class discrimination disguised as convenience.
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You see it, the bankster scum and government filth also see it. Cash is great because of its anonymity.
You say this like it's a bad thing. Way I look at it, is if Google, Apple, and the rest of the rotten tech firms can avoid paying tax, who are we to moralize about someone being paid under minimum wage ("tipped wage") avoiding tax?
Unfortunately, they do.
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Exactly: it's twice as painful to spend cash, since there's "pain" upon withdrawal and pain upon actually spending it.
Enter receipts, a new technology where what you spend is printed on a little piece of woven cellulose that fits in your wallet.
People in debt are also more easily controlled. Protest against the system, lose your job, get further into debt, lose your home, etc, etc, etc. The pigs can use economic means to control the public without awkward things like the National Guard shooting at people.
Found the idiot who assumes that the political spectrum is one-dimensional, not multi-dimensional. A continuum of left to right is a simplistic way to talk about politics.
Cops aren't "my own people". In fact, most American cops are barely human in my book.
Ah, but it's +2 flamebait. Which is just funny. This is just proof that there are a lot of authoritarians and Kool-aid drinkers on Slashdot -- the place has changed since the late 90s, and not for the better.
Yep -- shame the hell out of them.
I'm pretty sure plenty of outright evil people thought they were doing good. This doesn't excuse their actions.
This is about authoritarian pigfuckers on all sides of the economic spectrum wanting more control. Conservatives will want to deny people health insurance if they buy too many condoms. Liberals will do the same for soda and fatty meat. Either way, authoritarians are shitty humans.
What could the cops do? Nothing. NYC would be better off if 50% of its police didn't show up to work and didn't enforce anything but violent crimes. There was a time where the NYPD went on "strike" and stopped issuing tickets for "quality of life" and "traffic" offenses. Know what happened? Nothing. Violent crime actually went DOWN that month.
Overpolicing in the US is the problem, not the solution.
Nothing. There's everything wrong with being an IGNORANT tourist, duped into waiting around for a silly ball to drop while not being able to even take a piss. I'm frankly ashamed for my city and the idiots policing it.
Fuck you. If you want quiet, move to Montana.
10 cents more per gallon of gas for using a crap card instead of real money seems to be the norm. And rightly so -- people using cards and thus buying into the surveillance state deserve to be punished.
Times Square on New Year's Eve has always been a shitshow made for ignorant tourists. Huge crowds, no bathrooms, long lines, pigs in uniform (NYPD) ticketing people for daring to drink alcohol. Go to a local bar, to to the Central Park run, throw a party in your apartment and annoy the prissy neighbors, take a flight to a civilized city that's not so uptight about people having fun in public.
It's a human right. It's not a civil right because some American politicians and judges say "huuuurrr duuurrrrrr not explicitly written in the Constitution gruuuuunt." (as if the Constitution was the be-all and end-all of human rights)
Frankly, megacorps like Apple and Google barely pay taxes. If a mom and pop Chinese restaurant does the same, they're called evil frauds. Hypocrisy much? Especially since, in the US, the tax money tends to be squandered on military homicide sprees abroad anyway.
You're also generally not required to carry your cell phone 24/7 unless you have an "on call" job. Can't reach me? Leave a fucking message and wait like a good boy or girl.
Actually, they don't prohibit a cash discount, they prohibit an extra charge for credit cards. Cash discounts happen all the time in places like gas stations. It just needs to be phrased correctly not to breach the banksters' contract.
California also tends to be highly segregated and classist. The cashless/privacy-less businesses are deliberately set up as such, to keep people like the poor, recent immigrants, etc out. It's a form of class discrimination disguised as convenience.
Replace "authorities" with "fucking scum" or "foul pigs" and you have it right.
What's wrong with not wanting a paper trail? Privacy is a sacred human right.
What does it matter. Lead is cheap, and you're not eating it. But actually, most of the shielding is water.