I would have thought that consumer friendly Europe would have taken care of this problem years ago.
The "problem" is nobody was writing many if any cheques that needed to be cleared. But I can send/receive money to/from just about anybody in Europe more or less instantly, if I know their bank and account number/tell them mine. In fact, I can make direct payments to bank accounts in most countries in a couple of minutes right in my online banking. And these things have been true for at least 15 years (since I came here).
Since it's still basically not possible to do these things in the US, I'd say it's not Europe that's needing to catch up in this regard.
About 10% of the population of Sweden is either foreign-born or has at least one foreign-born parent. In lots of different colours, from lots of different places.
There are probably more Russians here than non-whites.
Ursula Haverbeck is an unrepentant Nazi. Her husband was NSDAP Party Leader, and her best friend is Heinrich Himmler's daughter.
Knew a Polish fellow in the States who worked for my father and grandfather. Had a long number tattooed on one arm. He acquired it in Treblinka.
Knew another fellow, a retired US Army officer whose unit liberated Buchenwald. He told me how General Eisenhower made sure to get the press there as quickly as possible to document what they found, so no-one could say later that they were making stuff up.
There's a place in the Czech Republic that you should visit, a village called Lidice, not far from Prague. I have. It's of interest because it's not there any more--the Nazis demolished it and murdered all its inhabitants in 1942. Including the children, about 80 of them.
AFAIK öre/øre are still a thing, they just don't bother minting the coins anymore, at least in Sweden, although last time I was in Denmark (~1 year ago), they still used them.
Good luck counting the money associated with your card without having to buy, carry without breaking, and keep charged a card reader and subscribe to cellular data service for its connection to the payment network.
Who needs a card reader? I can get my balance in about 30 seconds on my phone using either a Web browser or my bank's customer app (both use 2FA, BTW).
If charges for the miniscule amount of data consumed by this are such a concern for you, then I suggest you find a more reasonable carrier.
That's exactly what happened the only time I've ever encountered that situation in Sweden. They asked if I could pay in cash, and when I didn't have enough, they just pulled out one of the old card machines that takes an impression of the card, took one, filled in the price/sales tax/total, had me sign the receipt, and my purchase and I were on our merry way.
The payment showed up on my account ledger a day or two later, so I'm guessing they had little or no trouble running the transaction manually once their system came back up.
You're talking to someone who thinks that, because he's cleverly appended a number encased in parens to someone else's username, he's fooling anyone other than himself.
You evidently missed my point, then, which was: This wasn't some kid fresh out of school in Luleå, it was one of the managers at the bank's largest customer-facing office in the nation's capital.
Bannon is a traitor to his country, to freedom, to democracy, and to people of good will everywhere.
(All these wanna-be Nazis and RaHoWa types marching to the tune of a man who's stated quite clearly that he seeks to emulate Vladimir Lenin. Oh, the irony.)
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As someone who shops almost daily in Swedish grocery stores, I'm here to inform you that this basically never happens.
Why would anyone need *three* cards? Most people here have one bank card, issued by the bank where their salary or pension gets deposited.
Australia, actually, though I'm originally from the US.
I would have thought that consumer friendly Europe would have taken care of this problem years ago.
The "problem" is nobody was writing many if any cheques that needed to be cleared. But I can send/receive money to/from just about anybody in Europe more or less instantly, if I know their bank and account number/tell them mine. In fact, I can make direct payments to bank accounts in most countries in a couple of minutes right in my online banking. And these things have been true for at least 15 years (since I came here).
Since it's still basically not possible to do these things in the US, I'd say it's not Europe that's needing to catch up in this regard.
Just about anything that once appeared novel can be said to be "extremely obvious in hindsight".
About 10% of the population of Sweden is either foreign-born or has at least one foreign-born parent. In lots of different colours, from lots of different places.
There are probably more Russians here than non-whites.
Ursula Haverbeck is an unrepentant Nazi. Her husband was NSDAP Party Leader, and her best friend is Heinrich Himmler's daughter.
Knew a Polish fellow in the States who worked for my father and grandfather. Had a long number tattooed on one arm. He acquired it in Treblinka.
Knew another fellow, a retired US Army officer whose unit liberated Buchenwald. He told me how General Eisenhower made sure to get the press there as quickly as possible to document what they found, so no-one could say later that they were making stuff up.
There's a place in the Czech Republic that you should visit, a village called Lidice, not far from Prague. I have. It's of interest because it's not there any more--the Nazis demolished it and murdered all its inhabitants in 1942. Including the children, about 80 of them.
Any more "questions", troll-boy?
I suspect that you're a worthless troll.
AFAIK öre/øre are still a thing, they just don't bother minting the coins anymore, at least in Sweden, although last time I was in Denmark (~1 year ago), they still used them.
Good luck counting the money associated with your card without having to buy, carry without breaking, and keep charged a card reader and subscribe to cellular data service for its connection to the payment network.
Who needs a card reader? I can get my balance in about 30 seconds on my phone using either a Web browser or my bank's customer app (both use 2FA, BTW).
If charges for the miniscule amount of data consumed by this are such a concern for you, then I suggest you find a more reasonable carrier.
That's exactly what happened the only time I've ever encountered that situation in Sweden. They asked if I could pay in cash, and when I didn't have enough, they just pulled out one of the old card machines that takes an impression of the card, took one, filled in the price/sales tax/total, had me sign the receipt, and my purchase and I were on our merry way.
The payment showed up on my account ledger a day or two later, so I'm guessing they had little or no trouble running the transaction manually once their system came back up.
Just like they do in the US, oddly enough!
Let me endeavour to ameliorate your ignorance just a bit with a few fun facts about Norway:
North to south, Norway's about 1200 miles long--roughly the same distance as from NYC to Key West.
It's almost all rugged mountains and ragged coast. (Unlike the US East Coast, which is generally pretty flat going hundreds of miles inland.)
Roughly half the country lies above the Arctic Circle. (Unlike the US East Coast, which lies entirely within the temperate zone.)
When you're speaking about building and maintaining nationwide power and transport networks, those features are *quite* significant.
Look carefully. He's not BeauHD, and he has nothing to do with running this site.
You're talking to someone who thinks that, because he's cleverly appended a number encased in parens to someone else's username, he's fooling anyone other than himself.
You'll get better results talking to your hand.
You evidently missed my point, then, which was: This wasn't some kid fresh out of school in Luleå, it was one of the managers at the bank's largest customer-facing office in the nation's capital.
Something to confound the clueless with.
You can go back to watching the Kardashians now.
It's AHuxley, who seems to have mistaken this article for his journal.
This wasn't just any local branch, it was Nordea's main office on Sveavägen in downtown Stockholm.
Nobody is forced to get a credit card here. Where did you hear this nonsense?
The headline seems perfectly sensible to me.
Nobody in Sweden has written a cheque in at least 20 years. The banks here cannot even process them any more, basically.
and how do merchants verify funds when accepting them?
That is an extremely recent innovation. Merchants accepted cheques for a century prior to that without any such system.
What a waste.
Bannon is a traitor to his country, to freedom, to democracy, and to people of good will everywhere.
(All these wanna-be Nazis and RaHoWa types marching to the tune of a man who's stated quite clearly that he seeks to emulate Vladimir Lenin. Oh, the irony.)
Huh? This actually concerns your freedom to run what you want on other people's devices.
Which is very likely a freedom that the owners of said devices would prefer that you not have.
NN existed from the beginning, and was the default. Stop spreading lies. Thanks.
It's their party. If Sanders (or anyone else, for that matter) doesn't want to join, then he's free to join a different one, or start his own.