One useful piece of advice:
Don't but pizza with a credit card: SNIP
Course all those terrorists buying their pizzas with cash get away clean.
I've wondered for years how much longer this will be allowed. Cash is still viable. Not as viable as it was 10, or even 5 years ago. I am still able to travel with only cash, buy a pizza with only cash, or other food, still buy groceries without having to produce mein ausweiss (why I stopped shopping at CostCo years back). But it is all getting stickier.
Quite clearly cash has got to go! I'm not sure how tough this would be to sneak past the slumbering electorate. Pretty tough I expect. But the usage level is certainly going down while the percentage of electronic transactions is skyrocketing. We've even had concresscritters suggesting that the transport of $10K !interstate! should be illegal. I think this came up when the most recent international transport rule changes were made. It's getting more wierd every week now. An adjustment in the other direction will come along soon - I hope but doubt.
On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Michael Motyka wrote:
Quite clearly cash has got to go! I'm not sure how tough this would be to sneak past the slumbering electorate. Pretty tough I expect. But the usage level is certainly going down while the percentage of electronic transactions is skyrocketing. We've even had concresscritters suggesting that the transport of $10K !interstate! should be illegal. I think this came up when the most recent international transport rule changes were made. It's getting more wierd every week now. An adjustment in the other direction will come along soon - I hope but doubt.
I'm willing to bet that ATM machines are more wide spread and distribute more cash now than ever before. Anybody got real numbers for the past few years? A lot of those "electronic transactions" are cash advances on credit cards. How much cash is exchanged every day? It must be in the billions. Yes, there are a lot of electronic transactions moving lots of money. But cash is still far more important to most people. Patience, persistence, truth, Dr. mike
Michael Motyka wrote:
Quite clearly cash has got to go! I'm not sure how tough this would be to sneak past the slumbering electorate. Pretty tough I expect. But the usage level is certainly going down while the percentage of electronic transactions is skyrocketing. We've even had concresscritters suggesting that the transport of $10K !interstate! should be illegal.
You want to spend ten thou on pizza? Bloody hell, that's excessive. Any company selling you that much would lay themselves wide open to being sued because they got you addicted to fatty pizza and made you /obese/. They could be liable for millions! No respectable company could possibly allow that to happen. There should be a law against it! Our legislators must act to defend vulnerable corporations against predatory customers like you who spend too much money! Ken (who has to choose among the 10 or so local Pizza delivery companies in his part of London on the basis of which postcode database they use, because most of them think he lives in the wrong street)
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