On 03/27/2017 02:35 AM, grarpamp wrote:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/17/03/27/0220216/is-australia-becoming-a-cas... http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-27/is-australia-on-the-brink-of-becoming-... http://www.smh.com.au/business/atm-use-hits-15yearlow-as-shift-to-cashless-s...
Australia's Reserve Bank will roll out an instantaneous money-transferring technology later this year, "which will push Australia even further towards being a cashless society," according to ABC. An anonymous reader quotes their report: In 2014, 12 financial institutions signed up to build the "New Payment Platform," partly as a way of bringing Australia up to speed with other countries that are ahead in the race to becoming completely cashless. Sweden is on track to become the world's first completely cashless economy, and just last November India got rid of its highest denomination bills, effectively eliminating 90 per cent of its paper money... The "New Payment Platform" will mean money can be transferred almost instantaneously, even when the payer and payee are members of different banks. "It's estimated that somewhere between about $3.5 and $5 billion in Australia every year is lost in tax revenue due to the sort of cash economy," says an economics professor at the University of New South Wales, who predicts Australia could be cash-free by 2020. The Australian Payments Association reports that over 75% of the country's face-to-face payments are already tap-and-go, and ATM withdrawals have sunk to a 15-year low.
Fuck Australia and Fuck their stupid Queen too. Fuck Tax. Fuck Control. Fuck Slavery. Fuck Databases. Fuck Surveillance. Fuck Religion. Fuck Police. Fuck BigCorp. Fuck Governments and the all Idiots in them.
"Fuck it, the fucking fucker's fucking fucked"... WWII lorry driver perusing his broke down vehicle, recounted by author Anthony Burgess Context:
Why the most pleasurable activity known to mankind, and the organs by which it is procured, should be debased through the use of the basic, or quadrilateral, terms as expressions of opprobrium has never been adequately explained. ‘Fucking’, it is true, can be used as a neutral intensifier in ‘fucking good’ and ‘fucking stupid’, but to be ‘fucked’ or participate in a state of ‘fuckup’ is to be in a state of distress. I once heard an army motor mechanic complain of his recalcitrant engine by crying ‘Fuck it, the fucking fucker’s fucking fucked. There you have the word used as five distinct parts of speech. To be called ‘a prick’ (though never ‘a penis’), ‘a cunt’ or ‘a twat’ is not pleasant. There is perhaps a fundamental puritanism in such usages, a denial of the holiness of sexual pleasure, which, of course, explains the taboo.
https://www.anthonyburgess.org/blog-posts/anthony-burgess-on-low-life-langua...
Fucking stupid world.
Fuck, Fuck it. Rr