Cashless Australia Go Fuck Yourself, And Some Other Things

[Razer]

On 03/27/2017 02:35 AM, grarpamp wrote:
> https://news.slashdot.org/story/17/03/27/0220216/is-australia-becoming-a-cashless-society
> http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-27/is-australia-on-the-brink-of-becoming-cashless-society/8377288
> http://www.smh.com.au/business/atm-use-hits-15yearlow-as-shift-to-cashless-society-gathers-momentum-20170313-guwsry.html
>
> 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-language/
> Fucking stupid world.

Fuck, Fuck it.

Rr