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
