Visa Is Bribing Businesses to Kill Off Cash
This has got to be the dumbest idea ever!...can you say: Carrington Event?..with our shields down 25% Captain, said Scotty...we are vulnerable to another event like that; not to mention a certain uoon from Nk or an idiot that "neverdidajob" in never never [I]ran, an EMP event at this time would shut down the world grid for years.
Whatcha gona do when the lights go out... bunkie?
Many Gulchers like the digital idea...I on the other hand, observe that just maybe this is not the time to do such a thing in total. Not until we have some technological guarantees that the grid and digital infrastructures are properly fortified.
Whatcha gona do when the lights go out... bunkie?
Many Gulchers like the digital idea...I on the other hand, observe that just maybe this is not the time to do such a thing in total. Not until we have some technological guarantees that the grid and digital infrastructures are properly fortified.
Offer silver which I carry in my pocket, half a dozen 1/4 rounds and a couple ounces. And a couple hundred in $10s and $20s (and my Glock 19)
Life would be good (for them).....lastly, once the economies of the world are fully under this iron fist of control, the Fiat money will flow like water and control will be complete.
Freedom will be gone! VISA and the rest are fully ok with this scenario. Besides, the card will go away in a couple of years anyway to be replaced by an implant. 1984 and the Brave New World are here! Get used to it!
For what its worth
It is worth a great deal because it is "right on the money" :>) You have revealed it entire purpose.
Electronic currency tracking and spending is efficient and easy to maintain, but if the currency represents nothing of value then a failure of the government, fiat bank or a reorganization can pilfer any one at any time. A Carrington Event would not be a threat if there was something physical of value and you had more than one record to prove your ownership. Fires destroy paper, counterfeit destroys ownership, failure of computers can destroy ownership and governments can demand that 25% of whatever you have in the bank is now theirs (as happened in Greece) and you will have no recourse. Owning anything has always made owners subject to theft, deception, fraud and any numerous ways thieves can invent to get the thing of value. The most dangerous and heavily armed thieves in the world are governments and people join them in their efforts when promises are made to 'help' the downtrodden and provide for their upkeep. I don't think it will ever end. The contest is always to find ways to protect your property from those who would steal from you no matter who they are.
You betcha !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That's it in a nutshell. With interest rates so low, it becomes questionable as to any advantages to putting some of your wealth in easily retrievable instruments that bear little or no interest. How truly wealthy are you? How much precious metal do you own? They'll never be getting to know you, getting to know all about you unless you give up your cash.You wanna be controlled? If you give up your cash for convenience, you will be.
Yes, yes, yes, yes !!!!!!!!!!!
Lately off and on, their computer goes down. At first they were hanging signs on the gas pumps and locking the door.
Then the problem became so losing money repetitively frequent that they began to do business with a pocket calculator, a notebook and a sign that said "CASH ONLY!"
I'm going to ask if that computer problem has been solved because the last time I did business there I used my debit card without any problem.
Anyway, this store's "the computer is down" (y'all heard that one before?) problem is a small scale example why a cashless nation and especially an entire cashless planet can only court catastrophe.
Bzzt! "I'm sorry but the computer is down."
Me dino now imagines food riots that makes all the riots the world has seen during the last 50 years combined look like so much next to nada.
"Me dino now imagines food riots that makes all the riots the world has seen during the last 50 years combined look like so much next to nada."
Both bulls eyes.....................both important to understand...........................
Credit cards have the advantage of giving you a good exchange, just as ATMs do, and you don't get stuck with left-over currencies if you just use credit cards. They are nice for merchants in that they do not need to keep cash for making change.
I still prefer cash. I like starting an trip or event with a little pile of cash and I visually see it going down. I have been taking fussy kids through the store and swiped my card having no idea the amount. It could have been a million dollars. So if they scanned a box of diapers twice, I'd never know it. But I would notice with cash. I was also amazed at how a large dealership reduced the price on the car I bought immediately when I pulled out cash. I thought they'd be too big to car about what seems like almost a stunt, but they really responded. They know they can get paid immediately with zero chance of a the check bouncing or other banking problem.
I hope cash doesn't go away, but I sense it's on its way out. One little thing I do to support is use dollar coins instead of dollar bills. Coins last much longer than bills, so they cost the mint less to maintain.
Also, when the lights go out, you won't have to worry about proving you actually had money in the bank because everything on the magnetic hard drives and storage media has been wiped out by an EMP.
PS...store your most precious digital information on optical disks...they will likely last forever.
I am sure though, Visa is just looking at their bottom line. But, that is the line many cross to succeed and in the process harm the end users of their product and services.
There are ways to succeed without harming the consumers but they are too blind to see that and it will likely bite them in the butt.
I degreed in Economics and business but found that the only jobs in my day were Ins. co's or government...so I use those skills for economies of movements in Mfg and my own business.
Also...Just started: Theology 101...thought it might be interesting.
Astrophysics, natural cycles and quantum physics is a side interest of mine. I discovered that earths orbit cycles between an elips to almost a circle every 90K. Recently I pondered the Mayan calendar at 360 days a year, opposed to our present day 365.5.
Seems to me that both are correct depending upon our orbit cycle at the time measured. At present we are not quite at max elips but no clue whether we are headed to max or coming back from max elips...anyway, to prove my point we need to know our distance from the sun at dec 21 (closest) and distance at jun 21, (farthest); that info is easily gotten. Calculate distance traveled and divide 365.5 should equal speed. (or,. probable our speed is known, cal. per day, then mult'ing by 365.5
If speed doesn't change and in a circular orbit, stands to reason the distance traveled would be shorter...hence: 360 day years...maybe? (I would think that our shortest distance from the sun would pretty much give us our circular orbit) I did read though, that it isn't quite a perfect circle but all we need to prove is the distance traveled per year would be shorter...that seems to make sense to me.
What do you think?
That said, my final studies and continuing studies are in the field of chaos mathematics. I had to put it down for a while to research history, but now I am ready to get back into it again after my move. Is that a coincidence? I don't believe in those and I don't think anything is random. When someone says to me, this is random so I have no idea, I think in my head well, you are just not trying hard enough. Maybe I am just to hard on myself and others.
I think we have the tools to measure distance from the sun accurately, however, do we measure it from surface to surface? If so, lamestream science does not believe the sun has a surface but it has to have a surface for particles to be ejected which most certainly are ejected all the time.
Since the human brain resembles the universe: https://io9.gizmodo.com/5928608/which...
and the atomic structure resembles our solar system, then maybe there is something to be discovered here. This is fractal geometry and I really loved that part of chaos theory.
I am just sharing here and sorry if I am wasting your time. Thank you for posing this question to me to get me thinking about all these things again.
I will tell you that the gravitational model is on it's way out and the Electric Universe theory is gaining favor. It has been noted that the EUT is much more accurate, needing no exceptions to it's premise.
Gravity is a weak force, like our government was supposed to be...governing best that which it governs close.
Electromagnetism is the main force in existence...without it, existence could not exist.
And Yes!...electromagnetic events do play havoc with the human brain...especially to the unaware, (non conscious)
Consciousness and the Mind, (not in your head) is my specialty...the implications of which are discussed in my first book. (my first attempt at doing so...I am a much better writer now, not to mention, have continued my research)
Check out the Thunderbolts project, Electric Universe Theory.
pi to the power of 10 is 93,648
I have been trying to use powers of pi rather than multiples of pi lately to get more exact answers, but I have had no success yet so please disregard everything about this except for the fact that nature likes to oscillate in cycles of pi. pi, 2 x pi, 3 x pi.....100 x pi .......etc
I do suspect that the number of days in a year constantly changes slowly. Since the Mayan Civilization was after the flood and maybe 6 to 8K years ago, It would not be unreasonable to only gain 5 days a year since. Varying 10 days in a year through a 90K cycle would not be out of the question. However, the last time we had a near circular orbit was well before the flood which rightfully should be around 12-13K years ago if we consider the procession of the equinox.
I have a theory about why our orbit changes, including the other planets. It was said most recently that we are positioned above the galactic plain at this time and it seems we venture, in our procession around the milkyway, above and below this plain...so...wouldn't that change in direction in our suns travel at 433K MPH cause the planets to lag behind a bit and to catch up at sometime when our travel is straight?..Then, perhaps, when the suns direction changes again, lag behind a bit in the opposite elips...making earth farthest in orbit on 12/21 and closer on 6/21?
Demonstrating this in a video would be amazing.
The problem in predictability is we haven't been taking measurements for long enough, in this respect, we really need to examine what the ancients knew and give it serious consideration.
From what I understand thus far, magnetic reversals used to be every 250K then stopped. (info gotten from the Society of Cycles, established in the 1930's) Haven't had an actual reversal in 780K years...what they tout as a reversal might be the results of extreme wandering, which is exactly what is happening today. Our N. mag. pole has been rapidly moving toward Siberia and the S. mag. pole has moved up toward Australia. It is said that if this trend continues they will meet in the Indian Ocean near an anomaly we have been monitoring for years. Some think we will have a reversal but I am as yet to be convinced.
http://suspicious0bservers.org (observers with a zero) and adapt 2030 on youtube are excellent resources for understanding what is happening on a daily/weekly basis.
An interesting side note: One wonders if the system is AC or DC. If we are AC and we have a reversal... we should then begin to rotate in the opposite direction. [have you ever heard the 3 days of darkness/3days of light...then the sun rising in the west, statement from the ancients?]...makes one what to go...hmmmm
BULLSEYE !!!!!!!! (Fire for effect!!!)
Optical is our best shot...short of writing in stone. Assuming we have a few machines left to play them...I'd stick one in a metal garbage can just in case.
The bank will charge you a $3.00 ATM fee, everyone else will let you buy a pack of gum for 50 cents and give you as much as you want.
My guess is the dotgov, so hooked on their fake money inflationary scheme, is worried that the (tarnished) brass they use for the current brassbucks will be worth more than the coin they represent. When you have non-fiat coinage worth 20 to 25x its face value... yeah.
If they're not going to go back to making them the size of the Ike dollar, at least make them square or something so they're obviously different.
REARDEN METAL??
Light, strong, non rusting, non corroding, greenish tinged steel/copper/?? alloy, a blatant statement of value in a valueless society... I suspect, however, the mint (that believes in the power of Fiat, and we ain't talkin' cool italian cars) would NEVER go for such an obvious tip of the hat to Rand,
There is also the whole "would Hank approve of this use of HIS creation? Likely not... but it would STILL be cool...
When you get a roll of dollars you get some of the old Susan B Anthony dollars that look quarters, some copper-colored Sacajaweas, and some copper-colored presidential dollars.
They passed a law saying they'd produce a certain ratio of presidential to Sacajawea. Combined with some other policy that resulted in a their making way more dollar coins than people wanted, and they piled up in a huge building. They changed the law half way through the presidents. After that they only offered presidential coins to collectors. You can find some of them in circulation though.
I think it's unfortunate they stopped it because my kids learned the first half of the presidents while collecting the coins, without even trying. They recognize their face and roughly when were president. They did the same thing with the state quarters and national park quarters. They really caused them to learn the states, where they are, and what state icons appear on the coins.
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Get some rest and start your new day fresh.
No collusion's with Russia I bet...
(I replaced the or with [and], in the definition...it just speaks more observational truth).
The Kakistocracy is disturbing but it helps to have a word for it and it's become my favorite word; finding truths and new exciting questions help too.
Just think...all the worlds perversions, criminality, and it's ills...in one felt swoop, one concept all taking up less mental ram with the rest of one's mental resources on those exciting questions.
I say this, abet, baring the cross of awakening humanity, in my own small way, all because it is true, with or without our language being confounded...Nothing be impossible unto us.
I think...how cool is that!
in more unemployment,etc...the wheel just keeps on
turning, and the world keeps on burning. How sad...too bad.
Completely digitizing money and doing away with tangible currency makes for thorough micromanagement and is a firm step to dictating your life. I used this as a foundational basis for the society I constructed in Shadows Live Under Seashells and touched on in Fallacies of Vision. Once in place other can determine a great many things in the way you live your life or they could even choose to shut off the spigot (freeze your accounts) until you comply to how they believe you should live.
At least it's better than when I was young, and you had to have a handful of French francs, Deutschmarks, Lire, etc... I still have my old travel wallet, and it was a major PITA...
Cards? The first time you forget to make a travel notification, or the CC co puts th e wrong dates on them, you realize just how fragile THAT system is.
With all the fiat funnymoney spewed by various people's republics (in fact if not in name), this is far too close to true. I AM impressed by all the pretty colors and designs...
Of course, I do have real money as well... always hope I won't need it anytime soon, but you never know.
Invest in the green and make more green!
Or as an Objectivist would say...G=G..?
Turns out, in it's non modified form, it's great medicine...kinda like our "greenbacks" used to be before It was modified.
Didn't catch the rhyming 'til you saw it.........my sub-conscious is "driving the car" again.............
The have not a mind, nor conscience...that's why they don't know.
I love metaphors cause "Consciousness soars on the wings of metaphors©". and when they rhyme it's even better.
They are the "Great Unwashed" and We: the elite on the street.
From Visa's standpoint, the electronic transfers also provide marketing information they can sell to businesses - another revenue stream. Supermarkets and many other companies also use these "Loyal Customer" cards to track spending and for valuable BI (business intelligence). That largely goes down the drain with cash-only transactions.
It is!!!! And even more, destructive...........its purpose is control, control of every individual.
Remember Dagny and Jeff when the train stalled.........."money in the pocket turns to confidence in the mind."
The mind is the target...........always has been, always will be the enemy of looters, tyrants, et al
............destruction of the individual by destruction of the [rational] mind..............
You are correct...and it has been going on since the fall of Babylon.