hst45 Posted January 23, 2009 Posted January 23, 2009 I believe that in the future cash will be illegal. Does that seem illogical? Alas, my fellow victims, follow me down the rabbit-hole of the loss of personal freedoms that spans this postulate and see how bleak is our future. In the brave new world the vaste majority of workers will be paid by direct-deposit. Welfare recipients will get the share of my tax money that the government says they deserve sent to them via a debit card. Most transactions of goods-for-services (buying crap at Walmart) will be done on a credit card. Gas purchases for the family minivan will be done via credit or debit cart at the pump. You'll drive down the expressway and pass through the toll booth and the transponder will pay your way. You won't be able to rent a car, get a cell phone, or get an internet address without paying on-line. No problem, you say. Right-o, but remember that when each and every one off these transactions occur you leave a footpint in cyberspace; a traceable footprint. The future? No, that is today. "Why should I care?", you ask,"I have nothing to hide." So why then will you need cash? You get up in the morning and drive down the expressway on your way to work and go to the 7-11 where you pay $3.75 for your pack of Marlboros with your credit card, at lunch you can buy a burger with fries and pay with a debit card, and on the way home you can purchase 3 gallons of kerosene or your kerosene heater with the afore mentioned card. This is simply a day in the life of an ordinary citizen, right. WRONG! 1) Your life insurance is cancelled since you bought cigarettes since you're at high-risk, and since you eat food containing trans-fats. 2) You have a $50 ticket for speeding since the transponder tracked you over the limit 3) Your homeowners insurance is cancelled since you must have an illegal kerosene heater in your home. "Damned, that 's not fair!" you shout. So you vow to never pay with a debit or credit card again. Why not? What are you affraid of? If you weren't doing something illegal you wouldn't have to "hide" the transaction by paying in cash. Only drug dealers, gun runners, pimps, pyros and terrorists need to use use cash to hide their nefarious activities, right.....so which one are you.? Pyro, gun-nut myself.......and you are?
Richtee Posted January 23, 2009 Posted January 23, 2009 I believe that in the future cash will be illegal. Does that seem illogical? Alas, my fellow victims, follow me down the rabbit-hole of the loss of personal freedoms that spans this postulate and see how bleak is our future. In the brave new world the vaste majority of workers will be paid by direct-deposit. Welfare recipients will get the share of my tax money that the government says they deserve sent to them via a debit card. Most transactions of goods-for-services (buying crap at Walmart) will be done on a credit card. Gas purchases for the family minivan will be done via credit or debit cart at the pump. You'll drive down the expressway and pass through the toll booth and the transponder will pay your way. You won't be able to rent a car, get a cell phone, or get an internet address without paying on-line. No problem, you say. Right-o, but remember that when each and every one off these transactions occur you leave a footpint in cyberspace; a traceable footprint. The future? No, that is today. "Why should I care?", you ask,"I have nothing to hide." So why then will you need cash? You get up in the morning and drive down the expressway on your way to work and go to the 7-11 where you pay $3.75 for your pack of Marlboros with your credit card, at lunch you can buy a burger with fries and pay with a debit card, and on the way home you can purchase 3 gallons of kerosene or your kerosene heater with the afore mentioned card. This is simply a day in the life of an ordinary citizen, right. WRONG! 1) Your life insurance is cancelled since you bought cigarettes since you're at high-risk, and since you eat food containing trans-fats. 2) You have a $50 ticket for speeding since the transponder tracked you over the limit 3) Your homeowners insurance is cancelled since you must have an illegal kerosene heater in your home. "Damned, that 's not fair!" you shout. So you vow to never pay with a debit or credit card again. Why not? What are you affraid of? If you weren't doing something illegal you wouldn't have to "hide" the transaction by paying in cash. Only drug dealers, gun runners, pimps, pyros and terrorists need to use use cash to hide their nefarious activities, right.....so which one are you.? Pyro, gun-nut myself.......and you are?Pisses me off that I offed my gold. Had to.
Brakkie Posted January 23, 2009 Posted January 23, 2009 When I buy anything for pyro/chemistry or my knife collection I pay cash it's the smartest thing to do NEVER pay anything suspicious in cash and don't leave any paper-trail that could lead to you.
optimus Posted January 23, 2009 Posted January 23, 2009 Most transactions of goods-for-services (buying crap at Walmart) will be done on a credit card. Gas purchases for the family minivan will be done via credit or debit cart at the pump. Ever heard of RFID?
mike_au Posted January 23, 2009 Posted January 23, 2009 Visa and several other companies offer prepaid credit cards (they call them "Gift cards"). You buy them for about $5, load on between $10 and $1000 and spend it over the next 12 months. Some of them can only be bought with another credit card and I believe some of the US ones require a SSN when you activate them so you will have to shop around. The other thing is that some can be refilled and others are single use. Quick and easy way to deal with merchants through a cc without it being traced back to you.
Swede Posted January 23, 2009 Posted January 23, 2009 Anyone heard of the phenomenon whereby OVERNIGHT the value of the dollar is devalued? It's happened in other countries, and given the state of our economy, it could happen here. You wake up to find that each dollar is now worth 50 cents, and the "New Dollar" must be accepted in exchange. THERE'S a depressing thought... probably belongs in the depression thread. Work all your life, you've got a modest retirement account, and because the U.S. Gov't is a pack of bufoons who cannot manage money, it is instantly cut in half. Net effect... the government gets the other half, as they sell you paper money at 2X value. Gimme some gold and silver to sock away. Maybe Pt... at least I can use it to make perchlorate.
TheSidewinder Posted January 23, 2009 Posted January 23, 2009 You're right, Swede. Pick just about any country in South or Central America, and they suffer from hyperinflation. (I think that's the term you're thinking of.) We have a family friend who came here from Argentina when she was a young woman. She told us about this phenomena in her country. She came from an affluent family, and they had a housekeeper as well as another servant or two. It was accepted practice to pay the servants first thing in the morning, for THAT day's work, and to let them go shopping right then, for the things they needed that day (food, clothing, whatever). The reason being, by the END of that day the money they were paid that MORNING was worth only 60-70% of what it had been. Scary..... Pack of buffoons, indeed.
WarezWally Posted January 23, 2009 Posted January 23, 2009 Just like good old Zimbabwe, their original currency is valued using scientific notation
andyboy Posted January 23, 2009 Posted January 23, 2009 So now here are your 72 virgins.Oh before I forget, there is a little problem: Your dick is still missing. Also, I always wonder why those 72 are still virgin, they must be very ugly at least. Look at the post above yours and you will know why they are virgins, the ones who don't blow their dick of in a suicide bombing gets it chopped of upon entry into paradise, like a ticket if you will: :D
Steps Posted January 24, 2009 Posted January 24, 2009 Look at the post above yours and you will know why they are virgins, the ones who don't blow their dick of in a suicide bombing gets it chopped of upon entry into paradise, like a ticket if you will: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SA2KoBNjo-Y
andyboy Posted January 24, 2009 Posted January 24, 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SA2KoBNjo-Y Wonderful.
Swede Posted January 24, 2009 Posted January 24, 2009 (edited) You're right, Swede. Pick just about any country in South or Central America, and they suffer from hyperinflation. (I think that's the term you're thinking of.) TS, not hyperinflation, but a means of funding things like multi-trillion bailouts and wars. If the Gov't simply printed money and used it, now you end up with hyperinflation, and the net effect is somewhat the same, but that is a slower process. I am referring to an instantaneous devaluation. Somehow, the Gov't decides the "value" of the dollar has eroded too far, compared to the Euro, whatever. So they create a new currency, the "New Dollar", and set a date... anytime after that date, if you have old dollars, they are not legal tender. By selling the New dollars at 1 for 2, they have effectively taxed you at a 50% rate. When Germany transitioned to the Euro, all outstanding DeutchMarks were given a death sentence, a date, past which they become worthless, forcing all citizens to buy Euros. Something along those lines. I am not one of those smart guys when it comes to money. To me, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury, is all a great mystery. How do they decide if the money supply is adequate? How long do they let the money printing presses run each day? Normally, they destroy a certain amount of cash, then replace it with newly-printed currency. But over time, as the population grows, and industry expands, they have to increase the money supply. So they print more money. Where does that money go? Who gets it? I can see some dude named "Bill" at the money printing factory right here in Ft. Worth... Bill: "Today we printed 1,750,000 more than yesterday."Fed: "Excellent. Send it to us." I'm serious, this s**t is so mysterious as to be nearly incomprehensible. Edited January 24, 2009 by Swede
Swede Posted January 26, 2009 Posted January 26, 2009 (edited) I DESPISE dealing with web hosting, domains, and web crap in general. I have a domain registered with "Netfronts" and the actual WWW stuff resides on "LunarPages". When a domain expires, everything dies with no warning, because there is no communication between the domain people (netfronts) and the web hoster (Lunarpages). SO today when I check my home page, I see an advertisement page, and not my own web site. The worst part, all the links to photos on this site and everywhere else are now dead, so all my posts with photos look like crap. I am hacked at the complexity. So I call Netfronts. My domain expired, no warning from them. My email is down because the domain expired. Telephone call after telephone call, and I finally get the domain renewed (for 9 years this time... ) but the worst part, there's a 24 to 48 hour "delay" before my domain lives again. In the meantime, the web hosters are little help. They make this far more complicated than it needs to be. I'm just burned by it. So any pictures posted by me on this forum will be a red X for a day or two. Sorry about that. Edited January 27, 2009 by Swede
Richtee Posted January 26, 2009 Posted January 26, 2009 I'm just burned by it. So any pictures posted by me on this forum will be a red X for a day or two. Sorry about that. Perhaps "red ass" might be a better term? Yeah I had mine expire once. I-dots don't like recurring revenue or what??
Mumbles Posted January 26, 2009 Posted January 26, 2009 Usually they like selling it back to you for an increased price. A late fee, or whatever you wish to call it. Sometimes, if it's valuable, or gets a lot of hits, they will try to resell it for an outrageous price.
Brakkie Posted January 26, 2009 Posted January 26, 2009 It's the 3rd time in a row that I've missed my Krav Maga class right now. I got so much stuff to do lately it's insane. Paper this, exam that, more homework and then I got a whole range of bullsh*t here at home concerning my dad and my brother. My mind is too occupied to function properly and I feel like I'm running behind myself too much lately. It's time for some training by using the wall as a punching bag and after that, time for a stiff drink and time for bed. I need a holiday!
Richtee Posted January 26, 2009 Posted January 26, 2009 It's the 3rd time in a row that I've missed my Krav Maga class right now. I got so much stuff to do lately it's insane. Paper this, exam that, more homework and then I got a whole range of bullsh*t here at home concerning my dad and my brother. My mind is too occupied to function properly and I feel like I'm running behind myself too much lately. It's time for some training by using the wall as a punching bag and after that, time for a stiff drink and time for bed. I need a holiday! I'd not punish the wall. It's innocent, and tougher than you. ;{)
WarezWally Posted January 27, 2009 Posted January 27, 2009 (edited) I DESPISE dealing with web hosting, domains, and web crap in general. I have a domain registered with "Netfronts" and the actual WWW stuff resides on "LunarPages". When a domain expires, everything dies with no warning, because there is no communication between the domain people (netfronts) and the web hoster (Lunarpages). SO today when I check my home page, I see an advertisement page, and not my own web site. The worst part, all the links to photos on this site and everywhere else are now dead, so all my posts with photos look like crap. I am hacked at the complexity. So I call Netfronts. My domain expired, no warning from them. My email is down because the domain expired. Telephone call after telephone call, and I finally get the domain renewed (for 9 years this time... ) but the worst part, there's a 24 to 48 hour "delay" before my domain lives again. In the meantime, the web hosters are little help. They make this far more complicated than it needs to be. I'm just burned by it. So any pictures posted by me on this forum will be a red X for a day or two. Sorry about that. Heh, tell me about it, TheSidewinder posted that my email was not working as a member had tried to contact me and they were bouncing. I thought that was odd and started looking through my mailservers logs, it didnt take long to figure out that for some strange reason my web + mailserver were not playing ball. It clicked when I ran a tracert on my domain name and it resolved somewhere in the US. My domain name had expired and the useless idiots failed to even send me a single email before the fact. Dont blame your host, they had nothing to do with it, blame your slack registrar. Edited January 27, 2009 by WarezWally
Swede Posted January 27, 2009 Posted January 27, 2009 I do, but my hosting service still finds ways to p*ss me off. But amazingly, after coughing up $90 for 9 years of domain registration, my pics came up within 5 hours... usually, it's two or three days. Usually, it's credit card expiration crap that causes problems with long-term deals like these. Owning a domain is a love/hate relationship, sure.
optimus Posted January 27, 2009 Posted January 27, 2009 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7850942.stm
Brakkie Posted January 28, 2009 Posted January 28, 2009 I just quit Krav Maga, Isreali self-defense fighting. It's just too much for me right now, I got university, job, hobby, girlfriend that I visit regularly in Sweden and I need time to relax. It's just too much for me right now so sadly I had to quit. I feel so bad about it because I love it but if I think rationally, right now I'm just getting depressed cause I feel like I'm running behind myself everyday. It's time to take a step back, work less and take some time to get all my shit back in order.
Richtee Posted January 29, 2009 Posted January 29, 2009 Well, dammit... I'm driving down a side street this AM and what do I spy but 12' of fresh beautiful .25 in. thick cardboard carpet tube being hauled out of a house! Looked like 4" for sure... dammit. It's 3.5 ID. WTF is THAT??? Christ. Well, I guess I could slip it over my 3" guns for an added saftey factor against flowerpots and such... fuk.
Brakkie Posted January 29, 2009 Posted January 29, 2009 How about using 3" cardboard as casings for cilinder shells?
Richtee Posted January 29, 2009 Posted January 29, 2009 How about using 3" cardboard as casings for cilinder shells? HEY! Yanno I was soo bummed... din't even cross my mind! YAY! LOL! Yeah... I have good access to those! Wheeee!
andyboy Posted January 29, 2009 Posted January 29, 2009 Today I went to the store to buy some Powdered Shellac, both for ordinary and extraordinary uses (gonna paint a shelf I made, and paint the sky with stars made with it). I saw that they had a spray-can with shellac/whatever so I asked the guy working there if they had any Shellac flakes. -No, our supplier stopped selling it in flakes years ago, but the spray is better.-Ok, well I want the powder/flakes.-Why?-No reason, thanks anyway. Now I will have to drive 80 kilometers to get a hold of it, bullshit supplier. Selling a shitload of solvents for prices that are outrageous.
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