I was totally oblivious to the whole thing. Ignorance can be bliss.
Anyone Have Problems with the Microsoft IT Outage?
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I’ve spent the last several days doing manual labor around the property. The shovel and rake worked OK. Didn’t know that there was a problem until I made the mistake of checking the news.
I always say technology makes things convenient until it doesn't.
They say manual labor is healthy for you.
I'm more of an idea man myself, but good for you...I like to see the common people being productive!
This article sums up how I feel about the idea of a "cashless society".
The GMB Union said the outage reinforced what it had been saying for years: that “cash is a vital part of how our communities operate”. “When you take cash out of the system, people have nothing to fall back on, impacting on how they do the everyday basics.”
Authorities in China and the US have fined businesses for not accepting cash. Delnevo said the UK should have a law requiring all businesses to take cash.
www.theguardian.com
The GMB Union said the outage reinforced what it had been saying for years: that “cash is a vital part of how our communities operate”. “When you take cash out of the system, people have nothing to fall back on, impacting on how they do the everyday basics.”
Authorities in China and the US have fined businesses for not accepting cash. Delnevo said the UK should have a law requiring all businesses to take cash.
Global IT outage shows dangers of cashless society, campaigners say
Cash provides essential fallback when digital payments break down, Payment Choice Alliance points out
www.theguardian.com
IMO, going to purchase something is probably the smallest inconvenience of what happened. The amount of manufacture, infrastructure and logistics that the everyday person never sees really is where the beating was taken. Not being able to buy something on a credit card is more of a surface scratch to the entire thing.
Yes, manual labor makes me feel at one with the struggle of the proletariat, despite the fact they they still refuse to talk to me.
Was that why my pipe kept going out?
Mmmmm…. Watery Tarts.I can imagine you and brian64 having this conversation
I work in a bank.
The problem was quite simple, but it had to be solved machine by machine. You had to go into drivers and delete the update.
The ATMs and self-service terminals, which also dispense money, worked because they run under Linux. The stores' posnets worked correctly.
The Bank App worked perfectly.
Money issued without gold support is already s..t, because it allows the issuer of money to issue money without an economic activity that supports it and generates inflation. If we add to that a cashless society, not only is the above, but it will enable the issuer of money to know how people spend their money, which is a gigantic invasion of privacy.
Just one more reason to be happy I abandoned using Windows when Windows 2.0 was released, and we spent more of our work day rebooting the machines than we got to spend actually working.
Wonder how things went for those invested heavily into imaginary money since they don't trust fiat money.
Wonder how things went for those invested heavily into imaginary money since they don't trust fiat money.
CBDCs would empower their micromanagement of your spending. Limits on fuel purchases, blocks on tobacco products, even limits on the zone in which you can buy. 15km radius, anyone? It was touted as a possible use of that technology and every bank voted for it.
For this, paper must be eliminated (there is no need to underestimate people's ability and inventiveness to go under the table), but that is protected by law all over the world.
We must be careful that laws are not passed that make physical money not legal tender.
That's why the bill says "valid for all debts." It is illegal for a debt or purchase to not be paid in bills, that should not change.
Me, too, thought glad I wasn't trying to fly anywhere.
