From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: info-find-source Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 20:46:14 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86tvvmdhx5.fsf@zoho.com> References: <86tvvufeh0.fsf@zoho.com> <86a7xlezm7.fsf@zoho.com> <86shbcdpr5.fsf@zoho.com> <86po6eke67.fsf@zoho.com> <86inc6kbyb.fsf@zoho.com> <867esmk28h.fsf@zoho.com> <866084eynp.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1516045717 24631 195.159.176.226 (15 Jan 2018 19:48:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 19:48:37 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 15 20:48:33 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ebAk9-0005vz-HJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Jan 2018 20:48:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58383 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ebAm9-00059O-C1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:50:33 -0500 X-Received: by 10.223.174.201 with SMTP id y67mr3975384wrc.4.1516045576178; Mon, 15 Jan 2018 11:46:16 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!o189no4331514wme.0!news-out.google.com!k126ni104387wmg.0!nntp.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 42 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: zRXoCvQ6k9fneBfYPnB6lQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:5vgYRsc4vqEuWIw5SrjbfMiXZ+U= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:221622 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:115739 Archived-At: Marcin Borkowski wrote: > Well, I do stuff in Emacs all the time... You don't say... > No, and neither were cheques. Cheques were > never very popular in Poland, I think. (Maybe > before WW2...?) I remember using them to get > cash from my bank account before using > plastic cards, but that's pretty much it. > > I hear cheques are pretty popular in the US, > which is yet another proof that it's one of > the weirdest places on Earth. (Not > necessarily in a bad sense in this case - > although I consider cash superior to cheques, > they may be superior to credit cards, which > are among the worst of humanity's inventions. > I do not own one, and I do not plan to own > one ever in my life.) I don't know how cheques work but people use them so they must serve some purpose. Here, credit cards are now legio and people pay everything with them. A couple of years ago there were a bunch of spectacular armed robberies in Sweden, one involving a helicopter dropping people on the roof of a cash deposit for example, and more such stuff, involving people both from the Swedish "disorganized crime" and from Serbian gangsters who snapped from/during all their wars. Anyway since then, and partly because of that, almost the entire society has abandoned cash, and that kind of crime doesn't happen anymore. So that is one benefit, at least. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573