and there is no fee for processing SNAP transactions on EBT cards. (It is illegal to charge sales tax or card processing fees on SNAP transactions)

most people in the U.S. use EBT cards which i don't think it will change to chip & pin soon.

If i remember correctly that kind of law were thrown out by the supreme court because of anti-trust violations. Further more, local merchants (especially in ethnic neighborhoods) have already giving discounts (by waiving sales tax and credit card fees) if you pay in cash.

Yes, like the USA for example.

There are reasons why the security guys are paid higher on average than the rest of the IT people or developers.

Here is one hotel in the bay area

http://hotelcaimanera.com/inde...

Of course given your occupation you may be dragged to the naval base nearby and have your room and meal paid for by U.S. government.

While on the opposite end, everything is peaceful, everything is a public good, there is no price tag for anything, and people are randomly executed for anything. A single entity other than yourself control your life and your destiny. You can find one such country (Hint: it is located on the Korean Peninsula.)

"don't go into debt for schooling to do anything that can be off-shored"

Well said. A manager sitting on his ass cannot be offshored. Couple a CS degree with a MBA is the way to go.

fix the issue for those who don't bother to fight.

Try it.

Yet nobody is going to bust the North Koreans. Defeat their military is so easy that it should be a privately funded effort. Apple or Google will have enough cash to form a private military that can annex NK within a week and turn it into a first single corporate-run nation-state.

China is a semi-capitalistic semi-democracy, stop hiding in the time capsule in your mom's basement.

Rule of Law is just Rule of man plus a god damn piece of paper.

The ACM and the IEEE could naturally evolved into a trade association, but you know the members are too pussy to gang up and push back.

An old Chinese saying, power is earned by those who gang up.