How about buses, trains, boats, and airplanes?
What part of "affordable, on-demand, point to point, weather-resistant transportation" did you not understand?
NASA is almost out of Plutonium.
... and I'm almost out of ketchup. However neither has any bearing on ESA's Philae mission.
In the UK, national trading standards laws trump point-of-sale contracts in retail transactions.
Laws trump contracts pretty much everywhere and in every circumstance.
Then explain why every apartment complex will refuse cash and tell you to go get a money order to pay your rent?
There are security issues with handling, storing and transporting tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cash that the apartment complex would rather not deal with.
All seems condemned in the long run to approximate a state akin to Gaussian noise. -- James Martin