Yea but there is like 3 tickets available per train. Trains and flights are fairly comparable. But trains don't get that expensive for last minute travel. I use the trains a lot in fact.

No.. We do these transactions with people I don't know all the time. And its fine. Last time i got a cell phone for my daughter, I am in Switzerland she is NZ the seller was some guy in a different city in NZ. We didn't need to see each other and use cash. We had no reason to trust each other.

And if you don't trust someone, meeting them in person makes them no more trustworthy. How many mile on the clock on that car? Was it really looked after etc. Sooner or later you just have to trust. And mostly that works out. Cash does not fix or change that.

Not the current ones. 20mins for a transaction to "accept"?

In NZ this problem was fixed by providing a "NZ peoples bank". Really just a government bank. Since welfare and everything is only via direct debit, even the bankrupt need to be able to have accounts.

Its soo cute that you think cash makes your transactions anonymous.

I pay no fees for my direct debit card. And transfers within the same country are also free. In fact the only fees i get are from Visa when i use that.

Trade me in NZ has been doing with direct transfers since forever. And the only scams i hear about with Ebay are via Paypal.

Yet some countries are almost entirely cashless. I wasn't using cash at all in NZ when i left in 2006. Sure you can. But almost nobody does.

Yea, even here in the EU, "not available in your area" is stupid. I can post a DVD around the world in under a week. Why would i wait 6 months for shows and movies to be finally released here? Bittorrent is available in all areas.

Well all DVD players where sold with the "how to unzone your DVD player" card. My last DVD player (2005 or something), I had to press eject, press up 3 times, the volume down once, press 3 then eject 2 more times. Then it magically became region 0 or region free.

The only people breeding are the poor people.

Name one that doesn't.

Why is that when the topic is Climate change, no scientist can ever be wrong or corrupt. But on every other topic they are apparently soo stupid on their own field of expertise random internets people think they worked it all out. Without showing any working I mite add.

Seriously, run the numbers, a gas planet will still have the bulk of its mass as helium and hydrogen. It not that close and these stars are not that hot.

There are very real thermodynamic reasons why a nano tube cable strong enough could be impossible. There has been published papers on it. Also bulk material is *always* much weaker than the material atomic bond strength.

New Scientist is NOT peer reviewed. It is in fact full of quite a lot of crap.