We always have cash. Some local shops in Manly can't function unless you can come up with coin. Apart from note I keep about a hundred dollars of coins.
Also, remember to keep small denominations to help out.
Blinman South Australia, 'every time in rains the network goes down' as café stated. Been there twice with network down & cash only sales.
We have been in 4 situations around Australia filling up with fuel... cash works. Also in WA buying some groceries, the sales person wrote all the items down on that tried & tested cutting edge technology, paper & pencil. Worked like a piece of cake!
dogbox said
01:53 PM Nov 8, 2023
the future is here, the next generation will think it's normal.
rmoor said
02:24 PM Nov 8, 2023
dogbox wrote:
the future is here, the next generation will think it's normal.
The future generation were really amusing on TV this morning, they were LOST. No Facebook, no texting, no google maps, one young lady was lost!!! She didn't know where to go without the app. Too funny.
On trips I don't even refer to google maps or the like, I simply study my route beforehand, then drive there. Very simple, been doing that for decades. It is not complicated.
Optus will be OK, they pay Gladys a million bucks or so per annum, she will fix it, she fixed everything else.
The cashless society will be a disaster, hope we are all gone by the time this current crop of clowns institute it.
In the U.S. I always carried cash, our currency and a few hundred dollars of theirs.
Have said for years, one day, one week, the whole system will crash and people in the cities will starve and be lost. On the weekend I am building some more raised garden beds, great hobby and fresh vegies. When (not if) the whole system eventually collapses for a week or more, one will survive on one's vegie patch and just have to get out the old Les Hiddins books !!!!
peter67 said
10:14 AM Nov 9, 2023
What's the bet Optus refused to pay the hackers? on the upside maybe fewer pedestrians were bowled over yesterday by crossing roads and actually looking for oncoming traffic since their phone was in their pocket.
Gundog said
11:07 AM Nov 9, 2023
Cash are you going to take 60 grand with you when you go to buy a new car ?
Dealerships want you to get finance and insurance with them, why because the salesman get a spiv for signing you up along with extended warrenties.
Follow the trail of cash you have to go and get it bank or hole in the wall it its not bank owned theres a fee, give it to retailer they have to change on hand, then at end of day cash has to balanced, then need to be transported to a Bank either by themselves or a security service, which are all an expense of doing business, or pay a small fee for card servces. (when I was in business IWAPITA have to go to the bank daily to deposit the days takings and get change)
There are other ways for businesses to continue to trade if telco's go offline, as a business owner it's up to you to setup options with you financial insitution that best suit your needs.
Now add to the banking woes of rural Australia is loosing it's local banks and often so does the other little towns around you, which means greater costs to use banking services.
dorian said
11:17 AM Nov 9, 2023
If all of Optus's services were impacted, then how were Optus staff able to communicate with each other? Do the telcos have some kind of reciprocal redundancy agreement?
Whenarewethere said
12:34 PM Nov 9, 2023
Using Telstra network!
Vice versa if Telstra went down!
dogbox said
12:38 PM Nov 9, 2023
rmoor wrote:
dogbox wrote:
the future is here, the next generation will think it's normal.
The future generation were really amusing on TV this morning, they were LOST. No Facebook, no texting, no google maps, one young lady was lost!!! She didn't know where to go without the app. Too funny.
On trips I don't even refer to google maps or the like, I simply study my route beforehand, then drive there. Very simple, been doing that for decades. It is not complicated.
Optus will be OK, they pay Gladys a million bucks or so per annum, she will fix it, she fixed everything else.
The cashless society will be a disaster, hope we are all gone by the time this current crop of clowns institute it.
In the U.S. I always carried cash, our currency and a few hundred dollars of theirs.
Have said for years, one day, one week, the whole system will crash and people in the cities will starve and be lost. On the weekend I am building some more raised garden beds, great hobby and fresh vegies. When (not if) the whole system eventually collapses for a week or more, one will survive on one's vegie patch and just have to get out the old Les Hiddins books !!!!
you mentioned google maps, i have travelled all over the world pretty much all my life and before GPS/NAVIGATION/GOOGLE MAPS became the norm I always got to were i was going, since the GPS has become the thing to use, I have gotten lost more time than I ever did without it. even to the point of going to a place multiple times turn the GPS off an I get lost; I think it is because instead of following landmarks and remembering them you listen to the nice lady in the little box and it just doesn't register
We always have cash. Some local shops in Manly can't function unless you can come up with coin. Apart from note I keep about a hundred dollars of coins.
Also, remember to keep small denominations to help out.
Blinman South Australia, 'every time in rains the network goes down' as café stated. Been there twice with network down & cash only sales.
We have been in 4 situations around Australia filling up with fuel... cash works. Also in WA buying some groceries, the sales person wrote all the items down on that tried & tested cutting edge technology, paper & pencil. Worked like a piece of cake!
The future generation were really amusing on TV this morning, they were LOST. No Facebook, no texting, no google maps, one young lady was lost!!! She didn't know where to go without the app. Too funny.
On trips I don't even refer to google maps or the like, I simply study my route beforehand, then drive there. Very simple, been doing that for decades. It is not complicated.
Optus will be OK, they pay Gladys a million bucks or so per annum, she will fix it, she fixed everything else.
The cashless society will be a disaster, hope we are all gone by the time this current crop of clowns institute it.
In the U.S. I always carried cash, our currency and a few hundred dollars of theirs.
Have said for years, one day, one week, the whole system will crash and people in the cities will starve and be lost. On the weekend I am building some more raised garden beds, great hobby and fresh vegies. When (not if) the whole system eventually collapses for a week or more, one will survive on one's vegie patch and just have to get out the old Les Hiddins books !!!!
Cash are you going to take 60 grand with you when you go to buy a new car ?
Dealerships want you to get finance and insurance with them, why because the salesman get a spiv for signing you up along with extended warrenties.
Follow the trail of cash you have to go and get it bank or hole in the wall it its not bank owned theres a fee, give it to retailer they have to change on hand, then at end of day cash has to balanced, then need to be transported to a Bank either by themselves or a security service, which are all an expense of doing business, or pay a small fee for card servces. (when I was in business IWAPITA have to go to the bank daily to deposit the days takings and get change)
There are other ways for businesses to continue to trade if telco's go offline, as a business owner it's up to you to setup options with you financial insitution that best suit your needs.
Now add to the banking woes of rural Australia is loosing it's local banks and often so does the other little towns around you, which means greater costs to use banking services.
Using Telstra network!
Vice versa if Telstra went down!
you mentioned google maps, i have travelled all over the world pretty much all my life and before GPS/NAVIGATION/GOOGLE MAPS became the norm I always got to were i was going, since the GPS has become the thing to use, I have gotten lost more time than I ever did without it. even to the point of going to a place multiple times turn the GPS off an I get lost; I think it is because instead of following landmarks and remembering them you listen to the nice lady in the little box and it just doesn't register