I'm posting under an alias because of how elementary this question is. Where is the best place to get a cashiers check for TER VIP renewal? Somehow I can't get over going into my bank and asking the tellers, who I see all the time, for a cashiers check to Warped Monkey. I know, I know, I'm a pussy.

Thanks for any responses.

you blush when buying condoms at the drug store too. Elise is correct,the postal money order will work and yes, you are a pussy.

you can purchase a money order at any local shop and rob(7/11,etc)

Good suggestions for those of us who hold discretion as the highest priority in this "hobby".

And NAUGHTIUSMAXIMUS, lighten up-you're getting too repetitive and predictable with your responses. Maybe try starting a thread sometime instead of exclusively "counter punching".

Sometimes the written word doesn't convey the intent of the author.

What do I get for the commercial?

Yes, money orders are available from the US Post Office and most liquor stores for under a $1. TER also accepts credit cards. I'm going to assume you either don't have one, refuse to use credit cards, or just refuse to use credit cards online.

Another option would be to use a debit card with VISA feature.

You can always set up a dedicated credit card for all your secret expenses.

At least the credit union I belong to, when I get a MO I fill in the "Pay to" part after I leave.

Hamsterdick and not get that NAUGHTIUSMAXIMUS was kidding.  These are mutually-exclusive...

are available at Albersons.
Go to the Customer Service desk or if no customer service desk then through any check out line, you only have to tell them the amount.
they only charge 33 cents per mo.

ML

and apologizes for his unwarranted over sensitivity. The owner of HamsteDick does enjoy the occasional dishing out of sarcasm, and understands that his temporary tantrum was unnecesary and hypocritical. HamsterDick is considering changing his alter-ego to HorseDick to attempt a little personal growth (pun intended).

We are now in the 21st century.  The internet, and international travel have made the economy a completely global marketplace.  The salient reality is that most people need to be able to compete on their own merits with workers all around the world who have their own set of skills, and possibly a much stronger work ethic than many of our own citizens.  At the most extreme, labor unions could turn a country into France, with a 35 hour work week, and businesses fleeing the country at record rates, and chronic 10-15% unemployment.  I guarantee you that there are millions of folks just 30 miles away in Mexico who would HAPPILY work harder, for 1/4 as much money, than most Americans.  Now the fact is, most of those Mexicans do not have the education that most of us Americans do.  So we darn well better be USING those skills, or we will be displaced.

Is your name Sam Walton?

France's unemployment rate is more relative to it's immigration policies and its tax system than to its unions.

As far as Mexicans working cheaper than Americans, why stop there?  Send it to China, or Vietnam, or fucking Outer Mongolia or Namibia, for that matter...those guys work REAL cheap.  Oh, wait...it is already being done!  Oh, too bad for those Mexicans who thought they might be able to better themselves.  Hey, maybe they should move to China?

If we continue to make people simple commodities, just see how long it takes until our glorious capitalist experiment goes that way of the Roman Empire, and this time, because our tentacles are so deeply entrenched in other countries pockets, we will take the world into another depression.

There are only so many markets that you can fleece before you have to look at the economy of people instead of the economy of things.  

Oh, by the way, Jesus Christ was soooo long ago...just like James Madison, Martin Luther King, Aristotle, Thomas Edison, William Shakespeare, Isaac Newton, Benjamin Franklin...and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, just in case you forgot what a real leader in Washington looked like.


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The big fear of labor these days is that globalization of the workforce will cause a "hollowing out" of the American middle-class. A simple analogy might be a SD contractor in a truck stopping at a 7-11 in North County, shouting out that he wants day-labor at the lowest possible rate. You will find undocumented, illegals climbing on board, but not U.S. citizens. Now imagine that an American corporation is doing the same thing, but instead is hearing from workers all over the world bidding for the jobs. Garrett Hardin predicted that this would ultimately lead to the impoverishment of the American workforce in the "Tragedy of the Commons".

As cited by Mr. Self-Destruct, this has already happened with U.S. manufacturing jobs, in which "blue-collar" jobs have been exported wholesale to countries like China. But there's a more insidious form of global competition spurred on by the Internet, which could similarly decimate the professional "white-collar" workers who tend to populate these boards. Initially, these out-sourced jobs have been low-level clerical, back-office workers. But more recently, they involve managers, accountants, underwriters, computer programmers, IT consultants, biotechnicians, architects, designers and corporate lawyers. Or, in other words, people a lot like you and me.

How could this come about? Interestingly, largely because of the colonization policies of the United Kingdom, which imposed British culture, laws and language on India, but also kept the country in poverty by marginalizing their manufacturing to low-value goods. Now, India has a well-trained, English-speaking population, just dying to take jobs at 1/10th the labor costs charged here in the U.S. American corporations are tripping over themselves outsourcing jobs to India and other countries. One wonders what degree of retraining and "being on the bounce" will save these jobs for U.S. workers?

There is a "good" news, "bad" news side to this story for this board. The "good" news is that providers can never be outsourced over the internet, no matter how good the internet gets. The "bad" news is that their unemployed clients may no longer able to afford them.


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So you had better learn how to compete globally.  And, yes, that is not only the case with unskilled labor, but also with managerial professionals like myself.  I am ready and able to compete on my own merits in the global marketplace, based on my skills.  In the long run, everyone will have to, so you might as well prepare for it.  In the grand order of things, an unskilled American is not entitled to a better existence than an unskilled Mexican or an unskilled Chinese person, merely by the luck of their birth location.  It's becoming a globally Hobbesian world out there.  The only way you will get a better standard of living than the next person is by contributing more to the global economy than that next person can, or by having the force capable of holding back the equilibrium.   I DO believe that in the long run, the use of force to alter the move toward equilibrium will fail, just as it did in Rome two millenia ago.