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Originally posted by stu55:
who is ElFuerte44 and his awful offers?

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Originally posted by -Lunch_Box-:
Magic Online should not have a concede match option! I started two or three days ago and have conceded 3 matches when I was just trying to concede the game.

It is a lot of fun and I can already tell that I am going to spend way to much money on it, but right now the interface is incredibly frustrating. A lot of times I feel that I am losing to the interface and not the actual player. Things happen to me on Magic Online that would never happen irl

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Buy 4x Delver of Secrets foil japanese on this site for 12$ ea, then post them on ebay:

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Originally posted by Volcanon:
Thats what I'm trying to say: The USPS would be best served with some tax money. It's a whole lot more useful than random wars in the middle east.

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How would that be a remotely decent idea? Making everyone pay more taxes to save a bit on stamps? Seems like an absolutely terrible idea.

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Originally posted by nderdog:
How would that be a remotely decent idea? Making everyone pay more taxes to save a bit on stamps? Seems like an absolutely terrible idea.

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When the USPS has to pay absurd amounts of money for pensions, serving outliers, and the like, you either have to choose bankruptcy for USPS (have fun FedExing a letter for $6), price hikes far above inflation, or a subsidy. Seems like a subsidy is the way to go considering that, yes, the post is still utterly necessary.

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Originally posted by Pippincro:
How to make quick buck on magic?

Buy 4x Delver of Secrets foil japanese on this site for 12$ ea, then post them on ebay:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mtg-4x-Delver-Secrets-Japanese-Foil -/250917082641?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a6bd2d611

except that 1 japanese foil went for $9 few hours before that :P

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Originally posted by Volcanon:
When the USPS has to pay absurd amounts of money for pensions, serving outliers, and the like, you either have to choose bankruptcy for USPS (have fun FedExing a letter for $6), price hikes far above inflation, or a subsidy. Seems like a subsidy is the way to go considering that, yes, the post is still utterly necessary.

The far-right in the US rant about too much taxes. It's so hard to not just laugh in their faces. The top tax bracket used to be 92%. We're at historical lows how. Where's the job creators who would apparently make jobs with tax breaks? Who wants to bet a further cut will only result in deletion of more services aimed at the poor and middle class?

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I feel like the real problem with the USPS isn't necessarily where the money should come from. I mean, in essence they're going to need some money, but the cause of the problem is their labor union. It is literally sucking them dry. Instead of laying off people who don't have anything to do, they are put on "stand by". The union contract prevents them from being fired. The company could downsize, and still stay afloat, but their labor contract has ruined them.

In my eyes, it's not a taxpayers vs. the post office battle, it's taxpayers vs. this union. Without them, the company could function properly, and it would be fine. People would lose their jobs yes, but it seems unreasonable to me that those people should keep their jobs at the country's expense.

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Originally posted by Pippincro:
How to make quick buck on magic?

Buy 4x Delver of Secrets foil japanese on this site for 12$ ea, then post them on ebay:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mtg-4x-Delver-Secrets-Japanese-Foil -/250917082641?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a6bd2d611

except that 1 japanese foil went for $9 few hours before that :P

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Originally posted by Absurd90:
Lol, I didnt get these Delvers from Slasher. I was also bidding for that Delver on ebay and was few seconds late.

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Originally posted by hilikuS:
I feel like the real problem with the USPS isn't necessarily where the money should come from. I mean, in essence they're going to need some money, but the cause of the problem is their labor union. It is literally sucking them dry. Instead of laying off people who don't have anything to do, they are put on "stand by". The union contract prevents them from being fired. The company could downsize, and still stay afloat, but their labor contract has ruined them.

In my eyes, it's not a taxpayers vs. the post office battle, it's taxpayers vs. this union. Without them, the company could function properly, and it would be fine. People would lose their jobs yes, but it seems unreasonable to me that those people should keep their jobs at the country's expense.

What should happen IMO is the USPS should try to reneg. their contract. The government bailout shouldn't be an option, forcing them to either change the contract, or the company going under, and many more losing their jobs. The fact that this government bailout sits on the table means that it's a foregone conclusion, but I don't think it's right.//politics thread stuff

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Unions can be the problem, sure, but for every union that gets busted, there goes down the drain a chunk of middle-class well-paying jobs. Which no western industrial nation really needs right now.

A lot of these problems can be traced back to employers accepting union demands without properly thinking through the consequences. Pension funds are easy to give away when your workforce is mostly young and the elderly don't live very long after retirement.

There is no evidence that USPS workers don't *deserve* the pensions they have. They rightly earned them through decades of work and their employer was more than willing to offer them pensions for years. They might have passed over better jobs because of the pensions offered. It would be fundamentally unjust to rip up collective agreements that the employers willingly entered into just because now those obligations are expensive.

Remember those teachers in WI (or wherever it was)? Now there are school boards rolling back wages, demanding far more working time, and being as petty as to take away all of their microwaves. Give one party all of the power and these sorts of things will happen.

Honestly, the best thing to do here is raise rates. US post is pretty cheap all things considered. Have a one-time fat rate hike that will cover obligations, and then pursue a fiscally prudent system afterwards. Does the US really need a community post office in every tiny town in the midwest? If the community wants one, why don't they pay for it? In Canada many post offices are part of convenience stores, even in the countryside. In Japan, many post offices are tiny.

While raising rates would suck, it is at least a better solution than taking a gift from the government IMO. Having seen Motors Liquidation, Chrysler and all the banks get saved, I fully expect something like the USPS to get saved as well.

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Originally posted by Volcanon:
When the USPS has to pay absurd amounts of money for pensions, serving outliers, and the like, you either have to choose bankruptcy for USPS (have fun FedExing a letter for $6), price hikes far above inflation, or a subsidy. Seems like a subsidy is the way to go considering that, yes, the post is still utterly necessary.

The far-right in the US rant about too much taxes. It's so hard to not just laugh in their faces. The top tax bracket used to be 92%. We're at historical lows how. Where's the job creators who would apparently make jobs with tax breaks? Who wants to bet a further cut will only result in deletion of more services aimed at the poor and middle class?

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I still don't see the point. If we're paying for the service by taxes instead of postal fees, what's the difference other than extra bureaucracy and even more wasted money. It just sounds exceptionally stupid.

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Originally posted by Pippincro:
How to make quick buck on magic?

Buy 4x Delver of Secrets foil japanese on this site for 12$ ea, then post them on ebay:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mtg-4x-Delver-Secrets-Japanese-Foil -/250917082641?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a6bd2d611

except that 1 japanese foil went for $9 few hours before that :P

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Originally posted by Mr.C:
You'll have better luck with Craigslist collections.

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Originally posted by yakusoku:
So...

The Worlds Championship for Magic is coming very soon. It's going to be held in San Francisco, which is a very short drive from where I live. My friends and I haven't made any hard plans, but I imagine that we'll be trying to go as many days as we can afford.

Anyone else planning on going?

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Ill be there. 5 days of Magic should be lots o fun, prolly will only go to 2 or 3. Im guessing it will be super busy, being in SF an and all.