The Clock is Ticking - Will there be a Government shutdown and how to prepare?

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Quote from: TheButterZone on September 30, 2013, 05:05:41 PM

Couldn't find USPS actual opt-out in a cursory Google search.

More on this:
http://www.today.com/id/18530707/ns/today-money/t/sick-mailbox-full-flyers-credit-card-offers/
http://consumerist.com/2008/03/13/8-ways-to-opt-out-of-junk-mail-lists/

There is none. the USPS cannot stop mail that is destined for your address except in specific circumstances. One way is that if, in your mind, the material is "erotically arousing or sexually provocative" you can stop it with Form 1500 http://about.usps.com/forms/ps1500.pdf. Some people claim all the junk mail they get fits under this category since that is the only way to get the USPS to stop it.

sweet so i just have to say that all the junk mail i get is sexually arousing and therefore i cannot take delivery? gold!!

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Quote from: RoadToHell on September 30, 2013, 05:21:06 PM

I am still amazed though that the Senate democrats are willing to "bring the government to a stand-still" (their phrase, not mine) over one piece of funding.

Odd. All the House has to do is send over a simple bill saying "fund the govt". Why is that a problem? Why is Obamacare even in this discussion?

Why not put "Every American gets $10,000 in bitcoins" for that matter?

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It's ticked!

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Quote from: TheButterZone on September 29, 2013, 04:00:36 PM

Here's where to opt-out of certain junk mail supposedly: DMAchoice.org

http://blog.kamens.us/2009/09/23/dma-site-is-not-only-broken-but-insecure/

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The term "shutdown" that is being used for this charade is about as accurate as any other term used by politicians or 24x7 news outlets in need of a crisis to fill air time. The givernment is not going to shut down. Remember, these are government people that are left to determine the meaning of "non-essential services." What high-level, career government official or politician has ever believed that there are any non-essential government services? Some offices will be closed to cause political pain and some will run on reduced staff and/or hours to make a public showing.

I am still amazed though that the Senate democrats are willing to "bring the government to a stand-still" (their phrase, not mine) over one piece of funding.

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Couldn't find USPS actual opt-out in a cursory Google search.

More on this:
http://www.today.com/id/18530707/ns/today-money/t/sick-mailbox-full-flyers-credit-card-offers/
http://consumerist.com/2008/03/13/8-ways-to-opt-out-of-junk-mail-lists/

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Quote from: TheButterZone on September 29, 2013, 04:00:36 PM

Here's where to opt-out of certain junk mail supposedly: DMAchoice.org

Nothing directly from the post office, though? I think I am a little scared to give my information to these people...

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Here's where to opt-out of certain junk mail supposedly: DMAchoice.org

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Quote from: Spendulus on September 29, 2013, 01:15:20 PM

Quote from: Lazer on September 27, 2013, 10:06:29 PM

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Will the post office still deliver mail?

If a shutdown means I don't have to deal with that one inch of total trash junk spam that they bring every day...

COOL....

i hear that. moved into a new place recently and finally have a box big enough to fit most/all my mail, and then it turns out i get 5x the junk mail. wtf

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Quote from: Lazer on September 27, 2013, 10:06:29 PM

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Will the post office still deliver mail?

If a shutdown means I don't have to deal with that one inch of total trash junk spam that they bring every day...

COOL....

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They should shut down banking for a few weeks, that would be enough to get bitcoins to the mainstream.

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Quote from: CEG5952 on September 28, 2013, 03:28:15 PM

vital services

LOL!

someone mentioned services for poor, seniors, mentally ill. what about them? you laugh at them? Huh

http://archive.lewrockwell.com/orig4/ellis1.html

that's a really brilliant response, so what is your opinion, in your own words? on the above? and on the notion, as mentioned in the same post, of a "transitional infrastructure"? and what kind of a society do you want, ideally, in regards to poor, elderly, mentally and physically disabled, etc people?

Could you clarify your questions and define "transitional infrastructure"?

questions are pretty clear, honestly, and the dictionary definitions of both words, put together

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vital services

LOL!

someone mentioned services for poor, seniors, mentally ill. what about them? you laugh at them? Huh

http://archive.lewrockwell.com/orig4/ellis1.html

that's a really brilliant response, so what is your opinion, in your own words? on the above? and on the notion, as mentioned in the same post, of a "transitional infrastructure"? and what kind of a society do you want, ideally, in regards to poor, elderly, mentally and physically disabled, etc people?

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Quote from: CEG5952 on September 28, 2013, 03:28:15 PM

vital services

LOL!

someone mentioned services for poor, seniors, mentally ill. what about them? you laugh at them? Huh

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They will shut down and buy out bitcoin. Re-open with the majority of btc to use for bailouts for every undeserving individual and company that is run by govnt.

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No, just the threat of the shutdown will be used to "justify" further taxing all law-abiders closer to bankruptcy.

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Buy and sell bitcoins,

if it happens, no ones really gonna feel it. if it goes on long enough that they have to actually start cutting into vital services, it'll end pretty quick i think. we'll see, i guess, but i'm not too worried about it.

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Prepare? Did you really write that?

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Quote from: solex on September 27, 2013, 10:18:39 PM

The only thing needed is the police and judicial system. The rest of government could remain shutdown indefinitely. The economy would really grow fast without a vast bureaucratic cancerous lymphoma suffocating it.

That doesn't really work in practice. A lot of people would be screwed without proper transitional infrastructure in place. Privileged people would be fine; poor folk, seniors, at-risk kids, mentally ill..... take your pick, but fuck the economy if society looks like what it will in this scenario.

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