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Kasz216 said:
There are these things called banks....

Banks aren't looking too reliable these days. I recommend credit unions.



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As a side note, the inside of a computer can get pretty warm. If a fan went out then you might overheat your computer and burn out a few parts, but if there's a wad of paper sitting on those parts then you could be looking at a fire hazard.



famousringo said:
Kasz216 said:
There are these things called banks....

Banks aren't looking too reliable these days. I recommend credit unions.

I've got less then 100,000 grand so i'm covered by the FDIC.

Are credit unions covered by FDIC?



Well the majority of my money is in the bank. But my random spending cash is in a container at my computer desk.



cash
cache
get it?



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Esmoreit said:
Tyrannical said:
What gives them the right to contact the police, or for the police to run a check on it? Having money isn't illegal.

The same reason that there are background checks the moment you withdraw or deposit large amounts of cash. It is more common for bankrobbers and dealers to have large amounts of cash on hand then heavy old-fashioned savers.

There are specific banking laws that require that.



Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
 — Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire

famousringo said:
Kasz216 said:
There are these things called banks....

Banks aren't looking too reliable these days. I recommend credit unions.

Credit Unions ftw!



Tyrannical said:
What gives them the right to contact the police, or for the police to run a check on it? Having money isn't illegal.

By handing something over to someone, you relinquish a fair amount of your rights because its not the government who is invading your privacy.  The Fourth Amendment, for instance, only protects you from government searches, not searches done by civilians.  So if you are dumb enough to do this and they call the police, there is nothing you can do about it.



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akuma587 said:
Tyrannical said:
What gives them the right to contact the police, or for the police to run a check on it? Having money isn't illegal.

By handing something over to someone, you relinquish a fair amount of your rights because its not the government who is invading your privacy.  The Fourth Amendment, for instance, only protects you from government searches, not searches done by civilians.  So if you are dumb enough to do this and they call the police, there is nothing you can do about it.


It's not like they found child porn which they are legally required to report. They were under no legal obligation to report the money to the police, therefore they should not have done it.



Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
 — Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire

Kasz216 said:
famousringo said:
Kasz216 said:
There are these things called banks....

Banks aren't looking too reliable these days. I recommend credit unions.

I've got less then 100,000 grand so i'm covered by the FDIC.

Are credit unions covered by FDIC?


yeah, but you have to work for the government. Credit Unions ftw