I'm going back and searching now but I seem to remember that the 4k credit was a different thing alltogether. My understanding is that there are two things here:
1) A required community service 2) An optional community service that provides tax credit or school credit.
Actually I have read the site several times now. The voluntary service in exchange for credit is an entirely different proposal.
Again, the EXACT quote:
"Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year"
How is it not clear that he's developing a plan that will require you to work the 50/100 hours in community service? It says it RIGHT there.
The first part might as well not be there. Let me provide an example:
"I'm calling on you to serve for jury duty by requiring you to serve for jury duty."
The calling really makes no difference in the matter. The requirement is how he is planning on on "calling on people".
As I said elsewhere on another forum, everyone should read the positions linked at the bottom. Some of them are reasonable, some are scary and some (at the expense of Godwin being invoked) sound like they came right out of Nazi germany (Youth Corp this, Foobar Corps that).
The only ones I've found so far that bother me the most are the:
1) mandatory public service for students 2) providing us tax dollars to Iraq's neighbors to help them deal with refugees. 3) all of the "corps"
That sucks about the 3 tracks. That's the type of stuff I would want to play the most. Then again, while I've been impressed with the Ozzy cover vocalist, I just cannot imagine how bad a Bruce Dickenson cover vocalist would be. It would be like trying to cover Geddy Lee.
Some things are better left to the original artists;)
Interesting because I see DLC as the true replay value. I'm not up to snuff on costs for the DLC but for me, the value of not having to swap game disks to get new content is more valuable.
Yeah I came to the same conclusion (w.r.t to Wii). I got the Wii for free (sort of...Capital One miles) but I just could NOT justify buying RB or GH for the Wii without REAL dlc. That's where the replay value is.
And honestly, it looks better on the 360. Then again it looks even BETTER on the PS3 but I'm not shelling out that kind of cash.
I just want to have 2 guitars, 1 drum and 1 mike that works for both. With all the baby toys laying around, I don't have space for two sets of kit;)
With the Circuit City closing and my son being a little bit older (i.e. actually sleeping through the night now), I actually could justify buying a 360. I already had a wii but the state of DLC on the Wii made me want to get a 360 for RB2 and GH:WT.
My understanding is that everything is compatible between RB2 and GH:WT. But what about RB1?
As a side question, is the DLC for RB1 available for RB2? There were some good trackpacks I want to get but I'm not buying RB1 if the instrument compatibility isn't there.
And one more side question (last one), has anyone heard any plans from Activision to release a standalone drum kit? I only bought the guitar version of WT. I'm not spending 300 bucks on the Ion kit.
And that's why it's a fallacy to try and spread "Democracy" anywhere in the world. We're not a democracy. The founding fathers had harsh things to say about democracy.
Yet we seem bound and determined to spread something so broken as democracy to the rest of the world and wonder why it bites us in the ass every single time.
Shit. There are 5-man DK groups running with 1 frost tank and 4 bloods. The healing alone from the bloods is enough to get through the non-70 instances.
Same thing happened this year. I have no intention of voting for McCain and I'm no supporter of the Republican party but it's obvious that the crackdown wasn't ENTIRELY unwarranted (pun intended).
I agree. I'm one of those people who has the common sense to understand the tradeoff of salary vs. hourly.
EVERY salaried job I've ever had, came with "perks". It could be the understanding that, if I had a long night at the datacenter, I didn't have to come in the next day or two. It's been "let's do this crunch and then everyone gets time off for a few days".
If I didn't like it, I left. I've done it before and I'll do it again.
I can't think of anything MORE immoral than someone telling you that you don't have the freedom to negotiate a contract on your own terms with another adult.
Well I think it's a bit extreme to suggest that I want more casualties in Iraq or some sort of pandemic.
Yes, it would hurt the "poor" most but I don't play class warfare and I don't really give a damn about who's going to be impacted because in the end we all will be if something isn't done.
The poor (whatever way we deign to define that term), always have it rough and always will. Being poor is expensive.
Oh no! That would be un-American to suggest that the most logical and simple solution that can have the biggest impact in the shortest amount of time makes ANY sense.
Media scare-mongering has nothing to do with those of us who feel the US has had an irresponsible energy policy for decades now - completely relying on foreign oil production while shunning home-grown alternatives. This includes wind, solar, biofuels, and other 'green' sources, but it's also stupid to overlook our own domestic oil production, such as off-shore drilling in the gulf and in Alaska. We're still very much reliant upon oil, a fact which is not likely to change for the next 20-40 years no matter what our current intentions are, or what investments we make in alternative sources of energy. Additionally, there's natural gas production, coal (we have the technology to produce clean-burning coal plans now), and nuclear power which are all real, viable power production systems that we could start building tomorrow.
Sales taxes and incentives will not solve a fundamental supply issue on such a massive scale, so I don't see a point with punishing consumers even more than the current gas prices are already doing. No, I don't believe people are under the delusion that this will be solved immediately, but given that it's going to take a while to actually get fixed, I can see why people are anxious to see a real energy plan get underway instead of political pandering to various constituency groups to which politicians are beholden to (extreme environmentalists on one side, and big oil on the other).
I'm sorry but I'm going to have to say that I hope gas prices reach $10/gallon and higher. Maybe then something will be done.
Let me say this. I don't support the bogus "windfall profit tax" crap. I don't think it's the government's job to keep gas prices low. I support nuclear energy but not drilling for more oil. In fact, I don't support ANY fossil fuel expansion at this point. It's a limited resource. It's going to run dry. The problem isn't foreign oil. The problem is oil as a whole. Drilling in ANWAR or oil-shale or off-shore isn't going to make a lick of difference because the oil market doesn't conform to normal capitalistic "rules".
Regardless of how long it takes or not to get the oil up and into our cars, the Middle Eastern oil companies have a captive audience in China and India and there is no motivation to lower the prices. Flooding the market with US oil does nothing to lower that price either since we seem to have no gumption to reduce our consumption here in the states. As soon as gas prices go back down, people will start buying SUVs again and Detroit will shelve all of the fuel efficient projects they might have going now. It wouldn't make financial sense to anything other than that.
We've had 30 years roughly to think about this issue. Since Carter and not a damn thing has been done. Every time someone floated ideas about conservation or alternative energy, they were summarily dismissed as being a anti-capitalist hippy.
And let's not forget that even IF we got the drilling restrictions lifted and started getting more oil out there, all of these figures assume our current rate of growth. That's just stupid. The amount of shit grows to fill the bucket. It's just some sort of unwritten law of physics. Cheap oil causes MORE growth thus making the supply last even less longer.
And honestly, gas is the least of our concerns. We have alternate fuel sources and methods for getting us from point A to point B. There are a lot of other things made from petroleum that we DON'T have replacements for. Medical plastics and other things. I don't want to have a catheter shortage just because billy bob had to have the biggest SUV he could find.
There seems to be this sentiment today that we shouldn't have to make sacrifices as citizens. And then I look at posters from WW2 that show Hitler driving a car and wonder how that would fly today.
I'm not a hippie. I'm not a liberal. I'm not a republican. I'm not an environmentalist. I'm a realist.
As for the Duplicomatic 3000, if we had that there would be no need for work now would there be, so no stores, no money, no government. Nothing. Singularity Sky - Charles Stross
I don't understand people using tuner cards anymore. There is a much more elegant solution that "just works" and can keep the requirements on the system itself down:
I've been using this for about a year now to power my myth setup. I have a myth server in the basement and a frontend upstairs and aside from needing to isolate the network traffic from the frontend to the backend, it works swimmingly.
Unrelated to your question, I never expected to see a Steve Taylor quote on Slashdot. Bannerman is not one my favorite songs (more of a pre-Squint kind of guy) but Squint was a good album.
I STILL have the tribute album in regular rotation on the iAudio.
Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not but from a pure time wasting and proactive security standpoint, it makes perfect sense. I can't think of one site that uses flash for something that is actually productive or necessary to most core business functions. Sounds like an easy way to block the myriad video sites that pop up left and right.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm going back and searching now but I seem to remember that the 4k credit was a different thing alltogether. My understanding is that there are two things here:
1) A required community service
2) An optional community service that provides tax credit or school credit.
Two separate plans.
Actually I have read the site several times now. The voluntary service in exchange for credit is an entirely different proposal.
Again, the EXACT quote:
"Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year"
How is it not clear that he's developing a plan that will require you to work the 50/100 hours in community service? It says it RIGHT there.
The first part might as well not be there. Let me provide an example:
"I'm calling on you to serve for jury duty by requiring you to serve for jury duty."
The calling really makes no difference in the matter. The requirement is how he is planning on on "calling on people".
Okay wow. While I'm not likely to buy Guitar Praise anytime soon, I would love to have access to The Crucified's catalog. Or Mortal for that matter.
Not my lifestyle anymore but the music is still topnotch.
In the U.S, we call it slavery.
If you have trouble parsing that sentence then English must not be your first language.
He's calling on all citizens of all ages to serve by requiring them to work 50/100 hours of community service.
At that point, it's not even a call. To say he's "calling on citizens" is a flat out lie. He's developing a plan to ORDER them to work.
As I said elsewhere on another forum, everyone should read the positions linked at the bottom. Some of them are reasonable, some are scary and some (at the expense of Godwin being invoked) sound like they came right out of Nazi germany (Youth Corp this, Foobar Corps that).
The only ones I've found so far that bother me the most are the:
1) mandatory public service for students
2) providing us tax dollars to Iraq's neighbors to help them deal with refugees.
3) all of the "corps"
That sucks about the 3 tracks. That's the type of stuff I would want to play the most. Then again, while I've been impressed with the Ozzy cover vocalist, I just cannot imagine how bad a Bruce Dickenson cover vocalist would be. It would be like trying to cover Geddy Lee.
Some things are better left to the original artists ;)
Interesting because I see DLC as the true replay value. I'm not up to snuff on costs for the DLC but for me, the value of not having to swap game disks to get new content is more valuable.
Yeah I came to the same conclusion (w.r.t to Wii). I got the Wii for free (sort of...Capital One miles) but I just could NOT justify buying RB or GH for the Wii without REAL dlc. That's where the replay value is.
And honestly, it looks better on the 360. Then again it looks even BETTER on the PS3 but I'm not shelling out that kind of cash.
I just want to have 2 guitars, 1 drum and 1 mike that works for both. With all the baby toys laying around, I don't have space for two sets of kit ;)
the instrument compatibility state right now?
With the Circuit City closing and my son being a little bit older (i.e. actually sleeping through the night now), I actually could justify buying a 360. I already had a wii but the state of DLC on the Wii made me want to get a 360 for RB2 and GH:WT.
My understanding is that everything is compatible between RB2 and GH:WT. But what about RB1?
As a side question, is the DLC for RB1 available for RB2? There were some good trackpacks I want to get but I'm not buying RB1 if the instrument compatibility isn't there.
And one more side question (last one), has anyone heard any plans from Activision to release a standalone drum kit? I only bought the guitar version of WT. I'm not spending 300 bucks on the Ion kit.
And that's why it's a fallacy to try and spread "Democracy" anywhere in the world. We're not a democracy. The founding fathers had harsh things to say about democracy.
Yet we seem bound and determined to spread something so broken as democracy to the rest of the world and wonder why it bites us in the ass every single time.
Shit. There are 5-man DK groups running with 1 frost tank and 4 bloods. The healing alone from the bloods is enough to get through the non-70 instances.
70 prot pally - shandris tank wtf!
WTF? You too? Do I even wanna ask what your toon name is?
http://www.nypost.com/seven/09022008/news/nationalnews/protest_turns_into_mini_riot_127101.htm
Same thing happened this year. I have no intention of voting for McCain and I'm no supporter of the Republican party but it's obvious that the crackdown wasn't ENTIRELY unwarranted (pun intended).
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch."
-- Benjamin Franklin
And has our educational system gotten so bad that people think the US is a democracy? We're a federal republic, people.
I agree. I'm one of those people who has the common sense to understand the tradeoff of salary vs. hourly.
EVERY salaried job I've ever had, came with "perks". It could be the understanding that, if I had a long night at the datacenter, I didn't have to come in the next day or two. It's been "let's do this crunch and then everyone gets time off for a few days".
If I didn't like it, I left. I've done it before and I'll do it again.
I can't think of anything MORE immoral than someone telling you that you don't have the freedom to negotiate a contract on your own terms with another adult.
Well I think it's a bit extreme to suggest that I want more casualties in Iraq or some sort of pandemic.
Yes, it would hurt the "poor" most but I don't play class warfare and I don't really give a damn about who's going to be impacted because in the end we all will be if something isn't done.
The poor (whatever way we deign to define that term), always have it rough and always will. Being poor is expensive.
I didn't realize until recently, that CAFE standards were for the ENTIRE fleet of vehicles sold by a manufacturer. That blew my mind.
It's really just an example of how useless government is in most situations.
Oh no! That would be un-American to suggest that the most logical and simple solution that can have the biggest impact in the shortest amount of time makes ANY sense.
You lose the interwebz.
Media scare-mongering has nothing to do with those of us who feel the US has had an irresponsible energy policy for decades now - completely relying on foreign oil production while shunning home-grown alternatives. This includes wind, solar, biofuels, and other 'green' sources, but it's also stupid to overlook our own domestic oil production, such as off-shore drilling in the gulf and in Alaska. We're still very much reliant upon oil, a fact which is not likely to change for the next 20-40 years no matter what our current intentions are, or what investments we make in alternative sources of energy. Additionally, there's natural gas production, coal (we have the technology to produce clean-burning coal plans now), and nuclear power which are all real, viable power production systems that we could start building tomorrow.
Sales taxes and incentives will not solve a fundamental supply issue on such a massive scale, so I don't see a point with punishing consumers even more than the current gas prices are already doing. No, I don't believe people are under the delusion that this will be solved immediately, but given that it's going to take a while to actually get fixed, I can see why people are anxious to see a real energy plan get underway instead of political pandering to various constituency groups to which politicians are beholden to (extreme environmentalists on one side, and big oil on the other).
I'm sorry but I'm going to have to say that I hope gas prices reach $10/gallon and higher. Maybe then something will be done.
Let me say this. I don't support the bogus "windfall profit tax" crap. I don't think it's the government's job to keep gas prices low. I support nuclear energy but not drilling for more oil. In fact, I don't support ANY fossil fuel expansion at this point. It's a limited resource. It's going to run dry. The problem isn't foreign oil. The problem is oil as a whole. Drilling in ANWAR or oil-shale or off-shore isn't going to make a lick of difference because the oil market doesn't conform to normal capitalistic "rules".
Regardless of how long it takes or not to get the oil up and into our cars, the Middle Eastern oil companies have a captive audience in China and India and there is no motivation to lower the prices. Flooding the market with US oil does nothing to lower that price either since we seem to have no gumption to reduce our consumption here in the states. As soon as gas prices go back down, people will start buying SUVs again and Detroit will shelve all of the fuel efficient projects they might have going now. It wouldn't make financial sense to anything other than that.
We've had 30 years roughly to think about this issue. Since Carter and not a damn thing has been done. Every time someone floated ideas about conservation or alternative energy, they were summarily dismissed as being a anti-capitalist hippy.
And let's not forget that even IF we got the drilling restrictions lifted and started getting more oil out there, all of these figures assume our current rate of growth. That's just stupid. The amount of shit grows to fill the bucket. It's just some sort of unwritten law of physics. Cheap oil causes MORE growth thus making the supply last even less longer.
And honestly, gas is the least of our concerns. We have alternate fuel sources and methods for getting us from point A to point B. There are a lot of other things made from petroleum that we DON'T have replacements for. Medical plastics and other things. I don't want to have a catheter shortage just because billy bob had to have the biggest SUV he could find.
There seems to be this sentiment today that we shouldn't have to make sacrifices as citizens. And then I look at posters from WW2 that show Hitler driving a car and wonder how that would fly today.
I'm not a hippie. I'm not a liberal. I'm not a republican. I'm not an environmentalist. I'm a realist.
I don't understand people using tuner cards anymore. There is a much more elegant solution that "just works" and can keep the requirements on the system itself down:
http://www.silicondust.com/wiki/products/hdhomerun
I've been using this for about a year now to power my myth setup. I have a myth server in the basement and a frontend upstairs and aside from needing to isolate the network traffic from the frontend to the backend, it works swimmingly.
Unrelated to your question, I never expected to see a Steve Taylor quote on Slashdot. Bannerman is not one my favorite songs (more of a pre-Squint kind of guy) but Squint was a good album.
I STILL have the tribute album in regular rotation on the iAudio.
Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not but from a pure time wasting and proactive security standpoint, it makes perfect sense. I can't think of one site that uses flash for something that is actually productive or necessary to most core business functions. Sounds like an easy way to block the myriad video sites that pop up left and right.
It's actually *turn your head and cough* porn. It's a medical fetish. Something about old men with cold hands. I dunno.