Yeah. For those of us who actually shop, Prime isn't that good of a deal on most things - especially when you have to pony up $119 for the "privilege" of giving your money to Amazon.
Depends on what you use Prime for.....
I find it a value still (but maybe not if it goes over $119/yr).....but I use it for:
1. "Free" 2 day shipping on most things
2. Prime Video - I watch a lot of movies/TV shows from Prime offerings included with PRIME.
3. eBooks - I like to use the PRIME ebook offerings, I look over magazines, books, etc....
4. Prime Music- I enjoy a lot of music streaming from Prime Music, I hook my phone into my car system and stream music commercial free to listen to while driving all the time.
5. Storage - Now, I don't at this time use this, but I believe it comes with a decent bit of "free" storage on Amazon cloud for photos, etc...
I believe there are other services that come with Prime too, but I find all of these to be useful and I used them and they are valuable for my annual fee for Amazon Prime.
I believe they are also offering some benefits/sales at Whole Foods for Prime members too?
If Amazon continues to pursue the medical/prescription drug aspirations, it may channel into that too.
As far as prices....I do look at Amazon's pricing on something I want, and still to date, Amazon's 3rd party sellers don't charge sales tax, so that's something to look into too. Shopping Amazon as with any other retailer, requires the customer to do a bit of homework themselves, and to weigh convenience vs pricing.
There are two cards. Yellow is for "minor" infractions, compared to "red". It doesn't matter what the minor infraction is, it's a yellow. Time wasting, tripping, grabbing a jersey, arguing with the ref, etc. Red cards are for either major infractions (deliberate attempts to injure, for example), or as a result of getting two yellow cards. You can see the difference -- if the ref immediately shows a red it's a major infraction. If he first shows yellow, then red, it's from getting two yellows.
Ok thank you!!
Question....if a person gets 2 red cards are they tossed out of the game at that point?
Or a 46 inch monitor. It can't be a TV? Hooks up to the cable box just fine.
That's pretty small these days....60" is usually the starting size for a real tv these days, especially in a living room where you may want to have a cinematic experience and have more than 2 people watching something....a football party for instance.
I agree with your post in general, but this one is confusing. Why is this a criteria for you? I personally use software far slower than Photoshop when I need to extract the maximum image quality. Speed is something that is important on a workflow level, but for Photoshop hasn't been relevant since.... well for ever.
Well, it is a factor when you're processing a LOT of images.
For instance, I shot a 4 day concert festival...and when using Adobe tools, I'd do most of my processing, the simple stuff, in LR. But when I needed to stitch a pano in a very well done fashion (I don't think LR's pano does as well as PS), you need to bring your images into PS.....or just for any other heavy lifting processing, compositing, removing stuff from images, etc....you do work faster if the PS component is faster at what it does.
Over those 4 days, I shot about 2000 image or more I think...I would have to go back and count.
Granted, I cull through those as fast as I can, rate them, select them and then start developing them. But it is still a significant number of images I need to process to make them look their best, and all tools in the process need to work as fast as possible, and not give any spinning wheels while it "thinks".
I find that the engine inside Affinity is quite a bit faster when doing some complex things than PS.
I would posit, that one change they could make that would be VERY helpful for viewers, and I'd guess the folks in the stadiums too, would be to do something to MAKE the displayed time clock on tv and the stadium BE the official time. Maybe hook the officials watch to the time displayed, etc?
Seems something that would be straightforward and helpful to game viewers, and wouldn't significantly change the game in any way.
I have to figure out what the "card" thing is...I know its a penalty of some sort, but not sure what card means what infraction.
As for the comment on the last 2 min of Football in the US...well, some of those have to do with taking final "time outs"....if they had this in soccer, to me it would make more sense, and this combined with having the field clock tied to the officials clock would be more informative and seem to have the game end in a less arbitrary fashion.
I know its a learning thing, but I think it has a lot to do with the official time not being displayed for all the viewers of the game...and rather only known to one person on the field, you know?
Yeah, I've tried watching soccer games these last couple of world matches....and while it is somewhat entertaining, the ability to finish a game tied or no score seems a bit of a let down.
I've also not figured out YET...how they time the damned things.
I've seen more than a couple of time, the clock run out...and they add more time...that ran out and they added more.
It just seemed arbitrary. First time I saw this, was a few years back when the US was in it, and I think they were leading in a game...and with all the time add ons...they ended up losing in the end.
Shouldn't time mean TIME..and when it runs out, it is over?
IN case of ties....why not a sudden death thing in soccer like with US Football?
I will admit I'm finding it more and more entertaining, but those two issues puzzle me.
True. Unfortunately Apple treats the Apple Pencil as an afterthought instead of an important usability device. Very little software really takes full advantage of it. There still isn't a quality note taking application (yes I've looked). Annotate documents? Don't make me laugh. They basically treat it as a toy for the 3 artists who actually do art on an iPad. It doesn't work well with any serious productivity applications nor does that seem likely to change. Plus the design of the Apple Pencil sucks. Round so it rolls off tables and there is no thought given to storage when not in use. There is no slot to put the thing in on the device itself. Plus it doesn't work across Apple's product line. I should be able to use it on every iPad, iPhone and Mac but Apple can't be bothered.
Well, it is a bit new to the game....I'm guessing more apps will be designed to use it, and I think it appears many of the newer iPads will come with capability for it too.
I"m not sure it would be even viable to use on a phone tho....? Too little real estate IMHO on a phone, and you'd not use it on a desktop, so to me, make sense tablet only.
I've just now been looking into note taking with iPad pro and apple pencil....these look promising:
I've been looking at Notability, and GoodNotes. From what I see on YouTube reviews, both of these seem quite powerful, you can have hand written text transformed to type, you can insert pictures, videos, sound, some allow you to record say a lecture and the audio is timed out to the writing and stuff you do on the note...etc.
You are right that it's probably a lot of work for Adobe to make it work on iPad, even to just get it working. However, don't underestimate the Photoshop market power. Lots of companies and people are stuck with it and Photoshop only has to be 'good enough' to retain those. They don't have to put in the work to make it better than the competition. Also, for any competitor, Adobe may just decide to buy it (and then either kill it off or include it in their offerings).
Good point.....
But I believe there is a pretty decent, and growing number of people out there, that haven't like the "rental" of software paradigm, along with new people not liking it, due to paying monthly money, and not getting any REAL meaningful updates, and that many of the updates pushed out have broken peoples' systems.....and that's not counting the people that get kicked off Adobe's subscription system for reasons unknown.
Adobe is powerful...AND, hey, I started on PS and really still like it, but I stopped at CS6 where I can own the perpetual license....and frankly, I've not found a compelling reason to go to Adobe CC and rent my software....I'm doing everything I need with old CS6 from time to time, and now with Affinity Photo....I do really good stuff. The Affinity engine is much faster in many areas vs Adobe Photoshop....which is due to Adobe keeping such an old engine supporting some really old methods....and just building new on top of old, rather than doing a clean redo which IMHO, is needed for PS performance.
I"m dropping off LR since it became subscription only...so far, On1 RAW 2018 is really doing the trick. I love the luminance masks it has, as well as a LOT of PS type edits you can do on it while still fully in the RAW workflow.....and it too, is non-subscription.
I'm not a graphic artist, but isn't editing photos a lot like CAD, you need precise input?
That's what the Apple Pencil is for....using that combined with and iPad Pro, works quite well, no perceptible lag, high res screen...its quite easy to work on.
You also have combination with finger presses and gestures to simulate keyboard shortcuts and the like.
Affinity Designer was just released the other day for iPad.....here's a good demo of it (skip to about 1:13 to get past the early chatty part.
Adobe PS for iPad is going to have to really go a LOOONG way to beat the current Affinity Photo for iPad Pro.
It is full functioning, one time license fee (like $14 right now), and they do periodic updates, no extra charge.
The performance is amazing, I've been lately really stretching it to do things like 11 full RAW images from my 5D3, for panos....and I did about 18 RAW image focus stacking.....and Affinity on iPad Pro handled it.
PS is really going to have to redo their engine....Affinity on desktop is often faster, so I would think they're really gonna have to redo PS if they try to put it on a tablet.
Adobe is really going to be playing catch up on this one, IMHO.
Sorry you can't comprehend that you're not brain damaged because you're a man, you're brain damaged because you were fed machismo pap as a child, and internalized it.
Real men don't have to dehumanize women in order to forgive themselves for not having a giant cock. And real men don't have to blame women for their lack of valuable communication, because they are in fact able to communicate with women, and do get value out of the interactions.
You're right that it is pretty simple, though.
Hmm...not sure where you read all that into my post.
I can readily communicate with women, if you can't, you don't get laid.
I'm just sorry I didn't learn how to talk to women and know their social cues and all at an earlier age, it sure would have made the early teen years easier.
I never said I dehumanize them, but when I first look at them, I do size them up as to how sexually attractive they are to me...that's normal male behavior.
Men and women are different, face it. They have different mental and emotional inner workings than men do, nothing wrong with that, just helps to know the differences, and what drives each sex differently.
Yes tech continues to profit off the objectification of women
It's what guys do...it is how we are wired.
I'll lay money down on it, that no guy in history, walked into a bar (cave, parlor, you name the place), looked across the room and commented..."Boy, I bet she can carry on a great conversation!!"
The first thing a guy sees in a woman, is if he'd like to fuck her or not.
Its pretty simple. There doesn't have to be love or emotion involved in it. Sure, it can be there too, but it isn't a requirement to have it be enjoyable, or desirable.
Sorry if you are female and cannot comprehend this, although some women can.
Do the HP workstations you listed have the Xeon processors (same core counts)?
Do they have 2666MHz DDR4 ECC RAM on those HP workstations you listed?
What amounts of RAM are on those base levels you listed?
And like you said it doesn't come with a 27" 5K monitor, but that could be purchased separately for the HP's. if the savings was enough.
Just wanting to compare apples to apples here (no pun intended).....do you have links for those starting HPs listed above to get an idea on how close they actually are to the iMac Pro entry level box?
Now apple can have an lower starting point with an cheaper cpu / less ram / smaller SSD.
Well, for the most part, Apple isn't going for the low end market, that area already has plenty of competitors and there's no really profit margin to be had there.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not an Apple fanboy....I do enjoy some of their products, but I also believe in the tool for the job.
I have linux boxes for things, and I often work where a windows computer is furnished and often from there I ssh in and admin linux boxes......
I just enjoy the Mac for my photography and video editing projects, and I do like that it has basically BSD unix type variant underneath the covers so when I wanna do command line on it, I can....and I really like the iPad Pro tablet I got with the pencil, It is nice and powerful for me to do some serious photo editing, digital painting, etc......which I find relaxing and fun to do when away from home. The image quality on the screen is nice to for simple movies watching, etc.
There's always a passcode if you prefer, which was true of TouchID devices as well. You can choose simply not to set up FaceID (or TouchID) and even with those you'll require a passcode at times (like after the device is powered up).
Ok, thanks for the info....
How do you get it to come up and prompt for a password if there's no home button?
mac pro is 2019 but they need to have an preview. or maybe an Imac pro with an lower starting price.
I believe the base model of the iMac pro is only bout $4999.....??
I mean, its pretty much an entry level workstation....and if you get the educational discount, which is very easy to get....you get a few $100 off that price.
Ever since the iPhone X I held off on getting an iPad Pro update specifically to get FaceID and the same gesture support for operations on an iPad. It's a vastly better way to go than the home button.
Not me, I don't want any of my electronics scanning my face....
If it doesn't have a way for me to log on without this or any other biometric logon method, I'm likely not upgrading or switching to something else, which is a shame, as that I love my current iPad pro 10.5 model.....
4) Apple still doesn't have a decent application for proper note taking with the Apple Pencil
I've been looking into Notability and Goodnotes, each of which looks pretty powerful and useful.
9) Apple Pencil is a total afterthought with basically no useful software support unless you are a digital artist focused on the iPad (useless on a Mac)
Well, aside from note taking, listed above, what would you think you would use a digital stylus for if not for artistic apps, Procreate (drawing/painting), and Affinity Photo (photo and painting), and coming out now Affinity Designer.
I mean on a real computer, I use my wacom tablet and pen for these type things....so, I'm not sure what else a pen/stylus/tablet type functionality would be use for...?
but an AR 15 like weapon, is more a semi military weapon
Ok, what makes the AR 15 so scary and non-civilian to you?
An AR is just a semi-automatic rifle. It doesn't shoot a particularly "powerful" round....it is basically a glorified.22 round, just at high velocity.
They are really no different than any other semi-automatic weapon that citizens have, they only look scary, the difference between an AR and any other semi-auto rifle are purely cosmetic.
Most all semi-auto rifles have removable magazines, fire one bullet per pull of the trigger, etc.
Most of the "assault weapon" bans they try to put through, can only target the AR by cosmetic features, not on functionality, because if they did...it would ban pretty much all modern firearms, including semi auto handguns (by the way, most murders/crime are committed with handguns).
The AR is just modular, meaning it is easier to hang things off it, flash lights, pop up sights, scopes....pistol grips. IN other words, nothing that really makes it any more dangerous that any other semi-automatic rifle.
To ban the AR, you have to ban semi-auto weapons for the most part, and I guess you're saying that US citizens shouldn't have anything more than a bolt action rifle, shotgun and less?
Do remember, back when the country formed....the musket WAS the "assault rifle" of the day, 100% on par with the military.
Thing is....the are tin foil hatters and conspiracy theorists, until the aren't.
The govt has done some things, and lied about things over the history of our country....things like the revelations in the the Pentagon papers, and MKUltra, etc.
Things that until revealed, seemed like pretty kooky and unthinkable did come out to be true.
I'm sure we don't know ALL the things that have occurred by or sanctioned by our government over the years...
You are right, and Europe is proof of it. Don't believe Europeans that tell you they have 100/100 megabit connections for 25 euro/month. All fake news. Doesn't exist. Didn't happen.
And you all pay pretty much 50% and greater in taxes annually....over half your income???
Nah, I'd rather decide myself how to spend the majority of my money, not the government.
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Well, depending on how risk adverse you are...I would consider that to possibly be a buying opportunity.
Depends on what you use Prime for.....
I find it a value still (but maybe not if it goes over $119/yr).....but I use it for:
1. "Free" 2 day shipping on most things
2. Prime Video - I watch a lot of movies/TV shows from Prime offerings included with PRIME.
3. eBooks - I like to use the PRIME ebook offerings, I look over magazines, books, etc....
4. Prime Music- I enjoy a lot of music streaming from Prime Music, I hook my phone into my car system and stream music commercial free to listen to while driving all the time.
5. Storage - Now, I don't at this time use this, but I believe it comes with a decent bit of "free" storage on Amazon cloud for photos, etc...
I believe there are other services that come with Prime too, but I find all of these to be useful and I used them and they are valuable for my annual fee for Amazon Prime.
I believe they are also offering some benefits/sales at Whole Foods for Prime members too?
If Amazon continues to pursue the medical/prescription drug aspirations, it may channel into that too.
As far as prices....I do look at Amazon's pricing on something I want, and still to date, Amazon's 3rd party sellers don't charge sales tax, so that's something to look into too. Shopping Amazon as with any other retailer, requires the customer to do a bit of homework themselves, and to weigh convenience vs pricing.
Have you actually BEEN to TX lately?!?!?
Ok thank you!!
Question....if a person gets 2 red cards are they tossed out of the game at that point?
That's pretty small these days....60" is usually the starting size for a real tv these days, especially in a living room where you may want to have a cinematic experience and have more than 2 people watching something....a football party for instance.
Well, it is a factor when you're processing a LOT of images.
For instance, I shot a 4 day concert festival...and when using Adobe tools, I'd do most of my processing, the simple stuff, in LR. But when I needed to stitch a pano in a very well done fashion (I don't think LR's pano does as well as PS), you need to bring your images into PS.....or just for any other heavy lifting processing, compositing, removing stuff from images, etc....you do work faster if the PS component is faster at what it does.
Over those 4 days, I shot about 2000 image or more I think...I would have to go back and count.
Granted, I cull through those as fast as I can, rate them, select them and then start developing them. But it is still a significant number of images I need to process to make them look their best, and all tools in the process need to work as fast as possible, and not give any spinning wheels while it "thinks".
I find that the engine inside Affinity is quite a bit faster when doing some complex things than PS.
I would posit, that one change they could make that would be VERY helpful for viewers, and I'd guess the folks in the stadiums too, would be to do something to MAKE the displayed time clock on tv and the stadium BE the official time. Maybe hook the officials watch to the time displayed, etc?
Seems something that would be straightforward and helpful to game viewers, and wouldn't significantly change the game in any way.
I have to figure out what the "card" thing is...I know its a penalty of some sort, but not sure what card means what infraction.
As for the comment on the last 2 min of Football in the US...well, some of those have to do with taking final "time outs"....if they had this in soccer, to me it would make more sense, and this combined with having the field clock tied to the officials clock would be more informative and seem to have the game end in a less arbitrary fashion.
I know its a learning thing, but I think it has a lot to do with the official time not being displayed for all the viewers of the game...and rather only known to one person on the field, you know?
I've also not figured out YET...how they time the damned things.
I've seen more than a couple of time, the clock run out...and they add more time...that ran out and they added more.
It just seemed arbitrary. First time I saw this, was a few years back when the US was in it, and I think they were leading in a game...and with all the time add ons...they ended up losing in the end.
Shouldn't time mean TIME..and when it runs out, it is over?
IN case of ties....why not a sudden death thing in soccer like with US Football?
I will admit I'm finding it more and more entertaining, but those two issues puzzle me.
Oh wow...
I never knew they had said that!!
Very interesting....
Well, it is a bit new to the game....I'm guessing more apps will be designed to use it, and I think it appears many of the newer iPads will come with capability for it too.
I"m not sure it would be even viable to use on a phone tho....? Too little real estate IMHO on a phone, and you'd not use it on a desktop, so to me, make sense tablet only.
I've just now been looking into note taking with iPad pro and apple pencil....these look promising:
I've been looking at Notability, and GoodNotes. From what I see on YouTube reviews, both of these seem quite powerful, you can have hand written text transformed to type, you can insert pictures, videos, sound, some allow you to record say a lecture and the audio is timed out to the writing and stuff you do on the note...etc.
Good point.....
But I believe there is a pretty decent, and growing number of people out there, that haven't like the "rental" of software paradigm, along with new people not liking it, due to paying monthly money, and not getting any REAL meaningful updates, and that many of the updates pushed out have broken peoples' systems.....and that's not counting the people that get kicked off Adobe's subscription system for reasons unknown.
Adobe is powerful...AND, hey, I started on PS and really still like it, but I stopped at CS6 where I can own the perpetual license....and frankly, I've not found a compelling reason to go to Adobe CC and rent my software....I'm doing everything I need with old CS6 from time to time, and now with Affinity Photo....I do really good stuff. The Affinity engine is much faster in many areas vs Adobe Photoshop....which is due to Adobe keeping such an old engine supporting some really old methods....and just building new on top of old, rather than doing a clean redo which IMHO, is needed for PS performance.
I"m dropping off LR since it became subscription only...so far, On1 RAW 2018 is really doing the trick. I love the luminance masks it has, as well as a LOT of PS type edits you can do on it while still fully in the RAW workflow.....and it too, is non-subscription.
Same here and I got Affinity Designer too...I also have both for iPad....worth every (not many) penny.
One time buy...and free updates keep coming.
I think the new Affinity Designer for iPad is on sale for like $14 right now....
That's what the Apple Pencil is for....using that combined with and iPad Pro, works quite well, no perceptible lag, high res screen...its quite easy to work on.
You also have combination with finger presses and gestures to simulate keyboard shortcuts and the like.
Affinity Designer was just released the other day for iPad.....here's a good demo of it (skip to about 1:13 to get past the early chatty part.
There's others:
Affinity Photo for iPad
Vectornator
Procreate
Adobe PS for iPad is going to have to really go a LOOONG way to beat the current Affinity Photo for iPad Pro .
It is full functioning, one time license fee (like $14 right now), and they do periodic updates, no extra charge.
The performance is amazing, I've been lately really stretching it to do things like 11 full RAW images from my 5D3, for panos....and I did about 18 RAW image focus stacking.....and Affinity on iPad Pro handled it.
PS is really going to have to redo their engine....Affinity on desktop is often faster, so I would think they're really gonna have to redo PS if they try to put it on a tablet.
Adobe is really going to be playing catch up on this one, IMHO.
Hmm...not sure where you read all that into my post.
I can readily communicate with women, if you can't, you don't get laid.
I'm just sorry I didn't learn how to talk to women and know their social cues and all at an earlier age, it sure would have made the early teen years easier.
I never said I dehumanize them, but when I first look at them, I do size them up as to how sexually attractive they are to me...that's normal male behavior.
Men and women are different, face it. They have different mental and emotional inner workings than men do, nothing wrong with that, just helps to know the differences, and what drives each sex differently.
It's what guys do...it is how we are wired.
I'll lay money down on it, that no guy in history, walked into a bar (cave, parlor, you name the place), looked across the room and commented..."Boy, I bet she can carry on a great conversation!!"
The first thing a guy sees in a woman, is if he'd like to fuck her or not.
Its pretty simple. There doesn't have to be love or emotion involved in it. Sure, it can be there too, but it isn't a requirement to have it be enjoyable, or desirable.
Sorry if you are female and cannot comprehend this, although some women can.
Do the HP workstations you listed have the Xeon processors (same core counts)?
Do they have 2666MHz DDR4 ECC RAM on those HP workstations you listed?
What amounts of RAM are on those base levels you listed?
And like you said it doesn't come with a 27" 5K monitor, but that could be purchased separately for the HP's. if the savings was enough.
Just wanting to compare apples to apples here (no pun intended).....do you have links for those starting HPs listed above to get an idea on how close they actually are to the iMac Pro entry level box?
Well, for the most part, Apple isn't going for the low end market, that area already has plenty of competitors and there's no really profit margin to be had there.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not an Apple fanboy....I do enjoy some of their products, but I also believe in the tool for the job.
I have linux boxes for things, and I often work where a windows computer is furnished and often from there I ssh in and admin linux boxes......
I just enjoy the Mac for my photography and video editing projects, and I do like that it has basically BSD unix type variant underneath the covers so when I wanna do command line on it, I can....and I really like the iPad Pro tablet I got with the pencil, It is nice and powerful for me to do some serious photo editing, digital painting, etc......which I find relaxing and fun to do when away from home. The image quality on the screen is nice to for simple movies watching, etc.
Ok, thanks for the info....
How do you get it to come up and prompt for a password if there's no home button?
I believe the base model of the iMac pro is only bout $4999.....??
I mean, its pretty much an entry level workstation....and if you get the educational discount, which is very easy to get....you get a few $100 off that price.
Not me, I don't want any of my electronics scanning my face....
If it doesn't have a way for me to log on without this or any other biometric logon method, I'm likely not upgrading or switching to something else, which is a shame, as that I love my current iPad pro 10.5 model.....
I've been looking into Notability and Goodnotes, each of which looks pretty powerful and useful.
Well, aside from note taking, listed above, what would you think you would use a digital stylus for if not for artistic apps, Procreate (drawing/painting), and Affinity Photo (photo and painting), and coming out now Affinity Designer.
I mean on a real computer, I use my wacom tablet and pen for these type things....so, I'm not sure what else a pen/stylus/tablet type functionality would be use for...?
So, are you saying in the US we could ban ALL semi-auto weapons, and only have bolt action rifles, and go back to revolvers for pistols?
Ok, what makes the AR 15 so scary and non-civilian to you?
An AR is just a semi-automatic rifle. It doesn't shoot a particularly "powerful" round....it is basically a glorified .22 round, just at high velocity.
They are really no different than any other semi-automatic weapon that citizens have, they only look scary, the difference between an AR and any other semi-auto rifle are purely cosmetic.
Most all semi-auto rifles have removable magazines, fire one bullet per pull of the trigger, etc.
Most of the "assault weapon" bans they try to put through, can only target the AR by cosmetic features, not on functionality, because if they did...it would ban pretty much all modern firearms, including semi auto handguns (by the way, most murders/crime are committed with handguns).
The AR is just modular, meaning it is easier to hang things off it, flash lights, pop up sights, scopes....pistol grips. IN other words, nothing that really makes it any more dangerous that any other semi-automatic rifle.
To ban the AR, you have to ban semi-auto weapons for the most part, and I guess you're saying that US citizens shouldn't have anything more than a bolt action rifle, shotgun and less?
Do remember, back when the country formed....the musket WAS the "assault rifle" of the day, 100% on par with the military.
The govt has done some things, and lied about things over the history of our country....things like the revelations in the the Pentagon papers, and MKUltra, etc.
Things that until revealed, seemed like pretty kooky and unthinkable did come out to be true.
I'm sure we don't know ALL the things that have occurred by or sanctioned by our government over the years...
And you all pay pretty much 50% and greater in taxes annually....over half your income???
Nah, I'd rather decide myself how to spend the majority of my money, not the government.