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AusGAF IV - A No Hope, Government - Double the price, region locked and now adults
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ClivePwned
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play-asia needs to get into digital delivery more. Imagine play-asia pricing and DD games!
Finally got iView to work, and have caught up with QANDA. iek was amazing, as I expected. Here is a goddamn amazing interview with the bloke from a few years ago, with some pearlers of wisdom like
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It absolutely should have it's own browser, and would remove many of the frustrations I have with the current implementation.
Nice. I'll add the azzurri, blurgh.
Something I overheard Rob on about this morning was how the taxation system in Australia would benefit greatly from it being simplified. There is something like 115 'inefficient taxes' that could be done away with, and no revenue lost by increasing the GST by a mere 1% or 2%. I think Windsor may have even said that.
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Kritz said:
It absolutely should have it's own browser, and would remove many of the frustrations I have with the current implementation.
RandomVince said:
Nice. I'll add the azzurri, blurgh.
Fredescu said:
Something I overheard Rob on about this morning was how the taxation system in Australia would benefit greatly from it being simplified. There is something like 115 'inefficient taxes' that could be done away with, and no revenue lost by increasing the GST by a mere 1% or 2%. I think Windsor may have even said that.
Eh? PAYG is a progressive tax by definition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_taxChoc said:
"A progressive tax is a tax by which the tax rate increases as the taxable base amount increases."
I like how you seem to think companies and businesses will suddenly go on hiring splurges simply because a tax is removed. Not that they will just pocket the profit like companies do all the time >_<? the US cut tonnes of taxes in its recent packages to try and spur growth. What happened? More lay offs, more company profit bonanzas while they sit on ever increasing funds.
Also 'look at NZ!' has never been a good argument!
Also 'look at NZ!' has never been a good argument!
markot said:
NZ's carbon tax is better than our current proposed model as well. And the people like it.........
if you're a company with 20 employees sitting on 1.4 million wage bill and know if you hit 1.5 you have to pay tax, are you going to hire that extra 1 or 2 people
nope.
That's the point. There is a tax which is stopping employers hiring people. It also stops companies giving people pay rises they deserve and in line with CPI
you know why QANTAS etc is in this shitfight at the moment? Payroll Tax. They pay the Baggage handlers more? they pay more payroll tax.
Alternately you could have payroll tax controlled at the federal level if they really think they need it to reign in wages (haha good fucking job, i mean look at mining it sure fucking worked there didn't it) instead of a situation where a company starting and hiring in one state pays less or more tax based on that fact...
It's bloody stupid.
What is also stupid is how fucking complex payroll tax is. If you go into Queensland and work there for more than 2 days on behalf of your employer, your employer is then liable for payroll tax in that state for those 2 days worked if the wage bill is higher than the QLD limit
its fucking shit like this. The most progressive thing this nation could do is abolish state governments. WOFTAM and just create problems. Australia is over governed.
the reason why the US slashes failed was it did not REMOVE the tax it only reduced the rate. So they still had to pay the tax....
Anything tax is complicated! I went to an ato interview last year and the test they gave me on tax was the most confusing shit I've ever seen.
Also, I don't think tax has anything to do with whether a company is willing to hire more. It's more to do with economic outlook etc. I have nothing to back that up though:lol
Also, I don't think tax has anything to do with whether a company is willing to hire more. It's more to do with economic outlook etc. I have nothing to back that up though:lol
Choc isn't talking about decreasing the company tax or whatever crazy shit the Tea Partiers want in the US. Even the Unions want to get rid of Payroll tax: http://www.smh.com.au/national/scrap-payroll-tax-say-unions-20111003-1l5dx.html
roosters93
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I thought they stopped making Guitar Hero.
jambo said:
Besides the elephant in the room of "party games", you could probably go with something Harmonix instead of Neversoft(or whoever)'s shitty attempts at recreating Guitar Hero 2.
It's too bad my enthusiasm with plastic instrument peripheral games dried up at the same time everyone else's did, because some part of me still wants to play Rockband 2 and 3.
I don't have any matesjambo said:
It's still good to do. When I feel like listening to something that gives my dexterity a workout without having to think about anything more than reflexes, I'll fire it up. Only on medium, though.Kritz said:
Shame I never got much use out of the keyboard, though. Fuck having to buy the Queen set again just to use it :/
markot said:
Everyone knows The Beatles killed off the genre, because from there, it had nowhere to go but down.
Is the first positive thing I've said about any game today.
Shaneus said:
I've found my ability to play on Hard still remains quite solid. The jump to Expert was always too much for me, though. I think for some people it becomes a "riding a bike" thing where muscle memory just kicks in and does everything for you.
Also known as the "why I can no longer play Tony Hawk games after Skate" syndrome. ... another "EA is better than Activision" thing, too!
Kritz said:
I have Rock Band 1, 2 and 3 as well, it's just there are some great songs that are GH exclusive, like the Rush set in GH Warriors of Rock.
Had some mates over yesterday and all we played was Rock Band 2 and 3, the keyboard stuff is awesome when you have people on guitar and bass. So much fun!
commanderdeek said:It would probably be a small factor, but I doubt decisions are based solely on the tax.
You should ask the EA Ceo!
i've seen it in action deek
'if we hire another person then the salary will be X and then that will add Y to our wage bill which leads to Z extra in payroll tax so the total cost for hiring another person is X + Z'
Fredescu said:
EXACTLY. So therefore not the biggest issue for them but tax reduction policies still occur. It's those on borderline payroll tax line that have the biggest problem. But also, hiring a person into a large company increases your tax bill, as does giving pay rises and promotions.
Payroll Tax is not indexed to CPI and the states can and do change it at will and in the middle of financial years... which is just dumb.
but the area which employs the most people in Australia is the SME market, which can very easily start to fall into this void especially given average salary is now 71k in Australia.
The biggest problem is that it punishes companies for hiring and rewarding people
thats the biggest fucking load of shit i have ever seen. You PUNISH someone for being successful.
Payroll tax bill on 1.5 million is $86,250
You tell a small business they need to find $86,250 for extra tax because they hired someone.
Yeah, exactly......
jambo said:
Did guns and roses ever put songs into the Rockband franchise? Guitar Hero 2 had Sweet Child O' Mine and 3 had... uhhh... something.
The problem I found with those games in party environment is it turns into a "NO I WANT THE DRUMS" deathmatch at the end of each song, even though everyone is absolutely rubbish at the things.
Honestly, it's that fucking orange fret that always fucks with me. Now that they randomly drop it in medium songs for RB3 (almost always buy surprise) I'm rarely getting 100%. Anything more difficult than that scares the absolute shit out of me.Kritz said:
I do love having that Logitech Guitar Hero guitar, though. Built like a brick shithouse.
commanderdeek said:
Deek this is how the common capitalist world works. It then becomes ok they will cost this do we really need them? if the answer is yes proceed and take the hit, if not see how we go with current resourcing.
The point is, in business there is a lot of sentiment that it is a load of shit tax that they should not have to pay and so therefore do as much as they can to reduce it (for example setting up subsidiaries in other states as placeholder companies who have lower tax and having their employees hired in that state instead of where tehy actually are located. This is legal right now)
Public companies are subject to shareholder scrutiny. Our payroll tax bill went up $100,000 because we hired 4 people reducing our total profit by 100k. Not going to look good on the books
by our i dont mean myself, i mean thats what the CEO would think of a public company in that situation
Shaneus said:
I feel both vindicated and remorseful that I didn't get one of those sweet Beatles guitars while they were out. My Rockband 1 and Guitar Hero 2 guitars are both on their last legs, while my Guitar Hero 3 wireless guitar is still kicking ass and taking batteries. I heard the Beatles ones were both great to play and...
sorry I can't continue this post, the realisation that I'm talking about the quality of fake plastic toy guitars is making me want to leave earth's gravitational field.
EDIT: holy shit I love nerf guns /unironic /ironicUseOfIrony /recursion
I haven't played Rock Band since my drums got busted.
Rock Band/Guitar Hero is one of the only games I can say I'm really really good at. I'm not super 5 star the hardest songs on expert, but I can play 95% of songs on expert using drums and guitar. I can even 5 star songs on guitar whilst singing at the same time
I need to start playing Rock Band 3 again.
Rock Band/Guitar Hero is one of the only games I can say I'm really really good at. I'm not super 5 star the hardest songs on expert, but I can play 95% of songs on expert using drums and guitar. I can even 5 star songs on guitar whilst singing at the same time
I need to start playing Rock Band 3 again.
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