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  1. Question. Are they not using the differences to lie that foreign sales taxes are an unfair imposition on US goods and services?
  2. How do you get output without gain? Must be a definition problem.
  3. How stupid would we have to be to allow imported stuff to be sold without sales tax while charging sales tax on domestic product? Idiotic does not cover it.
  4. AFAIK NZ has no tariffs on anything except petroleum. There is a small amount of import duty and excise is same as domestic production. We respectfully request everyone drop theirs on our stuff, or at least not increase it.
  5. I think I have seen the original advert. You have at least heard of photoshop?
  6. Automates will write the Bill/ unconstitional decree on the orange joker's behalf. Aluminum content ex US zero rated for part import etc etc Probably some magnificently complicated tax credit scheme being written up right now Get your tax credits if you bring the production back to USA [ or Canafa] the real reason Canada is up for annexation, in a 3 year time frame. Of course they would ask for an extension but get the credits anyway, only another 4 years needed to get it done.
  7. Sure it does, well some of it. Their own bakeries bake, their butchers cut up portions. The deli section prepares hot takeaways out of some of that product. That is why our VAT in NZ is a universal Goods AND Services Tax. No phaffing about classifying anything. Accounting GST is dead easy. Everyone has to eat but you can pay less tax by eating less fancy foods. Quite a good tax I think. The GST in your average rich person's shopping cart is enormous compared with a minimum wager or saver.
  8. I read the first page and The Olymics of amateur musicianship is what? SongStars, Eurovision, Britain's Got Talent, you get the idea. Those tasty carrots are not appealing to most of us. The open mic jam stuff I used to participate in and run all had generous bar tabs for all involved. I lived close enough to one that I could walk home well shickered after buying my first drink and playing a few numbers three times. Many of the bonafide professional musicians frequent them after their gigs. Sums up gotta get paid very well. Have it your way I suppose. Nobody is going to come to your show and heckle you for playing for free. Pay to compete for amateur glory/ personal satisfaction/ while interested observers of your slog also pay and the organizer makes out like a bandit. It's a different world. I enjoy making coffee but I am hardly going to go on a barrista course so I can go work on a real deal 10,000 dollar coffee machine for free in my spare hours. The only reason that racket hasn't been invented is no hospitality venue has the balls to try it on. They could run free courses in the evening to train them up. They will quite happily abuse interns from the hospitality school though. From what I have seen pubs that want to put on bands and refuse / skimp on payment only get dregs of bands that aren't good enough for functions. Musicians with the pride to insist on getting paid look at those venues as the vultures that they are.
  9. I figured there must be something like that out there these days. Good luck convincing Mr Rage it is awesome though. He likes to hold his guitar next to the cabinet and rattle his fillings.
  10. The Sumo power output is superfluous with a 210 cab set despite what TE would have you believe. The Elf should be pushing them along without any danger of blowing them up. If that's not loud enough I think you should be looking for a pair a 12" speakers before anything else.
  11. I can't tell if you mistyped or missed the point. It needs to be pointed at them so they can hear all their glorious tone as the mic hears it. Pointing a small cab right at the guitarist's head is the only way they can tolerate the racket. They choose a smaller amp. And yes it can be done down the Dog'nDuck. It was the guitarist himself who suggested it.
  12. The Show Must Go On. I'll get my coat..
  13. Quite feasible also.
  14. If the guitarist also sings it would pay to put it well to the side so it's not in the back field of his microphone. Tough choice, sing OR get howling feedback but not both at the same time.
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