Time to harness the creative research being done by these chemists. They have so many test subjects volunteering that we're getting large scale field studies. Don't lose all that data!
They just like to hear themselves talk. It doesn't mean the know anything.
Email is better than twitter, better than facebleck, better than phone, better than texting, better than in person. Email is queued. I can respond to it in my time in the detail level I wish. Email is the best communication tool.
Kickstarter is somewhat about supporting a project you believe in.
Kickstarter is mostly about buying a product. Most successful projects offer a 'reward', a product, for the 'pledge', payment, by the 'backer', customer. Kickstarter just likes to call it Backers, Pledges and Rewards. They try hard to avoid the term investment as that is dangerous. See below.
In return for pre-buying you get product and you get some satisfaction with helping to be an early buyer that helped make something possible. But it is really a transaction in most cases, a payment for goods or perhaps services.
When you buy a Pepsi you don't expect to get a share in the profit. You're buying a product. With Kickstarter the product doesn't usually exist yet so it is different in that it is a pre-buy.
An example is our family raises pastured pigs. We're building our own on-farm USDA inspected butcher shop (http://smf.me) and as a part of raising funds we pre-sold our product, pastured pork. We did this initially locally through CSA Pre-Buys and then this spring we did a Kickstarter project that raised an addition $33,456. When we finish construction and have our licenses we will then ship product from our farm to customers, some of whom joined our adventure via Kickstarter.
In our case the product already exists, we've been raising pigs on pasture and selling our pork for almost a decade. What is new is we're bringing the meat processing on-farm. This resolves a major bottleneck and helps to keep more of the money on-farm while also providing more humane handling for the animals and better quality for the customers. 369 people thought that was worth doing so they backed our project on Kickstarter. About a hundred more had already backed us prior to that. We provide product for backing. This is different than going to a bank for a loan (they aren't lending) or giving away a share of the business to investors (we're rather small for that as the project is only about $150,000).
Until recently it was illegal to solicit investment such as on Kickstarter which is why it is not an investment angle. With the new law that just passed there may soon be other web sites like Kickstarter that do offer investment opportunities. Alternatively, if you want to own the project and get profits then start your own business. That also gives you control.
With any project that's buying on the future, pre-buy or investment, you need to carefully consider if the project creator can deliver. Kickstarter says about 50% of the projects succeed. What they mean is 50% get successfully funded. As anyone with significant investment or business experience knows, not all funded projects will get to the production stage or be sustainable businesses. I have seen several Kickstarter 'successes' that never produced. It happens. But I think that most do succeed once funded. Caveat emperor.
Our project already successfully completed its Kickstarter run. Check it out at http://smf.me/
Cheers,
-Walter Jeffries Sugar Mountain Farm Pastured Pigs, Sheep & Kids in the mountains of Vermont Read about our on-farm butcher shop project: http://sugarmtnfarm.com/butchershop
"China and India are some of the world's top polluters"
Something the neo-greenies like to ignore. It is fashionable to blame the USA. Ironically, almost all the neo-greenies live in cities and are thus bad polluters themselves. Denialists.
Your best value is a used MacBook Pro for your specs.
If you want new, consider dropping the idea of an internal optical drive and go with an external optical drive when needed ($50 to $100). Then depending on how much power vs heat pick either the existing MacBook Air (http://www.apple.com/macbookair/) or wait for the soon (June?) to be released next MacBook Pro (hotter and faster).
Macs last a long time, are more reliable and are easier to use making them a far better value. I have Macs that are over ten years old and running great. I have others on the shelf that are 20 years old that still run, I just don't use them as I replaced them but I keep them around for odd tasks.
It is arrogant left wing 'do-gooders' who think we should stop buying something just because the people who make it earn less than what the 'do-gooders' consider to be good wages. If you stop buying the workers are out of jobs. I have worked in factories, a slaughterhouse, cannery, doing yard work. I was glad to have the job and the pay. I farm, and own the farm now, and I'm glad my customers like to eat and buy food from us. I appreciate their patronage in the best sense of the word. Liberals need to lighten up and get a dose of reality. It's good to have an income and not everyone's going to work in a white collar job, or wants to for that matter.
50 to 60 hours? Yet when you deduct the commute they're back to under par.
Maybe they should try farming. I only work 80 to 100 hours a week, but at least I don't have to commute and the quality of life is spectacular farming.
Everything is obvious and patents don't make them more so. Unfortunately patent clerks are granting patents on obvious stuff because they're rushed and unimaginative.
Ideas are a dime a dozen. It is the implementations that matter. Eliminate the patent system and let everyone compete in the open market.
If patents were eliminated then people, e.g., corporations which are made of people, would have to move on things and not squat. It would also kill the trolls.
Disclosure: I'm an inventor and manufacturer with many things I could have patented but don't because I do not agree with the idea that ideas should be proprietary and exclusive.
In Vermont they made one of prescription drugs and promised it would be kept confidential and never allowed to the police without warrant.
Shoot forward to today, just a few years later, and we find that the Governor, police and many legislators are trying to give the police full open access to the above database without any silly requirement to get warrants.
Justification, some bad people might exist.
Constitutional rights of innocent people? Just trample them... Oh, please. What's wrong with these people who want privacy. Jeezum crow.
Software patents are bad. Patents on life/DNA/etc are evil. Generally patents are bad over all and should only be granted for VERY short periods, say five to seven years at most. If you can't make money with your monopoly by then get out of the way so someone else can use it.
Fact is, many people come up with the same ideas. Most patents are obvious and should never be granted.
iCloud is a bad idea. It is insecure, open to hackers, the police and subject to warrantless searches.
Lion was a bad idea because it dropped support for a tremendous amount of software. It got in the way of my being able to do my work. I downgraded back to an OSX level where I can use the tools I need. Mountain Lion is worse. If Apple's going to take away the ability for us to do our work we'll not buy their hardware. I have Apple 17 machines I manage. No New Macs here.
Apple needs to go back to being an open platform where people can produce programs, tools, and access their data. Apple needs to start supporting Classic and PPC code again.
Because the USDA already uses the terms: Meat Processing Facility Small Scale Meat Processing Facility Very Small Scale Meat Processing Facility
and ours is another step smaller by a large amount thus I use the term:
Nano-scale Meat Processing Facility
I thought about using milli-scale but while it would be a more appropriate term people, other than geeks like you and I, aren't familiar with the term milli despite the existence of millimeters. So nano it is. Eat small.:)
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Bullshit
Or pig shit.
Keep livestock,
gather the manure,
make methane.
In our case though the animals spread the manure out in the fields which is far more efficient.
Time to harness the creative research being done by these chemists. They have so many test subjects volunteering that we're getting large scale field studies. Don't lose all that data!
So are we evolutionists a majority or are more than 5% undecided if they evolved from dinosaurs?
First step, identify the problem: Trolls
Second step, kill the trolls!
The good that would come out of this is if the government kills patent trolls and sharply limits patents both in time and scope.
I suppose a candidate without any brains is better than one who doesn't bother to read the bills.
I would prefer a candidate who can think. Popular opinion is not all it is cracked up to be.
They just like to hear themselves talk. It doesn't mean the know anything.
Email is better than twitter, better than facebleck, better than phone, better than texting, better than in person. Email is queued. I can respond to it in my time in the detail level I wish. Email is the best communication tool.
...American.
This, of course, means the USA needs to produce too.
Actually, Steve Jobs once did say that once the features were there they needed to be supported.
Kickstarter is not about investing.
Kickstarter is somewhat about supporting a project you believe in.
Kickstarter is mostly about buying a product. Most successful projects offer a 'reward', a product, for the 'pledge', payment, by the 'backer', customer. Kickstarter just likes to call it Backers, Pledges and Rewards. They try hard to avoid the term investment as that is dangerous. See below.
In return for pre-buying you get product and you get some satisfaction with helping to be an early buyer that helped make something possible. But it is really a transaction in most cases, a payment for goods or perhaps services.
When you buy a Pepsi you don't expect to get a share in the profit. You're buying a product. With Kickstarter the product doesn't usually exist yet so it is different in that it is a pre-buy.
An example is our family raises pastured pigs. We're building our own on-farm USDA inspected butcher shop (http://smf.me) and as a part of raising funds we pre-sold our product, pastured pork. We did this initially locally through CSA Pre-Buys and then this spring we did a Kickstarter project that raised an addition $33,456. When we finish construction and have our licenses we will then ship product from our farm to customers, some of whom joined our adventure via Kickstarter.
In our case the product already exists, we've been raising pigs on pasture and selling our pork for almost a decade. What is new is we're bringing the meat processing on-farm. This resolves a major bottleneck and helps to keep more of the money on-farm while also providing more humane handling for the animals and better quality for the customers. 369 people thought that was worth doing so they backed our project on Kickstarter. About a hundred more had already backed us prior to that. We provide product for backing. This is different than going to a bank for a loan (they aren't lending) or giving away a share of the business to investors (we're rather small for that as the project is only about $150,000).
Until recently it was illegal to solicit investment such as on Kickstarter which is why it is not an investment angle. With the new law that just passed there may soon be other web sites like Kickstarter that do offer investment opportunities. Alternatively, if you want to own the project and get profits then start your own business. That also gives you control.
With any project that's buying on the future, pre-buy or investment, you need to carefully consider if the project creator can deliver. Kickstarter says about 50% of the projects succeed. What they mean is 50% get successfully funded. As anyone with significant investment or business experience knows, not all funded projects will get to the production stage or be sustainable businesses. I have seen several Kickstarter 'successes' that never produced. It happens. But I think that most do succeed once funded. Caveat emperor.
Our project already successfully completed its Kickstarter run. Check it out at http://smf.me/
Cheers,
-Walter Jeffries
Sugar Mountain Farm
Pastured Pigs, Sheep & Kids
in the mountains of Vermont
Read about our on-farm butcher shop project:
http://sugarmtnfarm.com/butchershop
"China and India are some of the world's top polluters"
Something the neo-greenies like to ignore. It is fashionable to blame the USA. Ironically, almost all the neo-greenies live in cities and are thus bad polluters themselves. Denialists.
Your best value is a used MacBook Pro for your specs.
If you want new, consider dropping the idea of an internal optical drive and go with an external optical drive when needed ($50 to $100). Then depending on how much power vs heat pick either the existing MacBook Air (http://www.apple.com/macbookair/) or wait for the soon (June?) to be released next MacBook Pro (hotter and faster).
Macs last a long time, are more reliable and are easier to use making them a far better value. I have Macs that are over ten years old and running great. I have others on the shelf that are 20 years old that still run, I just don't use them as I replaced them but I keep them around for odd tasks.
Typical left wing liberal dogma.
This is not slavery.
If you can't tell the difference then shame on you.
It is arrogant left wing 'do-gooders' who think we should stop buying something just because the people who make it earn less than what the 'do-gooders' consider to be good wages. If you stop buying the workers are out of jobs. I have worked in factories, a slaughterhouse, cannery, doing yard work. I was glad to have the job and the pay. I farm, and own the farm now, and I'm glad my customers like to eat and buy food from us. I appreciate their patronage in the best sense of the word. Liberals need to lighten up and get a dose of reality. It's good to have an income and not everyone's going to work in a white collar job, or wants to for that matter.
50 to 60 hours? Yet when you deduct the commute they're back to under par.
Maybe they should try farming. I only work 80 to 100 hours a week, but at least I don't have to commute and the quality of life is spectacular farming.
Time to dump the entire patent system.
Everything is obvious and patents don't make them more so. Unfortunately patent clerks are granting patents on obvious stuff because they're rushed and unimaginative.
Ideas are a dime a dozen. It is the implementations that matter. Eliminate the patent system and let everyone compete in the open market.
If patents were eliminated then people, e.g., corporations which are made of people, would have to move on things and not squat. It would also kill the trolls.
Disclosure: I'm an inventor and manufacturer with many things I could have patented but don't because I do not agree with the idea that ideas should be proprietary and exclusive.
"$200,000,000 on hardware"
Wow!
Gasp.
So, if Monstersanto thinks GMOs are soooo good they should stop objecting to Vermont wanting to label that products have GMOs in them.
FB is a fad. It's too closed. Too constrained. Too inconvenient. Email and blogs are better.
Big brother is watching...
Government loves databases.
In Vermont they made one of prescription drugs and promised it would be kept confidential and never allowed to the police without warrant.
Shoot forward to today, just a few years later, and we find that the Governor, police and many legislators are trying to give the police full open access to the above database without any silly requirement to get warrants.
Justification, some bad people might exist.
Constitutional rights of innocent people? Just trample them... Oh, please. What's wrong with these people who want privacy. Jeezum crow.
Software patents are bad.
Patents on life/DNA/etc are evil.
Generally patents are bad over all and should only be granted for VERY short periods, say five to seven years at most. If you can't make money with your monopoly by then get out of the way so someone else can use it.
Fact is, many people come up with the same ideas. Most patents are obvious and should never be granted.
iCloud is a bad idea. It is insecure, open to hackers, the police and subject to warrantless searches.
Lion was a bad idea because it dropped support for a tremendous amount of software. It got in the way of my being able to do my work. I downgraded back to an OSX level where I can use the tools I need. Mountain Lion is worse. If Apple's going to take away the ability for us to do our work we'll not buy their hardware. I have Apple 17 machines I manage. No New Macs here.
Apple needs to go back to being an open platform where people can produce programs, tools, and access their data. Apple needs to start supporting Classic and PPC code again.
Apple loses.
Greed.
Because the USDA already uses the terms:
Meat Processing Facility
Small Scale Meat Processing Facility
Very Small Scale Meat Processing Facility
and ours is another step smaller by a large amount thus I use the term:
Nano-scale Meat Processing Facility
I thought about using milli-scale but while it would be a more appropriate term people, other than geeks like you and I, aren't familiar with the term milli despite the existence of millimeters. So nano it is. Eat small. :)
Hmm... I would rather they subsidize solar electric than petroleum.