If a project fails, kickstarter shouldn't get their cut. This will incentivize them to keep a closer eye on the projects they accept, and the freed-up funds could go to give at least a token compensation to those who lost out.
It wasn't a scaling problem. They delivered a few, but none of them could fly for more than a few seconds, the supposedly hd video was crappy, the app to control it didn't work, pretty much nothing worked.
What they shipped worked worse than the cheapest drone you can buy on the market. Couldn't fly for more than a few seconds. You could do just as well with a stick of balsa wood, a rubber band, and a propeller.
For once, the advice "follow the money" is especially apropos. How can you make $3,500,000 disappear? Sounds like there should be some recovery options against the people running this.
Also, it's surprising to me, to a certain extent. I thought people were dicks at all ages, but what? people become less of a bag of dicks as they get older?
Try telling that to Dick Cheney - he'll have you accidentally step in front of his shot gun:-)
Teachers don't generally do career counseling in high school, and the ones that are sent to guidance counselors are the ones that are "problem students", more likely to drop out and are going to need help entering the low end of the work market if they don't change what they're doing.
n the United States, men are much more likely to be incarcerated than women. More than 9 times as many men (5,037,000) as women (581,000) had ever at one time been incarcerated in a State or Federal prison at year end 2001.
In 2011, the United States Department of Justice compiled homicide statistics in the United States between 1980 and 2008. That study showed the following:
Males committed the vast majority of homicides in the United States at that time, representing 90.5% of the total number of offenders
Neither is the one currently renting my spare bedroom, but it happens, it's unethical, and it needs to be stopped, especially since there are businesses that take on unpaid interns because they don't want to hire someone.
Let me again repeat why it's an issue, this time using slightly different words - her being ashamed of it informs her actions towards the rest of the world, particularly using her brand of feminism and SJW crap to be predisposed to launch attacks on anyone, not just over the subject of being trans, but anything that might call her into question on ANY subject. In other words, she's paranoid about her identity, and that explains why she acts the way she does. It's happened before, with transsexuals who feel they have to overplay who they are to be accepted, or at least, not have anyone dare call them into question.
It also explains why she posted threats to herself, and made the false claim that she had been forced from her home, as ways to draw sympathy towards her. She saw Anita Sarkeesian getting a lot of attention and decided to insert herself into the drama, because her game sucked and the angel investors are out of luck.
In other words, it's her own reaction to what she is that explains the "why is she doing this". She is the one who made it about more than just ability. When you get caught in a bunch of lies that you've done your best to attract attention to, people have the right to ask "why is she doing this?"
When it's the the cause of why she's behaving so dysfunctionally it becomes a legitimate issue. She is not representative of transsexuals, but an embarrassment and an impediment. She has become a professional victim, and judging by her Patereon account, she's making money off it. There are still some people that believe all the lies she told, even though they have been debunked, because some people have a vested interest in not looking too closely to her story. Same as someone who just bought a computer refuses to believe that someone else bought a better computer for less money - "There must be some difference, I paid more, so mine is better." See P.T. Barnum for more details:-)
Fair enough, except for the part about us being anonymous people - using a nym makes me feel like I'm hiding behind anonymity and trying to avoid responsibility for what I say. I've always been that way. Besides, all the good nyms are taken:-).
Funny that, my address, phone number, email address are also on the net, and there haven't been any dire consequences. Then again, I grew up in a time when everyone had a phone book that gave everyones name, address, and phone number, no big deal. I get that other people prefer (or even need) anonymity - it's just not my cup of tea. I try to live by the rule of "Don't do anything that you wouldn't want everyone to see on the front page of the New York Times."
You are certainly free to disagree. However, one of the problems we have is that the greater LGBT movement has, in the public (and many of their members) minds confounded sex and gender. Transsexuals should not be grouped with the greater transgender community, nor the LGBT movement. Now, I don't care if someone is gay, lesbian, bi, or likes to cross-dress, but none of these have to do with gender identity - they're sexualized behaviors.
We're not about sexual practices. Unlike the LGBT movement, we achieved our results without having riots like Stonewall. We've been allowed to marry long before this became a matter of public debate, as long as our paperwork was in order. The LGBT movement did not help us achieve our goals. Quite the contrary, the confusion they've caused makes pretty much everyone assume that we must be gay, and that it's about sexual expression and behavior.
When leaders of the LGBT movement try to justify their claims that they're helping us by saying things like "we had drag queens on our Mardi Gras float this year", and then telling transsexual employees "Come on, you're really a gay man in a dress," it makes it pretty clear they don't have a clue.
We've had more rights, longer, than the gay community. If anything, they've been riding on our coattails. The public was fascinated by Christine Jorgenson, for example, She charged newspapers for interviews, she had an act that people paid to see... the level of hate was nowhere what it became after the LGBT "took up our cause." We got hit, hard, with the splashback. With friends like that...
Neither gays, lesbians, bisexuals, drag queens and kings, etc., want, or need, medical intervention to live a normal life. The intersexed and transsexuals are like the Sesame Street song: "One of these things doesn't belong here, one of these things is not the same."
As for "the community", I don't buy into it. MY community is my family, friends, neighbors, and everyone else I encounter on a day-to-day basis. Why would I want to be part of a "community" that says we need "safe spaces" to lead "authentic lives?" That tells us to be wary of the society around us, and that we'd be safer with them. That prefers to live in an apartheid-like mental ghetto of their own making? We have the laws on our side, we have the judges on our side, we have the medical community on our side, and we achieved this without violence. Without mass demonstrations. I don't want to sit around in the same city with others who bemoan "our" lack of rights and "our" non-acceptance and "our" need for safe spaces" I'm living my life the same as any other woman, and I'm enjoying the freedom of doing so. And by being open to answer questions from the general community, I'm paying it forward for all those who went before me. Not sitting around moaning and groaning to other transsexuals about how bad things are, or how tough life is.
When problems arose, I used the legal tools that are readily at hand to fix them. Not wait for someone else to "take up my cause." I'm not ashamed of who I am, and I will not live in fear, or be bullied. In other words, I have the courage of my convictions to sustain me.
I'm all for gay rights, but don't even try to include me in that group, because I'm not, and I shouldn't be forced to pretend I am because otherwise it will "harm the community." The "community" has no right to tell me what to do, how to act, what to believe. Ive never needed their help to live my life, and I'm not going to accept that I need special protection from the greater world, over and above what any other woman living here needs. The community is dis empowering when it comes to transsexuals. Time we all woke up and realized we have never needed them, and that by confusing the issues of sexual behavior and gender orientation by putting them under the same group, they have perpetuated ignorance about and towards us.
I've had online discussions with transsexuals who are living in the gay ghetto here, and i
Well yeah, if you clump around like some ape... but good posture makes a big difference - it shifts your center of gravity back, raises your head, and shortens your stride - all important factors if you don't want to get clocked. Also, as you pointed out, makes is natural to put a little wiggle in your walk:-)
It's not like there aren't examples all over the place to observe and learn from... though it might take a little time to unlearn the habits that kept you safe when you were posing as a guy before transition.
Fortunately people are catching on. Even the prosecutor in Columbus, Ohio says she's a waste of time.:-)
She has zero credibility except among the fools who she cons into donating to her Patreon campaign, who have no incentive to discover that they've been duped and would reject the suggestion.
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What 'recovery'?
You're not an "investor", you're essentially a "benefactor".
Think of these crowd-sourcing things as giant tip jars. You don't get any guarantees.
Why do people act like these things are any different than throwing change into someone's guitar case?
Not when there's fraudulent misrepresentation involved. The promo video they showed everyone was totally fake.
Your assuming the guy was playing a guitar. And the presence of a guitar case lends some reasonableness to that assumption.
But lots of homeless people have their guitar case out for donations whether htey are playing or not. And some don't even have an instrument.
Maybe they're begging so they can buy an instrument?
Or someone ripped them off?
Or someone broke it?
If a project fails, kickstarter shouldn't get their cut. This will incentivize them to keep a closer eye on the projects they accept, and the freed-up funds could go to give at least a token compensation to those who lost out.
It wasn't a scaling problem. They delivered a few, but none of them could fly for more than a few seconds, the supposedly hd video was crappy, the app to control it didn't work, pretty much nothing worked.
Their prototype doesn't work. The promotional videos were faked. You can read it in the comments in their funding page.
What they shipped worked worse than the cheapest drone you can buy on the market. Couldn't fly for more than a few seconds. You could do just as well with a stick of balsa wood, a rubber band, and a propeller.
For once, the advice "follow the money" is especially apropos. How can you make $3,500,000 disappear? Sounds like there should be some recovery options against the people running this.
(no, I do not mean Frank Borland)
Ah yes, Howard Hughes Glomar Explorer.
You've underestimated the power of greed here. A lot.
Bring on the pirate drones, matey! Why mine it when you can just steal it?
But I am a firm believer in diversification of risk. I'd rather have some coal and some nuclear, rather than just one, as the risks are different.
The thing with gold however is that we don't even needs it!
There's no real reason to collect it except it takes resources to do so so that makes it valuable..
Destroy nature and waste work on getting something you'll just store away for no other purpose? Make sense!
We use gold in electronics, medicine, etc. See here. Sure, we don't "need" a computer or a smartphone, but ...
Also, it's surprising to me, to a certain extent. I thought people were dicks at all ages, but what? people become less of a bag of dicks as they get older?
Try telling that to Dick Cheney - he'll have you accidentally step in front of his shot gun :-)
Teachers don't generally do career counseling in high school, and the ones that are sent to guidance counselors are the ones that are "problem students", more likely to drop out and are going to need help entering the low end of the work market if they don't change what they're doing.
Actually, men are more likely to act emotionally than women. Look at all the testosterone-fueled murders - mostly men.
ciatation (sic) needed.
Here you go
n the United States, men are much more likely to be incarcerated than women. More than 9 times as many men (5,037,000) as women (581,000) had ever at one time been incarcerated in a State or Federal prison at year end 2001.
In 2011, the United States Department of Justice compiled homicide statistics in the United States between 1980 and 2008. That study showed the following:
Males committed the vast majority of homicides in the United States at that time, representing 90.5% of the total number of offenders
Neither is the one currently renting my spare bedroom, but it happens, it's unethical, and it needs to be stopped, especially since there are businesses that take on unpaid interns because they don't want to hire someone.
Let me again repeat why it's an issue, this time using slightly different words - her being ashamed of it informs her actions towards the rest of the world, particularly using her brand of feminism and SJW crap to be predisposed to launch attacks on anyone, not just over the subject of being trans, but anything that might call her into question on ANY subject. In other words, she's paranoid about her identity, and that explains why she acts the way she does. It's happened before, with transsexuals who feel they have to overplay who they are to be accepted, or at least, not have anyone dare call them into question.
It also explains why she posted threats to herself, and made the false claim that she had been forced from her home, as ways to draw sympathy towards her. She saw Anita Sarkeesian getting a lot of attention and decided to insert herself into the drama, because her game sucked and the angel investors are out of luck.
In other words, it's her own reaction to what she is that explains the "why is she doing this". She is the one who made it about more than just ability. When you get caught in a bunch of lies that you've done your best to attract attention to, people have the right to ask "why is she doing this?"
When it's the the cause of why she's behaving so dysfunctionally it becomes a legitimate issue. She is not representative of transsexuals, but an embarrassment and an impediment. She has become a professional victim, and judging by her Patereon account, she's making money off it. There are still some people that believe all the lies she told, even though they have been debunked, because some people have a vested interest in not looking too closely to her story. Same as someone who just bought a computer refuses to believe that someone else bought a better computer for less money - "There must be some difference, I paid more, so mine is better." See P.T. Barnum for more details :-)
Thanks. Looking back, I'm glad my daughters didn't follow me into IT. Smart kids :-)
I'm an atheist, but I think that the last verse of 1 Cor. 13 pretty much sums up what is right in these situations ...
Fair enough, except for the part about us being anonymous people - using a nym makes me feel like I'm hiding behind anonymity and trying to avoid responsibility for what I say. I've always been that way. Besides, all the good nyms are taken :-).
Funny that, my address, phone number, email address are also on the net, and there haven't been any dire consequences. Then again, I grew up in a time when everyone had a phone book that gave everyones name, address, and phone number, no big deal. I get that other people prefer (or even need) anonymity - it's just not my cup of tea. I try to live by the rule of "Don't do anything that you wouldn't want everyone to see on the front page of the New York Times."
Um.. I'm really not sure what your purpose is in making that point? We're on the same side of this discussion, by the way.
Just a side note, is all :-) We're definitely on the same side on this one.
You are certainly free to disagree. However, one of the problems we have is that the greater LGBT movement has, in the public (and many of their members) minds confounded sex and gender. Transsexuals should not be grouped with the greater transgender community, nor the LGBT movement. Now, I don't care if someone is gay, lesbian, bi, or likes to cross-dress, but none of these have to do with gender identity - they're sexualized behaviors.
We're not about sexual practices. Unlike the LGBT movement, we achieved our results without having riots like Stonewall. We've been allowed to marry long before this became a matter of public debate, as long as our paperwork was in order. The LGBT movement did not help us achieve our goals. Quite the contrary, the confusion they've caused makes pretty much everyone assume that we must be gay, and that it's about sexual expression and behavior.
When leaders of the LGBT movement try to justify their claims that they're helping us by saying things like "we had drag queens on our Mardi Gras float this year", and then telling transsexual employees "Come on, you're really a gay man in a dress," it makes it pretty clear they don't have a clue.
We've had more rights, longer, than the gay community. If anything, they've been riding on our coattails. The public was fascinated by Christine Jorgenson, for example, She charged newspapers for interviews, she had an act that people paid to see ... the level of hate was nowhere what it became after the LGBT "took up our cause." We got hit, hard, with the splashback. With friends like that ...
Neither gays, lesbians, bisexuals, drag queens and kings, etc., want, or need, medical intervention to live a normal life. The intersexed and transsexuals are like the Sesame Street song: "One of these things doesn't belong here, one of these things is not the same."
As for "the community", I don't buy into it. MY community is my family, friends, neighbors, and everyone else I encounter on a day-to-day basis. Why would I want to be part of a "community" that says we need "safe spaces" to lead "authentic lives?" That tells us to be wary of the society around us, and that we'd be safer with them. That prefers to live in an apartheid-like mental ghetto of their own making? We have the laws on our side, we have the judges on our side, we have the medical community on our side, and we achieved this without violence. Without mass demonstrations. I don't want to sit around in the same city with others who bemoan "our" lack of rights and "our" non-acceptance and "our" need for safe spaces" I'm living my life the same as any other woman, and I'm enjoying the freedom of doing so. And by being open to answer questions from the general community, I'm paying it forward for all those who went before me. Not sitting around moaning and groaning to other transsexuals about how bad things are, or how tough life is.
When problems arose, I used the legal tools that are readily at hand to fix them. Not wait for someone else to "take up my cause." I'm not ashamed of who I am, and I will not live in fear, or be bullied. In other words, I have the courage of my convictions to sustain me.
I'm all for gay rights, but don't even try to include me in that group, because I'm not, and I shouldn't be forced to pretend I am because otherwise it will "harm the community." The "community" has no right to tell me what to do, how to act, what to believe. Ive never needed their help to live my life, and I'm not going to accept that I need special protection from the greater world, over and above what any other woman living here needs. The community is dis empowering when it comes to transsexuals. Time we all woke up and realized we have never needed them, and that by confusing the issues of sexual behavior and gender orientation by putting them under the same group, they have perpetuated ignorance about and towards us.
I've had online discussions with transsexuals who are living in the gay ghetto here, and i
Well yeah, if you clump around like some ape ... but good posture makes a big difference - it shifts your center of gravity back, raises your head, and shortens your stride - all important factors if you don't want to get clocked. Also, as you pointed out, makes is natural to put a little wiggle in your walk :-)
It's not like there aren't examples all over the place to observe and learn from ... though it might take a little time to unlearn the habits that kept you safe when you were posing as a guy before transition.
The Manhattan project didn't have 600 million people watching and learning. That's what happens with secret projects.
Equal opportunity has somehow morphed into equal outcomes, to the detriment of everyone.
Fortunately people are catching on. Even the prosecutor in Columbus, Ohio says she's a waste of time. :-)
She has zero credibility except among the fools who she cons into donating to her Patreon campaign, who have no incentive to discover that they've been duped and would reject the suggestion.
She's as bad in her own way as the TERFs.