Considering the kickstarter was less than three years ago and the missing money became apparent less than two years ago, "strung you along for nearly 5 years" might be an exaggeration.
But, sure, in hindsight, Rylan should have gone to the police earlier.
And, to be clear, I no longer have anything directly to do with PP. I was a contractor up until around Jan 2015. Now I'm just a friend and interested spectator.
Sweet... My next kickstarter was going to be for a fleet of autonomous drones with eyedroppers and UV lights underneath that could 3d print anything. Maybe we can work together.
Well, the really sad thing about this is we had a working printer in January 2015. It's finicky, sure, but so is our Solidoodle. Not only did we have a working printer, but it would have been profitable at $100.
It's true that in Canada it is exceedingly difficult to seize a person's home. So, even if PP successfully sued David, the chances of getting the money before $99 teleporters are common would be slim to none.
As part of lauching a kickstarter, you agree to use all the funds raised to produce the rewards promised to backers. So, potentially, the backers could probably sue if they can prove that the money wasn't all used for that.
Well, a significant difference between this situation and the iFind is that the Peachy Printer actually works. It even works well, compared to the $800+ solidoodle at our hackerspace. It was working well enough to clean up the design and start shipping kits back in January 2015. Sadly, that also coincided with discovering the money reserved for actually making the printers was held up as collateral for David's house. (which turned out to not be the truth anyway) David kept stringing us along for a while, while Rylan explored other ways to raise some money to ship. And, if you've watched the videos and read the website you know the rest.
I don't get why memorization is still so important in exams. If there are commonly available tools that allow you to get the correct answer in the allotted time, what is the problem with that? Sure, there are things you will simply have to have memorized, but if you have to take the time to look those up, you will simply run out of time in a well designed exam.
My best prof's exams were open book, open door. You could head to the library during the exam if you wanted. Of course, if you did, you would never finish the exam.
The "has massive support from politicians" part. I guess I figured, if that half of your two-part criteria was true, it wouldn't have so much trouble getting approval.
Sadly, you're both wrong. Keystone XL is private, is all about resource extraction (well, transportation of extracted resources) and is being eternally delayed in much the same way.
In Canada, we have two more proposed pipelines that are experiencing the same opposition. ("Northern Gateway" and "Energy East")
I was wondering why siteuptime was reporting brief outages on my Linode. I guess this explains why I've had the worst uptime in years... just got my December report. 99.66% uptime.
I've been with Linode for a very long time and can honestly not say a bad word about them. I've really only ever had one bad outage, when the UPSes at HE Dallas blew up. I think that one ended up being about 8 hours. They kept us updated and even set up a webcam so we could watch them working in the datacentre getting things booted back up after power was restored.
My 2001 GMC Jimmy had a "secondary oxygen injector pump." When it failed, I tried to figure out what it did. Near as I could tell, all it did was blow extra air into the exhaust while the engine was cold. I guess that reduced the percentage of pollutants coming out the tailpipe before the cat gets warmed up and working.
This is really nothing new. The government makes arbitrary tests. Corporations make devices that will pass those tests.
...except for the recent shooting in Oregon, where the shooter turned his gun on himself after a civilian with concealed carry pointed his gun at the shooter. (and chose not to shoot due to people behind the shooter)
Funny the news never reported it that way.
I think you need to brush up on your reading comprehension skills. If, as requested by the AC poster, we travel back in time with him/her to a year ago... May 22, 2012 hasn't happened yet.
Joseph married Mary and, presumably, would have adopted Jesus as his son. To the Jews that should be enough to establish his legal right to the throne. Gentiles wouldn't buy that argument, so another way is also established.
Why do we "need" two accounts? For that matter, why do we need four gospels? Each one records different events, has a different audience, and more generally, supports a different aspect of Jesus.
Matthew is written to the Jews. It makes a pile of "Old Testament" references without really explaining them. The Jews would have understood. Matthew establishes Jesus as the Messiah, which is also a Jewish thing. (The Gentiles may not understand, and probably wouldn't care.) Matthew, as a government official, may have been skilled in shorthand, explaining why his gospel contains the most direct quotations of Jesus. To re-iterate the genealogy point above, Matthew includes a genealogy that makes the most sense to a Jew, to establish the Messiahship of Jesus.
Mark contains at least 7 instances where a translation is given for an Aramaic term. His readership was probably not Jews. (Aramaic being the day-to-day language of the Jews at that time.) Also, he includes a number of Latinisms... Latin transliterations, and idioms. His audience is probably the Romans. Mark is short and fast paced. It's purpose is probably to document the ministry and passion of Jesus. (the crucifixion story, that is.) This gospel begins with John the Baptist baptizing Jesus (a genealogy, of sorts?) and ends abruptly with the resurrection.
Luke is a very carefully researched document written for a Gentile audience. It establishes the humanity of Jesus. The genealogy follows his bloodline and also goes back to Adam rather than stopping at Abraham as in Matthew. Some have suggested that Luke together with Acts was written as a defense document for Paul's trial in Rome. Romans are cast in a more positive light in Luke than in the other gospels.
John is easy because near the end he states the purpose of the book -- "that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God..." John focuses on the deity of Jesus. This is also reflected in the "genealogy" in the first verse: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." (If you have trouble with "the Word" being Jesus skip down to verse 14: "and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us")
So, why four accounts? Each one provides a different viewpoint that can give us a more complete understanding of Jesus. It's basically the same as why a police officer would ask multiple witnesses for their accounts of a traffic accident... each one may have seen something different, and when you put them all together you get a better picture.
I _have_ looked into it and you're right.
A little analytical thinking can shed a lot of light on this so-called conflict.
First, Matthew was written for a Jewish audience. Luke was written for a Gentile audience. The Jews would know that the Messiah needed to be a "son of David." (descendant) The genealogy in Matthew, therefore, traces Jesus' "legal" right to sit on the throne. That is, it traces the male line from David. The Gentiles would recognize, though, that if the story of a virgin conception is true, Joseph was NOT the father of Jesus. So, the line is traced through Jesus' mother instead. In addition to that, in Jeremiah 22:30, we learn that "no seed" of Jehoakim (Jechonias in Greek) will sit on the throne of David. So, the virgin birth is actually a clever end-run around this curse.
And, if you think about it, John 1:1 provides yet another "Genealogy" of Jesus, in a way.
The more I've analyzed scripture, the more I've discovered that, at the very least, it is very carefully and cleverly written.
OR, it could be that you took that way out of context and the "thing which he did" that displeased the LORD was failing to live up to his obligations under "levirate marriage."
and the orange/green light on the plug that tells us at a glance whether or not the battery is charged.
Grrr... I know I'm in the minority, but I hate the orange/green light used on so many electronics. I'm red/green deficient and it falls EXACTLY in my dead zone. I really, honestly, can't tell the two colours apart... even if they're right beside each other.
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Wait, have you actually READ the documentation? This sounds suspiciously like you actually know what actually happened.
/. has been someone more civil than YT.
At least
Considering the kickstarter was less than three years ago and the missing money became apparent less than two years ago, "strung you along for nearly 5 years" might be an exaggeration.
But, sure, in hindsight, Rylan should have gone to the police earlier.
And, to be clear, I no longer have anything directly to do with PP. I was a contractor up until around Jan 2015. Now I'm just a friend and interested spectator.
And that is a debate I'm sure the lawyers are currently having.
I did, but the headline is definitely true. I've bought a crying unicorn sticker, a single use monacle... what else?
D) All of the above
The PP prints great D&D miniatures and chess sets, but I wouldn't use it for dimensionally accurate parts.
Some of us really tried, and actually made it work.
Others ensured the failure of the project by leaving us without cash to ship.
Sweet... My next kickstarter was going to be for a fleet of autonomous drones with eyedroppers and UV lights underneath that could 3d print anything. Maybe we can work together.
Well, the really sad thing about this is we had a working printer in January 2015. It's finicky, sure, but so is our Solidoodle. Not only did we have a working printer, but it would have been profitable at $100.
It's true that in Canada it is exceedingly difficult to seize a person's home. So, even if PP successfully sued David, the chances of getting the money before $99 teleporters are common would be slim to none.
As part of lauching a kickstarter, you agree to use all the funds raised to produce the rewards promised to backers. So, potentially, the backers could probably sue if they can prove that the money wasn't all used for that.
Well, a significant difference between this situation and the iFind is that the Peachy Printer actually works. It even works well, compared to the $800+ solidoodle at our hackerspace. It was working well enough to clean up the design and start shipping kits back in January 2015. Sadly, that also coincided with discovering the money reserved for actually making the printers was held up as collateral for David's house. (which turned out to not be the truth anyway) David kept stringing us along for a while, while Rylan explored other ways to raise some money to ship. And, if you've watched the videos and read the website you know the rest.
I don't get why memorization is still so important in exams. If there are commonly available tools that allow you to get the correct answer in the allotted time, what is the problem with that? Sure, there are things you will simply have to have memorized, but if you have to take the time to look those up, you will simply run out of time in a well designed exam. My best prof's exams were open book, open door. You could head to the library during the exam if you wanted. Of course, if you did, you would never finish the exam.
The "has massive support from politicians" part. I guess I figured, if that half of your two-part criteria was true, it wouldn't have so much trouble getting approval.
Sadly, you're both wrong. Keystone XL is private, is all about resource extraction (well, transportation of extracted resources) and is being eternally delayed in much the same way. In Canada, we have two more proposed pipelines that are experiencing the same opposition. ("Northern Gateway" and "Energy East")
I was wondering why siteuptime was reporting brief outages on my Linode. I guess this explains why I've had the worst uptime in years... just got my December report. 99.66% uptime. I've been with Linode for a very long time and can honestly not say a bad word about them. I've really only ever had one bad outage, when the UPSes at HE Dallas blew up. I think that one ended up being about 8 hours. They kept us updated and even set up a webcam so we could watch them working in the datacentre getting things booted back up after power was restored.
My 2001 GMC Jimmy had a "secondary oxygen injector pump." When it failed, I tried to figure out what it did. Near as I could tell, all it did was blow extra air into the exhaust while the engine was cold. I guess that reduced the percentage of pollutants coming out the tailpipe before the cat gets warmed up and working. This is really nothing new. The government makes arbitrary tests. Corporations make devices that will pass those tests.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Schmeiser It's true, and here's a case if it actually happening.
...except for the recent shooting in Oregon, where the shooter turned his gun on himself after a civilian with concealed carry pointed his gun at the shooter. (and chose not to shoot due to people behind the shooter) Funny the news never reported it that way.
I think you need to brush up on your reading comprehension skills. If, as requested by the AC poster, we travel back in time with him/her to a year ago... May 22, 2012 hasn't happened yet.
Joseph married Mary and, presumably, would have adopted Jesus as his son. To the Jews that should be enough to establish his legal right to the throne. Gentiles wouldn't buy that argument, so another way is also established.
Why do we "need" two accounts? For that matter, why do we need four gospels? Each one records different events, has a different audience, and more generally, supports a different aspect of Jesus.
Matthew is written to the Jews. It makes a pile of "Old Testament" references without really explaining them. The Jews would have understood. Matthew establishes Jesus as the Messiah, which is also a Jewish thing. (The Gentiles may not understand, and probably wouldn't care.) Matthew, as a government official, may have been skilled in shorthand, explaining why his gospel contains the most direct quotations of Jesus. To re-iterate the genealogy point above, Matthew includes a genealogy that makes the most sense to a Jew, to establish the Messiahship of Jesus.
Mark contains at least 7 instances where a translation is given for an Aramaic term. His readership was probably not Jews. (Aramaic being the day-to-day language of the Jews at that time.) Also, he includes a number of Latinisms... Latin transliterations, and idioms. His audience is probably the Romans. Mark is short and fast paced. It's purpose is probably to document the ministry and passion of Jesus. (the crucifixion story, that is.) This gospel begins with John the Baptist baptizing Jesus (a genealogy, of sorts?) and ends abruptly with the resurrection.
Luke is a very carefully researched document written for a Gentile audience. It establishes the humanity of Jesus. The genealogy follows his bloodline and also goes back to Adam rather than stopping at Abraham as in Matthew. Some have suggested that Luke together with Acts was written as a defense document for Paul's trial in Rome. Romans are cast in a more positive light in Luke than in the other gospels.
John is easy because near the end he states the purpose of the book -- "that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God..." John focuses on the deity of Jesus. This is also reflected in the "genealogy" in the first verse: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." (If you have trouble with "the Word" being Jesus skip down to verse 14: "and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us")
So, why four accounts? Each one provides a different viewpoint that can give us a more complete understanding of Jesus. It's basically the same as why a police officer would ask multiple witnesses for their accounts of a traffic accident... each one may have seen something different, and when you put them all together you get a better picture.
Look up Moses' ruling to the daughters of Zelophehad. If Mary had no brothers, it would allow her father's birthright to pass to her son.
I _have_ looked into it and you're right. A little analytical thinking can shed a lot of light on this so-called conflict. First, Matthew was written for a Jewish audience. Luke was written for a Gentile audience. The Jews would know that the Messiah needed to be a "son of David." (descendant) The genealogy in Matthew, therefore, traces Jesus' "legal" right to sit on the throne. That is, it traces the male line from David. The Gentiles would recognize, though, that if the story of a virgin conception is true, Joseph was NOT the father of Jesus. So, the line is traced through Jesus' mother instead. In addition to that, in Jeremiah 22:30, we learn that "no seed" of Jehoakim (Jechonias in Greek) will sit on the throne of David. So, the virgin birth is actually a clever end-run around this curse. And, if you think about it, John 1:1 provides yet another "Genealogy" of Jesus, in a way. The more I've analyzed scripture, the more I've discovered that, at the very least, it is very carefully and cleverly written.
Exactly. And the reason for that is the public school system is completely staffed by academics. It's also the same reason they cut the shop budget.
Yup. And Therac-25 turned out to be operator error.
Until later, when it became clear it was very badly designed software.
OR, it could be that you took that way out of context and the "thing which he did" that displeased the LORD was failing to live up to his obligations under "levirate marriage."
and the orange/green light on the plug that tells us at a glance whether or not the battery is charged.
Grrr... I know I'm in the minority, but I hate the orange/green light used on so many electronics. I'm red/green deficient and it falls EXACTLY in my dead zone. I really, honestly, can't tell the two colours apart... even if they're right beside each other.