The point is unless you personally can drive enough traffic to your project it has no chance and 90% of more of the projects posted are never given a fair chance. All they are providing you with is the structure and nothing else. I thought the site was there to promote projects but it's not it's there to promote projects that they think have a chance of getting funded or that the people behind the site like.
This seemed really obvious from my research. Their business model is to promote projects that will bring new donors to their site, not yours.
You're interpreting it correctly. The rest of the world, including terrorists living in caves, are perfectly capable of implementing encryption on their own. And instead of helping or protecting Americans, so-called "export controls" are aimed squarely at the US populace. US companies are prevented from taking basic steps to protect online privacy for exactly the same reason that mild external threats are hyped and used as justification to strip other rights from US citizens -- the US is a fascist, occupation government with absolutely no regard for the rule of law.
Sure, that already exists. To power a single car, the "drum" would have to be as big as a swimming pool. And your yard would have to be the size of two football fields. Have fun.
I have a fundamental problem with so called Work-In-Progress funding, where rates increase to pay for construction.
So, your solution to the perceived problem of self-financing by monopoly utilities is to force them to obtain financing from monopoly banks, which aren't even loaning anyways because they would rather invest abroad?
Your rates are still relatively low... lower than the national average. This is your biggest complaint about nuclear power? Your utility company seems to be doing a pretty good job in that case.
So, this is a new troll, right? Where you choose one of the most abusive Democrat presidents ever and try to pass him off as some type of anti-expansionist-government crusader? What's next... Lincoln warned us about deploying troops in the US? Wilson warned us about inflationary fiat currency?
Imagine a world in which the US government blew up the Twin Towers and there was no record of it because all the recordings of them telling people that they were about to blow them up didn't exist because their communication was encrypted.
Imagine a world in which all the neo-con morons in the Bush administration got the "new Pearl Harbor" that they wanted in order to launch us into WWIII so that they could profit from the resulting war spending and rise in oil prices.
Imagine a world in which the entire DOJ was a bunch of drug and gun-running criminals who spent their entire careers covering up torture and murders and false-flag attacks that they perpetrated.
Imagine a world where you could never know anything about this, because everyone who said it in public were either quietly censored or secretly detained indefinitely in gulag prison camps.
Heck, last time I attended CES you were able to pick up your badge AT THE AIRPORT in Vegas. Hows that for convenience?
Convention organizers are always looking for choke points as a place to set up shop. Ideally you want a place where everyone comes through, but not all at the same time. For a huge convention, the airport is pretty much perfect.
Soon, the first autonomous Bitcoin-stealing virus that lives completely in cyberspace by purchasing its own hosting will rise up to lead an army of internet-connected vending machines and come to rule over you pathetic carbon-based lifeforms... by exploiting your obvious weaknesses, free wi-fi, sugary snack foods and inflation-proof currency! Ahahahaha!
The temperature required to dissociate CO2 through a purely physical process is beyond the realm of practical materials science. Even if materials could be created to process it, the heat required would be more suited to nuclear power than to solar.
Would inflation-neutral money solve the problem of sustainability? Unfortunately, not by itself. I believe it is a necessary condition, from a human rights perspective. But it is not sufficient, from the same perspective, because it fails to address the issue of inter-generational wealth transfer. In fact, compared to inflationary money, it exacerbates the problem. Inflationary money is *only* desirable because it *does* address this issue, in an elegant albeit completely unjust and inefficient fashion. Inflation-neutral money would lead to sustainability, eventually, as wealth becomes more and more concentrated in the hands of a few who are able to front-run future generations through control of large-scale capital. But the transition could hardly be called "elegant". More like "bloody".
As for #2, yes open source is dependent upon closed hardware. But open source hardware is coming along.
And, sure, I could make a paperclip by myself. How much more expensive would it be? Well, probably you would have to ask "in terms of what?" In terms of money, cheaper, probably, since instead of driving to the store, I would just cut off a piece of bailing wire and bend it. In terms of time, it depends, since before making a paperclip I would probably have built a machine to draw wire, and before that, a machine to build that machine. In terms of materials or energy, it would probably be more expensive, but those materials would be more easily recycled, and the energy would be renewable. So depending on the details, it could end up being more or less expensive in terms of energy, materials, or time. But it would be sustainable.
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From what I've seen, Kickstarter has a decidedly "artistic" bent, and projects deemed too "technical" are rejected.
The point is unless you personally can drive enough traffic to your project it has no chance and 90% of more of the projects posted are never given a fair chance. All they are providing you with is the structure and nothing else. I thought the site was there to promote projects but it's not it's there to promote projects that they think have a chance of getting funded or that the people behind the site like.
This seemed really obvious from my research. Their business model is to promote projects that will bring new donors to their site, not yours.
You're interpreting it correctly. The rest of the world, including terrorists living in caves, are perfectly capable of implementing encryption on their own. And instead of helping or protecting Americans, so-called "export controls" are aimed squarely at the US populace. US companies are prevented from taking basic steps to protect online privacy for exactly the same reason that mild external threats are hyped and used as justification to strip other rights from US citizens -- the US is a fascist, occupation government with absolutely no regard for the rule of law.
In order to expropriate their resources and turn their children into debt slaves duh.
As far as you're concerned, my writing an equation qualifies as a citation.
Do you really not know the definition of 'arable'?
We weren't discussing algae.
And we aren't using it because our economic system is based on hokum and bullshit rather than reason and prudence.
The lesson is: never try.
1) http://www.google.com/search?q=(6+ton+%2F+acre+%2F+year)+*+(50+gallon+%2F+ton)+*+(25+miles+%2F+gallon)+%2F+(40+miles+%2F+day)+in+acre
4) Welcome to peak oil, dipshit.
Sure, that already exists. To power a single car, the "drum" would have to be as big as a swimming pool. And your yard would have to be the size of two football fields. Have fun.
I have a fundamental problem with so called Work-In-Progress funding, where rates increase to pay for construction.
So, your solution to the perceived problem of self-financing by monopoly utilities is to force them to obtain financing from monopoly banks, which aren't even loaning anyways because they would rather invest abroad?
http://www.georgiapower.com/pricing/residential/pricing/standard-service-plan.asp
Your rates are still relatively low... lower than the national average. This is your biggest complaint about nuclear power? Your utility company seems to be doing a pretty good job in that case.
* Breeding is a human right! ... among other things.
Actually just reproduction is a human right. And that means one copy.
So, this is a new troll, right? Where you choose one of the most abusive Democrat presidents ever and try to pass him off as some type of anti-expansionist-government crusader? What's next... Lincoln warned us about deploying troops in the US? Wilson warned us about inflationary fiat currency?
Wait, hold on a second. I didn't sign up for this. My idea of combat involves a sharp tongue and ritual scotch highballs.
Something tells me the end result of this is the US military as the global copyright police for physical objects.
Imagine a world in which the US government blew up the Twin Towers and there was no record of it because all the recordings of them telling people that they were about to blow them up didn't exist because their communication was encrypted.
Imagine a world in which all the neo-con morons in the Bush administration got the "new Pearl Harbor" that they wanted in order to launch us into WWIII so that they could profit from the resulting war spending and rise in oil prices.
Imagine a world in which the entire DOJ was a bunch of drug and gun-running criminals who spent their entire careers covering up torture and murders and false-flag attacks that they perpetrated.
Imagine a world where you could never know anything about this, because everyone who said it in public were either quietly censored or secretly detained indefinitely in gulag prison camps.
Reality check for all the morons who want to turn their office into a fun house.
Heck, last time I attended CES you were able to pick up your badge AT THE AIRPORT in Vegas. Hows that for convenience?
Convention organizers are always looking for choke points as a place to set up shop. Ideally you want a place where everyone comes through, but not all at the same time. For a huge convention, the airport is pretty much perfect.
Soon, the first autonomous Bitcoin-stealing virus that lives completely in cyberspace by purchasing its own hosting will rise up to lead an army of internet-connected vending machines and come to rule over you pathetic carbon-based lifeforms... by exploiting your obvious weaknesses, free wi-fi, sugary snack foods and inflation-proof currency! Ahahahaha!
Agreed.
But you shouldn't be under the impression that this type of technology is not useful for survival at least.
I doubt the motivation is geoengineering. One potentially practical use is methanol production in areas with no coal and little biomass.
The temperature required to dissociate CO2 through a purely physical process is beyond the realm of practical materials science. Even if materials could be created to process it, the heat required would be more suited to nuclear power than to solar.
You can use CO2 to make methanol, which is within the realm of economic feasibility since both CO2 sequestration and liquid fuels carry a premium.
Would inflation-neutral money solve the problem of sustainability? Unfortunately, not by itself. I believe it is a necessary condition, from a human rights perspective. But it is not sufficient, from the same perspective, because it fails to address the issue of inter-generational wealth transfer. In fact, compared to inflationary money, it exacerbates the problem. Inflationary money is *only* desirable because it *does* address this issue, in an elegant albeit completely unjust and inefficient fashion. Inflation-neutral money would lead to sustainability, eventually, as wealth becomes more and more concentrated in the hands of a few who are able to front-run future generations through control of large-scale capital. But the transition could hardly be called "elegant". More like "bloody".
As for #2, yes open source is dependent upon closed hardware. But open source hardware is coming along.
And, sure, I could make a paperclip by myself. How much more expensive would it be? Well, probably you would have to ask "in terms of what?" In terms of money, cheaper, probably, since instead of driving to the store, I would just cut off a piece of bailing wire and bend it. In terms of time, it depends, since before making a paperclip I would probably have built a machine to draw wire, and before that, a machine to build that machine. In terms of materials or energy, it would probably be more expensive, but those materials would be more easily recycled, and the energy would be renewable. So depending on the details, it could end up being more or less expensive in terms of energy, materials, or time. But it would be sustainable.
I met a bank manager a few years back who had never heard of the concept of continuously compounding interest.
Yeah. Kind of puts things in perspective in retrospect actually.
From what it sounds like, you could become a hipster.