Only the government and those they anoint may request money without giving anything back.
Also:
The main problem is that direct translations of terminology at Kickstarter, such as 'bounty' and 'support,' are interpreted to mean collecting money without giving anything back, and this kind of operation requires a permit which can be only given to associations, not to private persons, and it takes long to apply for such permit.
The problem isn't the translation. That is, literally, how Kickstarter works. Pledges are to be considered "donations". Not *charitable* donations, but donations none-the-less. There is no guarantee that the project will succeed or that anything promised to backers will ever be fulfilled. This is stated in Kickstarter's own information. Backing requires some degree of investigation, judgement, and an understanding that you're essentially just chipping in to see a project you are interested in reach completion. If it is successful and obligations to backers are fulfilled, that's a bonus.
I like Kickstarter and I've backed more than 180 projects, so far. However, it is not without some weak points that could potentially be a detriment to its entire existence down the road. Such as their eagerness to just green light almost anything (like the lottery winner who failed at his pizza startup and decided he wanted to raise over a million bucks to build an MMO or the endless stream of middle aged people wanting you to fund their gospel album or their obnoxious ten year old kid's debut pop album). Or their complete lack of vetting projects and those submitting them.
That may come back to bite them in the ass, some day, since their entire continued existence relies on a high result-to-failure ratio as far as trust. Considering they only add between one and three or four dozen projects per day, that shouldn't be a problem to do some minimal vetting of each project. Especially since they get five percent of each successful project and that can run from them pocketing $2,000 on some of the smaller successful video game kickstarters to $400,000 on some of the larger ones like Ouya and the Pebble Watch. Not investing some of this revenue into the one absolute necessity (trust) that their company requires will be the utmost negligence.
If the specific content (a URL) and owner of that content were not identified in the DMCA claim, then it was not a valid claim and the provider had no business removing any content or access.
Uh. The idea is that by posting photos and linking them directly to your identity on these services and using facial-login systems on your cell phone and such is that you are giving them a massive database to use to identify you from their monitoring systems. It doesn't matter if anyone's ever going to "give a shit about your photos". They'll have them to pull from in matches to aid in their real time searching and identification on the street. In effect, you are handing them over all the information they need to track you every time you're out in public.
Granted, you may not be doing anything of interest and maybe nothing questionable, but so what?
I chipped in on their Kickstarter from the very beginning and was one of the first to create an account and login. After that first login, I never touched Diaspora again. Do I still count as a "user"?
The geeks would be the early adopters and everyone else wouldn't care, because a bunch of us geeks is hardly the social network they're looking to associate with.
If, by "online", you mean "the web", then twenty years ago, you literally had to be the guy who invented the web, to put a picture online, since it was just about exactly twenty years ago that Berners-Lee uploaded the first photo to what there was of the "web" at the time.
And the rest of us are saying "the last thing I want to do is be the guy responsible for maintaining and administering the social network platform for all of my family and friends".
If only they were able to raise tens of millions of dollars per year for their "non-profit". Perhaps via some banner at the top of every page on their site, so they could afford servers.
Most games have a shitty multiplayer component. It drives the cost of games up, nobody plays them, they're dead within a couple weeks, and it cuts into the amount of development and investment that could have been made into the REAL game.
We've been suffering this "I wanna make the next ultimate FPS/whatever!, too!" bullshit for fifteen years.
I don't even care that much, so long as I get a say in how it's spent.
It'd be easy to do. Put a list of projects and costs on the internet and let people vote for them. Top votes win and we keep going down the list until we're out of money.
That is a TERRIBLE idea. We'd have massive statues of dicks and giant pudding-filled swimming pools. You can't trust this shit to the internet and you sure as hell can't trust the wisdom of mob-rule.
The difference is that nobody is proposing that we start teaching children how to build and maintain a washer, dryer, or microwave at the age of six. Unless we're just going to extend education to the age of thirty or later and teach absolutely everything that could ever possibly be taught, let's stick with real cross-use knowledge in grade, middle, and high school and focus on specific education after that. Teaching these very specific (often very *vocational*) things at young ages is simply a waste all around.
Then I demand that a full four year medical course be taught in grade school, because students will some day need to know about medicine and health care in this modern society. And since they'll need to know how to handle money and possibly run a business, I demand that we start with a full MBA and CPA course in kindergarten.
Sorry, I don't buy the modern day hype about how kids need to learn programming and typing and hardware at the age of six. That shouldn't be what school is about. Focus on the basics. Otherwise, why not spend years of this precious educational time teaching them about how to build and maintain a car engine? And if that, why not a boat engine, too? And why not how to repair a washer and dryer? And a lawnmower? And how to sew? And woodworking? And how to perform surgery? And how to run the board at a radio station?
That isn't to say all of these things are not worth knowing, but lets steer away from the trendy bullshit that sounds good and focus on the fundamentals that help when you decide to pursue these more specific things on your own. This is another fantastic example of what's wrong with education in many places. Rather than focus on critical thinking and analytical skills, we focus on specifics that will ultimately only serve a handful of people and do nothing more than look nice on some brown-nosing administration executives resume when he trots out his pet project.
Hard for me to get upset at this, considering how out of their mind the publishing and literature industry frequently is when it comes to copyright, themselves.
Not particularly. I know it's an unpopular opinion, but I watched Star Wars in the late 90s, when I was in my early 20s and then I moved on with my life. It was fine. It was a blast. It was not something I built the rest of my life around. There's too much interesting stuff out there to get so devotedly wrapped up to a handful of movies that were great decades ago and are mediocre today. I understand this is a "fan endeavor", but I'd rather just see talented people do something original rather than build onto an exhausted and bloated franchise.
Can we please not link to shit on reddit? It's bad enough we get cross-over douchebags spreading their shitty memes and infecting discussions here with their idiotic level of circle-jerking inane commentary. We don't need to encourage them.
And yet it's most common in the United States, where circumcision is most prevalent.
It just absolutely baffles me that "hygiene durp durp" is our justification, here. You can cause a number of significant and even life threatening problems with poor oral hygiene, too, but I don't see anyone suggesting we take a jigsaw to the jaws of infants rather than teaching them proper oral hygiene as they grow up.
Don't get me wrong, I don't see how there's really any detriment to a grown man who was circumcised when he was like a month old or whatever, but I also would kind of demand a significant amount of legitimate reason behind taking a scalpel to a baby. Especially when so many reasonable solutions are out there. Like telling little Johnny when you teach him how to take a shower "now use some soap and a rag on your balls".
I know there's no certain medical evidence of any benefit to having your tongue split and forked like a serpent, but as the parent, how about I be given the choice to have the doctor's perform this before sending my kid home with us after birth?
I don't get some of those guys who are falling apart decades later, because they were circumcised.
Perhaps the only people I understand even less than those dudes who are obsessed with the fact that they were circumcised decades earlier are the people who are obsessed with pushing for circumcision.
Fucking crazy and, considering all of the other aspects of care that we happily ignore from birth onward, pretty fucking hypocritical.
They're only more dangerous if every other fucking idiot on the road is going grocery shopping in their fucking Dodge Ram with the two wheels side-by-side rather than a normal human-sized car.
Also, 55mpg in fifteen years? *yawn*.
The goal should be to have 90% non-fossil-fuel vehicles by 2025. This is even less fucking ambitious than "we should land a man on the moon again by 2025".
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Only the government and those they anoint may request money without giving anything back.
Also:
The main problem is that direct translations of terminology at Kickstarter, such as 'bounty' and 'support,' are interpreted to mean collecting money without giving anything back, and this kind of operation requires a permit which can be only given to associations, not to private persons, and it takes long to apply for such permit.
The problem isn't the translation. That is, literally, how Kickstarter works. Pledges are to be considered "donations". Not *charitable* donations, but donations none-the-less. There is no guarantee that the project will succeed or that anything promised to backers will ever be fulfilled. This is stated in Kickstarter's own information. Backing requires some degree of investigation, judgement, and an understanding that you're essentially just chipping in to see a project you are interested in reach completion. If it is successful and obligations to backers are fulfilled, that's a bonus.
I like Kickstarter and I've backed more than 180 projects, so far. However, it is not without some weak points that could potentially be a detriment to its entire existence down the road. Such as their eagerness to just green light almost anything (like the lottery winner who failed at his pizza startup and decided he wanted to raise over a million bucks to build an MMO or the endless stream of middle aged people wanting you to fund their gospel album or their obnoxious ten year old kid's debut pop album). Or their complete lack of vetting projects and those submitting them.
That may come back to bite them in the ass, some day, since their entire continued existence relies on a high result-to-failure ratio as far as trust. Considering they only add between one and three or four dozen projects per day, that shouldn't be a problem to do some minimal vetting of each project. Especially since they get five percent of each successful project and that can run from them pocketing $2,000 on some of the smaller successful video game kickstarters to $400,000 on some of the larger ones like Ouya and the Pebble Watch. Not investing some of this revenue into the one absolute necessity (trust) that their company requires will be the utmost negligence.
a) routinely putting the interests of your 350 million citizens ahead.
I want to live in the fairy tale world inside your head! :D
If the specific content (a URL) and owner of that content were not identified in the DMCA claim, then it was not a valid claim and the provider had no business removing any content or access.
Uh. The idea is that by posting photos and linking them directly to your identity on these services and using facial-login systems on your cell phone and such is that you are giving them a massive database to use to identify you from their monitoring systems. It doesn't matter if anyone's ever going to "give a shit about your photos". They'll have them to pull from in matches to aid in their real time searching and identification on the street. In effect, you are handing them over all the information they need to track you every time you're out in public.
Granted, you may not be doing anything of interest and maybe nothing questionable, but so what?
I predict that our next president will be an asshole.
And the one after that, too.
And the one after that.
What is their definition of "user"?
I chipped in on their Kickstarter from the very beginning and was one of the first to create an account and login. After that first login, I never touched Diaspora again. Do I still count as a "user"?
The geeks would be the early adopters and everyone else wouldn't care, because a bunch of us geeks is hardly the social network they're looking to associate with.
If, by "online", you mean "the web", then twenty years ago, you literally had to be the guy who invented the web, to put a picture online, since it was just about exactly twenty years ago that Berners-Lee uploaded the first photo to what there was of the "web" at the time.
And the rest of us are saying "the last thing I want to do is be the guy responsible for maintaining and administering the social network platform for all of my family and friends".
If only they were able to raise tens of millions of dollars per year for their "non-profit". Perhaps via some banner at the top of every page on their site, so they could afford servers.
Most games have a shitty multiplayer component. It drives the cost of games up, nobody plays them, they're dead within a couple weeks, and it cuts into the amount of development and investment that could have been made into the REAL game.
We've been suffering this "I wanna make the next ultimate FPS/whatever!, too!" bullshit for fifteen years.
I don't even care that much, so long as I get a say in how it's spent.
It'd be easy to do. Put a list of projects and costs on the internet and let people vote for them. Top votes win and we keep going down the list until we're out of money.
That is a TERRIBLE idea. We'd have massive statues of dicks and giant pudding-filled swimming pools. You can't trust this shit to the internet and you sure as hell can't trust the wisdom of mob-rule.
The difference is that nobody is proposing that we start teaching children how to build and maintain a washer, dryer, or microwave at the age of six. Unless we're just going to extend education to the age of thirty or later and teach absolutely everything that could ever possibly be taught, let's stick with real cross-use knowledge in grade, middle, and high school and focus on specific education after that. Teaching these very specific (often very *vocational*) things at young ages is simply a waste all around.
Well, shit, let's teach them woodworking so they can see their results even faster.
Let's avoid turning everything into a vocational school so we can pump out bots.
Then I demand that a full four year medical course be taught in grade school, because students will some day need to know about medicine and health care in this modern society. And since they'll need to know how to handle money and possibly run a business, I demand that we start with a full MBA and CPA course in kindergarten.
Sorry, I don't buy the modern day hype about how kids need to learn programming and typing and hardware at the age of six. That shouldn't be what school is about. Focus on the basics. Otherwise, why not spend years of this precious educational time teaching them about how to build and maintain a car engine? And if that, why not a boat engine, too? And why not how to repair a washer and dryer? And a lawnmower? And how to sew? And woodworking? And how to perform surgery? And how to run the board at a radio station?
That isn't to say all of these things are not worth knowing, but lets steer away from the trendy bullshit that sounds good and focus on the fundamentals that help when you decide to pursue these more specific things on your own. This is another fantastic example of what's wrong with education in many places. Rather than focus on critical thinking and analytical skills, we focus on specifics that will ultimately only serve a handful of people and do nothing more than look nice on some brown-nosing administration executives resume when he trots out his pet project.
A convention for the fans to promote the industry that has its own issues with draconian and myopic copyright views.
I'm not suggesting that two wrongs makes a right, but I'm certainly suggesting that I have less sympathy for hypocrites.
Hard for me to get upset at this, considering how out of their mind the publishing and literature industry frequently is when it comes to copyright, themselves.
Not particularly. I know it's an unpopular opinion, but I watched Star Wars in the late 90s, when I was in my early 20s and then I moved on with my life. It was fine. It was a blast. It was not something I built the rest of my life around. There's too much interesting stuff out there to get so devotedly wrapped up to a handful of movies that were great decades ago and are mediocre today. I understand this is a "fan endeavor", but I'd rather just see talented people do something original rather than build onto an exhausted and bloated franchise.
Can we please not link to shit on reddit? It's bad enough we get cross-over douchebags spreading their shitty memes and infecting discussions here with their idiotic level of circle-jerking inane commentary. We don't need to encourage them.
And yet it's most common in the United States, where circumcision is most prevalent.
It just absolutely baffles me that "hygiene durp durp" is our justification, here. You can cause a number of significant and even life threatening problems with poor oral hygiene, too, but I don't see anyone suggesting we take a jigsaw to the jaws of infants rather than teaching them proper oral hygiene as they grow up.
Don't get me wrong, I don't see how there's really any detriment to a grown man who was circumcised when he was like a month old or whatever, but I also would kind of demand a significant amount of legitimate reason behind taking a scalpel to a baby. Especially when so many reasonable solutions are out there. Like telling little Johnny when you teach him how to take a shower "now use some soap and a rag on your balls".
It's idiotic that this is even a choice.
I know there's no certain medical evidence of any benefit to having your tongue split and forked like a serpent, but as the parent, how about I be given the choice to have the doctor's perform this before sending my kid home with us after birth?
I don't get some of those guys who are falling apart decades later, because they were circumcised.
Perhaps the only people I understand even less than those dudes who are obsessed with the fact that they were circumcised decades earlier are the people who are obsessed with pushing for circumcision.
Fucking crazy and, considering all of the other aspects of care that we happily ignore from birth onward, pretty fucking hypocritical.
Absurd analogy. Last I checked, you couldn't scrub cancer away with good hygiene.
They're only more dangerous if every other fucking idiot on the road is going grocery shopping in their fucking Dodge Ram with the two wheels side-by-side rather than a normal human-sized car.
Also, 55mpg in fifteen years? *yawn*.
The goal should be to have 90% non-fossil-fuel vehicles by 2025. This is even less fucking ambitious than "we should land a man on the moon again by 2025".
True, I didn't need college to study gender.