It is possible to raise some impressive amounts, e.g. Wayside Creations raised $130K for Fallout: Nuka Break season 2, Zombie Orpheus raised $400K for The Gamers: Hands of Fate, and Far From Home raised $125K for Star Trek Continues. By comparison, a top-of-the-line production like Game of Thrones costs $6 million per episode, so one cannot assume similar production values from a crowd funded project. On the other hand, the projects mentioned earlier are of a decent quality. As noted by the submitter, the price of reasonably good visual effects is falling, which will make it a lot easier to produce on small budgets while still making it look okay. I'm not sure that crowdfunded TV will displace the networks, but it is a good alternative for independent film makers to raise money for their projects. Hopefully, we will get a lot more brave and high quality TV from that.

Maybe they want to avoid getting their mail servers marked as spam servers?

I suspect that the "Hello, World" program is the most commonly *printed* (on paper, in books) piece of code, ever.

Most sites work pretty well without javascript. And if it is important, you can just enable it.

Assuming that the gun on the image is a real gun and not a replica or believable toy.

This one is more like a Danish sickness festering. The sad reality is that Denmark has been a habitual user solitary confinement of suspects for a long time. A long time both in terms of how long it has been used (the first explicit rules on its use came in 1978) as well as the duration of solitary confinement: Often it will last until the trial is over, a long time after the actual investigation has ended. Sometimes suspects are confined in solitary for more than a year. Fortunately, it seems that the solitary confinement is over for Gottfrid.

You can actually still switch to an even more old-fashioned UI. I know, because I did. The main reason was that their new and "improved" UI hides folders, so you cannot see new mail in your folders unless you actively expand your folders list. Secondary reason was that you could no longer move your mouse over a sender and get a tooltip stating the address of the sender.

The main reason not to leave your current provider is that decade worth of friends and contacts who know your email address and will most likely continue to use your old email address for quite a while after you switch. I know from experience: I switched from hotmail 8 years ago, and still get the occasional email from a friend there.

Never been called a hipster before :-) I don't own a T.V., but that is mostly because I have a computer with a screen, so I don't really need another screen. Besides, I have an internet connection, pretty much allowing me to see what I want, when I want.

The option None - Why should I need permission? is a strange way of putting it. It implies that I am using a vehicle needing a license without having the license. The only vehicle that I use is a (pedal powered) bicycle. No need for any license there :-)

Almost, but not quite: The key step was not the alcohol,but the boiling while brewing the alcohol.

Your initial statement was a bit more important than you may have thought. At a 0% profit rate, ANY business would have to do something or face being driven out of business. And at a 100% tax rate, well, it would be close to impossible to run a modern business, so the point is moot.

You argue that any tax increase on profits will be sent directly to the consumer. This, however, carries a number of implicit assumptions:
1) Increasing the price will not impact sales: Increasing the price by x% may make fewer consumers buy the product, decreasing the sales by y%. This could easily lead to lower total profits for the corporation.
2) No competition: Competing companies may opt not to increase prices and be able to undercut prices. This allows them to build a larger market share by attracting the customers of those corporations that increased prices.

Regarding your arguments on cutting cost, this will happen regardless of taxation. Any corporation in a Capitalist economy will look for ways to minimize costs in order to become more competitive and drive out competition.

You do realize that most countries tax a corporation on its profits, not on its turnover, right? So, it is not the $5000 price per good that is taxed, but the $1000 of profits. And that the corporate tax rate is quite low, compared to income tax. Where I live, corporate tax has been reduced from 50% to 25% over the last 30 years. And guess what? 30 years ago corporations did turn a profit!

Seriously? Out of curiosity, can you provide some sources for that? Not because I'm doubting you, but because I'd like to dig a bit further ...

That is including community tax. You are getting confused by the tax on the last earned dollar, as this tax can be high, but total income tax will not increase above 51.7 % of the income. As you note, there are other taxes that muddles the picture, as these depend on how the tax earner lives his or her life.