That's basically what kickstarter is - it's a way for VCs to crowdsource initial investments without having to give any stock in return. As an AC noted below, in this case, it would appear that the kickstarters basically gave the VCs a gift of $15M, since now the VCs won't have to make any investment for initial development, prototyping, and manufacturing.

It's a pretty sweet deal if you're a VC - just snap up these kickstarters that someone else paid to develop, and laugh all the way to the bank.

Will say that govenrment gets access to everyone's cell phones so they can "fight terror." It's for our own safety. We should all be thankful Uncle Sam is looking out for us.

*sigh

If you read TFA you would know that this is not an anonymous system, and that people making reports must provide their contact information and, if requested, be interviewed by police.

Well, if you have to go through a "peer review" process, and the majority of those "peers" are biased, because they are funded by infinitely-deep-pocketed interests (government) who have a vested interest (taxation and power) in proving AGW, then yes I think it is a reasonable conjecture that there is bias baked into the process.

He's not ignorant. He just wants all of your medical records to be in Google.

He's also just sheltered and things that have an enormous effect on the average person's life have no effect on his.

This is the example I use of how NOT to communicate at my company:

Each individual stakeholder must focus on the downward flow of delegation to ensure timely deployment of critical deliverables and the achievement of key milestones. Without cross-functional deployment of synergistic competencies, we risk significant schedule slippage and may miss key dates that we have agreed to with our core customers.

I much prefer:

"Everybody, get your shit done on time and work together to avoid getting stuck, or we won't sell our shit and we won't get paid."

Sums it up nicely.

But, the premise is that automation will replace "most if not all" human LABOR.

Doing new things is still labor. Me cleaning my kitchen is labor. Me building a new desk for my shop is labor. So, the premise is that all things possible for humans to do will be replaced with automation, leaving humans nothing to do.

Maybe that's not what they meant, but if that's the case, they shouldn't have said it.

Yeah I'm an idiot and didn't see that there :p

Or at least the complete patent number...

I had the post office stop mail delivery years ago, and pulled my mailbox out of the ground. Someone who needs to send me a letter can do it electronically.

Here's how:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1i-dnAH9Y4

Believe it or not, we figured out a long time ago how to shoot at moving targets ;-)

That's pretty normal when you shoot a deer. They seldom just drop dead right on the spot. Depending on where you get them, they can run anywhere between 10 and 100 yards before dropping, or if you get a bad hit, they can wander for hours slowly bleeding out, or worse, for days, eventually succumbing to a predator or infection.

But what's that little red button on the bottom of the gun?