Though, we could just support OpenShot directly... turns out that they've been running a campaign for almost a month already: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/421164014/openshot-video-editor-for-windows-mac-and-linux

I love seeing different projects supporting each other on Kickstarter. OpenShot is awesome, and this seems like a great way for it to be improved (in addition to the two new platforms, the OpenShot folks have some pretty cool features planned). I have to say, I'm more excited about enhancements to OpenShot, than I am about Cox's new film :-)

I miss the CowboyNeal option :-(

No. Genetic material can enter the the bloodstream, despite the digestive process.

http://www.nature.com/cr/journal/v22/n1/full/cr2011158a.html

In short, the above study found white rice micro-RNA in observable quantities in the serum/plamsa of a statistically significant sample of human particpants. Here's some mainstream coverage of the study:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=vitamins-minerals-and-microrna
http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/09/21/2251238/what-you-eat-affects-your-genes

Do we know what the effect of long-term exposure to this foreign genetic material actually has? It's difficult to, since the vector of introduction was only discovered 18 months ago. Labelling might be a prudent choice until we have a nice 10-20yr study to show some conclusive results over a large and diverse population under test.

This is a highly specious argument. You're stating "espousing one untested toxin vs another more effective one, is equivalent to cargo cult plumbing", when in fact what you are calling "natural pesticides" is rarely the specific and heavy application of a specific "traditional" toxin.

Usually, it's more of a policy of IPM/IPC (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_pest_management ) which is more work-intensive, but contributes less to a pollution point-source, amongst other benefits, by utilizing a collection of methods rather than heavy reliance on a particular manufactured substance. Also, these methodologies decrease financial support of the potentially dubious production/manufacturing process of popular artificial pesticides (organophosphates and IGR's like methoprene). Additionally, it's important to recognize that this same argument uses unspecific wording to group all "natural" pesticides/insecticides together (such as neonicotinoids/pyrethroids/ryanoids versus other common mild herbicide/insectides). That alone should raise "straw-man" fallacy red flags.

I hope you're not really trying to equate RoundUp (or similar) with draping a net over your fruit tree.

Replying to self... I was right the first time, it's $8M from the silent partner(s), for a total of $10M before stretch goals.

Pardon, the outside funding is around $10M, not the total funding goal, crowd-sourcing included. I think there is enough funding to extend the goals beyond the original scope (which I agree would have been impossible to meet, even in the $4-5M range).

Oh, how do you figure? The traditional investment portion was to be some $8M (to bring the budget up to ~$10M), and is supposedly already lined up, modulo the initial funding goal (I believe Chris stated as much during one of the Reddit AMA's).

Moreover, of all the extended goal possibilities in the poll, which do you seriously believe would go toward bringing in new backers? More missions than before? More NPCs? I suspect that the lion's share of backers who would be swayed by those (and the "improved FPS mode"...) have already pledged. Also, are you Seumas on Kickstarter as well? If so, then of all people, you should realize that Linux support has a greatly different level of importance on a crowd-funding campaign (where the Linux community is heavily active) than the wider gaming world.