Doctor Manhattan and Magneto, respectively.

Not in California (I'm reading in this that since you can terminate someone without cause, they also don't need to tell an employer why even if there WAS cause). http://www.business.ca.gov/StartaBusiness…

A main thing to take away from this is to ask questions to which answers would be a material fact. Material facts and misstatements of such can be used as evidence should you need to take the person to small claim's court.

I'd prefer a subtitled version if only I wasn't strapped for personal time that I can devote to paying attention on screen 100% of the time. As it is a 25 episode series is too much of a time commitment without allowing me to check my phone, do some light work while it's in the background, etc.

*teaching a child to read. Stupid tablet.

Ding ding ding you just pointed out the one true benefit to kickstarter, and why kickstarter is more like a donation than an investment. I mean it's an investment in the poetic way, like teaching a child to red is an investment in their future. If that makes you feel good doing it, by all means do it. I'd do it more…

it's actually not at all like stock or company investments. in a stock or company investment they have an obligation to maintain and grow your investment, and generally at any point you should be able to sell your share for the current market value of the stock. During which time you technically own a piece of the…

Then those people who think putting 25 dollars into a project that MAY end up getting finished in 2 years when they could just as well wait to buy the product in 2 years for the same amount if and when it's released clearly don't understand the value of their own money.

I get wanting "day of" or even "before everyone else" and paying a premium for that. But is that worth taking the huge gamble that the product will come out at all. I'm not even a fan of preorders, and this is worse than a preorder. Plus with a preorder you're still only paying the value of the product (60 dollars for…

oh and by the way a savings account is insured by the FDIC, so unless you're betting on the government collapsing (which hey, it's not impossible), you are getting a guarantee that you won't lose money in it. Meanwhile the savings account also guarantees you get SOME dividends on it, which is basically a guaranteed…

Yes, but with kickstarter it's pretty much a guarantee that you WON'T get your money back. Only a small percentage of donor perks actually match or exceed what you paid for it Basically that's if they offer a perk where you get the product for the price that they'll be selling it for; for almost every other perk,…

Except your ROI that's a physical product is also almost certainly of lesser value than the release price of the product. Especially when you consider people who donate below the amount needed for them to get the product (just to get a "special thanks" or a t-shirt or something). And that's with a product that stands…

When you donate to PBS they give you a tote bag. They still know to call it a donation. Most kickstarter perks have a value less than what you actually give, and only an idiot would "invest" in something that's pretty much guaranteed to return less than what you paid.

I think most perks on kickstarter are below the market value for what it is you "invested" into it. When I pay 50 dollars to get a t-shirt and a digital download of a game that'll sell for 10 dollars, that's not investing. Hell, if I pay 50 dollars and get a copy of a game that retails for 50 dollars, that's not…

It's not investing, and maybe people would be more cautious when they get over that little bit of semantics. You're donating money to a project; other than the good feeling of helping to accomplish something, you don't get anything except whatever perks you MIGHT get.

try it in real life.

Okay this is a really stupid 101 type question but... I'm gonna need a receiver for that 5.1 system, right? Right now all my peripherals (PS3, PC, Wii) are connected directly to the HDTV via HDMI (and component). If I absolutely need to get an A/V receiver, can anyone recommend one of a similar price range as that 5.1…

Content creator revenue can vary drastically from month to month, and since there's no guarantee he can keep making that money for more than a few years (which would also swing around drastically), it's kind of disingenuous to say "he makes 10 million dollars a year."

If anyone ever needs a recipient for their altruistic act, I can send my paypal address.

There's like, no way to pay 4/month for 200 gb, is there? Cause at 200gb I can pretty much bank all my project files online, but 100 is too small (and 1TB is overkill right now).