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UK drone firm that raised $3.4m on Kickstarter collapses[^]
Delivered just 600 of the promised 15,000 and gone into liquidation.
Why do I get the feeling some of the Kickstarter projects are just a modern day Dot Com Bubble?
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There's a yotutube channel called, something like, KickStarterCrap - that guarantees a chuckle or two if you are bored.
I am not sure why these projects fail, after all they do all the following before hitting the funding round:
Prototype their idea
Source their manufacturer and material
Determine their costs per deliverable product
Calculate the time it will take to go from order to delivery per item
Oh silly me, of course they don't...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
modified 19-Nov-15 9:20am.
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lol I subscribe to that guy, the channel is called iDubbbzTV. KickStarterCrap is just one type of video he does, there is other stuff on there too.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Why do I get the feeling some of the Kickstarter projects are just a modern day Dot Com Bubble?
Or simple mail/wire fraud.
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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If you are one of the investors the you would be Zano-Due?
New version: WinHeist Version You didn't fall from the stupid tree you got dragged through the whole dumbass forest.
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And in the Due-Due!
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Sadly, they were not 'buying' a product but 'investing' to get something made. Investments can go down as well hit the floor gasping for breath before finally keeling over with a massive coronary brought on by overindulgence.
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In Italy these kind of initiatives enjoy very little success - we are used to con arists selling the Fountain of Trevi to unsuspecting foreigner rich men, firms that get money and then disappear and so on. Either you give something upfront or you don't get any buck.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
"just eat it, eat it"."They're out to mold, better eat while you can" -- HobbyProggy
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Last time I was in Roma, I wanted to put my hands into the pockets and already found another hand in there. Looks like some people in Italy simply skip the part with the scam and reach into your pocket directly.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Don't you know the Public Place Dance? It's the repeated compulsive act of checking all of our own possession every 3-5 minutes or when we are touched by someone (in the bus for example) when in public places.
Also I heard of some italians abroad ashamed to have treated with the utmost suspicion a couple of girls that was gifting sunglasses as a part of sponsor campaign for a big company (Manzotin or Simmenthal, can't remember) because this kind of approach in Italy often ends up with a scam, a theft or a robbery if unlucky.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
"just eat it, eat it"."They're out to mold, better eat while you can" -- HobbyProggy
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And in Napoli they simply make an offer which you can't refuse (unless you want to take your new overshoes for a swim in the bay). 
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Pointless precisation: the quote and the behaviour you described is the depiction of Sicilian criminality, which is pretty far from Napoli 
As far as I saw in other nations people are much more relaxed, to the point that in London's Burger King (Piccadilly or Leicester Square, can't remember precisely) there were tens of warnings all over the walls that encouraged people to not put phones, wallets, house/car keys in plain sight over the table and to keep in check ersonal belongings. That comes so obvious and natural in Italy I was pretty amused that there is the necessity to actually tell it!
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
"just eat it, eat it"."They're out to mold, better eat while you can" -- HobbyProggy
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It's probably a branch office!
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A competitor, actually. Sicilian Mafia, Campany's Camorra, Calabria's 'Ndrangheta, Puglia's Sacra Corona Unita and others I'm not aware of are very different between each other and act as competitors. In these "civilized" times they can even cooperate but always as distinct entities and with formal procedures with liasons, ambassadors and such. Basically they are autonomous States inside the State.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
"just eat it, eat it"."They're out to mold, better eat while you can" -- HobbyProggy
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Movie Quote Of The Day
Have you ever wondered if there was more to life, other than being really, really, ridiculously good looking?
Which movie?
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The Elephant man
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Boo-Lander
Regards,
Palash
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Der Neinsager[^]
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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Susan Boyle - A Life
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I think I'd rather have someone who can sing (but looks like she was dragged through a hedge backwards after the plough had run her over a few times) than some of these plastic cookie-cutter morons that can't sing, but do. (Who should be run over with a plough a few hundred times, and then recycled as firelighters)
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Simon doesn't like your thinking.
Simon will be upset.
Simon must be avenged.
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Simon can kiss my ...
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Maybe, but he'd rather you turn around. Allegedly.
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Star Trek: The Worth of Kirk
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