Philip.paulssonLagertha is stupid hot.
Bjorn to be wild, baby.
History
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Philip.paulssonHehehe. (though probably not worth the click through, these are the only good ones)
Saying goodbye to someone and then walking in the same direction as them. *shudders*
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Nope, can't sleep, too embarrassed about that one thing that happened when I was 11.
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"For here or to go?"
"Yes."
*dies*
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Philip.paulssonHahah
And it’s the cutest thing in the universe.
Philip.paulssonLegit.
Today, I expressed my feelings to a guy I've liked for a long time. He basically turned me down because I have the same name as his mom, and dating me would be too weird. FML
Philip.paulssonWARNING: MAJOR CUTE AHEAD
YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE CUTE.
Sorry, just had to get that out.
BUT SERIOUSLY LOOK HOW CUTE.
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"We have so many wild feral foxes in Australia. The father emu 'Elvis' would not have been able to protect the chicks from being eaten at night. Now these bundles of fluff sleep next to my fireplace... they all live quite happily together."
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Philip.paulssonHahah great. The most idiotic country is going to get even dumber.
The site faces a total block after Wikipedia editors failed to comply with a court decision in a remote village.
Wikipedia blacked out its homepage in response to proposed Congressional legislation on online piracy in 2012.
Yves Herman / Reuters
Russia has ordered several internet service providers to block Wikipedia throughout the country after the volunteers who run the user-generated online encyclopedia refused to delete an article.
Roskomnadzor, Russia's communications watchdog, said in a statement on Monday that the offending article — an entry about charas, an Indian form of hashish — was banned under a recent court decision in Cherny Yar, a town of 8,000 people on the southern reaches of the Volga River.
Russian Wikipedia editors had changed the URL of the page in the hope that this would remove the offending information from the page in the court decision. The page is now a disambiguator for several pages named "Charas," including an island on the remote Indigirka river in northeastern Siberia and two Indian films of that name. Roskomnadzor, however, said that the page would remain banned until the offending material is removed from the site. "The illegal character of the information posted to Wikipedia has been confirmed by expert analysis and a corresponding decision of the Federal Drug Control Service of Russia," the statement said.
Though the court decision only asks to block one link, the agency said that about 30% of providers would be required to block Wikipedia in its entirety because it uses secure https protocol. It's unclear why Roskomnadzor says that would require blocking the entire website or would allow the other 70% of ISPs to continue to access Wikipedia.
A spokesperson for Wikipedia did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Wikipedia has previously said that it receives numerous requests from foreign governments to remove articles, but complies with "few to none," and only when required by law.
Russia has several laws that mandate blocking content online for a number of reasons ranging from "extremism" to "promoting drugs, suicide, and pedophilia" and arbitrary decisions given no explanation. The laws are implemented by several different agencies, rarely with any consistency. Roskomnadzor has banned or threatened to ban websites including Reddit, Github, Vimeo, and BuzzFeed in recent months, only to reverse the decision days later in most cases.
Russia has ramped up its internet censorship efforts in the years since Vladimir Putin returned to the Kremlin, prompting a broad crackdown on dissent. Several websites critical of Putin are outright banned. Likes and retweets of information deemed "extremist" are punishable by up to 5 years in prison. The country has blocked nearly 12,000 pages in total, according to an unofficial tally kept by net freedom activists.
Philip.paulssonDear god please no
The series is being developed for 2016.
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It's not gonna be easy — actually, "it's going to be really hard" — to turn Nicholas Sparks's beloved The Notebook into a weekly series, but that isn't stopping The CW from trying.
As Entertainment Weekly first reported, the network is developing a new drama based on the 2004 hit movie, adapted from Sparks's 1996 novel of the same name.
The series will follow Noah and Allie, memorably played by Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams in the movie, as their love grows and they set out to begin a life together "against the backdrop of the racial politics, economic inequities, and social mores of post-World War II of the late 1940s in North Carolina," according to the show's official logline.
"I am thrilled Nicholas Sparks wanted to make it with The CW," Mark Pedowitz, president of The CW, said at the Television Critics Association summer press tour in Beverly Hills today. "The Notebook is a very, very well-received book and motion picture." He added that he didn't believe the series would feature the elderly couple — played in the film by Gena Rowlands and James Garner. But that could change as the pilot continues to come together.
If it goes to series, Sparks would serve as an executive producer on The CW's The Notebook and Todd Graff — who wrote 2003's cult classic Camp — would write and produce the show.
But let's be honest: The success of a series based on The Notebook lives and dies on the casting of Noah and Allie, because we've still got fever dreams of McGosling's long-lost love.
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Philip.paulssonAw, so cute!
Little Planet Curiosity
A curious robot almost completely straddles this rocky little planet.
Of course, the
planet is really Mars
and the robot is the car-sized Curiosity Rover,
posing
over its recent drilling target in the Marias Pass
area of lower Mount Sharp.
The 92 images used to assemble the
little planet projection,
a digitally warped and stitched mosaic covering 360x180 degrees,
were taken by the rover's Mars Hand Lens
Imager (MAHLI) during the Curiosity mission sol (martian day)
1065.
That corresponds to 2015 August 5,
three Earth years since Curiosity
landed on the surface of the Red Planet.
The composite selfie excludes images that show the rover's
robotic arm and mount of the MAHLI camera itself,
but their shadow is visible beneath.
Check out this spectacular interactive version of
Curiosity's sol 1065 panorama.
Philip.paulssonHoly. Shit.
That guy in the red suit is the scariest human being I've ever witnessed in my entire life.
Was it in support or opposition to Russia’s ban on Western imports? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Because there's no kill like overkill.
Philip.paulssonHow often are researchers going to be surprised by people's poor password choices??
The abundance of password leaks over the past decade has revealed some of the most commonly used—and consequently most vulnerable—passphrases, including "password", "p@$$w0rd", and "1234567". The large body of data has proven invaluable to whitehats and blackhats alike in identifying passwords that on their face may appear strong but can be cracked in a matter of seconds.
Now, Android lock patterns—the password alternative Google introduced in 2008 with the launch of its Android mobile OS—are getting the same sort of treatment. The Tic-Tac-Toe-style patterns, it turns out, frequently adhere to their own sets of predictable rules and often possess only a fraction of the complexity they're capable of. The research is in its infancy since Android lock Patterns (ALPs) are so new and the number of collected real-world-patterns is comparatively miniscule. Still, the predictability suggests the patterns could one day be subject to the same sorts of intensive attacks that regularly visit passwords.
Marte Løge, a 2015 graduate of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, recently collected and analyzed almost 4,000 ALPs as part of her master's thesis. She found that a large percentage of them—44 percent—started in the top left-most node of the screen. A full 77 percent of them started in one of the four corners. The average number of nodes was about five, meaning there were fewer than 9,000 possible pattern combinations. A significant percentage of patterns had just four nodes, shrinking the pool of available combinations to 1,624. More often than not, patterns moved from left to right and top to bottom, another factor that makes guessing easier.
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Kerbal Space Program's cute little green engineers are coming to Xbox One. Much like the PlayStation 4 version that was announced in June, there isn't a release date listed for the spaceship-building sim on Xbox. But considering the latter has an E...
Philip.paulssonThere's a cross Thames cable car in London??
Since contactless payments were first accepted on London buses a few years ago, it's become increasingly easy to get around the capital without cash or a loaded Oyster card. Whether you're equipped with a contactless card, Apple Pay or another mobi...
Philip.paulssonIt's the rarely seen triple oxymoron! "Gay Christian Rockstar"
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A year ago, at the age of 35, Vicky Beeching said the words that can save a person: I am gay. The complexities and repercussions of doing this stretched far beyond her family and friends.
She was raised an evangelical Christian in Britain before becoming a major star on the American Christian rock scene, her songs booming from every megachurch across the Bible Belt. They do not like lesbians there; women who love women are "sinners," not poster girls. So Beeching had stayed silent. Her livelihood depended on it. Her relationships with her evangelical loved ones did too. She knew no gay people. She lived alone.
But on 13 August 2014, now back in Britain, as a leading religious commentator, and a friend of Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Beeching decided to fight.
Two weeks before her announcement, she asked me to write the story that would announce her sexuality to the world. We met in a café in Soho, London. She pushed a piece of paper in my direction, a summation of her life. Midway down were those three words.
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"I was too nervous to even say it," she says now, pausing to look up, remembering what happened as she watched the words being read. "You made a noise." She mimics the sharp inhalation I thought I had disguised. It was not shock; it was alarm for what might happen to her.
We talked and talked. We made a plan. She was to come to my house to tell me her story. I would help her through the process as much as I could. But when she arrived for the interview, I was unaware of what was about to unfold.
She said she knew she was gay when she was 13, and she'd wept into her bedroom carpet wishing God would end her life. She revealed that at 16, at a Christian youth conference, a kind of exorcism was performed on her, to rid her of her lesbianism.
"I remember lots of people placing their hands on my shoulders and back and front, praying in tongues really loudly and then shouting things: 'We command Satan to let you go! Cast these devils out of you! We speak to you, demon of homosexuality: let her go!'" she said.
At 23, after graduating in theology from Oxford University, she was signed to EMI Records and moved to Nashville, and would spend the next seven years touring the country's megachurches. Her albums kept selling.
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She told how one day, at age 30, while drying her hair, she noticed a strange white scar on her forehead and went to the doctor, expecting him to prescribe a cream. Instead he diagnosed a rare autoimmune disease: scleroderma morphea – the particular form of which was called coup de sabre. It turns soft tissue into scar tissue. It can pervade the body, destroying organ after organ, even obliterating facial features. It can be fatal. After hearing the diagnosis, Beeching vomited.
She came home to England to undergo chemotherapy. Her doctor told her that such an internal attack on one's own body is normally prompted by extreme psychological stress.
She knew, for her, what that was. She resolved to come out by the age of 35. By the time we sat down for the interview, the pressure of remaining in the closet was proving unbearable. She urged me to write it and publish as soon as I could. There were many anxious phone calls. I delayed it by a couple of days: the newspaper – The Independent – needed the right space.
YouTube
When the story went online, the night before it appeared on its front page, the reaction was immediate and huge. Social media erupted, with 60 million impressions. Other newspapers and websites across the world started reporting on the story, repeating her words, retelling the story of the scar.
Radio stations and TV channels followed. Many in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community celebrated – especially gay Christians. The attacks, from those who deem loving someone of the same sex ungodly, began.
What no one knew was what Beeching was doing when the story broke.
"I was in bed, literally hiding under my duvet," she says now, sitting in BuzzFeed's central London office. "I had my laptop open on the bed and kept hitting refresh, not really sure what on earth was going to happen to my life. The article went live and instantly I saw the tweets go out. I didn't know what to do. There was a moment of shutting down after that for a few hours and going, 'This is beyond my capacity to deal with.'"
The reaction overwhelmed her.
"I felt very vulnerable, very exposed: Something you didn't think anybody would ever know about, suddenly everyone now knew."
As the hours ticked by, with the reaction growing and polarising, the experience for Beeching also divided.
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"It was a mixture of real relief, but also it was quite frightening because it felt way beyond my control," she says. "It was an interesting feeling to suddenly become a thing – a thing that either supported some people's causes or was the antithesis of other people's. At times it felt like there wasn't much respect for me as a person. It was either 'We're going to grab her as a mascot' or 'We're going to shoot her as an example of this evil.' For many conservative Christians, I became a sign that people were slipping down a slippery slope into unimaginable sin. People forget there's a person hiding under a duvet wondering if they're going to have a life left."
She stops and smiles; her eyes glisten.
"What has remained with me, though, is the wave of love that I felt, because I had expected the criticism, but what I hadn't expected was the tsunami of positivity that came both from the LGBT community that reached out to welcome me, and from Christians. Lots of the more open Christian denominations but also some of the conservative Christians said, 'We respect you for taking this step because we know how much it must be costing you.' That felt like a very positive response and that continued to pour in and lift my spirits amid the criticisms."
The evening after the story came out, Beeching was invited on to Channel 4 News to discuss her experiences. They also invited on Scott Lively, the anti-gay US pastor who currently faces trial for crimes against humanity, following his interventions in Uganda, preaching the apparent dangers of homosexuality to the Ugandan government.
"That was probably the hardest part of the coming-out experience because I'd agreed to do the Channel 4 interview but I had no idea how I was going to be feeling by that night. I thought, I don't know if I'm going to fall apart."
Channel 4 News did not tell her Scott Lively would be on the show until she arrived at the studio.
"I had to switch off, press pause on my sense of rawness, and just go into 'This is a professional thing now, I need to keep it together.' I was running on adrenaline."
Lively opined, "There is no such thing as a gay person," while sitting in front of one. Beeching remained composed.
Something else happened that day: Other gay Christians started coming out. Many contacted Beeching to tell her that her story inspired them. A Christian blogger, Jonny Freeman, came out in his blog. He described the "cycle of sleepless nights, sodden guilt, shame, and isolation" he had experienced. But after reading about Beeching, something had clicked.
"I couldn't stay silent," he wrote. "Now I feel at peace." He signed off with a rallying call to gay Christians: "Embrace who you are."
A week later, they were both invited on to the same radio show.
"We spoke for the first time live on air. That was really moving. I was an emotional mess on the inside," she says, adding, with a grin, "even though I'm so British he would never have known it."
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There was another category of responses: the crass.
"Men said, 'Oh, I would have married you or dated you,' and I'm thinking, It wasn't that I was short of offers! It's because you're the wrong sex! It's offensive. A couple of theologians said I was unusually attractive for someone who came out. It baffles me what strong perceptions people have about lesbians. People expected me to come out, get a buzzcut, and wear a lumberjack shirt."
She does, however, look different today. She seems different, too. A year ago, in my apartment, she sat rigid, solemn, encased in a tailored jacket. Now she smiles more, laughs often. She wears a T-shirt emblazoned with a slogan: "Rock 'n' Roll."
But the ramifications of her decision to disclose her sexuality to the world have been wide.
First there was her family, who knew before the public did, but who witnessed their beloved at the centre of enormous scrutiny and debate.
"They've been very supportive," she says. "They don't all see things the way I do in terms of what the Bible says, but I couldn't wish for a more unconditional love. Especially my grandfather. He's 90, a Pentecostal preacher and former missionary. Initially we had challenging conversations – he knows the Bible very well.
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"But I found a Billy Graham quote that helped us a lot: 'It's God's job to judge, the Holy Spirit's job to convict and my job to love.' So we had a conversation about how often we as Christians get our job description muddled up with God's. He said, 'This is not my situation to judge, I'm going to love you, you're my granddaughter.' Seeing that shift was amazing; that gives me hope for the church."
Before she came out, Beeching used to attend evangelical churches, but that has changed.
"I just haven't felt comfortable in them," she says. "I now feel I wear a label that I hadn't worn before. I would be welcome to attend any evangelical church – as anybody would – but it's unlikely I would be allowed to do any of the things I used to do, whether it be speaking, preaching, or singing up front. Things suddenly feel very difficult and painful because you're welcome to a certain level but not beyond. There's an invisible glass ceiling in churches for many LGBT Christians."
That, I say, does not sound like unconditional love. She smiles; her eyes fill again.
"No. People say to me on social media, 'Of course we're not going to give unconditional love to things we believe are sinful.'"
There was a church she has attended since coming out, whose name and location I will not disclose because when she tweeted to say where she was going, some "stalker-ish people" showed up. One man, she says, "started asking the church secretary where I lived, if he could have my address, dropped off various things that were meant for me, pictures he'd drawn of me. It's unsettling."
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Instead, she attends a variety of cathedrals. The sacred choral music there contrasts with the contemporary worship music she wrote and performed for years. Hearing that is too painful now.
"It just evokes so much of a life I've lost," she says. Since coming out, her career as a singer-songwriter has been largely over.
"My American music team – booking or recording – said I'm basically un-bookable now because the tours would be in megachurches and big Christian festivals and none of them would be accepting of an out gay person."
Boycotts are in place, reducing the sales of her music too, she says. Some churches are still performing her songs, however, ensuring at least some royalties – the money that's used to pay the rent on her flat. A year on, she also still receives hate mail.
"People are aware I have influence within the church so they say things like, 'You've got the blood of a generation on your hands' and various crazy things about [me] working with the devil, and hoping I'll be hurt, injured, disabled; people saying it would be right for me to be taken out."
Beeching remains determined to carry on, whatever the threats, aware of the unique position she holds, a bridge between Christians and LGBT people. Three months after she came out she was named the third-most influential gay person in Britain and shortlisted for Hero of the Year at the Stonewall Awards. She'll be speaking at a Christian LGBT conference in Kansas in November.
"I'm nervous. I think I'll be looking over my shoulder quite a lot. But it's more important to go because so many young gay people in Kansas have no one safe to go to about being LGBT. I want to be a voice for them."
Her safety concerns are justified. Earlier this year, when she returned to speak in the US for the first time in five years, the Westboro Baptist Church picketed the event in Portland, Oregon, mentioning Beeching by name on their website beforehand. They held their infamous "God hates fags" signs aloft, forming a line outside the venue through which Beeching and all attendees had to cross.
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"It wasn't pleasant," she says. "I tried to engage with them but the only things they were happy to say were the things they were shouting."
Something rather beautiful happened, though – a symbol, perhaps, of the split in Christianity.
"Local churches had seen that the Westboro Baptist Church was going to come, so they sent pro-LGBT Christians along who formed a 'wall of love' around the venue. So everybody coming in walked through the protesters but they also hit this next wall of Christians with placards saying 'God loves gay people' and 'You're welcome here.'"
None of the hostility directed at Beeching from Christians has dimmed her faith. She does not, she says, connect or confuse such sentiments with those of God. Instead, it has strengthened her determination.
"It's made me grieve for parts of the church. People can be more concerned about doctrine than they are about people. People would rather be 'right' than loving. I'm concerned by the effect it has, especially on LGBT young people. We know the rates of suicide and depression among LGBT teens are vastly higher."
The Independent
Instead, the church, she says, needs to break the taboo of homosexuality, enabling young Christians to talk openly about who they are, and then welcome them into congregations. Ultimately, she adds, a theological reappraisal is necessary.
"People rethought ideology around slavery – William Wilberforce was fighting for abolition and many Christians were quoting the Bible, saying, 'The Bible clearly says slavery's OK.' And today we're in the same position. I would urge pastors and priests to re-examine the texts. We need a new enlightenment around this topic."
Beeching has experienced her own enlightenment since coming out: She found love for the first time. She met a woman in America last autumn.
"It was an amazing feeling just walking down the street with her, to be able to hold hands," she says. "At 35 I finally had that moment. Those are the moments you come out for. It makes you feel fully human. Stopping gay people from being able to be loved in that way is to shut off part of their humanity."
What effect did experiencing romantic love have?
"I sensed a feeling of hope because I always believed I'd never be able to be with anybody, that I'd be alone for the rest of my life," she says. "That's a really sad thing." She looks down. "To think you'll never be able to get married or have anyone to grow old with is a lot to live with. I don't think until I came out I realised how devastating that had been to me."
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WASHINGTON—Evoking cataclysmic scenes of extreme weather and widespread drought and famine, the nation’s climate change deniers held a press conference Wednesday to describe exactly what the Earth must look like before they will begin to believe in human-induced global warming.
The group of skeptics, who said that the consensus among 97 percent of the scientific community and the documented environmental transformations already underway are simply not proof enough, laid out the precise sequence and magnitude of horrific events—including natural disasters, proliferation of infectious diseases, and resource wars—they would have to witness firsthand before they are swayed.
“For us to accept that the average surface temperature of the Earth has risen to critical levels due to mankind’s production of greenhouse gases, we’ll need to see some actual, visible evidence, including a global death toll of no less than 500 million people within a single calendar ...
Philip.paulssonOMG The fake tackles! The guy at the end throwing her over the line! Love it.
The 4-year-old was given the ball by a player and ran the entire length of the pitch.
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Philip.paulssonHah!
Philip.paulssonHah!
NEW YORK—Highlighting the man’s trustworthiness, even temperament, and overall decency, Wall Street broker Simon Hansen revealed to reporters Monday that his cocaine dealer, Tim Arndt, is easily the most upstanding person he knows. “Tim’s a real professional, no question—he’s the only person I know who’s always there for me when I need him—but what really sets him apart is what a good guy he is,” said the Goldman Sachs financial specialist, admitting that of all the colleagues, clients, and acquaintances he interacts with in Lower Manhattan, the man who regularly supplies him with narcotics is, by and large, the most genuine and unselfish person in his life. “I have some coworkers and a few buddies from other firms that I like hanging out with, but if I had to point to one person as the most honest and dependable in my life, I ...
Philip.paulssonThis has to be fake, right?
Please be real.
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Philip.paulssonHah
The “Sorry” Challenge made us very existential Canadians.
"Sorry."
"You don't have to say sorry."
"Oh I'm sorry."
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Philip.paulssonWoah.
At the Flash Memory Summit in California, Samsung has unveiled what appears to be the world's largest hard drive—and somewhat surprisingly, it uses NAND flash chips rather than spinning platters. The rather boringly named PM1633a, which is being targeted at the enterprise market, manages to cram almost 16 terabytes into a 2.5-inch SSD package. By comparison, the largest conventional hard drives made by Seagate and Western Digital currently max out at 8 or 10TB.
The secret sauce behind Samsung's 16TB SSD is the company's new 256Gbit (32GB) NAND flash die, twice the capacity of 128Gbit NAND dies that were commercialised last year by various chip makers. To reach such astonishing capacities, Samsung has managed to cram 48 layers of 3-bits-per-cell (TLC) 3D V-NAND into a single die. This is up from 24 layers in 2013, and then 36 layers in 2014.
Historically, like most computer chips, NAND flash has been planar—that is, the functional structures on the chip are (for the most part), laid down on a single two-dimensional plane. In a similar way to how logic chips are moving towards 3D transistors (FinFETs), Samsung (and more recently Toshiba and Intel) has been forging ahead with 3D NAND.
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Philip.paulssonLove this movie.
“Why do we even HAVE that lever?”
Disney
Philip.paulssonHah!
You’ll never look at Champagne Papi the same way again.
Chai T
AP
The dude on the left is Chai T, a Toronto rapper and comedian who has blessed us all with upside-down Drake with the help of some creative shaving.
Philip.paulsson8/10. I am ashamed of myself. I loved physics!
You knew the answers at one point…
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Philip.paulssonCool!
Crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo are really good at letting gamers give money to in-progress game projects that interest them. But they're pretty bad at sharing any eventual profits with the early "investors" that helped get the project going in the first place. Enter Fig, a new game crowdfunding site that will let gamers truly invest in upcoming games, offering a share of any revenues that eventually come from those projects after funding is complete.
That kind of revenue sharing comes with some significant strings for the time being; only Accredited Investors with at least $1 million in net assets can join in, and they have to invest at least $1,000. But Fig plans to open the investment plan up to regular gamers in the next few months, pursuant to a 2012 law that lowered the regulatory burden for everyday people to get into such markets.
Fig backers will also be able to go the more traditional crowdfunding route, contributing a small sum for rewards like game downloads and swag without any ownership stake. The service itself will take five percent from each project's crowdfunding revenue, much like Kickstarter, but it will also pocket five percent of a game's sales going forward after funding is complete. And despite the financial sharing, developers retain all intellectual property rights associated with their games.
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THE HEAVENS—Saying that the various belief systems had a “good run” over the last few millennia but that it was probably time for humans to get by on their own, the Lord Our God, He Who Is Seen And Unseen, proclaimed Monday that He would begin slowly weaning humanity off religion. “Religion was definitely helpful for humans when they first started out, but now it seems like it’s pretty much served its purpose—time to take the training wheels off,” said God, who argued that while the transition from religion might be difficult for a large segment of the population, ultimately humankind would be better off without it in the long run. “It’s not like I’m going to get rid of religion all in one go or anything; I’ll wind it down gradually over the next 500 years or so. Really, when you take a ...
Philip.paulssonLOL
Help! Help! I’m being repressed!
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