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You can't pay with paypal in KS. Kicktraq's numbers don't include paypal numbers for PoE and in first days of PoE KS campaign there was no possibility to pay with paypal. Also overall paypal numbers for PoE were less than 200k dollars if I remember correctly.

2012 was also crazy year for crowdfunding, now days projects all over including KS attract less backers overall.

When your car industry buy cheap parts from Mexico and then uses them to build cars in US and sells them to Europe with bigger profit that they could do if they had bought those parts from US, they most likely decrease US's over all trade deficit compared to situation where they had made those part domestically because with cheaper part they can better compete in prices with European car manufactures. But in case of food products things become much difficult to tell. Even though cheaper food means that people have more money to put in services and products made in US, but it is very difficult to tell if that money helps US companies to make products and services that they can sell to foreign markets to help decrease trade deficit. One thing that would help US to drop its trade deficit somewhat would be to decrease US dependency to oil, so that it would not need to buy it so much. Like for example in 2015 US imported 4.71 million barrels per day (total 9.45 million barrels per day) more than it exports with average price of 52 dollars of barrel, meaning that US imported oil worth of 89.4 billion dollars more than it exported in 2015. So dropping amount of imported oil to that to half would decrease US from trade deficit more than getting to zero balance with Mexico.

Yes im sure it will. But the point is, (just an example) that what if there was a limited offer/goodie or something like that, then all people without cc arent gonna get it. Its like people without cc are second class. And i dont understand how someone makes a campain to fund money, but then offers only cc while its known that in many parts of the world it doesnt work and/or its just not common. Why dont just also offer one of the most popular online payment solutions like paypal. I mean in EVERY single campain there are people asking about an alternative payment method like paypal, WHY dont you put it there since the beginning. And WHY if you dont offer it, you dont make a proper description about your future plans about it, from the start on. Why do we always have to ask. Imagine the amount of time it takes to overview and answer all the questions about payment methods, it could be avoided if you just give a proper info about it from the start of the campain. It is because this clause "Your pledge will only be collected if this campaign reaches its goal on Feb 25, 2017 3am", meaning that if they offer alternative methods before they reach their goal they risk not getting funded (in theoretical sense)

It looks that they moved to unity 5 or they made more custom build things.

BruceVC you need to realize that Mexico is evil because it sell stuff like food for USA markets that people in USA wants and what worse it sells it cheaper than companies making similar products in USA do. It is absolutely travesty. And cherry top on that, most companies in Mexico that import stuff in USA are owned by USA companies, meaning that big sunk of that money that Mexico gets on paper for selling stuff to USA actually comes back to USA and makes jobs in USA. So you should be glad that Trump will put stop for such perversity by increasing import tax for product coming from Mexico in order to build his wall, so that people in USA will need to pay more for those products they import from Mexico, like big sunk of their fruits and vegetables. So that it is actually people in USA that will pay their holy wall of eternal ego, first in more expensive products, then in getting less profit from their companies in Mexico and then in losing jobs provided by those profits from Mexico. But it all will be great and America will be great again even if plans to make it so are just stupid.

Of course I've got a debit card. A Dutch debit card. Which is of no use when Fig (and Kickstarter for that matter) asks specifically for a credit card. In the US debit cards also function like regular credit cards. There are MasterCard and VISA debit cards that have 16 digit numbers accepted wherever VISA and MasterCard are accepted. Oh, I see. Doesn't work that way over here. Debit and credit cards are very definitely two entirely different things. Is The Netherlands still stuck in the early 2000's? Most Finnish banks changed their debit cards about 10-15 years ago so they could be used for online purchases as well so they kinda work like credit cards. All the EU countries have not yet fully adopted common debit/credit card system (where all debit cards are visa/master card certificated). Finland of course was first like it so often is when it comes to put EU regulations and agreements in effect.

In Finland it is possible to buy prepaid credit cards from certain stores and I know that such is possibility in other countries. So it could be worth to check if there are similar services in your countries.

Yes, especially Israel's. I would also point out that either of said walls circumstances aren't even close in comparison to what the alternative wall of USA is meant to be.

I am sure that Trump's wall will work as well as Maginot Line

But who then will upkeep the wall, nah those labors need to stay in US.

Yes, it's going to cost more than the entire highway budget. Trump always brings his projects in ahead of time and under budget. He will hire cheap Mexican labor and uses even cheaper materials from China like he has done in past

Wasting money is our governments specialty. Nobody blinks either when we drop 7B over 10 years supporting other countries breeding programs of questionable impact. How much is Trump Wall supposed to cost anyway? Trump says 10 billion, experts say 25-100 billion

It seems that there is only politically correct science for Americans now on Trump mandates EPA studies, data undergo review by political staff before release The Trump administration is scrutinizing studies and data published by scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency, while new work is under a "temporary hold" before it can be released. The communications director for President Donald Trump's transition team at EPA, Doug Ericksen, said Wednesday the review extends to all existing content on the federal agency's website, including details of scientific evidence showing that the Earth's climate is warming and man-made carbon emissions are to blame. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-trump-epa-studies-20170125-story.html

It is bit different, you will sign your soul and bank accounts for Obsidian to use as they please and you promise be grateful to them for all eternity. But seriously, it is quite similar to KS when it comes to regular backers, but it also accepts venture capital investors.

It seems that Germany is making high priority changes in their laws Germany will abolish law against insulting foreign heads of state http://www.cbsnews.com/news/germany-will-abolish-law-against-insulting-foreign-heads-of-state/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=33767220

Too bad that their kitchen and office were destroyed in fire. To get lucky break in life only to lose it because somebody didn't know what to put in garbage.

ILLEGAL VOTERS: We're ready! Which swing state needs us? DEMOCRATS: Just run up the vote in California, we're after a moral victory here. https://twitter.com/goldengateblond/status/823952482816561153

Obama actually spoke against hacking claims. Elections results itself weren't hacked, at least there is no proof that such thing happened, but hacking DNC and illegally obtain and leaking information from their server did provably effect elections, as media, people, people even here referenced that information in order to manipulate people's minds who they should vote. In other hand president, at least not Obama, didn't encourage illegals to vote, because he encouraged people to register to vote and one can't do that if they aren't citizen of US.

https://twitter.com/AltNatParkSer The Unofficial "Resistance" team of U.S. National Park Service. Not taxpayer subsidised! Come for rugged scenery, fossil beds, 89 million acres of landscape AltUSNatParkService ‏@AltNatParkSer 16h16 hours ago More Can't wait for President Trump to call us FAKE NEWS. You can take our official twitter, but you'll never take our free time!

Not your sources, BVC, its you yourself! I frequently scour the forums with the search function just to find your pearls of wisdom to impart onto others. I believe that you are sincere with this claim

And Republican governments cover voting hacking because it is done in their favor

Like you don't know that here is massive difference in elected president claiming things in official setting compared to private citizens whining about something. Also there was provable case of hacking and leaking information during elections, as we all were able to see those leaked emails, even if people that did hack and leak can't be identified for sure, where any proof that even singular people are voting illegally is nearly non-existent and there isn't anything that even remotely suggest thousands let alone millions of people are voting illegally in US. But world where everything that you claim is just alternative fact there seems to be no need for any proof and if such behavior is accepted for president and his advisory then it is accepted to everybody else.

I seems so! Its shocking to me that we piss away funds making sure women in other countries can get abortions. We could be using that money to train bums in a vocation or something but instead we concern ourselves minutiae of other countries breeding. Much like Planned Parenthood, characterizing these clinics simply by the fact they offer abortions is usually a gross misrepresentation. It would also be my guess that these are parts of the world where women struggle to get access to decent healthcare, and this funding is part of an attempt to help women across the globe. That being said, I have no issue with the US pulling back on funding other countries while we try to strengthen our own health care systems that sorely need it. I have a big problem with us making it about abortion and turning it into political, though. But the hings is that USA don't actually pull back funding (at least not yet), it just deny it from clinics and organizations that provide abortions or give information about abortions, even if they don't use a cent that they get from USA to provide said services. Meaning that it is just political maneuver against abortion and women's healthcare at same. But it is something that all republican presidents have done starting from Reagan.

USA gives money to development aid like all the other world's richest countries. It has been sore point for some people already decades, so I would say that you are bit late in your realization.