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Depending on what type of Veronica Mars story they are trying to tell, $2 million should be more than enough, but I expect it is just the distribution leverage as you've said. edit: If nothing else, it is an interesting example of what Kickstarter can do, though I am loathe to say that it is a positive example (fans just, more or less, paid Warner Bros to make a movie, and then they will pay to see the finished result) and I fear how this type of marketing will be used in the future (I also fear how this will affect the creative process if the creators literally feel beholden to the fans). Last edited by james0246; 2013-03-14 at 16:49. |
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2013-03-14, 10:50 | Link #26982 | |
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2013-03-14, 11:05 | Link #26983 |
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Obama tries new tack with Israel, appealing to wary public
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...92D06O20130314
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2013-03-14, 13:31 | Link #26984 |
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Some leading Argentine human rights activists agree that Bergoglio doesn’t deserve to be lumped together with other church figures who were closely aligned with the dictatorship.
“Perhaps he didn’t have the courage of other priests, but he never collaborated with the dictatorship,” Adolfo Perez Esquivel, who won the 1980 Nobel Peace Prize for documenting the junta’s atrocities, said Thursday. “Bergoglio was no accomplice of the dictatorship. He can’t be accused of that,” Perez Esquivel told Radio de la Red in Buenos Aires. Other activists are angry over the positions Bergoglio, 76, has taken in recent years, as Argentina pursues investigations aimed at exposing those responsible for killing as many as 30,000 people, and finding traces of their victims. Some say he’s been more concerned about preserving the church’s image than providing evidence for Argentina’s many human rights trials. “There’s hypocrisy here when it comes to the church’s conduct, and with Bergoglio in particular,” said Estela de la Cuadra, whose mother co-founded the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo activist group during the dictatorship to search for missing family members. “There are trials of all kinds now, and Bergoglio systematically refuses to support them.” Bergoglio twice invoked his right under Argentine law to refuse to appear in open court in trials involving torture and murder inside the feared Navy Mechanics School and the theft of babies from detainees. When he eventually did testify in 2010, his answers were evasive, human rights attorney Myriam Bregman told the AP. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/...399_story.html
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2013-03-15, 04:01 | Link #26985 | |
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Australia shuts large child sex exploitation ring
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2013-03-15, 05:56 | Link #26986 |
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Japan seeks to join U.S.-led Pacific trade talks, reform hopes rise
TPP bringing reform hopes? You got to be kidding me.
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2013-03-15, 05:58 | Link #26987 |
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Liberal governor engulfed by Putin's Russia
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...92E08J20130315
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2013-03-15, 09:06 | Link #26988 | |
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Younger Generations Lag Parents in Wealth-Building
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2013-03-15, 11:36 | Link #26990 | |
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2013-03-15, 17:14 | Link #26991 |
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I am really tempted to put this in "A laugh a day", but I suppose someone might disagree, I think this is so dumb it is hilarious:
man uses gun instead of hand A federal prison guard has been charged with shooting his own finger in a drunken attempt to remove his wedding ring during an argument with his wife at their northwestern Pennsylvania home |
2013-03-15, 23:32 | Link #26992 |
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Woman killed, child raped in NY mall carjacking
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...03-15-18-27-57
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2013-03-15, 23:39 | Link #26993 |
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Such a tragedy.
It's in times like these that I keep wondering when we'll start using GPS implants that get stuck into the bone (if not the bone marrow) and that are removable only by a surgery procedure conducted by experts for such. |
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