Yes, exactly. The other half of the article feels exactly the same: "PBS decided to kill the show, so LeVar is obviously wrong for wanting to continue anyway". It doesn't present an argument that teaching language is more important than creating a desire to consume books; it just appeals to PBS's authority.
But aside from the article's shortcomings, I do agree with their sentiment. You typically see Kickstarter pages explain what they need the money for in some level of detail -- who would want to give strangers money otherwise?
The idea of promoting literature to children is great, but that's just a mission statement. The entire pitch is frustratingly unspecific about what exactly they're making with their million dollars. I can take some pretty good guesses, but why should backers need to guess at that?
> WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues
That is a perfectly reasonable thing to say if you are abandoning security software. Any issues discovered will not be fixed, so you should stop relying on this software for security.
It says 'may', which is a responsible message if you're abandoning security software. Never know what the future holds; don't want to encourage people to rely on it if bugs will never be fixed.
You're ubinator. Unfortunately, you come home one day to find Mr. Binator in bed with some 20-something blond hussie.
The divorce paperworks sails through. Do you still want to be ubinator, reminded of that bastard every time you have to log in, or would you prefer to go back to umaidenname?
> ii) Should search engines pay the scraped sites if they are charging to access their indexed data? probably some of the scraped sites has a specific license forbidding the search engine to sell their information in any way.
Any reputable search engine will respect robots.txt.
Nobody knew everything would turn out OK back before HL2 was released.