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Thomas Galbreus

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  1. Thank you. So it seems without mesh and without stuff from MP nothing can be done. I wish AO creators would take that into account and avoid expansive head movements.
  2. I hope I will succeed in expressing myself clearly enough, English is not my native language: I have an AO which includes head movements. But the eyes stay looking straight in front of the avatar (standard, no mesh components), so if the head turns right, the eyeballs are in the left corner of the eye, if the head looks down, the eyballs disappear under the eyelids - who takes a close look at my face at that moment, sees only the white of the eyes, creepy. So can anything be done to make the eyes align with the direction the head faces rather than keep looking in front of the avatar, even if the head doesn't? A setting in the viewer perhaps, or a script? (I am having this problem in OpenSimulator as well, so a HUD or other item from marketplace wouldn't help.) Seaching the forum about issues with eye movements, I found some answers suggesting to fiddle with the "look at targets" settings or to alter the attentions.xml, which I tried to no effect. Thanks in advance.
  3. Mir war gar nicht klar, dass man in SL Schulden haben kann. Was passiert denn da, werden die irgendwie eingetrieben? Wird am Ende dem Avatar ein Finger gebrochen? Nein, im Ernst, hat das Folgen?
  4. Nur weil die meisten sich ohne Not anderswo - freiwillig - glaesern machen, is es noch lange nicht sinnvoll, Datenschutz und Privatsphaere generell und ueberall fuer unmoeglich zu erklaeren.
  5. Wenn ich mich richtig erinnere, muss dazu ein Guthaben bei Paypal vorhanden sein, also direkter Tarnsfer vom Bankkonto ueber das (leere) Paypal-Konto funktioniert nicht (anders als etwa bei Ebay). War das vielleicht der Grund?
  6. Ich bin des Englischen recht gut maechtig, dennoch bevorzuge ich in allen Lebensbereichen meine Muttersprache. Ich glaube nicht, dass sich daraus ein Intelligenzdefizit ableiten laesst. Was ich nicht ganz verstehe, ist die ueberweigend englische Beschriftung der Internetseiten eines deutschsprachigen Magazins: "The SL Magazine", "News", "Events", "Locations", "Storys & Interviews" usw. (Die Mehrzahl von "Story" ist uebrigens "Stories".)
  7. Madelaine McMasters wrote: As for the longevity of technical products, Microsoft abandoned DOS, Win3.x, Win95, Win2000, and recently WinXP, which is about the age of SL. Apple abandoned 68K applications a decade ago and PowerPC applications a few years ago. They'll probably abandon the iPhone 4 this year. Analog TV and cell phones are gone, as is most magnetic tape I am still using computers with Windows 98 and XP because of certain hardware and software. I also have a working C64 but more for nostalgic reasons. In my town analog cable TV is still avaliable. Non-smart cell phones have a lot of advantages - no OS by Google or Apple for instance, and people don't waste that much time with these that can be spend on more important activities. Like, how do those silly smartphone addicts think they will ever achieve something namable in MMOGs and virtual worlds? ;-) I am still using audio cassette tape to record analog radio broadcasts, using a nifty recorder that allows time-controlled recordings. Madelaine McMasters wrote: Where's the flying car my Dad was promised? It is older than you might think - this thing was flying in the 1950s, but despite having some advantages over helicopters, the project was abandoned due to fuel consumption - a well scripted build of it in SL would be nice: Piasecki Airgeep (model kit artwork) Teleporting and avatar flying should be the exception and not the rule in future virtual worlds, better go for good physics. Using cool vehicles is so much more fun! Imagine rezzing areas and object entry rights in abundance - and don't forget the parking lots this time! ;-)
  8. Drake1 Nightfire wrote: I have You don't give the impression if you can't distinguish it from terribly bad acting in standard porn.
  9. Coby Foden wrote: But why in this thread? shrug-1.gif Why not start a new thread: "Porn and German law"? As I said before, I just said it as a side note, to Ebbe Altberg who talked about things that would be legal in SL. Apparently he did not mean legal everywhere. Then people began talking BS about it and I only corrected their mistakes.
  10. Drake1 Nightfire wrote: How do you know they are acting. How do you know they don't actually make those noises when they orgasm? You know, some people have experienced real female orgasms, so they have something to compare. If you are interested in experiencing real female orgasms, try other things with female bodies than using them like a sex toy.
  11. Drake1 Nightfire wrote: How do you know its bad acting? You think the average performer in porn has acting skills? Detecting bad acting there is not rocket science. Drake1 Nightfire wrote: Condoms are a part of mainstream porn nowadays. Usually if you do not see one it is due to the fact that the actors are monogamous with each other. LOL. You really think Porn stars dont use birth control? Porn actors do a lot of things that are not shown or communicated in porn, like, they usually have to provide a recent medical certificate that shows they have no STD. But what is shown to the consumers is random sexual activity with random poeple. If porn is influential, it applies to what is shown and not to circumstances behind the scenes. Drake1 Nightfire wrote: Just because they tie up a woman and treat her like a sex toy does not mean they hate her, nor does it mean she is being abused. I've established that, according to your fine morals, tying a woman up and using her is a sign of love and respect.
  12. Ok. Since you insist I am of the mass-murderer-type: People who declare to be past argumentation, because it is sufficient for them to defame their opponents and to bask themselves in being part of the majority, are of the type that causes genocides. "That's probably not something you want to hear either, though, but something you objectively probably know to be true blah blah."
  13. Leia36 wrote: Germany or any other country does not have the power to dictate to other countries their laws. Germany undoubtedly has the power to prosecute it's own citizens who distribute porn without age verification, no matter where the internet service they are using resides. Leia36 wrote: SL is not standard porn as I understand it, so your assumption is incorrect. I was responding to a post that dealt with porn in general. And of course there is also standard porn in SL, it would be strange if there was only non-standard porn in SL.
  14. Freya Mokusei wrote: The law clearly only has power over German citizens Which is all I have been talking about in this thread. Freya Mokusei wrote: There is no apparent threat to German Second Life users Only that causing pornographic depictions without safe age verification being in place is a crime and that German police officers are present in SL.
  15. In standard porn only male orgasms are catered for and shown - if female orgasms are shown, then usually faked by terribly bad acting. If young people are influenced by this a lot - poor future women. Porn, which often depicts promiscuous sex in which condoms are never used, is clearly not helpful to prevent STDs and pregnancies.
  16. What a BS post. You quote a random post of me in it's entirety, only to address not one syllable in that, but to conceive random rants about me being an awful person. Such behaviour in a forum is 100 % proof that someone lost the argumentation completely.
  17. Celestiall Nightfire wrote: you who poked them with insults I explained I citizised certain behaviour in general, always providing an explanation - instead of simply uttering disapproval or personal dislike (which lots of my antagonists do all the time) - and that is nothing but practising freedom of speech. Seems I was not reported, or if so, I was not moderated. Some of my antagonistst were reported and some insults disappeared after that, one user (who already received warnings by LL in other threads) got banned for 30 days. I thought I should mention that, since it is only the opinion of Linden Lab that counts, as someone has put it. Celestiall Nightfire wrote: I also call BS on your lack of responsibility for people getting angry I did not expect that (amount of) anger, because I thought (and still think) the idea of SL being dominated by porn enthusiasts is just a wrong cliché produced by biased media reports, but of course I take responsibility for it. I only said I can't help it - I won't activate an inner censor in my brain to avoid people being wrong getting angry. Celestiall Nightfire wrote: I belong to some science grids, and Sci-Fi roleplay grids Sounds interesting. I'm afraid I could only take part in German RPs though because of my English being limited (even more in real time conversation).
  18. Amethyst Jetaime wrote: The links you provided do NOT say it applies to internet sites that originate outside of Germany. Wrong. Amethyst Jetaime wrote: parents are the ones responsible for watching their children to be sure they don't go on web sites which would be harmful to them. Sure, only wonderful parents exist.
  19. Drake1 Nightfire wrote: Thomas Galbreus wrote: unless minors are safley excluded from accessing it. you mean like their parents actually paying attention to what they do online? I don't mean anything there, I just quoted the German law, which demands a technical exclusion of minors from porn.
  20. Celestiall Nightfire wrote: Germany comes in with , " 12.47% of their traffic takes place on adult sites." That means that Germany has a higher percent of their traffic devoted to adult sites (porn) than average of all countries You still made a mistake by several magnitudes in your previous post by implying Germany would cause 12.47 % of the worlwide internet traffic concerning porn, because you confused national traffic with world wide traffic. Celestiall Nightfire wrote: So, perhaps you should be focusing your efforts on the people within your own country, and stop trying to regulate the morality of people in other countries. I don' t have a problem with people consuming porn as such, as I said several times. I don't see any moral issue with that, not even in Germany. My problems begin when women get systematically degraded in porn, when that is accessible to minors, and - most relevant in this thread - if people can't use a virtual world other than one which gets mainly associated with porn, so that many either won't be using it or don't like to be open about using it. All said for a thousand times now. The main tactic of those who defend porn in SL is impertinently ignoring what has been said and making things up they find easier to deal with. This happens a lot in forums, especially with a majority being of the side with the weaker argumentation. Seeing themselves in the majority, most people find that sufficient to bask themselves in, don't see the need of a sound argumentation anymore, impertinently ignore clear statements etc. (You are not the worst in that respect, but I think it is appropriate at this point to rub some noses in it.)
  21. Freya Mokusei wrote: there's no apparent suggestion of taking action against foreign offerings - or, as far as I can see - taking action against non-commercial entities. Is that a more correct determination? You mean actions against Linden Lab as a company? I haven't thought about that. And since I don't get payed for it, I won't start. ;-) The German criminal law makes no difference between commercial or non-commercial distribution.
  22. Freya Mokusei wrote: What it terms 'foreign offers' are excluded. Please correct me if I'm mistaken. The concerning passage in the summary translates (I'll try my best): The BGH (Bundesgerichtshof = Federal Supreme Court) also rejected the argument of the defendant that German offerers of pornographic content would be discriminated compared to foreign offerers by the youth protection regulations. The access restrictions of the German law concerning pornographic content in the internet would basically also apply to foreign offerings that can be accessed inland. The difficulties in law enforcement concerning foreign offerings would not result in a violation of the imperative of equal treatment.
  23. Freya Mokusei wrote: Without a more thorough reading I wouldn't like to say whether it could potentially affect Germany-based SL residents. My inclination is that that's neither within the scope nor the capability for this document and its originating office. It seems unlikely that individuals acting non-commercially, through a US-based online service would be liable directly as a result of these laws. You're wrong here. The law is clear, distributing porn over the internet using whichever service in any form is a crime unless minors are safley excluded from accessing it.
  24. Monalisa Robbiani wrote: Sighs. I get a little annoyed by your personal crusade against porn I must also sigh. I pointed out several times that I am not against porn (consumption) as such, only against minors having access, misogynic porn etc. Monalisa Robbiani wrote: A few decades ago, people said the same things about gays I hope in a few decades discriminating and humiliating women will be considered as bad as disicriminating gays is considered now, even in porn. Monalisa Robbiani wrote: and "kinks" I admit I can't see a lifelong unilateral submission and behaviour that publicly displays that as a harmless, joyful kink, but see it as a contradiction to the intrinsic dignity of whichever human being. Please allow me to have my opinion.
  25. Freya Mokusei wrote: . I don't see anything in them about specific methods of age verification The details were worked out by the courts. Here is a court decision that deals with it: http://juris.bundesgerichtshof.de/cgi-bin/rechtsprechung/document.py?Gericht=bgh&Art=en&Datum=Aktuell&nr=43444&linked=urt&Blank=1&file=dokument.pdf Summary of that: http://juris.bundesgerichtshof.de/cgi-bin/rechtsprechung/document.py?Gericht=bgh&Art=en&Datum=Aktuell&nr=41423&linked=pm
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