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You know those everything pizzas? Put everything creative you think you have seen in Second Life on a shoe: http://konadlicious.blogspot.com/2012/01/just-kill-me-nowhot-rod-shoes.html I love the idea, I love real leather. But I want to see shoes like this made out of durable materials. Maybe with natural lining for where skin might touch the shoe and then something artificial and hard, like plastic. Something that won't bend out of shape easily and that you can actually walk down the street in. They should also encourage healthy body ergonomics. Because many people in noncreative, serious jobs may have to look professional, its possible they should make running and athletic shoes look good, because they are a woman's chance to show off her style while also encouraging and reinforcing a healthy lifestyle. "Two birds with one stone" mentality - meet national and other objectives for a healthy community, encourage behaviors that cut on healthcare and possibly private insurance costs and support artists and designers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_crier I know LL wants to push new technology breakthroughs into SL, but I think that a good old fashioned town crier would be interesting.

I think the report will show less investment in Second Life. I think that Second Life offers people visual rewards, mental rewards. I think that the rewards offered would be most effective if they were offered in a more susteinable way. I think it would be interesting to take a class in Second Life. I think some fun classes would be fashion design. I think that Second Life data for specific kinds of clothing designs could be used to simulate the real world designs and help marketers test products. But it would be pretty limited in terms of types of products tested. They would predominantly have to be luxury items or "form" based, since non social needs are pretty much eliminated.

Hi I am looking for friends too, but probably will not find many for some time. I like to see cool art and things people make. I love the originality and creativity people have. I do not really like to buy Second Life items. I just think I have not seen any items that really intrigue me enough. I am more interested in groups and in people who like to create things. I like ideas - synthesizing them, recognizing patterns.

I think SL studies would be difficult to do in SL because the information people freely volunteer may not be useful. I think you might want to look at the marketplace and see if you cannot count the number of skins on the market that caucasian looking versus asian, black and native american. Then create a Venn diagram and compare the skins on sale to the world population for the races. Then see if you cannot find some way to compare sales of skin by race as a type. I bet that there is an inverse relationship between ethnicity and skin sales for certain demographics.

"No doubt piracy is costing the content industries something—or they wouldn't be throwing so much money at Congress in support of this kind of legislation. If we could wave a magic wand and have less piracy, obviously that would be good. But in the real world, where enforcement has direct costs to the taxpayer, regulation has costs on the industries it burdens, and the reduction in piracy they're likely to produce is very small, it seems important to point out that the credible evidence for the magnitude of the harm is fairly thin." http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/internet-regulation-and-the-economics-of-piracy.ars I think that the cost is simply that piracy, if saturated as a norm into the culture, will de-motivate people to look at artistic production as a career or professional endeavor - art becomes associated with "free" and it will drive people away from it. Art schools currently cost a lot - and that in combination with messages about college student debt and national economic concerns about employment will draw potential art students away. I think the purpose of art is to make people's lives better, not worse. Debt makes people's lives worse.

I read this good article here: http://gmj.gallup.com/content/148694/social-media-three-big-myths.aspx And when I think of SL, I think of people creating fake weddings just so that they can influence their spouse's decision-making. For example, if marriage is one of the biggest factors influencing financial decisions, then why not give people wives and husbands who will advertise for companies? I think Second Life should be used to make education more interesting, not to introduce pretend husbands and wives who will act as personal shopping assistants.

Yeah I just wonder why it is a little wolf is all. I am hoping to wait and see if I can change my account status to Member instead of Recognized Resident. I do not like it because I feel that it means something weird. I want to be something else! Lol. I see people complain and not say much interesting content and they are considered Members or Honored Residents. I want to change it by what I say and its usefulness.

My little picture looks like a bear or angry wolf... :(

What are AR teams?

I think that SOPA/PIPA has opposition because people like free speech - and by making collages from popular culture, they can create easy to recognize references. In some cases, effigies. I think that even people who choose to violate copyright are in a sense protesting and making their statement. Their statement, for example, could be: Why do societies care more about some people than others? Why are they so focused on superficial signs for health? Is the short term gain worth more than the long term? What does "adapt to change" mean in a modern, technologically advanced society? I do not think we live in a free society. I think that once we give people a right to certain standards - standards in healthcare, food, living situation, etc., people do not have a right to free speech. For example, people working in factories have little time to learn how to effectively voice their opinions or discuss social issues or ethics if they work full time jobs doing manual labor that makes them so tired they can barely do more than go home and sleep and eat. Then I wonder, is access to modern services and technology restricted because the rate of production and hence supply is lower than the rate of demand? And if so, is access given based on projections for return (for example, its more logical to give a cell phone to someone who will increase total cellphone production 50% than to someone who will either decrease cellphone production or increase production at a rate that is lower.) But of course, the world is not governed by a standard organization or body. So the projections would be made based on special interests of sorts. This means, the optimal choice for a self interested corporation representing 5% of the population might not be the person in the above example who is super brilliant and can increase cell phone production 50%. For a self interested corporation who does not create apps, its possible they see things as, the fewer cellphones we make for x duration of time, the greater the amount of money we make (until the patent runs out or they expect competitors to be able to reverse engineer the technology in a manner that allows them to create competing products). I think that freedom of speech might be like a product for some people - they may want to restrict who can say what for a period of time to maximize personal gains. However, speech is an important part of communication - it lets people be aware of our needs. Boundaries are important too. However, by abusing the power to assert boundaries - for example, using boundaries to intentionally silence the voices of people citing legitimate and legitimately expressed concerns to maximize self interested benefits that are excessive and beyond what is necessary, people are being malicious. I personally do not think I am a "fighter" but I do think that fairness is very important for society - it allows for society to be efficient. Diversity is good for the immune system and other areas. But when it comes to fairness, I find standards to be important. And then, if there are a lot of challenges and special situations, then specialization is important. But I think it is possible that legal systems do not deal with diversity in a just and non-discriminatory way. For me I wish to speak about SOPA and PIPA in terms of my own ideas about society and why people may be opposed to it.