KanryDrago
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14 hours ago, Drakonadrgora Darkfold said:
that doesn't really matter. that is not needed to celebrate or be proud of your heritage from that part of the world. you dont have to speak the langue fluently or know ever detail of what is going on in that country at the current time, nor do they have to have friends or family currently living there to claim their ancestral heritage from there and be proud enough about it to mention that they are from there too.
It is not needed to be proud of your heritage and that wasn't what the op was saying. What they were saying you shouldn't claim to be that nationality. You are an american whose families came a couple of centuries ago from country x. You are not nationality x and we don't want you telling people you are because they will judge the rest of us that really are from x on your delusions of what x is like I have been lectured about the history and culture of my country so many times now by people who clearly don't have a clue but claim they are my nationality because usually I don't tell people my nationality right away.
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Just now, Arielle Popstar said:
There already is an android viewer that's been working for S/L since 2013, but since the developer is no longer around, LL should be picking up the reins and putting one out that is at least comparable. Not sure were you are getting this idea from that it in itself would need content dumbed down but having said that, there certainly is work being done to try to make things run more efficiently for all the old window machines that hook into Secondlife.
Because I have used lumiya and it is very limited and tbh I wouldnt want to do more than chat on it. People using it would soon be dissatisfied and then some suit in a back office would be going "mobile users make up 30% of users the last few months. If we make the graphics simpler so they can do more we could recruit a lot more". History shows us when stuff gets shared with less capable platforms that it ends up being developed for the less capable platforms capabilities and gives the more capable platform a lesser experience. This is what happened with games that are on consoles and pc's and now what is happening with games shared over all 3
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10 minutes ago, Arielle Popstar said:
Use a regular viewer then if you need to build. Changing clothes was doable in Lumiya so not a problem that way. Point is S/L is not pulling in enough new users nor retaining the new ones they do get. Stats. Considering android phones and tablets have a larger market share than Windows, doesn't it make sense to you that a viewer usable on those devices might help bolster the S/L user base?
Not if comes at the cost of dumbing down content so it works on those viewers. At the end of the day thats all smartphones and tablets are sub par pc's. Make it work for them and I predict no new users but you will lose a chunk of the current users who now find that the current low graphics setting has become the highest
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5 hours ago, Skell Dagger said:
So the artists are not entitled to expect to be paid for doing their job?
https://twitter.com/forexposure_txt
https://digitalsynopsis.com/design/free-work-for-exposure-clients-from-hell/
Artists are entitled to be paid for doing their job however their whinging has so devalued copyright they can frankly go do one. Copyright was a contract to encourage creation. Life + 70 years does not encourage creation. You got greedy now no one cares. Thats not necessarily you personally but artisits in general. 15 years would be more than adequate but you wanted more. The companies you sold your copyrights too wanted more. It is now so one sided that frankly I don't have a care if anyone rips you off because you and your greedy cohorts have been pushing and pushing to the point where NO ONE CARES
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There is very much something you can do on your own land get a security orb for one. Plus even if rental you should have the power to eject. If you don't I suggest get a better landlord
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5 minutes ago, EJjameson69 said:
I am trying to detach my collar from my aviator and it won't let me just want to know how to get it off? Also how do I take permission away from someone who I gave permission to on my collar?
Most collars have a button marked Run away
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5 minutes ago, Lancewae Barrowstone said:
I think it could somehow be assumed that a giant sandbox, open world, like SL, will house all ranges of human interactions, since regions are privately owned and developed, just as out in the real world. I'm thinking your thesis idea might, at least on some level, lean toward the concept that perhaps our virtual worlds can be influenced (you use the word "structured" which suggests influence) in order to help teach, guide, mold (my words) to some degrees (larger or smaller) those human interactions, and thus aid, in fact contribute toward creating a better real world outside these virtual worlds by working slightly within them. I do not take exception to this thought at all. It's laudable in the broader sense, if indeed I'm not totally off the mark.
I say, good luck with your work. It's interesting.
I very much take exception to the concept of molding I choose how and when I interact with people I don't need molding by someone who somehow mystically knows better than me whats good for me.
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28 minutes ago, Mandlakathixo said:
I completely agree with you about personal or individual ethics not corresponding in any population, but I was speaking about Ethical Design which is about business ethics. So, I edited it out as it's causing some confusion. It was NOT individual/personal ethics.
I looked you up out of curiousity and that raised even more red flags. According to the university of Cyprus you are a masters student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering. Now call me cynical if you like but that doesn't seem a department concerned with games design. The cynic in me suggests you may have blagged a students name at random to give your survey credibility. However I have made an enquiry to the university as to whether this is legitimate research they have sanctioned
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39 minutes ago, Mandlakathixo said:
well as make the products more ethical.
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Your ethical, my ethical and the next person's ethical will rarely correspond. This statement raises red flags to me even besides the fact this is yet another ill defined study which no doubt has a hugely flawed questionaire attached
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sorry why would anyone who isn't woke, and disagrees with blm due to their marxist manifesto attend this exaclty?
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3 minutes ago, Mollymews said:
this is whataboutism
how apology and compensation works
Queen Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God Queen of this Realm and of Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith; is hardly a socialist.
yet because of the actions of her agents - Ministers of the Crown - Queen Elizabeth has as Head of State apologised for her Ministers actions, and signed orders to effect compensation for numerous peoples within her realms. The apology and compensation isn't for being colonised. The compensation is because the Ministers actions resulted in denial of rights without due process, due process being afforded to all subjects of the Crown
in the USA situation by the rule of due process there is no compensation for being enslaved prior to 1865 . US 13th Amendment. There is however a case, at least to answer, for denial of rights without due process since 1865, on a case by case basis
Total drivel because the left aren't asking for government apologies , they are saying I should apologise for things that happened before I was born. They are tarring me with the brush because way back when some people who happened to be the same colour as me did some bad ***** even though I believe that bad ***** to be wrong. This is being demanded by the very same people who then go on to excuse Mao, stalin etc and believe in the same credo.
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36 minutes ago, Akane Nacht said:
Modern colonialism? I believe that was Portugal. In SE Asia at any rate, then came the Dutch. The English were late to the party.
Anyway, arguing who did what first is pointless, as there were countless invasions before any Europeans came. What matters is how we treat each other now.
Colonialism has been dead long before anyone now living was born, Those on the left want us to apolgise for things we never did nor believe in I will apologise the day after the left apologise for the 100 million or so that socialism has killed and the billions it plunged into ooverty, I dont believe in colonialism they still believe in socialism despite the evidenece that it leads to poverty, gulags and misery. Why should I apologies for something I dont believe in when they wont apologise for what they do believe in
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2 hours ago, LittleMe Jewell said:
The tiny little "Do not show me this again" checkbox is too darn close to the OK button in the delete confirmation window. When I'm in a hurry, I end up double-clicking in the confirm box - accidentally ticking the checkbox and then clicking OK. Then I have to pull up preferences again to put the delete confirmation back as an 'Always show', rather than 'Never show'.
The wont damce with you button is far too close to the yummy yes pkease button on the dialog as littleme always presses the wrong one
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1 minute ago, Kimmi Zehetbauer said:
Another is 20,504,864,124,544.2 "objects." Sometimes when turfing those, who knows if there's some I shouldn't turf!
I you have that many objects then maybe, just maybe you need to step away from the shopping cart right now
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16 hours ago, Sardonyx Mysterious said:
When I am chatting with someone about a non-sexual topic, like fave metal bands and they randomly drop in an eggplant emoji out of nowhere. Wth? Do they suddenly decide,”Well we have talked about metal a few minutes, time to drop the eggplant! Are you that lazy? What are you trying to say, metal gives you an “eggplant”? Are you making me moussaka? ‘Cause that’s the ONLY place I ever want to see that! Gahhhh!
I have no idea what an egg plant emojii means to you, well I have no idea what an eggplant emojii actually is because being human I don't bother with emojii's. Maybe its just a random picture to them like it is to most sane people and they just dropped it in because they thought "oh sardonyx loves those emojii things because she is hard of thinking, this is an emojii so here goes"
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2 minutes ago, Amina Sopwith said:
Many overseas students get residency in the UK, especially if they study here for a long time, for example as medical students or if they do a lot of postgrad study. It's not the same as getting actual UK nationality, although I do know some overseas medical students who got British passports after graduating here then working in the NHS for several years.
The tuition fee doesn't get wiped, the student loan that paid for it does, and overseas students don't get that loan. They definitely have to pay their fees. Pretty much all UK students take out the student loan, and any amount they don't repay gets written off when they're either 65 or 25 years after they were due to start repaying it (or something like that), depending on the years in which they studied. But the fee itself gets paid. And overseas students need to pay or they don't get their place. The universities don't care where the money comes from, perhaps it's a loan from back home, but however they do it, they need to pay.
The universities need the income from overseas students, too.by uk resident I meant uk nationals overseas students resident or not are not in that figure
as to whether its the loan or the fee that gets wiped that doesnt really matter from the students perspective, they didnt pay it
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8 minutes ago, Amina Sopwith said:
Small note: tuition fees have been increasing like crazy for many years now at UK universities, and they're highest of all for students from overseas. We do indeed have a fair number of minority students from other countries, but they are from very wealthy backgrounds; they couldn't possibly afford to study here if they weren't. This absolutely does NOT mean that white privilege and all it means is erased for them while they're here (since Brexit, this has become a nastier and nastier place to be a foreigner), but it does mean that BAME numbers at universities are inflated by wealthy people coming in from overseas. In other words, it's not a case of typical home-grown BAME people all sailing up to university and beyond because it's so easy for them.
I was quoting figures for students resident normally in the uk not over seas students which was why I put (UK residents) after the figure.
Also to note around 60% of thos tuition fees will never get paid as the debt only comes due as a deduction from wages after a certain income and any unpaid gets wiped after I think 30 years
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1 minute ago, Janet Voxel said:
I would say Asians and South Asians tend to do better in North America overall too, but that's a cultural thing as to why that is. But UK has about the same percentage of black people (although they are primarily from the caribbean and Africa) as the US correct? How do they do vs white children? You kind of left that part out.
We have about 3% black, you have about 13% I believe. The black community does not come out much better than poor white on average. The reason I cited the indian hindu vs pakistan muslim was to mere point out that the difference in outcomes cannot be down to racism because as I said unless you ask there is no real way of telling. India and Pakistan being one country for many years before partitition. I do not think the white poor doing well is however down to racism. I think classism is more the problem in the uk. Poor white and black communities sharing some common problems and who is to blame.
1) Teachers not expecting much of them and pushing them to do better and aim higher......... institutional problem
2) A lack of belief in the value of education , the it doesn't matter you will never get a break, parents not reading to them at home or encouraging them.......community problem
3) Lack of good rolemodels......absent fathers play a big part in this......community problem
Now the controversial bit
parts 2 & 3 are worse for the black community because of anti racists in many ways. If you tell poor whites they are parenting poorly and perhaps need to do something about it no one bats an eye lid, do the same for the black community and you will have various woke people writing articles in the guardian branding you racist. There are many good black role models however often they feel to speak out and say there are problems in their community which are the community fault, Trevor Philips is a good example. However when they do they get epithets thrown at them by the woke such as coconut, uncle tom, racial gatekeeper
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Just now, Robin Kiyori said:
...As a White Northern Irish person that is a bunch of utter nonsense.
England was the birthplace of colonialism. Poor white folk here. (inculding myself) have it way easier then anyone of darker skin, with the only exceptions being Irish travellers and Eastern Europeans. Again prvilege doesn't mean a life free of misery. The Uk hates all poor, non cis, non het, non neurotypical people. But don't try to pretend white privilege is an american only thing.
I am from a poor background too, I see figures you quote feelings. 20% of university students are of bame origin(uk resident only) 12% of the population are. It is a fact that the group with highest average earnings is the indians and chinese and jewish communities, the one with the lowest average earnings is those white from your average council estate. You see a different country to the one I and friends see and seeing as I live in a town with a white british population of a mere 36% I think I would be be more likely to come across this discrimination than someone from Northern ireland which I believe has one of the lowest level of BAME in the UK. Sorry you can make all the claims you want but if you dont have stats to back it up then you don't have a case.
Is there racism in the mainland UK yes of course there is. What people like you can never explain though is why do the Hindu Indian community do so well whereas Muslim communities from Pakistan do so badly. Without asking there is no way of telling one from the other so the difference can't be racism, not that stops those like you claiming it is.
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One reason people push back against the term white privilege is because its a term coined in america then extrapolated to apply to all whites in every country.
Know who does worst educationally and who has the worst life chances in the UK?
Poor(as in from financially) white males, know the ones who have the best....the chinese and indian immigrant communities. However those poor white kids are still being told they have "White privilege" by the woke idiots over here.
I want to share an article a friend was kind enough to share with me about events a while back. Maybe it will stop some assuming every country has the issues the us has....perhaps call it "American White privilege" if you dont want to drop white privilege.
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My current pet peeve is people bringing their countries politics into game and forums when most of us don't give a toss. If your government is doing something you don't like well it was you lot that put them there. Its not my problem and sick of hearing about it
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If I might suggest its probably a bad idea to post complaints about this for 2 reasons
1) The sort of people who do it are unlikely to read forums
2) It is a good way of avoiding idiots without actually having to engage with them first to find out if they are an idiot so we dont want to discourage it
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7 minutes ago, kali Wylder said:
Wait a minute. This is just not true! If this were true we wouldn't see so many video's of them beating on regular people. This is what the whole protest has been about in the first place. Cops are abusing their power.
American cops are abusing their power.....there fixed that for you. In most countries we dont have those sort of things surfacing and on the rare occasion we do, the cop is dealt with. US citizens made the problem up to you to solve it.....dont you have elections coming up?
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The answer to the question is an obvious no.
Simple reason
If anyone gets to the point it becomes possible to create such a detailed universal simulation as the one we live in then they obviously have to assume their own is also a simulation and therefore they will be simulating a universe within a universal simulation and that any universe they simulate will also eventually produce someone who can create a perfect universe simulation. They then realise that all universes must be simulations which bend back on themselves and their brains melt and dribble out their ears
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