KanryDrago
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For those who don't have it stay safe. I have and its not pleasant
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I havent read any of this thread apart from the title, in general though if something on twitter is putting people who use twitter off coming here then I think we should all be thankful
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12 hours ago, clivesteel said:
Racism, greed, mesh mania and the latest anti-Resident pay-for-names fiasco (aka - the purge of free accounts) has laid SL in its casket.
LMAO
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For comparison and checked date of purchase was mid 2016, originally a 980gtx 4gb
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Also can I advise shopping around a bit, my system is about the same age and similar specs the only difference I can see is mine is an i7 5720, my data drive only 1 tb. I paid 1400 for mine and that price included two asus 24inch monitors, about half what you paid
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1 hour ago, Garnet Psaltery said:
To answer @Lillith Hapmouche and @Pussycat Catnap. My machines so far have cost between £2,500 to £3,000, mostly from Chillblast. I got this one over 4 years ago and the CPU is 6 years old. The main problems at the moment are 1) that it fails to start up about once a fortnight - it just hangs there with a spinning circle of dots until I switch it off at the machine and restart, and 2) the fans are working noticeably harder. I used to be able to make small changes, like replacing memory sticks and the graphics card but my concentration is not what it used to be and I'm reluctant to tinker with what I have without something to back it up.
Specs are:-
I had a problem with my machine not booting reliably for a while. I traced it down to booting with my phone connected to the usb socket eventually. Might just be a dodgy peripheral. As to fans try cleaning the filters etc
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52 minutes ago, Lavaliere said:
That... Actually sounds like it would be loads of fun.
Consensual pvp can be fun not what the op wanted though, his complaint was basically when someone insults my gf all I can respond is "no you" because I dont have any skill with putdowns so I should be allowed to beat them up and knock them off line
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1 minute ago, KanryDrago said:
hmmm I did? goes to look back....my main comments have been op doesnt need a full homestead and nothing about internet but may have accidentally replied to you by mistake
sorry yes did get the wrong quote to reply to I guess looking back
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Just now, FairreLilette said:
You replied to my post that said the OP could look into more affordable internet plans and your post poo-pooed my idea.
Nevermind.
hmmm I did? goes to look back....my main comments have been op doesnt need a full homestead and nothing about internet but may have accidentally replied to you by mistake
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1 minute ago, FairreLilette said:
It never hurts to ask. Here are some deals I'm finding by looking myself:
Best broadband deals- Cheapest standard speed b'band & line (10Mb+) Shell Energy: equiv £10.74/mth. Post Office: equiv £11.74/mth.
- Cheapest fast fibre & line (30Mb+) Plusnet: equiv £17.83/mth. Post Office: equiv £17.90/mth.
- Cheapest superfast fibre & line (60Mb+) TalkTalk: equiv £18.07/mth. Plusnet: equiv £20.83/mth.
why are you quoting me bb speeds and costs when I never complained about them?
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1 minute ago, Selene Gregoire said:
Beats the hell out of having to hand wash rags.
in this day and age of unwanted junk mail everyone has an ample supply of unwanted paper no worse than the waxed stuff available when I grew up
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Just now, Selene Gregoire said:
Bleached or unbleached?
luxury some of us use the free newspapers and cut it into squares and hang it on a string
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On 1/31/2020 at 6:56 PM, Luna Bliss said:
The OP said she was disabled though, using a wheelchair. Maybe SL is vital to her...maybe even more important than a meal or two missed due to spending it here in SL. We just don't know...can't ever know really...what another truly needs.
Op might well be in a wheelchair and sl is important, however that doesnt mean they need to be able to afford a full homestead to make it worthwhile. I am in the uk, I earn enough to be in the top 20% of uk earners. I know I couldnt justify a full homestead without cutting down on my expenses elsewhere and bear in mind I dont have a car, I walk to work. I dont buy coffees out and go home for lunch. I dont visit bars or take drugs. I have a low cost life. Still a whole homestead is something I couldn't justify nor do I see it as if I cant have a whole homestead sl is worthless. I rent a quarter of a sim. It is enough for me to manage a good sl. including providing free homes for my sl sister and daughters and house guests The op could just go ok I cant afford this I will rent half a homestead
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45 minutes ago, FairreLilette said:
People in America pay for internet although there are low cost plans for those of limited income. Have you called your internet provider to see if they offer any low cost plans you may qualify for?
My ex paid $180 a month just for cable TV but he got all the sports stations. I thought he was nuts and it was too extravagant a plan for us to afford.
However, there are plans for all income levels. I'd check around if I were you. Maybe your country has some for retired people, etc.
Also, try looking for plans that offer wifi. Wifi is much cheaper.
Dont pander to it....I am in the UK I work I cant afford to rent nearly as much land you dont see me complaining and claiming Linden labs should make it cheaper. SL is a hobby if its too expensive either scale back or quit simple as that it is not one of lifes essentials. Besides which I wouldnt be surprised if the op is richer than many uk residents being retired as a lot of that generation had the opportunity of final salary pension schemes and fairly cheap housing
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1 hour ago, Michaelatv Destiny said:
As Luna has said, I dont expect LL to not make a profit. Its like saying one of google play store games is free, but micro transactions is what it makes in revenue to develop and run the game , pay wages etc.
I just dont see LL since they hiked tiers up a long time ago, dont seem to realize the world and costs of living has risen dramatically, but unemployment driven by cheap chinese labour has unsettled the status quo, for many OTHER countries.
USA has a unique position, it can almost produce everything it needs without huge imports. The UK is an island, we dont have our own gas, own oil wells, or have a climate like florida or the great plains, to grow huge amounts of grain. My work in SL has always been around building, or and making themed sims for others to enjoy.
on the matter of petrol prices. todays pump price in uk is around £6.50 per gallon, according to XE currency converter, that's still just under $9 per gallon. Other things USA and canada don't pay hardly any for is internet access, and phone line charges , that are charged even if you dont have a phone. My monthly bill from Virgin media on a basic tv package, no phone but fibre optic is around £70 incl VAT, add to that The TV licence fee, millions of us struggle to keep up with each month, shows how our disposable income for use in Second life had dwindled away since 2006. yep 12.50$ I mentioned is wrong, so its more like 9$ a gallon to you over the pond.
Tomorrow the financial markets open, and thats where will we see what the opening rates is against the US$ ....after we finally left the Bloc...The fact remains you dont need a whole homestead....cant afford it downgrade just like everyone else cut your cloth to what you can afford. Would I like more land off course I would but because I cant afford it I merely rent what I can afford for probably half of what you wish to spend
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2 minutes ago, Garnet Psaltery said:
Is this thread ever going to get back to the actual topic?
There wasn't really a topic in the first place its another I can't afford to have all the things I want on sl for [insert reason of choice here] Linden labs should make it cheaper for me as they dont need to make a profit. Nothing that hasn't been discussed a thousand times before
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2 hours ago, Zeta Vandyke said:
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Only now I think of it, do we have enough men on the forums to even have a proper competition?
Probably enough men, it is whether we have enough men that present as men
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51 minutes ago, Da5id Weatherwax said:
On that latter point I'm with you even as a remainer... That directive was such a piece of crap it should never have seen the light of day.
I think the EU is a bit of a victim of its own success. There are nations in the EU who clearly have a vision of a "federal Europe" - which COULD work but it would need to be something that the members signed up to with open eyes. That wasn't the case with the "creeping federalism" that happened as the EU grew out of the EEC. That wasn't what a lot of countries signed up for - including the UK. It's probable that if that had been stated up front as the intended end-state that the UK would not have joined when it did, but possible that it might have subsequently joined. Either way though, whether it did or not, the whole Brexit issue would be moot because we would be getting what we signed up for. As it stands, the progress towards that end goal has justifiably alienated a lot of people - and that alienation boiled over into Brexit, which I personally believe (my own opinion, so counts for about as much as a fart in a tornado) is going to be worse for the UK than either of "what we signed up for" or "what we got"
A lot of the problem was the uk's own parliament as well, as we saw after the referendum most mp's were still wedded to the eu . We never had a party to vote for that could win and be in governement that wasn't happy to drag us deeper in. If we had referendums on maastricht and lisbon I am pretty sure that one or the other would have been rejected
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Eve, world of warcraft, tsw, the original conan mmo, still play eve
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2 minutes ago, Syo Emerald said:
Well, I think a bit high gas prices are acceptable (although those are usually more pushed by environmental concerns and the outlook that the necessary ressources for gas aren't endless and getting the last drop of it becomes increasingly more expensive...), if in return I never have to fear experiancing one of the many horror stories I hear from the US, where you might aswell shot yourself in the head, if you are poor and get cancer or a chronic illness.
Any half-way educated person knows its not free. Nobody with a working brain claims its free in a sense of "paid with love and air". Anyone who works sees the cut taken out of their salary each month for taxes and social security. But its free in terms of "you don't pay the bill".
The term you are looking for I think is that it's free and the point of delivery. You don't have to think can I afford it before going to the doctor/hospital
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3 minutes ago, Da5id Weatherwax said:
That's a perfectly valid opinion. Of course it carries with it that by rejecting those disadvantages of EU membership you are also surrendering the advantages. Those upsides and downsides are so evenly balanced it's not surprising the same is true of opinions on which to prioritize.
I personally think there's a real danger in choosing a course with such long-term consequences as EU membership or not by a simple majority when opinion is so evenly divided. Most organizations that have any kind of membership vote mechanism in place set decisions of comparable magnitude as requiring a supermajority - usually 2/3 of those voting - to change the status quo. This prevents erratic policy changes in areas where such would be more damaging than either of the two competing policies. It's also far from unknown in the governance of nations too, for exactly the same reason.
And that's why I think Brexit should not have happened this time around. If the benefits of getting out of the EU were clear-cut enough to sway 2/3, then even the losing side would accept it. If there isn't a majority large enough for that to be the case, it shouldn't have happened.
For me personally, Brexit has made me an SNP member, but I would argue to my fellow members that the 2/3 rule should apply to any vote for splitting the union too - even though, under current circumstances, it is a course I would favor and there aren't the votes (yet) to reach that threshold.
I certainly am not saying the eu had no advantages, for me personally though the disadvantages outweighed the advantages by a huge amount. For example I am extremely pleased that the UK wont be implementing the madness of the new eu copyright rules (specifically article 13 which was changed to article 17)
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40 minutes ago, Michaelatv Destiny said:
I had to laugh at one poster saying 5$ for a gallon of petrol is robbery. I remind none UK residents, that fuel and energy prices take a huge amount of income from even those who are working. We currently pay on conversion 12.50$ per gallon. The days we used to be able to just go anywhere you want for £20 of petrol has long gone. The same applies to car insurance, which is very high. I been driving since 1970. But even then , the cheapest insurance I could find for 2006 Zara picasso auto costs me £66 a month on direct debit. That also has to come out of my fixed pension. I can't imagine any USA resident paying without grumbling 2 gallons of petrol for 23$ .this also effects light vans and delivery vehicles, which is why some delivery charge s are quite high. Sorry for duplicate post. This new tablet is not like a Windows PC with mouse and keyboard. I never spam my whole life. This is just a problem I haven't solved yet that's all
You do know most of that petrol price is tax? mostly imposed by the infamous fuel escalator of Gordon Brown. You dont need to spend money in sl. Your crap about so you dont want to have a good skin....sorry one off purchase....you dont need a homestead. Cant afford it then scale down like anyone sensible would do
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3 hours ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:
I had many friends, at the time of the referendum, who were card-carrying "progressives" -- pro-immigration, pro-refugee, anti-nationalist, etc. -- but who supported Brexit because they argued (quite correctly) that the EU was an instrument of Neoliberalism and austerity. And so they, like a lot of Labour MPs and supporters, thought leaving was a great idea, because it would allow Britain to chart it's own left-leaning, internationalist course.
And I kept pointing to Nigel Farage, and Johnson and Gove, and UKIP, and so many of the other Brexiters, and saying "Look at the company you're keeping!" I mean, they wanted to leave Europe so that they could pursue nationalism, and isolationism, and sometimes downright racist policies. You can't both be right, I'd say -- which vision is going to win out if Britain leaves, a progressive or a reactionary one?
I think it's pretty clear now which "vision" has won, predictably.
And if Scotland leaves, which would be terribly sad and retrograde, but pretty understandable, what's left of Britain is going to be under the thumb of the reactionaries for at least a generation.
It's terribly, terribly sad. I love Britain, but it's slowly becoming almost unrecognizable.
For a lot of those of us that voted leave it was for reasons of control of our own destinies scylla. It has been an open secret admitted by many in national governments that if you want to put in something you wont get past your own parliament get the eu to implement. One of britains ministers came out and openly admitted this in about 2012.
As a country we could elect who we liked to our governement, we could love their manifesto, elect them on the basis of what they said they wanted to do....then get told when they got to power sorry we cant do that after all because its against eu rules. Sorry not acceptable to a lot of us.
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5 minutes ago, Bree Giffen said:
The homelessness is bad here in LA. I think Linden Lab employees might be seeing it too in SF. I take public transit now and gas savings are huge but I end up riding with some fairly crazy homeless at times.
Homelessness increases everywhere sadly for a mix of reasons, here its because everyone comes to the south east to find work and pushes rents up as places to live are in short supply at the same time as the influx keeps wages down as the supply of labour exceeds demand. Other places it is lack of jobs etc where again the number looking keeps wages down to the point people cannot afford to pay rent and food.
There is an answer that might actually help and its not redistribution but sadly left nor right will implement it.
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When hoarding becomes an issue is also because others see it happening then decide they ought to as well and before you know it everyone is doing it then people like me who just wanted a can of tomato soup have to make do with some foul flavour like cauliflower and wensleydale