Desiree Moonwinder
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18 minutes ago, Finite said:
Im not sure if conservatives have yet fully drifted from the democrat party yet by the 60s. It wasn't until 65 the same year the Vietnam War began. It was a very different political time. Being conservative didn't guarantee you also being a republican in those days. In fact conservatives have been part of the democrat party historically much longer than they have been associated with the republican party.
I think to qualify as a liberal you have to hold recent views. I don't think even Karl Marx would qualify as a liberal these days. Read some of his writings on race and gender and see what you think.
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47 minutes ago, Qie Niangao said:
Thing is, this seems counter to any claim that the conservative establishment wanted to discipline those long-haired protestors simply for having fun. (To me it sounds like a modern right-wing rant over the dread "antifa" which, though wildly uninformed, is motivated by genuine fear.)
I'll grant you that relative to this specific quote. I would like to point out that the good Governor seemed more concerned with the young Americans than with anything going on in the war zone.
The relevance to Juneteenth is that those with money and connections could avoid the draft, or get enough college to go in as officers (cf., https://www.sss.gov/history-and-records/changes-from-vietnam-to-now/). The disadvantaged were disproportionately at risk.
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Ah, I set a long draw distance and teleport from SIM to SIM to just sit and cache the SIMs, and then adjust to shorter draw distances to explore. Lag isn't really a problem once I get the SIM cached as long as I set a low threshold for "imposter avatars."
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10 minutes ago, Pixie Kobichenko said:
Do you mean average American “under” 40? Not over?
Insert "in the 1960s and early 1970s" if that helps.
Read what the Governor said just prior to the Kent State shootings to understand the mentality at the time. You may not feel the love.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings
The very next day, "Twenty-eight National Guard soldiers fired approximately 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis." The students were unarmed and 20 to 200 yards away, as detailed in the article.
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23 minutes ago, Luna Bliss said:
I was just reading about that in the MegaMachine book, and it sparked off a bit of research for me.
In the 60's early 70's seems the conservative elements of society that wanted to control their wage slaves (who produce excess profits for the CEO's of our unjust system) were freaked out about all these so-called "radicals" rebelling against the established system. The increasing struggle for women's rights, rights for Blacks, worker's rights, opposition to wars, and more -- these were all threatening to the conservative establishment.I'm sure they didn't want you to have any fun as you were their enemy, but it went a little deeper -- they were threatened by the loss of control over the increasing amount of people demanding justice.
Aye. I don't think the average American over 40 could find Vietnam on the map, but then did know that these draft-age kids with their peace, love, rock and roll, long hair, and birth control had to be stopped at all costs.
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2 hours ago, LittleMe Jewell said:
While that war was another of the US's big screw-ups in our history, it had absolutely nothing to do with sending young folk off to war just to keep them from having a good time or to discipline them.
It was exactly that. I lived through it. I was young. I was there. I know what the adults talked about. There was great joy every time a long haired young man, a "hippie," was forced to get a GI head shave and shipped off away from the young women.
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Okay, here's a more complete quote.
Quotehttps://www.e-education.psu.edu/eme801/node/486
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The world will run out of oil in 10 years."
- - U.S. Bureau of Mines (1914)
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"The world will run out of oil in 13 years."
- - U.S. Department of the Interior (1939 and 1950)
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"The world will run out of oil and other fossil fuels by 1990."
- - Paul Erlich, Limits to Growth (1973)
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"The world will run out of oil in 2030, and other fossil fuels in 2050."
- - Paul Erlich, Beyond the Limit (2002)
... <skipped several paragraphs> ...
The reality is not that we are "running out of oil," but rather that we are transitioning from a period of easily-accessible oil at low prices to an era of increasingly unconventional production, which has higher costs. Companies will not try to develop these unconventional resources unless consumers are willing to pay the price (economic and environmental) or governments heavily subsidize oil production or consumption. So far, the world has found a way to consume plenty of $100 per barrel oil. At some point, unconventional oil exploration will get so expensive that consumers will look to lower-cost alternatives. Oil will price itself out of the market before the world truly runs out. The increasing popularity of hybrid vehicles, electric vehicles, bicycle transportation in urban areas and even natural gas vehicles are examples of such a shift, even if government policies are required to affect the decisions that consumers make.
So, the US Government predicted in 1914 that the world would run out of oil in 10 years, which computes to 1924. It is now 2021, and we're not anywhere close to out of oil yet.
I agree with the author that "Oil will price itself out of the market before the world truly runs out."
I agree with the author that "The increasing popularity of hybrid vehicles, electric vehicles, bicycle transportation in urban areas and even natural gas vehicles are examples of such a shift, even if government policies are required to affect the decisions that consumers make."
The shift in technologies seems to be working out well; the market is taking care of the details with help from government incentives and disincentives.
As for climate change more broadly, yes, I agree it is happening. I am optimistic that all will work out okay and that 100 years from now, we'll look back and see what we got right and what we got wrong. I agree it is complicated, which is why I think the Government's role is to create incentives and disincentives and let the market handle the details.
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The world will run out of oil in 10 years."
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This is fairly common and there are solutions. Its best to discuss in the user groups created by your head and body makers. I use a different body and head, and so my approach may not work for you.
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11 minutes ago, Innula Zenovka said:
While I agree that rebooting the router was probably what fixed it, I'm not sure that the OP was actually IP blocked. The way it was once explained to me by one of the technical Lindens is that there are several steps, generally, between your router and the simulator to which you're trying to connect, and an issue at any one of these steps can cause the log-in to fail.
Rebooting the router forces it to find a completely new route between your PC and SL, which generally bypasses whatever was causing the previous hold-ups.
Okay; the IP wasn't blocked it just wasn't allowed to connect. As for routing, I realize that TCP/IP has provisions for static routing, but I thought static routing was for corporate backbones. I'm old enough that I had to static route my own emails between cities, but that was a Unix thing before Windows and Mac came along.
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6 minutes ago, Innula Zenovka said:
Of course it should be celebrated. It's my birthday.
I'm all for it. I want 52 holidays so we have four day work weeks even before adjusting for vacation and sick leave (for those lucky enough to have such things).
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47 minutes ago, AmyPinkLegend said:
I threw everything at the wall to see what sticks. I ran full defrag, anti virus, cleared all cookies and passwords, reset laptop, turned modem and power off/on, and deleted the model from blender. I don't know what part of that did it but it's working again, the sites too, thank goodness. I was worried it was going to be a much bigger problem
You were IP-blocked. When you got a new IP, you got in. A VPN helps in these situations. Its not as easy as it used to be to get your ISP to give you a new IP. Turning the modem off for a while usually does the trick though.
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Can anyone find the main SL18B landing point mentioned in the Featured News Blog or the SL18B destination guide?
I think they contracted the Web Page work to someone that doesn't come inworld much. There are two landing points with live greeters, but there is no way to find them.
Once you get to SL10B, pull up your world map (control M) and click where you see the most green dots (avatars), and teleport there.
I made it my mission to find the main landing point and eventually found it, but by then, I had already been given the event-group and event-notecard by talking with other avatars.
It's a great SL10B; I just wish the info in the event Notecard had been in the Featured News blog.
https://secondlife.com/destinations/sl18b
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The boys of my generation were sent to get shot up in Vietnam for no apparent reason other than to discipline us for otherwise enjoying life and having a good time.
I'm not sure what "Independence Day" to pin-on, but the Independence Era for me was when the draft ended (date is complicated https://www.sss.gov/history-and-records/vietnam-lotteries/) and pulled out of Vietnam (April 1975).
QuoteThe sentiment, especially among conservative voices in America, was that the sacrifice of so many killed and wounded in Vietnam would be in vain if America simply withdrew from the war. That attitude was held up to scrutiny in a televised Capitol Hill testimony by a member of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, future Massachusetts senator, presidential candidate, and secretary of state, John Kerry. On April 22, 1971, speaking of losses in Vietnam and the desire to remain in the war, Kerry asked,
“How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?”
https://www.thoughtco.com/why-did-us-enter-vietnam-war-195158
All I could tell was that the old people wanted to send the young people off to Vietnam for disciplinary purposes. We were otherwise having a good time, and they didn't like that yet we we of legal age and they couldn't spank us. So, they invented some pretext to draft the boys and send them off to die for no good reason.
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I always like the Tapestry of Time exhibit on SL's history. I remember the days before flexiprims, before sculpties, before megaprims, etc.
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See Firestorm Preferences:
- Quick Preferences Panel
- Tags Offset: Allows you to adjust the height of your name tag above your avatar. Handy for non human avatars, from tinies to large dragons, so the name isn't embedded in the avatar, or floating way above.
https://wiki.firestormviewer.org/fs_quick_preferences
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9 minutes ago, Madelaine McMasters said:
Citations?
Quotehttps://www.e-education.psu.edu/eme801/node/486
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The world will run out of oil in 10 years."
- - U.S. Bureau of Mines (1914)
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"The world will run out of oil in 13 years."
- - U.S. Department of the Interior (1939 and 1950)
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"The world will run out of oil and other fossil fuels by 1990."
- - Paul Erlich, Limits to Growth (1973)
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"The world will run out of oil in 2030, and other fossil fuels in 2050."
- - Paul Erlich, Beyond the Limit (2002)
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The world will run out of oil in 10 years."
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It's a matter of history. The conflict of the last several generations was between top-down command and control economies and bottoms-up self-organizing market economies. The latter performed better. There are always those looking for some problem that can only be solved by switching to a top-down command and control economy. One sees it clearly in history. "Running out of oil" was going to be it, but now we're not running out of oil. So, they shift to something different.
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8 minutes ago, Sam1 Bellisserian said:
Why does anyone have to blather on about licensing in this thread? As always the thread has turned into nothing about what the original post was about. If discussion needs to be said people need to go to the correct thread. No wonder no one can find anything on this forum. Why even bother putting a thread title in? LOL!
Licensing is highly relevant.
I think if they are licensed, they should be tipped.
If they are not operating legally, they should not be tipped.
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5 hours ago, Lindal Kidd said:
I'm pretty sure we've bought our last internal combustion car. I expect it will be worth nothing when we go to trade it in, but that doesn't worry me a lot since we typically drive our cars until they're worth next to nothing anyway.
I think the price of gasoline will get really cheap with the shift to electric. Unless you believe we're running out of oil.
Quotehttps://www.e-education.psu.edu/eme801/node/486
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The world will run out of oil in 10 years."
- - U.S. Bureau of Mines (1914)
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"The world will run out of oil in 13 years."
- - U.S. Department of the Interior (1939 and 1950)
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"The world will run out of oil and other fossil fuels by 1990."
- - Paul Erlich, Limits to Growth (1973)
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"The world will run out of oil in 2030, and other fossil fuels in 2050."
- - Paul Erlich, Beyond the Limit (2002)
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The world will run out of oil in 10 years."
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No exception for nonprofit: https://www.broadcastlawblog.com/2021/05/articles/copyright-royalty-board-decision-on-webcasting-royalties-expected-by-june-14-what-will-the-streaming-rates-for-2021-2025-be/#more-7717
We covered all this in a recent thread.
There are older threads that say almost the same thing. There are many clumsy attempts at Willful Blindness, but they are transparent for what they are.
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10 minutes ago, JanuarySwan said:
Just to further clarify, I was going to be a DJ in SL and studied up on what to do a bit but real life plans changed for me so it ended up not a plan for me. But, I was told I would need to get a license.
From the SL Wiki, it does say, one needs to get a license.
Remember that streaming copyrighted music across the internet requires a license from your relevant national licensing authority.
If you stream music on the internet, you have to comply with copyright law or you are on the wrong side of the law. For most music, that means paying royalties. There are many clumsy attempts at Willful Blindness, but they are transparent for what they are.
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5 minutes ago, Coffee Pancake said:
Yes, but you don't ban people from your land if they don't listen to the mood music in a timely manner.
No I don't. Banning people is tiresome because people have a deep pool alts in reserve.
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I'm not Malthusian. The earth probably has much room to go relative to population-carrying capacity by way of technology.
The problem is that technology becomes essential for life, rather than just a luxury. Society becomes exposed to catastrophe when the technology fails; cf. recent power outages, pipeline outages, etc.
Also, freedom tends to decline with increasing population density. For example, if you live on 160 acres (an old US land grant number), and your neighbors do the same, you don't care if your neighbor smokes a cigar. Conversely, if you live in a 12-story high rise in a 750 square foot apartment in a metropolitan area, you do care if those in the apartment next door smoke cigars.
Likewise, higher population densities disrupt the environment.
Still, true might in the world is a function of population, so countries are tepid in their enthusiasm for controlling population growth. Cf. China's flip flop on the issue once they figured out the long-term consequences.
So, the Tragedy of the Commons is with us still in many areas, including the subject here: Climate Change.
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I have an extensive collection of properly licensed royalty-free mood music that I have often used for mood music on roleplay SIMs. One sees the IP addresses from the SHOUTcast server. A silly marketplace tool seems superfluous.
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Happy Juneteenth!
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Aye, one has to keep up. Politicians and others in the public eye can keep up, but once they die, they quickly fall behind. Karl Marx, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and Mother Teresa all failed to meet current standards in some ways, often by a large margin.