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I had a friend that was well liked by her many friends. She never hid the fact that she was sick in rl and would only get sicker. Eventually, she stopped logging in. After a year or so we decided the worst had happened, accepted it and moved on. No one doubted her sincerity, we all believe she really did die. After 3 years she's till dead. In another group I was in, the group owner was a total drama queen, threatening at least once a month that she was gonna quit the group. One day she logged in, claimed to be a close friend of the account owner and said that the account owner had died. Everyone in the group was devastated. They had memorials, built a statue, and tried to go on without her. Well, one day after a year she shows up again and says, oh I didn't die after all. People were shocked, but they actually welcomed her back into the group, to continue her role as drama queen. All I could say was "seriously?".

I had a friend that disappeared from second life. He didn't even show up in the groups he owned after he disappeared, and yet his groups still showed up in his profile. His widow was so upset, she ended up becoming a nun. His profile said he was an alt that was starting over, so everyone assumed he did it again, and is playing another incarnation. As others have said, people quit second life all the time. Without rl contact info to find out, you never have any way of knowing what happened to them. Like as not, they are playing on another account right now. So congratulations, there is absolutely nothing wrong with your group.

The more you insist the thread stay on topic, the more it will deviate from it. However you encouraged it with your snippy reply to Alwin.

Ummm... You want to keep it on topic to try and get some useful answers and information?

i never drive. i dont want to contribute to "man made global warming" by driving my old gas guzzler. i prefer to wait outside my place for one of the LL levitated cars to float by. i even put in a covered bus stop in case it rains.

Oh yes all those high paying jobs that get you 50 cents rl money an hour. You don't need any money to enjoy second life. I'll even give you 10 L to upload a profile picture if u don't have one, and you'll be all set. I'm sure you have some things u do in rl for entertainment that cost money. As someone else said, buy one less crapachino from starbucks and you'll have enough Lindens for a month

The Country Outlaws Club started two threads in the make friends category to promote their new club

Wow that transaction requires a level of trust I don't think I'd want to chance.

I thought Linden Homes were designed as a transitory "first step" of home/land ownership before going out into the big bad world and getting your own place. That's the reason they are ugly little boxes crammed side by side. Eventually you'll get tired of it and go build a "real house" somewhere else.

For those that think i'm just an inhabitant of the forums, i was inworld today and bought a new hat. I'm thinking of joining a re-enactors group

I buy $ 5000 L at a time. I'm not conscious of how much the service charge is. To me it's just part of the exchange rate.

*shrug*

Regular threads usually get answered for a day or two, then die out. It's the derailed threads that end up going hot. Then a mod checks it out, reminds people to play nice, and the thread continues to grow. After another day or so, the mod locks the thread as being hopelessly off topic, and peace and calm reign in the forums again... until another thread gets derailed.

Forum trolls and hard core communists sound a lot alike. "Workers of SL unite, you have nothing to lose but your pixel chains." KarlMarx Resident

maybe they heard about clivesteels planned rent strike and are hopeing to appease their renters *rolls eyes*

Well then thats my problem then isn't it? Thank you for your concern

maybe clivesteel would be happy if LL made it illegal to charge more on rent than what the landowners pay in tier. then he'd have the lowest rent possible. any thoughs on what would happen if LL did that clivesteel? all these evil capitalist swine should be taught a lesson right? In Ayn Rands most excellent book Atlas Shrugged, a business man when informed at what price he could sell his product for protested that at that price he would't make any profit. He was told never you mind, we'll tell you if you can make any profit.

People are free to rent or not rent. If everyone decides to not rent at the same time, its their free choice. One must remember though, One can control one's actions, but one cannot control the consequences of those actions.

LOL, a chip on your shoulder that size probably has a render weight high enough to crash anyone that sees it

And then of course, rental land would be scarce, and the remaining land owners could raise their rents to meet the increased demand for rental land.

So you are serious. Well good luck with your strike. If you'd live within your means instead of expecting others to subsidise your excessive extravagant life style, you wouldn't have a problem with "too high rent".

Personally I never heard of Laffer until that other person mentioned the name. All I ever said was that people's actions can be changed by any increase in taxes or fees. And like others have said, you don't notice 99 cents or $1.49, anyway. It's in the total cost off the transaction, so people's actions probably won't change and thus LL will generate more revenue from the fee increase.

They don't consider that since the fee is a flat rate instead of a percentage of lindens sold, that people will make fewer but larger purchases of Lindens. As so many people do, they assume people's actions will not change after a fee increase. Old fee: 99 cents times 1 purchase of 10,000 L per week generates $3.97 every 4 weeks new fee: $1.49 times 1 purchase of 40,000 L once every 4 weeks generates $1.49 every 4 weeks If enough people do this LL will make less money regardless of what Laffer says. If they want to increase revenue by raising the rate, they need to make the fee a percentage of Lindens bought, NOT a flat rate increase. THEN Laffer's effect will happen. Because, buy once a week, or once a month, the total fee after 4 weeks will be the same

you must be a socialist in rl. id call you a communist but id probably be reprimanded on the other hand your whole post might be in jest so.... lol good one

yes i did read it. and i replied to it. thank you for your concern