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Orca Flotta wrote: Unionism is a rational response to feudalism; the USA was never a feudal society, so unions were an irrelevant aberration in the developing country Unions are a rational response/counterweight to industrialism ... not feudalism. Unions were not formed in medieval times but around the turn of the last century. And the USA had theri industral revolution as well as any other country. And now that we have less and less "real" workers in the coalmines and heavy industry they spread out, of course. In germany we have unions for every kind of business, from gastronomy, education, public works, banks and insurances, farming, retail and wholesale, just about any kind of business that needs employees. They were and still are important as a controlling factor on employer/employee relations. A buffer zone if you so will. ... Part one: "Ahh, that's just what I thought when I read Awe's post" - but what about the Guilds that were established in pre-industrial times? I'm not sure where to place them since they were for self-employed, 'skilled' workers in the main. In any case I'm not sure if it translates to German. Your thoughts would be appreciated because ... "In Germany we have unions..." - Aha! That explains a LOT. In Germany your unions are nothing like as militant as the ones in the UK (let's not even mention France ^^) and tend to concentrate on what is good for the market and the companies in which their members work, not just on selfish, short-term benefits that are generally destructive and, ultimately, self-destructive too. Germany's model was exactly what I had in mind when I said "Yes to employee representation". Collectively we are all in the same boat - your unions want to make sure it is navigated properly, ours want to sink it to drown the captain. On anarchy I more or less agree with you - it only takes one bully to bring the whole thing down - but there's no way I'd want dictators like Castro or Chavez around, let alone warriors like Guevara and Makhno. Even Mandela is a bit dodgy; yes he was magnanimous in victory and no totalitarian but let's remember he was another "armed and violent" (his quote) revolutionary. [Yes, one of the best and he was right, but I'd have to look at him twice before letting him into Utopia]. That only leaves Ghandi and Mother Theresa and I hope they get on OK because I'm pretty sure I shouldn't be let in either!

I'm sorry, I don't have any thoughts. It's been that sort of day at work :-( FWIW I always associated: Geek = someone with more brains than a media moron Nerd = someone with more brains than dress sense Hmmm, I don't buy computers/tablets/phones as a fashion accessory or use twitface but I do know how they work; I'm definitely a geek. I'm probably a nerd as well to the sort of people likely to use the word at all but only because my - wide and active - social circle isn't obsessed with fashion, celebrities and, well, media morons (except for the occassional media morons that can keep up). [After sailing with some ex-Army mates this weekend I spent time with the other people living on the farm here. They'd been foraging for wild Autumn fruits and things. We were making bread, preserves, wine, etc. In return I showed them how to use a reformatter and Zip to reduce the size of all the photos they were emailing home around the world. Then we had a party. One of the people has been living here for a couple of months now and we're still not sure whether it's "him" or "her". Somehow I don't think the sort of people who need to call others 'geek', 'nerd' or anything else would be able to cope with any of this. Back to the TV and 'lifestyle' magazines for them. I have a life, sometimes several.]

You should post in the wanted forum http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Wanted/bd-p/Wanted and/or use search in-world. If you want to fight with these things you're probably better-off finding a suitable group or sim first and asking what they use, to ensure your system is compatible. Oddly enough I joined SL because someone in an online game suggested it and here they were working on a copy of a full-sized Mech.

PLEASE help out in 'Answers', where an awful lot of people report that they can't see/click the buttons anyway ^^

The flexible=phantom trick is still very useful, without being any sort of hack. It only works for individual prims because only individual prims can be flexible. The trick is to make each prim that needs to be phantom into a flexible prim with maximum stiffness so they don't ever flex in practice. Not great if you're moving the whole set around much but works well on static objects (I use it for water in pools). Presumably though it's the flexible attribute that increases the LI so much (haven't checked it out recently so I can't tell).

Any online gambling which has a fee to play and a random payout, or chance of payout, is illegal under LL's gambling policy, itself in accordance with US/Californian law. Don't be surprised if you get a call from the Lindens and/or the FBI ;-0 [NB: slot machines are specifically mentioned amongst those not allowed]

The land forums http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Land-Forum/ct-p/LandForum are the official place to look but you might prefer a 'theme' area. Caledon is the obvious large community in SL but within that there are a lot of quite different areas across all the sims. Another place that you might find attractive is Builders' Brewery. As a sim dedicated to new and not so new builders you'll find the support around that you want and the shops area is small and well-designed enough to remain attractive without too much competition.

Duplicate of http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Avatar/why-is-my-eye-texture-eating-through-my-skin-suddenly/qaq-p/2248441 Please don't create multiple threads for the same subject - it's just annoying spam that makes it hard to keep track of any suggestions already made and pushes other people's posts off the page.

Please use Options > Edit against your post to add a tiny clue. A picture of what you mean would be nice.

Yes - doesn't make sense in Hebrew either. Not as far as Google translate can work out. With a bit of lateral thinking I think you are asking how you drive a car. The answer is - we don't know, because we have no idea what car. Almost everything in Second Life is made by us residents so nothing is standard. With vehicles you normal sit on them and then use the cursor keys on your keyboard to control them. For any other commands you would need to have a set of instructions. For any specific product you should ask for help from whoever sold it to you. Another subject: You are aksing many questions here that we cannot understand. You will find it much easier to get assistance in Second Life itself. A search for "Hebrew" finds more than 20 groups - some will be happy to help you.

And this >> "We are not LL, just residents like you"

So why did you create an alt just to publish that? And wouldn't you just do the same thing to 'escape' prison? I created a weather bureau much like you suggest, by the way. It was a web server holding and updating consistent grid-wide weather maps. The aim was to provide more realistic weather for the yachtsmen (and aviators, as it happens) to whom such things are important but was open to anyone that wanted to know what the weather was at any given location in SL. SL 'system' wind is far too flukey to be realistic and the alternative systems are all either completely random or completely static. The target audience was mildly interested but land-owners didn't want it at all so we never got to 'Phase 2' which would have included detailed wind-shadowing, squalls and eddies*. [*Who is no longer in the space-time continuum]

Would you mind repeating that second sentence in this thread: http://community.secondlife.com/t5/General-Discussion-Forum/On-STRIKE/td-p/2244619 Mesh in SL IS progress, but that doesn't stop prim or sculpty builds having their uses, quite apart from the LI issue. (I'm assuming you realise this and are just chucking in your usual flame-attempt).

branigon wrote: ... Does the "my second life" section on my dashboard allow this person to track me ? I am referring to the "follow info" in that section which I have now changed to "nobody". Creepy as it sounds to normal folk, the people who use twitface and the like use "follow" to mean that people can read what you post on the feeds, not actually follow you around, or even see where you are. LL jumped on the 'sociak medai' bandwagon without caring much what "xxx is following you" would look like to their existing customers because they are desperate for sign-ups. [The only good thing about it, for me, is that it's quite funny to see the type of people who start following my alt which never types anything and is hardly ever in world. They must be really desperate!]

Heads up! http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Featured-News/New-Video-What-s-New-in-Second-Life/ba-p/2226701 LL publicised it so probably sooner rather than later.

Yep to all that. As I mentioned, allocating resources by (land) area is not the only way to do things but the advantage is that each sim 'knows' who can hear chat and similar range-related things. If servers were avatar-based, for instance, it becomes much easier to map continuous spaces but much harder to find out who else is there. Etc, etc, etc. [Possibly boring historical waffle; I'm like that] 10 years ago when Morrowind came out I loved the huge, seamless, landscape but was continually hitting "Please wait ..." messages running around it faster than the incremental loading could fetch data from disk. Neverwinter Nights, from around the same time, used the completely different model of loading the whole of a smaller region and having loading/cut-scenes when you, rarely, entered or left it. It all gets a whole lot worse, of course, in an unoptimised, ever-changing, online, massively-multiplayer, environment ^^ I won't go into technicalities but an environment designed for aviation dog-fighting, for instance, will have a very simple - but very big - 'map' and very few, pre-installed, aircraft models. It's major headache is then "only" communicating each player's position/orientation/configuration/vector to the others - and there'll rarely be more than a dozen or two in each game. For the same reason the viewer for such an environment only has to scale/rotate the models it already knows from the received information. You can imagine how much simpler both sides of that are compared to SL.

"Name" and "Description" are the first text-boxes on the "General" tab in the build/edit window. Unless you type a name there everything gets stored as 'Object', which I assume is your problem - it happens to us all ^^ Inventory is where everything is saved so you'll have to add copies as you go but you can close the edit window, right-click the object and "Take Copy" at any point if you want to continue working on it. (Hint, either delete the older copies already in inventory or use the description to keep track of which version is which).

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/LlFrand

Ah sorry, I thought it the "automate" was importamt, not just the changing.

Orca Flotta wrote: Without unions most of us ... would work 16 hours/day 7 days/week couldn't afford the computers to type out spoiled selfish anti-socialist unsolidaric slogans wouldn't even be educated enough to think of those stupid anti-unionist conclusions [**Yeahhh, Drongle, my prep wasn't wasted**] You are completely wrong in overlooking something called 'democracy', as do the unions and the rest of the militant left themselves, of course. Solidarity promotes progress by creating and voting-for better conditions; fighting the 'class war' for them is as destructive as any other war. The whole rhectoric of the left forces 'us' against 'them' in a faux Marxist dialectic demanding that we 'smash the system'. The point of aspirational democracy (aka liberal left, or right depending where you are) is to 'fix the system' and trades-unions are most certainly part of the problem, not the solution. Violent, destructuve or merely obstructive 'direct action' by all the rest of the militant left - until they grow up and sell out - is in the same category. Don't break it even more, make it better! "An eye for an eye will leave the whole world blind" as Ghandi said. Universal schooling, by the way, started because the capitalists needed better-educated workers for their factories than the previous agricultural system. To this day schools are as much as tool for brainwashing the future sheep as they are for actually educating them (filling a pail, not lighting a fire - re Yeats or possibly Plutarch). The wolves, of course, go to different schools - at least they do in the UK - and give each other overpaid sinecures. Unions most definitely had nothing to do with any new working practice that might require their members being able to think! *Tsk*, perish the thought, go on strike then send the offenders to Marxist "re-education" camps. The only thing the left wants you to know is that you're a worker and the union/party chairman looks after you ^^. Now, bleet after me ... Community schools, especially in adult education, are a somewhat different matter. These were organised by aspirational people who wanted to make themselves and their lives better. Sneered at by typical crab-bucket militant left - including unions who faced losing docile members - for being bourgeoisie it is exactly these people who, quietly but determinedly, achieved universal sufferage (alright, sorry, admittedly male-only) and became our modern economic middle class. Our - aspirational, liberal - collective wll is expressed through "one man [look I said I was sorry!], one vote" democracy and peaceful, lawful, protest. The militant view wants three votes - election, party control* and strikes/violent protest when they stil can't get their own minority way. Yes to employee representation, no to workers' unions. [*contentious UK Labour party reference]

I am probably taking your venting (quite right too) too seriously. Specifically, I was reading it as a demand for special attention to a very non-core function of SL. Sailing is one of the things I have enjoyed most in SL but stormy weather' has led to the cancellation of many a race I had been looking forwards to. SL being an ever-changing 'beta' is something we have to accept, including limiting the investment we make in the platform. LL have spared me from ever spending any real money here as one of the things they are incapable of doing is a payment system like everyone else on the internet (of course, that also means I can't take any out). My apologies.

Did I ever mention that at the bank I last worked in everyone sent me copies of all the viruses and dodgy spam that they got? Yes, I was 'bomb disposal' and about the only person who would open them up - including decompiling if necessary - to find out how they worked. LOL, most of the time they just bounced off our non-standard software and OSs anyway. Not really something we can do in SL, since we can't get server-side so, yeah - don't open or even rez unknown stuff is the rule.

The most important thing for SL isn't your computer at all but the internet connection you use. Since you're not a newbie I take it that's all fine for you but, for the record, don't use wireless if you can help it or satellite/phone ISPs at all. After that, almost any modern computer will cope with SL as long as you invest in a decent, dedicated, graphics card. nVidia cards seem to work best with SL and I'd take Rolig's 650 as a starting-point, although my very old 8300 works fine without shadow. The amount of memory you need will depend mainly on your operating system and how much you do at the same time but, unlike Rolig, I never even nearly use the 4GB on my machine (yes, it's all pretty crippled old stuff here - including me - but still working well - excluding me ^^). Now the question that hardly anyone asks but bloody well should - why do you want a laptop? Portability is the obvious reason and makes any other question redundant - if you have to carry it around it has to be a laptop. On the other hand so many people buy one because it looks better and then find that they can't easily fix, replace or upgrade any of the parts later. This is especially the case with Apple equipment where they (try to) maintain a monopoly on the hardware so you have to pay premium prices too. A tower/desktop computer is build to be robust and ease of access so it is cheaper in the first place, less likely to go wrong and easier and cheaper to fix when it does go wrong. A laptop is all the same kit engineered down into the smallest, lightest package more or less without regard to what will happen to it later.

It is highly unlikely that we'll be able to help with, or even know, a specific product amongst the billions that residents have made in SL. For all such things it is best to contact the seller or creator of the item. (You probably know this - I'm just putting this here for anyone else who doesn't)

Try http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Mesh/bd-p/Mesh - getting around the forums a bit to ask the specialists or, even better, getting some lessons in-world is going to help you a lot more than the general - and short - answers we can give you here. To find out more about SL in-world I recommend Caledon Oxbridge, NCI (Kuula sim and several others) or Builders' Brewery.