Jennifer Boyle

I buy a lot of Lindens because I rent my land tier and pay for that with Lindens. I would be buying the Lindens I get as a stipend if I didn't get it. Therefore, for me, it does directly offset part of the cost of the membership. However, who would otherwise buy the Lindens is in the same position of having taht expense offset.

Thanks for the informative post. I do want to take issue with the statement above. I do not know about other jurisdictions in the US, but where I live almost all services are subject to sales tax.

Couldn't they easily make it visible only to Premium+ members? I assumed that they could and went to the Support Portal expecting to see it.

What happened to him?

You are exactly right. It could have been, and probably was, me. I have been seeking a solution to this for a long time. My resurgence of interest is because of recent griefing. I know that I tried to make that work, but couldn't. I lack expertise in scripting. The new wrinkle is that I have learned of networked orbs and their capabilities, and I think they may offer a solution to my problem

Problem: I have about 15 group-owned (all by the same group) parcels in one mainland region and five in an adjacent region. When a griefer strikes, it is tedious to add them to each parcel ban list. I seek a way to make the process more efficient. I think it is possible to do what I seek using networked security orbs, since they can both add names to parcel ban lists and communicate with each other, and I think that one or more that will do what I want exist, but I have not found them. Ideally, I could add a name to one orb's blacklist and have it immediately added to all the parcels' ban lists. It would be acceptable if I could add it to one orb's blacklist and have it added to the parcels' ban lists only after the griefer returned and was ejected. Does a device that meets my needs exist?

Yes, and another is supposed to be telephone support, but after searching diligently, I have so far been unable to find a support phone number. I upgraded the day it became available.

I seriously doubt that the IRS is interested in anything but RL currency transactions, i.e., what one paid Tilia (or a RL vendor of products such as textures that were bought for use in SL, or other RL expenses like Lindal mentioned), and what Tilia paid out. I can imagine the look on an IRS auditor's face when somebody started explaining that they spent some of the money on virtual land and structures for their SL business and spent some on personal expenses like a house, clothing, and tips for dancers, and presented SL transaction records. Oh, and the "money" was Linden dollars that have a slightly variable value in US dollars, and have no legal status as money.

The US dollars is all the IRS cares about. I pay Tilia dollars in order to buy Lindens. Tilia pays me dollars after I sell Lindens. Those other theoretical residents have nothing to do with the dollars. Tilia is the only entity with which I exchange US dollars. Just curious. Most of my Lindens go, through a third party, to pay for my land tier, so they go to LL. If I keep buying Lindens from residents and paying them to LL, won't the number of Lindens available fall? Many, many people pay large amounts for land tier to LL. If everyone is buying from other residents to pay LL, why isn't the supply of Lindens drying up, and why isn't the Linden to dollar ratio decreasing?

Thank you for that. It answers my question with fact, not speculation. It tells me the threshold is so high that I can forget about it. I had thought, after reading many of the responses, that the thing for the member with $1000 in their account in my example to do would be to leave it there and use it to pay for a Premium Plus annual membership for the next four years. Ironically, if you use your US dollar balance to pay for SL expenses, there's no tax liability at all.

Let's see. According to what most people are saying. if I buy some Lindens with real money, I don't need all of them, and I return them for a refund, the refund is reported as taxable income. No other business of which I have ever heard does such a bizarre thing. They don't even do it if the purchase and refund are in different years. Like what? I don't think I've ever seen an invoice or a receipt for an inworld transaction. There is the online transaction record that is transiently available that I can download, which often doesn't provide good documentation of the reason Linden dollars changed hands. Easily-altered IM and chat logs, maybe? Good documentation, by real-world standards just doesn't exist inside SL, to my knowledge.

In the example I gave, the resident actually had a net loss of $2000 for the year, even though gross income was $1000.

Over the years, I have had things, e.g., furniture, disappear from my home. The owner was a roommate who had left SL I know he didn't delete or take them, because he didn't logon. I know I didn't return it, and no one else had the power. It just vanished. I don't know the explanation. I have also been alarmed several times when large parts of my house appeared to be gone; I relogged, and there they were just as they should be. If I had the OP's problem, I would relog, and, if that didn't help, restart the computer and login on a different viewer for good measure.

Occasional objects fail to render until I right click on them, and then they render instantly. Why? It tends to happen with certain ones.

My understanding is that, when a resident has taken RL money out of SL via Tilia, LL annually reports the amount paid out to the concerned taxing authorities, although I presume that there is a threshold that must be reached for that to happen. Is net or gross income reported? For example, if a U.S. resident pays in $3000 during a year and removes $1000, does LL report income of $1000 to the IRS?

It was rumored to be. They aren't fools. Legless avatars were a mistake. They quickly recognized that and corrected it. They will keep doing that.

Considering the stage of development and the speed with which it is progressing, how long will it take those avatars to surpass SL avatars? Looks like a wake-up call for LL to me.

Here's what you get:

I'm all ears. Please tell me how.

It's a definite go for me. I pay L$0.25 per square meter per week to rent tier, so 2,048 is worth L$512 per week, L$26,624 per year, $106.50 per year. L$650 per week equals L$33,800 per year, equals $135.20 per year. $106.50 + $135.20 = $241.70 per year. $249.00 - $241.70 = $8.30. Sure, I'd gladly pay $8.30 per year just to have 140 groups and nothing else, but I'll probably save more than $8.30 a year in texture upload fees, so I'll probably make money on it.

I don't know how useful this will be to the OP, but it's easy to make asymmetrical arm tattoos for Maitreya because, despite supporting BOM, tattoo layers can still be used, and parts of a layer can be selectively hidden. The selection of what part is hidden is even sticky, so it only has to be done once. To make asymmetrical arm tattoos, you just wear two tattoo layers, one with the tattoo on the left arm and the right arm hidden and another with the tattoo on the right arm and the left arm hidden. I have never understood why some (Maybe all other?) mash body makers stopped supporting layers when they started supporting BOM. Even though we have BOM, we can do cool things with layers, like this. another one is make a translucent avatar. there may be others I don't know about.

The cards I used were reloadable, so they had to know how to accept payments. perhaps that's why they worked.

If you're using Firestorm, you can type "gth 3001" in chat and be instantly transported to 3001 m.

Over the years, I have used prepaid MC and VISA debit cards several times with no problems.

FWIW, I think the Lindens got right in the Bellesaria covenant a lot of what they got wrong in the rules for the mainland.