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Rolig Loon

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  1. I buy mine at the local coffee shop, where they roast the beans themselves three days of the week. You can smell the roaster a block away. I can't beat that with any store-packaged coffee, and I can't brew a cup at home that tastes as good as theirs. At $2.14 for a 20 oz cup, it's a great way to start the day. I leave a dollar tip and feel I got the best bargain of the day. It comes with a smile too.
  2. Nope. I drink my coffee black. Always have. Sugar and cream and -- heaven forbid -- fruity flavors ruin a good cup of coffee, IMO. I don't have much of a sweet tooth anyway. I will occasionally have a square of dark chocolate but I don't eat other candy (other than a stray licorice jelly bean) and I've never liked sodas. I do enjoy a good tart apple pie, though.
  3. That's a pretty common term in several other contexts too. It gets a giggle from people who are unfamiliar with glassblowing, for example, and don't know that it refers to the secondary furnace that's used to reheat glass during shaping. Watch episodes of Blown Away on Netflix to see.
  4. Johannes Brahms: String Quartet No.1 in C minor Op.51 / Belcea Quartet
  5. Where did you check the balance? I ask because the only reliable place to see your balance is on your dashboard at secondlife.com. If you buy L$ through the viewer, the balance takes a while to update -- sometimes not until you relog.
  6. You might want to look at the scripting request at https://feedback.secondlife.com/scripting-features/p/llsetlinkattachmentpoint , which comes close to what you're asking for -- although I would personally ask for llSetAttachmentPoint, as one of the commenters has already suggested.. There are quite a few comments on it already, but another few wouldn't hurt. You'll notice that Spidey Linden has already marked it as Tracked, which means that it is under consideration but not yet accepted for action. Moving it to Planned or In Progress is partly a matter of how much traction the idea has with the scripting community.
  7. Sadly, there is no such thing as an effective IP block. These days, most people have routers that assign dynamic IP addresses that change periodically, sometimes every time we log in. Then there are all the people who enter SL through a VPN. I suspect that most people who do that are either seeking a level of privacy and security or are trying to overcome Internet hassles in their home countries. In any case, there are enough ways to get around a block that the idea is really not much of an answer. All you can do is block and report, as you have been doing.
  8. I'm not sure that you or I are in a position to say whether that's true or not. Unlike the legal environment in the US or Canada, where you and I live, there is no public log of all the cases that Governance has looked at. If nothing else, individual privacy makes that problematic (that's why LL stopped publishing a "police blotter" more than a decade ago). And there's certainly no way to get more than an anecdotal feel for the decisions landowners make. Even though there are no public records, however, I'd be very surprised if Governance didn't have a pretty good set of files that guide their sense of how to apply the rules. I am confident that there are precedents and they are applied. You and I just can't flip through the files ourselves.
  9. Yes, and it's not just LL's approach. That's the way the world works. It is virtually impossible to make black and white rules for social situations that do not judge some people unfairly. There are always exceptions and edge cases. That's why we have judicial systems -- to evaluate each situation on its own merit against the sense of the rules. It's also why we frequently have public arguments after the judicial system hands down a verdict (think of practically any decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, for example). Every system is "pretty idiosyncratic" in its own way. It has to be. The TOS and CS are indeed written with a lot of latitude for interpretation. That's partly so that enforcement can often be left to landowners and partly to make it easier to allow discretion in all of the inevitable edge cases. You can certainly argue about how tight to make the rules -- narrowing the gray area and disallowing more exceptions -- and you can argue about who gets to make the decisions (landowners or a cadre of paid Governance employees), but there are pitfalls in each of those choices. And no system will ever foresee all the ways that the rules might be broken or the judges will have to make exceptions. LL faces the challenge of having to make exactly those readjustments, modifying the rules and changing the way that they are enforced. It's not going to be easy or fast and the job will never be finished, and people will never be satisfied that they got it right. The only long-term evidence that will tell us that they are at least on the right track is whether SL is still here ten years from now.
  10. Sorry, no. If you are a Basic member, your Transaction History is available for the last 32 days. If you're Premium, you can see back as far as 90 days. Nobody can see back farther than that. Records of things you bought in Marketplace, though, are preserved forever.
  11. Does PgUp work? That's how I always jump.
  12. And it's fair to guess that any conversations in LL itself are complicated and not likely to yield rapid answers either. It's unrealistic to expect easy, fast answers from them.
  13. Yup, and timers are not evil. You can run them much faster than necessary, of course, and you can go nuts and create race conditions by designing timers without some thought, but generally speaking a timer doesn't do much to harm script behavior or add measurable lag to a region.
  14. There really isn't. You can try monitoring whether they are still running a flying anim, or are above the ground by X meters, or other things, but you still have to poll your method periodically to tell whether the av's situation has changed. You'll find a brief post in one of the sticky threads at the top of this forum that deals with different ways to handle timers, if you are worried about needing a timer event to do something else.
  15. That's sounds like a modern adage: "If it's on the Internet, it must be true." These days, the reverse seems more likely.
  16. I don't know why it happened, but you can of course change your own maturity setting in Preferences.
  17. Double click and long click are pretty common in scripted things. I use both frequently. A lot of the LL scripts use them too, in places like Belliseria and the games.
  18. Yeah, life does that. My sister is dealing with a couple of nasty health issues and will be in a back brace the rest of her life, so I know how that works. You deal with the life you've got. At least in SL you can fall splat from high places and just pick yourself up as if nothing happened. We're not only young and nimble, we're indestructible, which is pretty cool
  19. That's a good point. When I play a game is SL, it's usually trivia. I really don't care whether I win or lose. The prize (if there is one) isn't big enough to make a difference anyway, and the whole point is just to have fun. The same thing is true of the Linden Lab games like Paleoquest and Linden Realms. I know some people spend hours playing and they get really good at dodging all the perils. As far as I'm concerned, the L$ you get for winning isn't enough to get excited about. The fun part is avoiding the rock monsters and the booby traps. If you get zapped by one of them, it's no big deal. The joy is in the chase, especially if you are around other players and can have a silly "Oh, geez!" moment when one of you gets caught.
  20. Yeah, I know what you mean. I almost never go to clubs in SL (and never in RL). They're popular for lots of people but they're not how I want to spend my time. Don't feel bad if they aren't your thing either. You might try just hanging around at Builder's Brewery when you can find time. If there's someone building in the sandbox, watch to see how she does things. Check out her profile. Maybe introduce yourself, compliment her work, and ask if she knows someone who might be willing to show you how to do a few things. Who knows? You might make a new friend, or at least learn enough to make baby steps toward building your skills.
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