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    ...Having to pay nearly $2K to have maintenance and upgrade work done on my dog. I know he needs it, but I hate putting him through it, and hate having to pay even more.
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    I have heard tales of this happening, but I have never been able to verify them or find out if/how it is possible. I would file an Abuse Report with LL. Give as much detail as possible, including the location, the time as near as you can tell, which object(s) you believe were moved, and the name of the person who moved them, if you know it. I suggest that you use "harassment" as the AR category. You might also install a visitor counter so that you can see who comes onto your parcel and when, if you are not certain about who the culprit is.
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    Chin, you are quite correct. Nevertheless, I still pay very close attention to Avatar Complexity. I might not worry about it when demo'ing clothing, because most clothing adds little to your complexity. But I do take note of it when assembling an outfit. Hair and jewelry are the biggest contributors. I have one beautiful jewelry set that I never wear anymore because it shoots my complexity up over 400,000. I have a lot of very pretty flexi hairstyles that I seldom wear, for the same reason. But why pay attention to a number that is not really a good indicator of how much you are lagging everyone down? In a word, vanity. When I take the time to assemble an outfit, I want to be seen, and not just as a gray blob. If I keep my Avatar Complexity below 100K, or better yet below 50K, most people will see me as fully rendered.
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    Yes, it does. But it also CREATES much worse problems when the sun is at the noon position.
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    What exactly do you mean by this? The blue popup windows are notifications, not objects. Notifications can be sent by objects, like "Nefarious Device owned by Lindal Kidd is requesting permission to take L$ from you. Allow/Block?" If you get notices like that, be very careful about clicking "allow" or "accept". Some objects or HUDs worn by others attempt to crash you by making hundreds of these notices pop up in a short time period, overloading your viewer. Firestorm can be set to limit the number of notices it will accept in a short time period which will keep such attacks from working.
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    I can pronounce them too. Probably not correctly, but I can pronounce them.
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    Now I know why you were so involved in the build of a certain pink-themed area for a certain female stereotype in SL. ...takes your arm to keep from falling off her six inch pink platform heels and bats her inch and a half long lashes at you, cooling you with a nice little breeze.
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    This can already be done. The consultant would simply make the custom shape, then purchase all the other elements as gifts for the client. Or, if any of the elements are custom creations, send them to the client. Just be sure to collect the money up front. One embellishment that would be nice...a way to bundle up a number of purchases, made at in world stores and/or the Marketplace, and deliver them all in one box to a recipient.
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    If the sock fits, dahling...
  11. Lindal Kidd
    What Sandi said, but even more than that... Objects intended as off sim landscaping, and some other objects, have invisible prims that may be some distance from the main body of the object. It used to be that your object had to have its root prim on your neighbor's land in order for them to return it. Now, if any part of an object crosses the parcel border, they can return it. Check your objects very carefully. If any bit of your things are hanging over your border, YOU are the "lovely neighbor" and you have no call for complaint. Instead, you should apologize.
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    Not sure what your complaint is. The current best buying rate is L$244 = $USD 1.00. This is about where it has been for several years now. But if the price of L$ is too high to suit you, you can always create content and sell it to make L$ instead of buying them.
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    Rather than change the URL manually, you can get a "radio" that will tune a menu of pre-programmed stations, or you can enter your own URLs. I like the one by TrigiTech.
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    When people ask, tell them you have subcompact wolves.
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    Do not let them swim in the ocean. Their shapes remind me of the Titan submersible.
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    One of my friends built a club and a group called SL*t Scouts. They had a number of achievement merit badges (maybe they should have been called "Demerit Badges), but I can't list any of them here for reasons which should be obvious.
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    The Birthday celebration has long become too big for anyone to really see it all in the time allotted. I think the party should be extended by another week, at least.
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    But you did! Not the punctuation mark, true, but your sentence did end with a period. Trying to pull things a bit back toward Second Life to preserve the thread, though...while I applaud Stone Johnson's creativity, I do not share his enthusiasm for an SL with a bot population that's any more than a tiny fraction of its overall population. Maybe LL should start charging steep fees for AI-powered bots to have SL accounts.
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    As more and more AI content gets out on the web, I can see that happening. As an engineer, I wonder if the feedback loop will be positive or negative. I don't mean those terms in the sense of "good" or "bad". Positive feedback makes a system run faster and faster, or drives it further and further towards an extreme of travel. Negative feedback is used to keep a system "on course"; if you perturb the system, it tends to correct itself and get back "on course". Positive feedback in an imaging AI would make those distorted hands even more distorted, until a picture is nothing but fingers. Negative feedback would result in every image eventually looking the same. The internet would wind up with nothing but Taylor Swift pictures.
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    Today I learned... Antlion larvae are unusual among insects in lacking an anus. All the metabolic waste generated during the larval stage is stored. I suspect this designed-in constipation is what makes antlions so ferocious. Antlion larval stage: The adults are rather pretty and are often mistaken for dragonflies.
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    My experiences at the new Welcome Hub have been positive so far, even though I am not at present an official Mentor. My communications with the Mentors have been polite, and no one has tried to chase me off or keep me from helping. I'm sure some of the Mentors are territorial, but I haven't encountered any of them. The Hub region itself has always been busy when I've been there, with lots of new people arriving. As always, most of the newcomers don't communicate, even when greeted by name, although the percentage of those who are willing to talk seems a little higher than at previous onboarding regions. The Hub region is surrounded by 8 other regions, which provides a significant amount of area to explore and things to do. I especially enjoyed the new means of transport, the Avatar Cannons, which shoot you through the air (a teleport with your avatar animated flailing your limbs) to one of the outer regions. There's bumper boats too, which look like fun if you can scare up a few others to play with. And the bicycles are fun to ride. Unlike previous onboarding regions, the Welcome Hubs are open to all residents, and flying is not disabled. So far, this has not resulted in the sort of anarchy that took over the old Infohubs and Social Island 10. I agree that Welcome Hubs tailored to the other languages SL supports besides English would be a great idea. At the very least, Spanish and Portuguese, since these seem to be the non-English languages most frequently in use by new accounts. Or maybe the many video kiosks could be made language-selectable, or automatically play in the language used by the watcher's viewer.
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    Bicycles, yes. I've heard it said that the Welcome Hub bikes are the best-riding bicycles in SL. Since there is a Linden Home-centric Welcome Hub in Bellisseria, they are available in Belli, too. Horses, no.
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    The 2048 square meters of Mainland can be split up any way you want, but a Linden Home does count as "Mainland". Some examples... One 2048 Mainland parcel* One 2048 Linden Home 512 Linden Home and a 1,536 Mainland parcel 1024 Linden Home and a 1024 Mainland parcel 512 Linden Home and three 512 Mainland parcels *Note that you can take advantage of the group bonus for Mainland parcels (not Linden Home parcels though). Groups can own up to 10% more land at a given tier level. So, if you buy it for a group, you can own up to 2048 x 1.10 = 2,252.8 sq. m. In practice that rounds down to 2,240 sq. m. as that is the nearest parcel size actually available (land comes in 16 sq. m. discrete chunks).
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    Besides London City, another place to find very new people is the new Welcome Hub region. Unlike previous onboarding areas, this one is open to Residents, not just zero-day avatars. You'll also find Second Life Mentors there. They don't meet your criterion of "people newer than 6 months" but many of them have excellent insights into SL and what it's like to be a newcomer.
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    Yes, clearly! But what caused the cord to become so stiff and brittle? Is it too small for the power being drawn (850W PSU)? Did the Geek use an old, crummy cord when he built the system? (not likely, he's more apt to buy some gold plated, oversized component than to cheap out.) Is there some sort of unsuspected heat issue in the rats nest of wires under the desk? Mice?? (That's actually a possibility. I found a mouse in my office wastebasket just a couple of days ago. In case you didn't know, a mouse in a plastic trash container can make a sound that makes you suspect a full grown armadillo or a rabid fox in the broom closet.)
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