Sy Beck

Void Singer wrote: so, you would see the speck in our eye, but not the beam in your own? Halloween was not born in the US... look to thy neighbors. Hmm, maybe I should have been clearer, my fault. I was in the main referring to trick or treating, which although based on the past European traditions of begging for food in exchange for prayers for the dead (asouling as it was delightfully called, or guising) bears little resemblance to the modern tradition as practised in the US, as Wikipedia (caveat emptor) sums up quite well. Phrase introduction to the UK and Ireland Before the 1980s, the North American phrase "trick-or-treat" was little known in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland and when introduced was often regarded as an unusual and even unwelcome import. Guising is devoid of any jocular threat.[30] Since the 80s usage of the phrase has become more widespread, but is still often viewed as an exotic and unwelcome commercialised import, with the BBC referring to it as "the Japanese knotweed of festivals" and "Making demands with menaces".[31] Very often, the phrase "trick - or - treat" is simply said and the revellers are given sweets, with the choice of a trick or a treat having been largely discarded.

I am gnashing my teeth at and berating the whole of the US for exporting this vulgarity to our shores. I am sure you all (or is that y'all) have fond memories of it from when you grew up and there is nothing more you wish than for your own children or young kin to experience it too. In short, you have it as a tradition. For some reason, somewhere in the past 5-10 years, some kids with ambitions to be protection racketeers when they grow up, abetted by major retailers suddenly took to our streets demanding sweets (candy) with the threat of menaces. It's not as if they have even bothered to work out the patter. They simply knock on the door and say, "Trick or treat". When I say "Trick" they look at me as if I've just asked them to solve Fermat's last theorem. I have many US friends who live and work over here who also agree that it's a complete sham from the way it's celebrated back home. One of them did the, as usual in the US, jumping out from nowhere in a scary costume and scaring the bejeesus out of the kids only to have a father of the kids pin him against a wall asking him what the f*ck he was doing trying to scare little kids like that and why couldn't he just pony up the sweets like everyone else and stop being a lunatic around small children. We really do need to think of exporting one of our quaint little traditions back over to you and see how you like it. For starters how about ? If nothing else it'll toughen the little blighters up and hey, it's a tradition./rant over bah humbug! HAPPY HALLOWEEN to all of you! :smileyhappy: P.S. I believe Suella is still the all England Ladies reigning and undefeated champion, and the only person on record to have caught the cheese before the finishing line.

Aylin Moonshadow wrote: Storm Clarence wrote: Never leave home without your rubbers. For only 1 Linden, you too can be protected: I think a bit of the rug hanging out to dry has snagged on your piercing. :smileysurprised:

Perrie Juran wrote: Deltango Vale wrote: @ everyone There are only six people on Earth who have never given RL information to an online service. Two of them live in a disused Minuteman silo in Idaho, two live in a stone hut on Ascension Island, one circles the globe on a raft and the other has gone missing, presumed lost in the Amazon rainforest. None of these six people has given RL financial information to an online service because none of them has ever been online. If they've never been online, how do we even know that they exist? Spotted on Google Earth?

Peggy Paperdoll wrote: ---------------------------------------------- Delete every other Linden Home Limiting the number of Linden Homes is counter productive if you want to grow your premium base. --------------------------------------------- Allow LH Residents to "rent" an empty adjacent parcel plot There are no vacant adjacent parcel plots on the Linden Homes continents. No one owns a single meter of land. Just the home and every other speck of land is Linden Land. ------------------------------------------- I guess what's being implied is that if the former were applied, a deletion of every other LH, then there would be adjacent parcels to rent. Increase LH areas to 1024 sqm would probably be a better way to do it and say it.

Not sure if people have seen this, but it's kind of germane to the thread. It's Rod Humble's address to SLCC 2011 where he gives pointers of where he sees LL and SL going in the future. You'll have to scroll down the page for the full 40+min video. There's some reassuring stuff that now Mesh has been implemented there will now be a focus on bug fixing, improving performance and customer service. Sadly, in the Q&A at the end of his address he pointedly dodges several questions concerning pricing, which was a shame. During his speech he makes play of the fact that he is, or rather was, a newb to SL so he was able to see it from their perspective and drive some positive changes from that. Unfortunately, on his wages I don't think he's going to be experiencing what others on low incomes are experiencing trying to pay tier each month. However, overall I found it encouraging (without being a shill) with lots of acknowledgement about "us" the users and creators being the most important things and an honesty about the things which weren't right and those that remain unresolved. I particularly liked his comment on how he wants to deal with griefers in future, “making life unpleasant for griefers, in an inhumane way.” We shall see.

Knowl Paine wrote: Create some new Library Linden trees and plants Allow LDPW Moles to answer terrain edit smooth request from Residents. Make the water deeper Zone some Mainland Regions residential, commercial only Reforest SL Invest in self Develop a feature that would allow SL Groups to better identify as a Business/merchant, Educational, ect. Delete every other Linden Home Allow LH Residents to "rent" an empty adjacent parcel plot Develop a server configuration that will redefine the allowed shape of a Region Put the roads, waterways and railroads on their own servers Create gender specific Viewers Create task specific Viewers Can you explain that one Knowl. I'm sure you don't mean blue and pink ones, but I'm not sure either what you are proposing.

Sigren Panthar wrote: Ignore the apol-shills, and keep posting. Remember you are a customer and fully entitled to a good and improving level of service; something the afore-mentioned apolo-shills hate for you to be aware of. Where does it say anywhere that I, as a paying customer, am entitled to an improving service? If it does say that somewhere in the contract then I might be able to sue for breach of contract. Sadly though I don't think it does. The one thing I do know that I'm entitled to as a consumer of one of LL's products is that if I'm not happy I can walk away.

For the record, I'm missing two walls on a build. If I remember they were the last two things I rezzed and worked on last night.

Vladi Hazelnut wrote: ....You might try using Kirstens viewer. I think he has more support for higher end video cards.... Unfortunately, the Kirsten viewer is in stasis and not available for download. She's asking for donations through a Crowdfunder appeal to continue further development of her viewer.

Prokofvy Neva (just so she picks it up on her searches). In my time in SL my lands have abutted her rental lands more times than I care to mention. In each instance I've cast an eye over her plots and not once have I seen them with more than 10 % occupied, and I'm being generous. Either this woman has some fantastic sims somewhere where people are paying incredible sums to live on or she is paying through the nose for an ego or entry into the FIC. I'm led to believe by herself that SL is now her primary empoyment so if you can drill down and find out how she survives by renting a lot of sims at <10% occupancy we would all be wiser and richer. P.S. I could be wrong this is only from my observations.

Aww c'mon! Daria went on to become a Marilyn Manson groupie, got involved with light drugs, but with "heavy" consequences, went through a string of boy and girl friends who were not complex enough for her scatterlogical mental needs, she then demanded trendy psycho drugs from the establishment whom she had previously disdained, which led her to rebel through self harming. She then found solace in a right wing conspiracy theorist group she met at an EMO rock festival weekend called, "Let's call it off , but stay for the rain". Belatedly she rebelled against her parents who thought they had heard the last of her and were kinda of expecting that **bleep** when she was 13, but not at 23 so laughed politely, angered by this she protested at Capitol Hill for all of an hour before needing to go to a natural health store and a crystal rock shop for an energy boost. Resentful that society would not take a Manson groupie, bisexual, drug taking, mentally confused, self harming, right wing conspiracist, rain sodden, disowned, tofu eating, crystal gazing kinda girl seriously she stole a gun from a vampire goth guy she slept with that night (he thought vampires looked even cooler with guns) and went POSTAL! Consequences would have been worse if she knew which way round to hold the gun. She currently resides in a mental institution making some rather fetching wicker baskets. DARIA WILL NOT BE COMING BACK! P.S. Not directed at Griffin, the reply just came out that way.

You might want to give Philip Rosedale a call too. :smileywink:

Ceka Cianci wrote: i liked Ren & stimpy.. my uncle loved beavis and butthead..but i always tell him..it was southpark that kicked their butts.. so uncle..respect my thoritah!!! I miss Ren & Stimpy too. Why did they stop making them? Anyone remember Duckman too?

As a former war crimes inspector I was sent to investigate a mass grave of snowmen. Luckily it turned out to be a field of carrots. /tumbleweed

It's hard to say that you are innocent and that merchants have no justification for what they are doing to you when you post this just over a year ago. You can't say you are innocent when you freely admit to having used an illegal viewer and using it to copybot items. And it really is no defence to say thay you carried on using an illegal viewer so that you could report stolen items. It may well be that you are now on the path to redemption and good luck to you in that, but unlike RL people in SL can to a large extent discriminate against you based on hearsay, rumour or maybe in this case past facts of your wrongdoing and there really is nothing that you can do about it unless they cross the line of the TOS or RL law. Oscar Wilde said that the real punishment of prison is not the sentence but going back into society afterwards, in that you are forever tarnished by it. It seems to me by your frequent posts that your AV is always carrying baggage with it and if I was you I'd create an alt, transfer what you can to it and start your SL again and scrub your friends list of all those except who really really really really trust. Just my L$2 worth as your post was too long and scattershot to give you an all encompassing answer.

Griffin Ceawlin wrote: Surely this is a sign of the End Times. Heh heh heh heh heh, you said "end" dude. But, yeah, I agree. :smileysad:

No elves!? I guess Santa's industrialised, is mass copying and then pocketting the increased profit. Time to "Occupy the North Pole"!

I enjoy Storm because of all my alts he is indeed the most wittiest by far though I have to get him off those girly Martinis. P.S: 33% of the above was an outrageous lie

I don't have an answer for you, but have you tried different viewers? You don't say in your post.

No I understood your point, maybe I was being trite with a simple "interesting". I remember so many threads about how people thought search worked and how it could be gamed. I have no idea how search works, but I can readily believe that if LL so wished it could be weighted to those who pay top L$ to advertise. Whether that is true or not I don't know, or how you would prove it. It may well be that those merchants who have been paying top L$ for years have known it and have kept quiet about it. To be honest if I paid L$17,000 for an advert I'd bloody well expect it to be well featured, the same as if I was paying top dollar for a newspaper advertisement.

Madelaine McMasters wrote As for Carole... Valerie, if you can get her to swim to your side of the channel, you could float enough troops back on her to take England. Whether those troops would survive the trip would be a point of fierce debate, for Carole is the first point of defence for our blessed isle in her alter ego. If Carlsberg made observant, witty, intelligent women then they would call them Madelaine or Carole. :smileyhappy: P.S. Hopes the Carlsberg ads are the same elsewhere as in the UK.

Interesting. Make sure you've got all your data to compare this week with previous weeks to see if the money was worth it.

LiCkMyNuGhTz wrote: I think it's absolutely ridiculous that getting a job in second life is impossible. You have to be anywhere from 60 to 90 days old even to apply to work as a host at a lame club. I've been on and off second life far longer than most of these idiots, so why the hell can't I get a job? I don't know, attitude, misplaced sense of superiority, not a team player, no commitment always on and off SL, lack of respect for others, expecting things to be handed to you on a plate or maybe a name that makes you unemployable to some? I really don't know, I give up, you tell me why.

Lia Abbot wrote: Sy Beck wrote: Madelaine McMasters wrote: I might just turn up in the outfit we all have in common. ;-) Give or take a few distinct accessories though. ;-) Can you please explain that remark Sy? /me gazes up at Sy wide-eyed and innocent Well I was going to be flippant and give you a Wiki explanation only to find this shocking entry in Wikipedia. :smileysurprised: