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Sy Beck

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  1. Do you pay sales tax for your SL use? If not who's absorbing it? And if they [LL] are absorbing it for you why are they not for everybody else?
  2. Gawd this ol' chestnut again. OK basic European argument is this... US sales tax is already built into LL's pricing. Therefore, Europeans are paying a US sales tax that they are not liable for and on top of that have to pay their own countries VAT (the equivalent of sales tax) , which they are liable for. The argument has been had many times and it's sadly lost. That's why (I think) there are no land barons who are not US, but I would be happy to be proved wrong and know that somebody's found a way to compete. This was brought about by the enactment of an EU law, which was an honest attempt to stop US companies (primarily digital sales/services) who sold their wares in Europe VAT free and basing their nominal company's HQ in the lowest sales tax states in the US while European companies sellling in the US had a blanket (I forget the big % figure) imposed upon them. Obviously not fair and another US trade barrier that had to be countered. So the losers are European SL users, but it's reassuring to know that US businesses and citizens are paying into the fund that provides Europeans with FREE healthcare while US SL users have to spend their profits (if any) on keeping themselves alive. Life is fairground, just make sure you're in the queue for the best ride and don't grumble that other queues seem to be moving quicker; it may not be the best ride in the park.
  3. KarenMichelle Lane wrote: A question in response to the original Threat Title "FEEDING A BIG MAC TO A CAT" Did the Cat Live? Ah! An entirely new angle on the paradox of Schrodinger's Cat.
  4. Perrie Juran wrote: Charly Muggins wrote: Qwalyphi Korpov wrote: Thank your for clearing that up. I do feel better knowing it wasn't a dream. I suppose the intended purpose of the new forum will be revealed in time. Perhaps those who are allowed to post there have been assured that interlopers will be removed without a trace. The Vampire Weekend subforum - ah, the bad old days of Vialy, or whatever his name was - had the same sort of profile. It was primed with semi-literate over-enthusiastic postings by pro-fang, anti-garlic forum nonentities who had been LL Marketing vetted - if only - and given "guidelines" on how to post and how to respond to posts, although much of this advice was either not fully understood by the ESLers, or ignored by the hyper-emotional propagandists. Halloween is not too far off. Vialy or whatever his name was did more to destroy this Forum than all of us together could have accomplished. It is still tainted with his touch. I hear he started his own company SCC and is personally in charge of the marketing and complaints department. SCC being of course the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.
  5. How about we all just call/email the San Francisco PD and complain that Linden Lab is allowing the solicitation and advertisement of prostitutes and their services (maybe child ones at that) on a forum that is not only publicly accessible, but is read by teenagers of a non-consensual age? I figure in 24 hrs the forums will be down and a proper filter system put in place within 72 hrs. I mean seriously, how hard is this to fix? I can say without fear of contradiction this is the ONLY public forum I know of where I'm subjected to this disgusting crap every day and yet they sit on their hands and do nothing and the only time they are aware it's happening or do something is when we report it. It's shameful bloody negligence.
  6. Grizzla Pixelmaid wrote: "Cheaper" depends on which costs you're looking at, and what use you have in mind for a VW. Paying for a private sim is one kind of expense. Paying for a server, and for techies to build (almost) everything in OpenSim, is another kind of expense. You would be hard pressed to find a university or college, which doesn't have its own servers and IT staff nowadays. With their own LAN/VPN, a more controlled environment in terms of user content and actual users their VW experience I would venture to suggest is probably a lot more smoother and richer than many in SL enjoy.
  7. Venus Petrov wrote: I will send any sysadmin who visits this thread a LM to a lovely sim. It will be random selection so that is the 'surprise' factor. Don't do that, they'll be back on these boards within minutes complaining about stuffz...and that's our job!
  8. Dresden Ceriano wrote: Ahh, yes... the Viewer Nazis. Though it never happened to me, I remember hearing stories about people that would ban you because they didn't like the viewer you were using. Getting rid of that feature is one of the few smart decisions that LL has made. Although it had it's uses, it created more drama than it was worth. ...Dres You can still tell non-FS users. They're the ones who have their camera crosshairs firmly planted on some woman's bewbies. :smileywink:
  9. Shouldn't we just leave any intended thread empty save for the legend, We're sorry, but something went wrong Please try again in a few minutes. If you continue to receive this message please use the options under the viewer's "Help" menu or visit Second Life Support. Go to my.secondlife.com
  10. I have an admin team? Why was I not told?
  11. Charly Muggins wrote: Sy Beck wrote: They may have seen the light, but only as it flashed past them. The thing about the majority of educational establishments is that they tend to be run by people with some intelligence and have scarce resources. That's why educational establishments have fled to cheaper OpenSim grids or just put sims on a USB stick at a fraction of the cost that LL is offering them even now. SL in comparison offers only a larger population, which is of no significance to educators as they are primarily only interested in their own class cohort. It offers slightly better bells and whistles than OpenSim grids, but still has the same basic tools that educators were quite happy with years ago till LL's pricing policy pushed them elsewhere. I remain unconvinced that this will lead to anything, but a very minimal rise in interest or sim ownership by educators. The bird has flown. Dammit Sy, how come you can get away with direct criticism and a clear statement of the failure of LL when my post that said the same sort of things, but sugar-coated with sarcasm, was stealth-modded? Never attack from the front :smileyhappy:
  12. They may have seen the light, but only as it flashed past them. The thing about the majority of educational establishments is that they tend to be run by people with some intelligence and have scarce resources. That's why educational establishments have fled to cheaper OpenSim grids or just put sims on a USB stick at a fraction of the cost that LL is offering them even now. SL in comparison offers only a larger population, which is of no significance to educators as they are primarily only interested in their own class cohort. It offers slightly better bells and whistles than OpenSim grids, but still has the same basic tools that educators were quite happy with years ago till LL's pricing policy pushed them elsewhere. I remain unconvinced that this will lead to anything, but a very minimal rise in interest or sim ownership by educators. The bird has flown.
  13. ^ THIS Although mesh feet can be matched accurately to skin tone they reactly differently to different lights and WL settings than the avatar skin so although they may appear an even tone to their wearer, they could and usually do appear to other people with a different WL as if they are wearing socks.
  14. It's not good to have a hidden a'gender. : |
  15. Awe Thor wrote: Sy Beck wrote: Coby Foden wrote: Out of curiosity though I've had the direct net TV stream on for many hours now. I occasionally glance there to stare the waiting journalists and police officers on guard. () :smileytongue: Interestingly enough in history a Royal birth was quite the spectator sport. Quite literally hundreds of people would be in attendance at the birth or at least very nearby. When the future direction of a country's politics and policy is about to see the appearance/debut of a key player then many interested parties had or demanded the right to be present to ensure there was no foul play. In fact I think it was still required up to the mid-70s that a member of the government (Home Secretary I think) had to be present and bear witness to the birth of a royal child. So this circus going on at the moment is not uncommon, just a little removed. It had something to do with the potential spiriting away of inappropriately dusky or oriental looking progeny, to be replaced with more Germanic babies, preferably resembling Winston Churchill. Awe . . . well, would you want a Sovereign that looked like Camilla? I bet they could have sold out twice over any of Catherine the Great's labours. P.S. While we're obliquely Aussie bashing I haven't yet commended the Welsh effort, although aided by a few others, in the thumping the Lions gave the Wallabies.
  16. Coby Foden wrote: Out of curiosity though I've had the direct net TV stream on for many hours now. I occasionally glance there to stare the waiting journalists and police officers on guard. () :smileytongue: Interestingly enough in history a Royal birth was quite the spectator sport. Quite literally hundreds of people would be in attendance at the birth or at least very nearby. When the future direction of a country's politics and policy is about to see the appearance/debut of a key player then many interested parties had or demanded the right to be present to ensure there was no foul play. In fact I think it was still required up to the mid-70s that a member of the government (Home Secretary I think) had to be present and bear witness to the birth of a royal child. So this circus going on at the moment is not uncommon, just a little removed.
  17. Awe Thor wrote: Ahhh, all is explained. The Aussie cricket team wanted to finish the Second Test early, in four days, so they could use the day off to watch the TV and net coverage of their next-but-two ruler's birth. Awe . . . I thought their pathetic performance could not be fully explained by lack of talent or commitment. ETA Although what was their excuse for the First Test? Well the baby will be a future Australian monarch so it should be out in less than 20 minutes and crying.
  18. Why would I be excited by another addition to my tax bill caused by two people already living off my taxes?
  19. Theresa Tennyson wrote: Lasher Oh wrote: I have a lot of sympathy with your sentiments stated. I dislike Mesh too, especially mesh clothing which never fits and is too dammed fussy with all that alpha layer nonsense. Every so often I try to give it the benefit of the doubt and everytime I end up feeling I have just thrown good money after bad. Thankfully there are still a lot of good, well detailed nicely rendered system outfits still available however looking through the main pages of the marketplace there is clearly a huge glut of the IMO inferior mesh offerings most likely because most folks are sheep and tend to follow the crowd with LL pointing the way and many merchants following over themselves to satisfy the swarms demands. We reap what we sow. ^L^ Let's make one thing perfectly clear. All hair and clothing in SL, of any type, is bad as a simulation. Hair and cloth are incredibly difficult to simulate in a 3D environment - even the engineers at Pixar roll their eyes at their directors when they ask for complicated hair and clothing and they render frame-by-frame instead of in real time. The only variable is the exact level of suckage in any given item. For some types of things mesh sucks less; for others older ways of doing things suck less. Regardless, for instance, EVERY LONG SKIRT IN SECOND LIFE SUCKS LIKE A TORNADO. They just suck in a variety of ways. ^ THIS Once mesh clothes are refined (Hello LL how long till the deformer?) then a lot of the resentment will pass. Small mesh objects are far superior in terms of detail and efficiency and a sculpt to all intents and purposes is just a very primitive mesh. Mesh houses though are a tricky and long process to create and not easily made modifiable. So there still exists a market and a need for prims, sculpts and mesh though as I said, as mesh is becomes more refined it will become the predominant way to create.
  20. GoR, sex, alt troubles,child avatars, harassment and crazy people involved in a 3 way. Does it get any more Second Life?
  21. Trinity Yazimoto wrote: Sometimes ago, someone mentioned in the forum an AO anti crash for this purpose. Its made by Aozora Tech, i think you can find it in the MP and if i remember well it was free. I bought it after the person mentioned in case i need such thing one day; but never tried till now since i never needed till now :smileyhappy: They make griefer tools themselves under the guise of calling them a personal defence or a combat HUD system. Sounds to me like they're arms sellers selling bullet-proof vests as a side line.
  22. OkaGame wrote: i remebere there was a place on the internet where we can go and make sugestions to linden lab and it is not here so cna someoen tell me where to go make sugestions to lindne lab at? PS: yes my spelling is bad but idc ;D HERE
  23. Just awesome, nice find and thanks for link. I bought an ASUS GeForce GTX680 last year and I now feel dated.
  24. Awe Thor wrote: Sy Beck wrote: Awe Thor wrote: To reduce risk to yourself and other innocents, you should always park your car at least a mile (1.5km) away from where you live and walk the rest of the way to your abode, even if you have lots of heavy shopping to carry. Awe . . . This is because 90% of car accidents occur within a mile (1.5km) of where someone lives. But, 90% of all accidents happen in the home so it's probably safest to stay at work where your employer will have insurance and health and safety regulations to protect you. But NEVER sleep or do anything else in a bed, in your home or in motels, hotels or anyone else's house. Awe . . . since two out of three deaths occur in bed. Who would of thought that all those people who sleep in their camper vans when visiting friends were such living on the edge thrill seekers.
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