BilliJo Aldrin

I don't believe I said he did. He made a documentay that showed that "green energy" is a giant scam and anything but green. Except of course for all the money to be made, that's the real green in promoting man made global warming as real.

Michael Moore, who I really can't stand, did a fantastic documentary recently that exposed the truth about the green energy industry. Making the movie, he came to the realization that green energy sources (wind turbines and solar panels) and electric cars, are NOT green at all, and that the push for green energy is just the same old same old pandering between industry and politicians. Planet of the Humans And who ultimately pays the price for "saving the planet? Not the business owners, not the politicians, just you and me in the form of higher costs for everything and a greatly diminished standard of living. As a politician might say, "not for me, but for thee" Oh, my fave green energy source? Bio fuel power stations. They cut down whole forests to burn to make electricity. Talk about a step backwards in time.. burning wood for our source of energy

Its not because they took it as a second language option in school. French colonies

I live in Kama City and I think the empty buildings are great. They make the area look much more urban and alive, instead a wasteland of bare, empty lots.

I'm pretty sure we have argued this before Luna, so I will leave you the last word, have at it. 😁

5% of CO2 is from man made sources, the rest (95%) is from natural sources. Furthermore, 95% of greenhouse gas is in fact water vapor, which is ALL from natural sources. Please explain how 5% of 5% is the critical driving force in climate change. While you are at it, perhaps your scientists can answer a few other questions I have 1) What is the proper temperature for the earths climate? 2) What is the proper rate of change for the earths climate 3) If man disappeared tomorrow would the climate stop changing? 4) Why is it that ALL changes in climate prior to the last hundred years all have been natural in origin but now its all driven by man? 5) Why were previous interglacial temperatures higher, with higher CO2 levels, all with no help from man? Many scientists have a vested interest in maintaining this farce, they chase the money, and the money is on research that "proves" man made global warming is real.

Au contrair, I believe that climate changes constantly, primarily due to changes in solar output, but also due to input from a dozen other variables. It is those that insist it's all caused by man and his puny contribution of "man made CO2" that are the real climate change deniers, they deny the incredible complex array of factors that make our climate a dynamic, ever changing phenomenon.

With proper forestry management, there would not be any of these massive wildfires. Decades of ignorance, neglect, and willful mismanagement causes these wildfires pure and simple. When Yellowstone burnt a few years ago everyone went boo hoo hoo Yellowstone is destroyed for 100 years. A few years later when everything started to grow back, better than it had been, those same people said, well, wadda ya know.

I wasn't aware that global temperatures had risen so much that trees spontaneously combust. Global warming doesn't cause fires, specific cause can be found for each and every fire, and not one fire can ever can be pinned on global warming, weather global warming is natural or man made. Lightning strikes cause many fires, the difference is will it be an out of control raging inferno due to decades of forest management neglect or will it be controllable and limitable due to good forestry practices? That is the question that needs to be answered, not how can we end something that doesn't even exist. Forest fires are God's (or Mother Nature's) way of maintaining healthy vibrant flourishing forests.

The fires in the Amazon... clearing land for farming The fires in Australia, many set by arsonists The fires in western USA, many, as the one you mentioned, have a human cause. Fires are part of the natural cycle in any forest, or grassland for that matter. I offered a cause for the severity of the fires in an earlier post, poor forest management, but no, instead of doing things to reduce future wildfires, people would rather wring their hands and blame man made global warming and say there's nothing we can do about anything until we reduce our carbon dioxide emissions.

heh, I'm in it's all good 😁

75 plus years of fire suppression has led to this. Instead of small fires clearing out the underbrush every few years we let the accumulated forest detritus build and build and build. And when there is finally an out of control fire, its a biggun. But there is good news. Fire is part of the natural forest cycle, so in the burnt out areas, they won't have another fire for many years. 😁

hmm, maybe it is. I guess I'll just limit myself to buying cheap 16 sq m parcels and flipping them

I got my RL partner to sign up years ago, but she lost interest. It's better if people I know in RL don't know what I get up to in here. 😆

I sold 5 of my 16 sq m parcels, two for $1000L, one for $500 L, one for $200 L and one (to a Linden) for $100 L. Annnd, all of them at a profit. So, i'm gonna keep buying small cheep roadside parcels, cutting off the 16 sq m I want as necessary, dumping the rest, and setting them for sale at more than what I paid for them OMG look at me, I'm a land flipper 😁

Actually, I'm 100% pro-capitalist, I always have been. Its good if LL sells 10,000 new homesteads to whoever wants them, barons or individuals. From LL's point of view, it makes no difference who owns them, tier is tier. I'm all for greed, but I don't think greed should be subsidized or maintained with protective rules.

Maybe they should call it a regionulator instead of a simulator 😁

I'm sure they could take group bonuses into consideration when implementing this plan

That's part of my grand plan, run roads thru the center of each sim, parcel out 8 4096's along the road, and set each for sale for exactly $1L. Fully sold, that generates the monthly tier equivalent to a full mainland sim. The land behind the 4096's could either be parceled and set for sale at $1 L per parcel, or kept as LL greenbelts. Of course subdividing parcels on those sims would need to be disabled, to prevent ad farmers buying 4096's cutting off the roadside and abandoning the rest. Heck they could have made 1024's and built Linden suburbs like that new continent. It made no sense to bring 100's of new sims online to complete that project when there is an aggregate total of abandoned land on existing mainland at least that great, not to mention all those 512 sims with the old houses. The effect would be much more interesting than that blight known as Bellisseria Only when buying a mainland parcel is as cheep and easy as buying an estate parcel will you find a mass return to mainland. Just my opinion.

I'm confused. Are you saying that if anyone could buy a homestead without owning a mainland sim first, that there is a whole class of potential land barons just waiting to move in on this new rule? I would assume that any land baron already has as many homesteads as he wants. The market for homestead rentals would be eliminated if anyone could buy one directly from LL at the same monthly cost of renting from a land baron. Of course you'd prefer to keep a model where people "buy" through you instead of from LL direct. I still say cut off mainland land barons at the knees by subdividing the entire mainland into 1024 and 4096 plots, and selling them for $1L each.

I've been buying land for months, searching almost every day with a maximum list price of $500 L. Many 512s show up for under that limit.

Reading the posts and deciding to pass... remembering a line from the movie War Games.. The only wining move is not to play

Thank you, just to be safe I think clicking the ad might just give you a notecard that says IM me for more info or a lm

Digging a basement is rarely satisfactory. Its much easier to rezz several prims at the height you want the finished ground level to be, blend it into the land on the uphill side if you are on a slope and build a retaining wall on the down hill side. Plus landscaping on a prim is so much simpler for rezzing shadows and such. If the ground texture you choose for your lawn is richer and more lush that the LL ground, you can rezz a few lawn sprinklers to explain why your grass looks so much better than your neighbors. Oh, if having to rezz more than one ground texture causes a computer to lag and struggle, its time for a new computer. pictured is my 32 m by 32 m park area, with a low retaining wall and built entirely on a prim.

So, I finally finished either setting my Trump 2020 parcels for sale, or repurposing them to advertise my own SL activities. Since my inventory is ordered from newest to oldest, the lm at the bottom of the Trump 2020 folder was the oldest, the very first one. I thought I'd do something different with it. I don't think the message is political, it simply refers to a basic right, the right to free speech, the right to self expression.