Anaiya Arnold

Jennifer Boyle wrote: I really don't have the right words for this. Norway is such a serene country. I am very sorry that such a bad thing happened to it. I don't have words for it either, so I'll just quote you as you've summed it up well for me.

Ceka Cianci wrote: Anaiya Arnold wrote: You are misidentifying the problem when it comes to credit. Without all that borrowing the crisis would simply have happened sooner. because spending would have stopped sooner? Yes

You are misidentifying the problem when it comes to credit. Without all that borrowing the crisis would simply have happened sooner.

You're completely right that the US consumer base needs more to spend, (along with more to save and more to invest), and that this lies at the heart of the economic problems. In nominal terms, despite significant increases in productivity, wages have been stagnating since the 1980s. In real terms (inflation adjusted) median wages have actually gone down since the 1980s despite the fact that everyone is now more productive. The trickle down theory is myopic nonsense, when treated as an axiomatic inevitability rather than merely descriptive of one potential possibility that could manifest in the right circumstances but which is more likely to not occur in most circumstances.

Too many people have brought into the spin and propaganda hook line and sinker, and tied their egos to it. They lack the will to confront the reality, or even admit to it, and they'd rather rip their own arm off and beat their kids with their detached limb than allow the problem to be tackled and addressed objectively and sensibly. Metaphorically that's precisely what they are doing.

Search and rescue teams were refused. Supplies that were sent spolied while waiting around unused. Delivering aid was made very difficult even for those countries who attempted sending tangible supplies and were willing to take part in delivering the aid directly. Many of the scores of countries who offered aid (400 million dollars worth offered by Kuwait alone) redirected aid through private agencies such as the Red Cross because it was impossible to deliver it through or in cooperation with the US government.

Complete myth. Of course, offering aid and being allowed to deliver are two different things as the US notably proved in the instance of the New Orleans disaster in the wake of Katrina. The US is ill-prepared to receive foreign aid, but not being able good at accepting or making use of offered or delivered aid is not the same as not being offered, or being "on our own".

No, the big guys are doing better than ever. Your guy is another small fry. Spending is not what caused the debt crisis. Spending is necessary to prevent an economic crises. Consumers were not spending disproportionately to productivity either. There's enough productive capacity for a healthy economy in the US. If the myopic trickle down myth were remotely realistic, then since the big boys owned a bigger percentage of the biggest economic pie in human history, the economy would be thriving and the little guy would be doing fabulously well. So take a look around. Is that what you see?

The big guys are doing really very well indeed, better than ever, yet the rest of us.......

I believe the new account has to sign into the marketplace at least once before you can send a gift to it through the marketplace. If the avatar has never logged onto the marketplace, then have it do so and try sending the gift again.

I think we will have a re-run of last century's Great Depression and all the human misery and suffering that came along with it.

Chelsea Malibu wrote: You still can. Once it is in your cart, there is an option below the item to let you send it as a gift which I am sure you know. My cart does not have that option. It offers to let me visit the store or remove the item from the cart, but send as gift is not an option and never has been in my cart.

Firstly, please do not de-fragment willy-nilly. Can you get the viewer to open without crashing? Can you log on without crashing? If you can log on, how long are you on before you crash? If the viewer opens, have you tried resetting your graphics down to their lowest setting and then increasing them if stable? Have you checked to see if there are updates for your graphics card drivers? Some operating systems have been having problems with installing some Viewer2 versions. I think from memory that this was mainly effecting XP systems. There are a couple of threads floating around about it (including one with a solution). If the rest of your computer works fine and you have sufficient free resources, the problem is likely specific to V2 (especially if another viewer works fine for you) and nothing to do with needing to defragment.

Randall is talking about a situation where there is no visible evidence on the desktop that the viewer is running and not about a different way of logging out. You should log out the regular way. You might have trouble with lost inventory, cache issues or other problems if you do not log off properly. You should only resort to closing programes or processes in task manager when they will not close properly on their own. Closing slowly usually means information is being processed and saved and you should let this happen. What alt-ctrl-delete does depends on your Operating System. You probably have a modern enough system that it will give you options, including the option to open task manager. Next time you are ready to restart (or turn off) your computer, give it a try to see what it does. If you're about to close down or restart anyway, a reboot will not do you any harm. Chances are you will get a blue screen with some options and one of those will be to launch task manager.

I'd keep all the layers myself. Some creators provide less layer options. If you ever like to mix and match items from different creators and you want that long top under the crop top but the long top only ever came in jacket layer, you'll be annoyed if you only kept the shirt layer for the crop top. EDITED: I'm not seeing things underlined as links Ceka.

I save outfits I want to wear again as...well "outfits" then I just use "replace" to put on the entire outfit in place of what I am already wearing. I do not think there is an easier way to switch between outfits than that.

I think it's more about them becoming disillusioned than any attempt to create an illusion for us.

Thanks! I'd never have even considered delving into the business sub categories to list a freebie pose stand as I would have thought a freebie pose stand is generally a personal use item that has nothing to do with business and retail. I'll try listing my pose stand there. I guess I ought to move the other one too.

Glad to hear it Munnin! SL is quite heavy to run. Most of the data is being downloaded to you as you access it (although you also have a cache that will store some data for you), and it's all rendered on-the-fly, so it's heavy on bandwidth and heavy on graphics. It's best to run as few other programes in the background as possible.

Apparently the "Posing Animations" category is not the right category for a posing stand. The purpose of this item (rather obviously) is to cause an avatar to pose, as per the included animation. So obviously it was a very devious and uneducated decision to place it in the Posing Animations category. Thankfully LL have educated me that this is the wrong category, only now, I cannot even begin to guess what the right category might be.....so much for education. Since a "resident" went out of their way to flag this item, how long do people think it will take this erstwhile "resident" to hunt down the equivalent paid-for version of this product that was linked to in the freebie's advert and which is in the exact same category? EDITED TO ADD I wonder how long it will take our erstwhile "resident" to flag the posing stand that is currently appearing in the "featured products" on the front Home Page for the marketplace, and which is also listed in the "Posing Animation" category.

Mayalily I have no idea why you are blaming Secondlife for a virus filled computer. If you did have a virus or two, it would interfere with your registry and could damage files resulting in so-called "obsolete software". These symptoms could remain hidden until you actually try to do something that entails changes to your registry. Since changes to the registry are often needed to remove a self-replicating nasty that reinstalls itself at when your computer boots/starts-up, many of these nasties will react to changes in the registry and can become obviously symptomatic accordingly.

Mayalily wrote: I also only found out about a week ago thru someone's signature that said the advice here is not from LL, so take caution or something like that. I didn't know the advice on the forums here wasn't LL supported until about a week ago from that signature, and to tell u the truth I don't even know if that signature was TRUE or not? Huh? I'm really confused by this. You give advice here quite often so unless you happen to work for LL how can you possibly not know this?

You'd have been less patient with a customer if you were being paid to deliver and represent a business's customer services? I'd fire an employee with your attitude. There are plenty of people out there who will work knee deep in sewerage just to have a low paying job, so I'm sure there are people who will be persistently polite to even one's difficult customers if there's a job in it for them. It's not getting back at the customer when one treats them with anything less than the deference their employer is paying for. It's ripping off the employer, the entity who hired them and is paying them to be polite to all of their customers.

Marigold Devin wrote: I'm gobsmacked, to tell you the truth, on reading your post, Mayalily. So it's not just me?

None of which explains how every other kind of animal in existence, including many that live in large groups with plenty of naked males, manage just fine without clothes.