Dillon Levenque
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:-). A woman of parts, as they say. Or do they? I know I've seen 'a man of parts' used many times; not so sure about the expression being phrased around a woman. Carole is definitely one to make even a man of parts suddenly decide it's a good time to take inventory.
I'm with you, Perrie. She gave the mix something it lacks in her absence. Was fun reading her posts in the recently necroed thread that has been commented about elsewhere.
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Thank you, Perrie, and the same to you and to all our fellow USAers.
Thanksgiving has long since become one of my two favorite holidays. The other's Independence Day and that's also USA centric, but that doesn't necessarily make me an ultra-nationalist or anything. I just like the days. On the 4th of July we get to shoot off a whole bunch of fireworks (and maybe at least a little bit remember what this place is supposed to be all about) and who doesn't like fireworks?
Thanksgiving is so much about family and friends. I've been lucky enough to have had years and years of participating in wonderful gatherings with great food (all of which was prepared by just about everyone there, each to his/her own specialty), a lot of really nice Chardonnays along with the occasional Sauvignon Blanc, and the company of family and close friends. I wouldn't trade that for.....anything, I guess. I wouldn't trade that.
ps: I knew I'd forget to mention it. I didn't look at the youtube clip but I did get a kick out of seeing it. That had to be one of the best episodes ever of WKRP. O, the humanity! I'll go watch it now. :-)
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Madelaine McMasters wrote:
And before Snugs chimes in... Yes, I see the irony of trying to be the most fearsome woman around while decrying the use of fear to motivate people.RawrAs long as Carole F. is around, your best possible place is a somewhat distant second ;-).
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mikka Luik wrote:Odd really. Only posted to say yay Science as it cheered me up. If I have to justify it costing me lets see.. a pack of smokes a week for ten years then I still say yay Science and yay Future and.. and ... but hey it was just me i suppose. Sorry my meagre EU individual contribution is seen as a waste of funds that could have been better spent.Next time I will buy a lotto ticket eh? And finance my own astonishing ... whatever.
It cheered a lot of us up, and once again thanks for posting it in the first place. While there has been criticism of the expense made in this thread, I believe it has all come from one (admittedly prolific and persistent) poster. The rest of us are solidly in favor of the project and hope for more of the same in the future.
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Qie Niangao wrote:[...] I just (as has been mentioned elsewhere) have a very aggressive response to someone saying 'discuss'. Most of us would ask something like, "What do you think about this?". Also, the OP is someone I don't care for (I think that started when he invoked Niemoller* in a thread on the Feed [...]
Isn't it a universal Internet meme that, at this late date, Niemoller can only be invoked ironically?It didn't seem so in the context given the comments that followed at the time, but you could be right. Irony certainly would have been appropriate.
There have been ample opportunities in this thread for the OP to explain only irony was intended by the 'discuss'. A non-ironic intent would be consistent with previous commentary (in my personal opinion).
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But what if it doesn't require payment to play?
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Dresden Ceriano wrote:
...I'm unsure of whom exactly you're apologizing to......DresTo TDD and the thread participants in general. As I said, my post added nothing to the conversation but acrimony.
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TDD123 wrote:Sy Beck wrote :So I can't say discuss, but you feel free to decide what is an appropriate thread here? I invite discussion, you wish to passively censor it, interesting. Why is it irrelevant to you? You don't live inside a bubble. That's akin to believing that the rich shouldn't have a concern for the poor because they are irrelevant to them; a wholly specious argument.This is not 4chan or Reddit where these discussions are common and, as gamergate proves, run out of hand too quickly before anyone can say 'Stop this nonsense !'.I think that is meant by Dillon. If she did mean that, I concur.
I've been away since I first posted in this thread. I should not, in fact, have posted at all. There was no need and I should not have injected 'acrimony' of my own into the conversation. I just (as has been mentioned elsewhere) have a very aggressive response to someone saying 'discuss'. Most of us would ask something like, "What do you think about this?". Also, the OP is someone I don't care for (I think that started when he invoked Niemoller* in a thread on the Feed regarding the forum ban of one of his buddies, as if SL were a frikking state) and it hasn't gotten any better since. I don't care for people who act as though their (perceived) intelligence somehow makes them superior.
As I said, I should not have posted. I let my irritation get the best of me. My apologies.
As to my saying there's no reason to bring the gamergate discussion here, your interpretation of my reasoning is exactly correct. I've waded through a great many twitter, 8chan, and reddit threads that I frankly wish I'd never seen.
* The umlaut over the 'o' is not permitted in this community, apparently. I vaguely remember that being mentioned elsewhere. In any case there should have been one above the 'o' in Niemoller.
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I think many of us are aware of the gamergate garbagefest. I certainly am. There are other forums in which it's a topic of frequent discussion.
There's really no reason to bring it up here, because to us it's irrelevant and talking about it can achieve nothing but acrimony. We don't care what game developers, gamers, or game journalists do. It's nothing to us. We ARE the 'game', each of us. That's my theory, anyway.
I really wanted to ignore you, because you ended your post with '....discuss', like you were some kind of schoolteacher or taskmaster. Who the h**l are you to be saying, "discuss"? We are neither your students nor your audience. I decided to respond anyway. For my part I think Anita Sarkeesian is pretty much on the level, although possibly surprised at the groundswell of support she's received. I also think your punctuation in that third paragraph needs a whole lot of work. It starts out fairly well, but starts to get jumbled after the first line.
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Thank you for necro-posting to this three year old thread. I enjoyed re-reading it, and seeing posts from several people who have left the forum and one who I know has even left Second Life altogether. She lives on in my memory (her SL avatar lives on, that is: she only left SL. She didn't perish), and in the daisies she gave me which are now planted in my front yard. :-)
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Hoshi Kenin wrote:......actually you.. along with your 'forumite' chums who manage - god knows how - to post thousands of posts/replies instead of getting inworld to SL....where you must either spend 45 seconds or somehow manage to be online 24 hours a day.
Well, this makes an interesting change for you, doesn't it? Instead of telling us all we're nothing but a sniveling pack of Linden shills, you're now all frosted at someone who suggested unkind things about the Lindens.
Who'd a thunkit?
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HELP!!!!!
I CAN'T LOG IN!!!!
Every time I try to log in it says unable to connect to a simulator. WHATS WRONG?
oh wait. You said NEXT week. nm
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Thank you for a very informative post, Freya. When I mentioned earlier the gains in 'hard science' that are surely being made with this project I was just thinking in general, earthbound terms. I hadn't even considered that a lot of it could be applied directly to similar but differently purposed missions.
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I've been thinking about Rosetta and Philae. About what they mean, not regarding knowledge or science or anything. Just the things themselves.
We (the humans) sent something out beyond the sky ten years ago. Since then it's travelled 6 billion kilometers/3.7 billion miles through space, to rendezvous with a frozen clump of sfuff about 5 kilometers/3 miles long zipping through space at 135,000 kph/84,000 mph. Having achieved rendezvous the thing we sent launched a smaller device to actually land on the frozen clump of stuff.
Humans did that! I had nothing whatever to do with any of that but it sitll makes me feel happy and glad and uplifted.
I have a personal sort of link to this discussion. When I read the OP and the links, I was reminded of Voyager 1. One of my few forum threads (I just checked: 20 in a bit over 5 years) had to do with the news a few years back that Voyager 1 was about to enter interstellar space (and has, since). That was this one: General-Discussion-Forum/V-ger-1-still-on-her-way/. Voyager was, and still is, also a spectacular human achievement.
I started another thread when I happened to see a news article about a photograph the Cassini orbiter (an ESA/NASA collaboration) had taken during a solar eclipse: Saturn was between the orbiter and the Sun. There was a whole series of absolutely stunning photographs, but of special interest was one in which the 'inner planets' were visible. From Saturn, Earth is one of the inner planets, and sure enough there we were. A little blue sphere in the far dark background. If you're interested: General-Discussion-Forum/Planetary-news .
Funny thing is, while I was googling around to get the conversion numbers for this post I got a hit on 6 billion kilometers I hadn't expected. Took me to a photograph I'd seen before, in the 'Planetary News' thread. The photo was posted late in the thread. It's a photo of space, taken 6 billion kilometers from Earth. It's called 'Pale Blue Dot'. It was taken, of course, by Voyager 1. This one really is a must see and I won't save the pic to my PC and post it; I'll just post the link to a very good image on Wikipedia. You don't need any text. There's only one pale blue dot there. You'll find it. Pale_Blue_Dot .
Earthlings, and resident Martians, I salute you!
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As you can see, this was certainly not the wrong place for this. We talk about space often. And some of us get pretty spaced out, too!
As for the money spent, Phil's point has a bit of validity (only a little bit, in my opinion, but a bit). The actual space-going hardware that was built for the project can't ever be used here on Earth or anywhere else. It's gone and it's not coming back. So the cost of the parts themselves is not recoverable. That cost is a pretty minor fraction of the total money spent, and that total money spent (as well as the money spent on the above parts) went straight into the economies of a number of countries. It helped factories. It helped accounting firms. It helped building contractors. The list goes on and on. It paid assemblers and bookkeepers and delivery drivers and machinists and engineers and stock clerks and on and on, all of whom in turn paid shops and restaurants and landlords and whatever and whomever.
As several people have pointed out, just the hard science learned to make this all work will pay dividends, now and in the future, far in excess of the money spent even if one doesn't give a hang about the theoretical aspects.
Congratulations to the ESA.
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I'll be interested to read Freya's response to this. I expect that it will show other points of view that I hadn't thought of, given that Freya can be expected to have an opinion that is clear, well thought out, and based on a considerable amount of both knowledge and experience.
That being said, I happen to agree with your take. In a way, that bugs me. I have been a pretty consistent Microsoft hater for years. You flat out don't wanna hear some of the things I've yelled at Bill Gates when something crashed/didn't load/failed to initialize over the years. My resentment goes all the way back to DR DOS, because I'm convinced Gates stole MS DOS from them. Don't bother with the usual explanations. I said 'convinced', ok? Not interested in facts. (Digital Research is/was based about twenty miles from where I'm typing right now. I'm prejudiced).
I like the 'if it ain't broke' model. I'm the most upgrade resistant person you ever saw. Even Microsoft moves too fast for me. I bitched and screamed about the end of XP and just rained all over Win7 (I ignored Vista, like everyone else). It took a long time for me to whisper that I had to admit the Search deal was pretty awesome, although the way it Nannifies the network setup still makes me grind my teeth. "Dillon, sweetie, you can't use a network that way, just typing in your own address willy nilly and all. That doesn't make sense. You're not even connected to a router, much less the Internet. You just need to find the right wire and connect to one of the machines that can do it all for you. Trust me, hon. I know what you need."
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Yes, I know it was Chuck Berry's. I just prefer this version.
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I got looking at your map and laughed at how it worked with the path of last summer's road trip. I traveled clockwise around the route shown. I did not include my starting point but if you find that backwards 'c' on the coast (Monterey Bay) you'll be close enough. I spent my first night out at the corner that's about seven o'clock on the blue line (the westernmost point on the route) and went on from there. All in the empty uncolored blocks. I can vouch for the empty, by the way. Even that tall thin pink block in Nevada, running up the eastern California border to the Oregon line, would be colorless since for the most part it's truly empty (the rl site of Burning Man is in there, to give you an idea) but it gets population color because it includes Reno/Sparks in its southernmost section.
I apologize for the crummy pathing; I was in a hurry so I just used Paint and didn't try to make it better.
edited to explain the route more clearly (I hope) and then edited later to enlarge the pic and correct my misunderstanding of what the little hand points to and when.
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Amethyst Jetaime wrote:
I think that the reason mainland looks so desolate is because it is just empty. It wouldn't if it had some trees and landscaping.Many people live in urban areas not by choice but because they have to. It is where most of the jobs are, as well as public transportation and rental housing for those that can't afford to or don't want to buy a car and/or a home of their own. A city generally has better and more convenient access to medical care for those that need it as well as other goods and services.I'd say that many, but not all, of the RL urban dwellers coming into SL that want a dream home don't want what they have in RL. They prefer more open space in a world where within seconds you can tp anywhere. I live in a city but none of my homes in SL have been urban. For me and my SL friends who are RL city dwellers, the gold standard is having your own sim if you can afford it and failing that as much open space around your home as you can afford.You're so right about trees and landscaping. And it would not take a whole lot of work, either. A rail fence. Hell, even a barbed wire fence. A barn or two. Trees. Maybe a creek now and then.
As for urban areas and jobs. Sure. If you want a big-time job and a chance to really move up, an urban area is almost a requirement. There's a trade-off staying small-town even if you aren't someone who is a hot job prospect. Way less variety of choice in things to look at/taste/buy/sample. The internet makes up for that these days to some degree but the Internet is nothing like living somewhere that's a hive of multi-cultural activity like a big city, where you can be in it. I get all that. I'm willing to take less pay and live with fewer choices.
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TDD123 wrote:Points taken.Hence I adjusted the title of the thread.
The revision of the OP title invites my response. I am accustomed to seeing posts like your and not getting 'it' since mainland has always looked perfectly fine to me in terms of open space. I did a little googling.
According to the 2010 Census, about 80% or US residents live in Urban areas. In Western Europe they classify a bit differently with Urban, Intermediate, and Rural but in any case less then 25% of the population is classified as Rural. Not sure if that included the UK. Canada's Rural population is just under 20%.
Since such a great portion of those of us who post here come from the US, Canada, or Europe it stands to reason that less than 20% of us posting here live in rural areas and for probably way more than half of us, the norm for mainland would be a cityscape because that's what we inhabit. For someone whose everyday environment is urban, highly populated, and active, I can see how Mainland SL would look empty and lifeless.
I've lived in small towns for most of my life. I don't live in any town now, I'm out in the sticks. When I travel I'm travelling through primarily open country populated by crops, cows, oak trees, vineyards, and the occasional building or small town. For me, SL Mainland looks just right.
It turns out I'm in a pretty small minority here. Oh well. :-)
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Madelaine McMasters wrote:
;-).
I like how you advanced the theorem. It's not just two, it's any number greater than one.
I think the first clue that a discussion is going to go that way (other than the fact it's happening here) is when someone says something obviously speculative and the next person says, "Well if that was true then....". Three posts later and we're spinning so far off center we're practically leaving orbit.
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Snugs McMasters wrote:I don't know who that fella is, but I don't think you want Maddy getting behind him...
That would explain that one pitch that hit the backstop. ;-)
His name is Madison Bumgarner. There's a lame pun in that somewhere but it's not worth the work to make it.
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The San Francsico Giants and all their fans can get behind this fella. He's got it all under control. :-D
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Madelaine McMasters wrote:irihapeti wrote:Kaidin Ulrik wrote:... saturated ....but what of when you're sitting in your own room on a sim very few visit and all the pervs seem to find you in your personal space.... tears down eeeeeeeevvvvvvveeeerrrrryyyyyyyy thing!
you a perv magnet seems like. Some people are just natural born that waylike they order coffee and get pervert. Pump petrol in their car and get perverts instead. Go the movies and have to leave bc the whole place full of pervertsthey wake in the night to go the bathroom and pervert againdunno what is the cure for that. Or even if there is oneI'm not sure that needs a cure, or even wants one.Madelaine McMasters wrote:irihapeti wrote:Kaidin Ulrik wrote:... saturated ....but what of when you're sitting in your own room on a sim very few visit and all the pervs seem to find you in your personal space.... tears down eeeeeeeevvvvvvveeeerrrrryyyyyyyy thing!
you a perv magnet seems like. Some people are just natural born that waylike they order coffee and get pervert. Pump petrol in their car and get perverts instead. Go the movies and have to leave bc the whole place full of pervertsthey wake in the night to go the bathroom and pervert againdunno what is the cure for that. Or even if there is oneI'm not sure that needs a cure, or even wants one.Madelaine McMasters wrote:irihapeti wrote:Kaidin Ulrik wrote:... saturated ....but what of when you're sitting in your own room on a sim very few visit and all the pervs seem to find you in your personal space.... tears down eeeeeeeevvvvvvveeeerrrrryyyyyyyy thing!
you a perv magnet seems like. Some people are just natural born that waylike they order coffee and get pervert. Pump petrol in their car and get perverts instead. Go the movies and have to leave bc the whole place full of pervertsthey wake in the night to go the bathroom and pervert againdunno what is the cure for that. Or even if there is oneI'm not sure that needs a cure, or even wants one.Perv.
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I've read all the posts in this thread, examined each very carefully on its own merits and on its relevance to the topic, and I have come to the following conclusion:
You are all............mad as hatters. No offense intended.