Selene Gregoire

Is that noon or midnight SLT? Cuz those hours are the ones I'm usually logged in. Noon to midni... ok well no I don't usually stay up that late. I try to shut down between 9 and 10 and leave the late nights for the weekends... when I can manage to stay up late and awake.

Either way, if you got no warning or no one bothered to get you into IMs to talk to you about it... it was still a petty act, although possibly one induced by panic. Which makes the club look even worse. BS like this is why I gave up on clubs years ago, RL and SL, including owning and operating. In SL they are a losing proposition for the owner. Clubs in SL do not make a profit, contrary to what club owners want you to believe. They lose money.

Wait... what? before 2012 (?) when mesh bodies came out (Maitreya's Lara was 2014) some club booted you for being indecent doing high kicks in a dress? Wow. People think I'm a prude. That beats me by a few thousand miles. Seems I have good reason not to associate with many people. RL or SL. ffs. That was just... petty.

Before mesh bodies I never worried about it because no bits. Now mesh bodies come with (more or less) and I have to remember to make sure nothing can be seen from below. AS if women don't have enough of that kind of stuff to worry about in RL, now we have to deal with the same crap in SL only worse. System bodies do have a few advantages.

I can't disagree with a single thing you have said. Well... except for the Forum Angel part. Never heard of that before. I expect it's by invitation only. Something I'll never get since I'm no angel. lol

If it were me, I would be asking myself why do I put up with such behaviour if it happens every time. My answer would be enough is enough. Block, remove, done. If it were me.

SL is chock full of invisible prims/mesh and texture faces... just saying. *ducks*

I was kidding. I'm one of those people that say burp when I mean burp, fart when I mean fart. Although I do use flatulent from time to time when calling someone a flatulent fardling. I love Anne McCaffrey's colorful metaphors. Spock could have learned a thing or two from her.

https://www.irs.gov/publications/p17 https://www.irs.gov/faqs/interest-dividends-other-types-of-income/1099-misc-independent-contractors-and-self-employed

There is nothing agitated about my response. It was full of information that you apparently did not know. Since my normal profession is Accounting I have that knowledge and can pass it on. Makes no difference to me if you accept or reject my knowledge. That's on you, not me. I am given to being blunt and quite frank because I lost all patience with people who make erroneous assumptions about me and then try to perpetuate those erroneous assumptions. You can thank SLU for that. I'll take a break when I determine I need one, not when ordered to do so.

So the USD in front of the figure didn't clue you in? And were you not aware, as I stated in one of my posts, that ALL US income must be reported to the IRS by US federal law? LL has to abide by the laws of the country they are domiciled in. LL is in the US. LL must report all withdrawals (income) to the IRS, including those that fall below the threshold. That is how the IRS knows you owe taxes. If LL didn't report the 1099 incomes, LL could be held liable and we all stand to lose SL over it.

They aren't really above the law though. Bribing judges, intimidating jurors, officer kickbacks, all those things show just how truly weak and scared the "1%" is. They know the real power lies within the people. That is the real reason the "1%" are so desperate to continue the lie and keep the less fortunate believing they [the "1%"] are all powerful until someone finds the spine to take them down.

That's what I was forgetting... the part about it only possible in person to person voice calls. Thanks Oz! You know, we really should stop all the shenanigans in IMs at the TPV meetings... I'm kidding!

My two favorite places in Texas are Austin and Galveston. San Antonio runs a close third. Of course, I knew those places best in the 80s and before. A lot has changed since then.

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WHAT!?! No pink flamingos? The horror! The shame! Oh look, a rainbow unicorn-flamingo...

Oh so you have been on the cover of People Magazine or was that the National Enquirer... /me runs

Your best source: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Third_Party_Viewer_Directory

You forgot one.

DJs don't have a way to tell who's IP is whose. Not unless they want to spend an insane amount of time tracking each and every IP that shows up on whatever program they use for DJing. If they were to do that they wouldn't have much time to spend on the mic and it's obvious the set is either canned or the DJ is preoccupied. Sure, DJs can see your IP but they don't know that it is your's and there isn't anything they can do with it that can harm you. As for voice, it's free software from a company called Vivox that LL uses and the only way anyone can "leak" an IP address is if they say it out loud over the mic. Fortnite uses Vivox as do many, many other MMOs. No, I don't use voice. Even though I have hearing loss I can use voice but only if the other conversants don't mind repeating most of what they say 5 or 10 times depending on how loud my tinnitus gets from using voice. The "ringing" in my ears can and does get loud enough to drown out pretty much all noises. Even loud ones.

Might be time for a new modem/router. If you lease it then you don't want to let them get any older than 5 years because (at least with Comcast and Frontier) at that age they are no longer in the companies' system as they have been discontinued and are no longer used. We learned that the hard way. It's a good idea to check with your provider at least once a year to see if the equipment needs to be updated. You might even be able to renegotiate your bill (in the US) to a lower monthly rate.

I have eyes in the back of my head. At least, all my kids were convinced of it. They never realized I could look through windows or peek around corners or listen from an unseen spot.

It did happen in the past, once, in 2006. LL can deny it now all they want to but there are those of us who have been around a long time and remember. WE remember because we were here when it happened and when LL made the announcement. The articles are not the announcement by LL. They are evidence of the truth in my words. https://www.cio.com/article/2444646/second-life-database-hacked--650k-at-risk.html https://techcrunch.com/2006/09/08/metaverse-breached-second-life-customer-database-hacked/ I remember it very well since it happened about 2 days before my birthday.

Very few make it to my permanent block list. Those that do deserve far worse for making it necessary for me block them permanently.

It's no different from blocking someone who harasses you. It's just a different form of harassment you are blocking/de-rendering.