Jump to content

Sid Nagy

Resident
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    4,789

  • Joined

  • Days Won

    8

 Content Type 

Everything posted by Sid Nagy

  1. Sid Nagy
  2. Sid Nagy
  3. Sid Nagy
    I'm Dutch and I pay with Paypal in USD for my L$. Paypal is a bank in the EU and it has therefor far better currency transition rates then CC's. My Paypal account isn't linked to a CC either for that reason, but to my Dutch bank account. I canceled my CC years ago, when PP became a bank in Luxembourg.
  4. Sid Nagy
    Het gaat op die manier de goede kant op hier. Just saying.
  5. Sid Nagy
    I think you understood what I just posted. No clarifications further needed.
  6. Sid Nagy
    Why did you even bother to ask the question here? You don't seem to want helpful answers.
  7. Sid Nagy
    When one starts to use SL one agrees on the ToS. If LL makes changes one agrees again on the next log in. So everybody in SL has agreed upon the LL ToS. You never can say: "Sorry but I didn't know", when you are caught violating the ToS. You personally checked the boxes. Of course almost nobody reads the complete ToS on agreeing, but everybody knows that there is one, and when in doubt you can always read the sections that you need to spell out, to see if you're good with your plans.
  8. Sid Nagy
    Showing less is almost always more. Nothing is as quickly boring as only nudes around you. RL and SL. The package is as important as the content. Look at the trouble all perfume brands go through, to create their eye candy bottles to put their smells in.
  9. Sid Nagy
    Land makes a big chunk of their income. Every discount comes straight out of their wallet. With more than 25,000 sims on the grid a relatively small discount like 10 USD a month would mean 250,000 USD a month less income. That would mean that they would have to lease out a huge amount of extra sims before earning that back. And that would still not bring owning a sim in reach of everyone who dreams about it every now and then.
  10. Sid Nagy
    It is all a matter of take it or leave it in the end. If you are not satisfied you take your business elsewhere. That is the normal procedure everywhere. Supermarket A gets to expensive? I try supermarket B. The quality of the jeans at store C is not as good as in store D? I go to store D. Only thing is, where is elsewhere when it comes to SL? And another fact of life is: There is no such thing as a free lunch. LL has to pay the bills and make a profit. It is a business. Not a charity organization.
  11. Sid Nagy
    I still remember 14 years ago, I was a noob only a few days old, there was a place that catapulted you into the sky and then you came down with a parachute. Only I forgot to get the parachute. That felt as a real sensation, I was totally worried that my avatar would splash in thousand peaces at landing. So yeah, parachute diving is an option too to enjoy SL.
  12. Sid Nagy
    Pictures on the marketplace are ads. No professional advertiser will skip the enhancements of photos used in their ads. So full time merchants, who want to live RL (partly) from their SL income, will try to do the same. Most important are the demo's available or the possibility to check inworld for certain goods, like avatar parts (skins, clothing etc), furniture (especially the ones with animations) and houses. If there is no possibility to check those items upfront it is simple: no sale.
  13. Sid Nagy
    I always keep an eye on the 60L$ weekend website, but hunts ..... basically wasting time. So I do that very seldom.
  14. Sid Nagy
    For both then and than we only have one word in Dutch: dan. That makes it a bit complicated. But I do my best and Google is my friend when in doubt.
  15. Sid Nagy
    SL can cause heat problems in laptops and in extremes can eat the video card over the years. I would consider a stand for the laptop with an extra fan underneath it.
  16. Sid Nagy
    - oops posted something in the wrong thread -
  17. Sid Nagy
    The simple fact that monarchs have private conversations with the PM on a regular basis gives them already more influence than every Joe or Joyce Avarage in the country.
  18. Sid Nagy
    Send me all your irrelevant money please. I don't mind taking care of it. If it is irrelevant, why are all royal families so keen on the Euro (and the pound sterling in case of the UK)? They even let their face to be pressed on the coins. So everybody knows where they really belong.
  19. Sid Nagy
    I think it all depends on how far we get the covid-19 virus under control in the next couple of months. There are a lot of uncertainties yet: Will herd immunity kick in, how long will the current vaccines protect, how will the covid-19 virus mutate (for the better or the worse)? Depending on the answers we might have to formulate rules for a new normal.... or not. Best is IMHO to do what you can to protect yourself (and no, a non medical mask or a face shield is not as safe as 6 feet distancing), wash your hands over and over, and lets wait and see what comes up in the next six months or so.
  20. Sid Nagy
    My niece 45, no medical history, so theoretically at low risk. She works in the funeral business so a lot of people around her, no possibility to work from home. Son 19 and daughter 17 work both as starting nurses in care centers. Husband works from home, no significant medical dossier either. So a low risk family to get severely ill. They manage to work and stay clean from the corona virus for more than a year. Careful people. And now all of a sudden: My niece in the hospital last week with breathing problems, got extra oxygen in medium care, husband is lying next to her also extra oxygen also breathing problems. The two kids at home, exhausted and milder breathing problems. All four infected and seriously ill. The doctors in hospital already announced that my niece and her husband will need months to fully recover from it. My niece came home yesterday, is totally exhausted if she comes out of bed, goes to the bathroom and back. So please don't even try to believe that bulls**t about lower risk. The virus can take anybody down. At random.
  21. Sid Nagy
    They certainly do good jobs. Our king as well. We are lucky 4 times in a row now. And the next generation will do fine too in the NL. She seems to be a smart girl. Our 3 first kings were disastrous though. Especially Willem II and Willem III. And that is the risk of monarchies, it is not about capacities, but to be born in the right cradle. No skills whatsoever required. Even the simplest of jobs need qualifications these days, but not the one of head of state in the UK and the other European kingdoms. That does not feel right IMHO.
  22. Sid Nagy
    Of course they are different, thank the force for that. 🤪 The Republic Of The Seven Provinces (big part of the current Netherlands) was the first republic in the western world. Napoleon Bonaparte made The Netherlands a kingdom again, with his brother as king on the throne. Our current king is only the seventh ruler in succession from the house of Oranje Nassau. And we did not make the historical mistake to keep the king/queen head of state of our former colonies (or better the former colonies were smart enough not to chose such a construction). But no matter what, the British royals are as undemocratic and obsolete as in all the other monarchies in Europe IMHO.
  23. Sid Nagy
    It is not only the amount of LI (prims), but the kind of textures (seize and number), the number of active scripts, the way the passengers are dressed and use resources. It is the total package.
  24. Sid Nagy
    Look at Germany. A ceremonial president. Works just fine. The royal charade in the Netherlands (I don't know about other kingdoms) is extremely expensive. The king gets a personal salary higher than the president of the USA, his wife gets one, his eldest daughter the moment she turns 18 this year. The 3 palaces they use are maintained by the state, they live there for free. They pay no taxes, while the family is filthy rich, like most monarchs who still reign. If we had a president it would be much more democratic and a lot cheaper. For the rest very little would change. We are a parliamentarian democracy and the role of the head of state is almost completely ceremonial. But a lot of people still love the pictures straight out of a fairytale on occasion of the opening of the parliamentarian year in September with the tour in the golden carriage. Very photogenic. Just like kings day when they try to act normal among their nationals. So they are in good nick for at least another generation. The taxpayer pays.
  25. Sid Nagy
    We have a royal charade in the Netherlands as well. This stuff belongs in the fairytales from the Grimm brothers or Hans Christian Andersen not in 21st centuries modern democracies.
×
×
  • Create New...