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Randall Ahren

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  1. The author should add a chapter about how you can turn satisfied customers into angry ex-customers by raising prices every year, while providing the same crappy service without any significant improvements.
  2. What you said "it just happened because at the time there weren't any federal US laws prohibiting online gambling." That is not true and misleading. There was the Federal Wire Act in existence well before that prohibited electronic transmission of information for sports betting across telecommunications lines and deemed applicable to online gambling on sports events. The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act came about in 2006 specifically directed on online gambling on games of chance, but did not require compliance until around 2009 or 2010. Moreover, there was a plethora state laws and laws in other countries addressing online gambling, all of which would have to be accounted for in assessing the legal risk of permitting online gambling in SL. Lastly, your reply to me was rude and insulting. I will not be responding to you again.
  3. I don't think that's right, but I cannot be bothered to check precisely when various federal laws involving gambling where enacted. Legal isn't there to approve initiatives. Legal is there for plausible deniability. If something bad happens, legal says it was a rogue actor (employer, resident, or whomever), acting in violation of company policy and appropriate action has been taken, i.e., the employee fired, the resident account terminated, and a training program implemented to deter such future conduct. Sometimes acting against the advice of legal results in good outcomes. Look at Uber and AirBnb for example. There are many laws requiring licensing for taxis and short-term rentals, but those organizations managed to expand rapidly enough they were able to violate many laws and still succeed. If Uber management had required legal approval for all of its decisions, Uber wouldn't exist today. Tech companies have to move fast and break things (like laws).
  4. How do you know? I remember when gambling was permitted in SL. Who approved the start of that, legal, engineering, product development, or executive management?
  5. In many organizations, engineering and marketing will roll out new programs and initiatives without consulting legal. It's not supposed to work that way, but legal does not run the organization and is seen as a stodgy department that just says no to all new ideas. Therefore, legal often learns of a new program after it has already been started and then starts doing damage control.
  6. Actually, not paying the mentors can be a violation of the Fair Standards Labor Act in the US because the wage (zero) is below the federal minimum wage.
  7. The mentors should pay Linden Lab a recurring fee for the privilege of mentoring. There should also be an application fee for applying to be a mentor. Linden Labs needs more revenue and this is another way to get it.
  8. That's reasonable for SL. A gaming rig with an RTX 4090 costs about that much. You need that super computing power in a busy sim to get all those flying body parts to rez into complete avatars.
  9. The Lindens are off counting their money after that last fee jacking, and plotting how much they're going to increase fees next year.
  10. That's the slum lord business model. Collect the rents and fees, while skimping on repairs and maintenance.
  11. He explored SL for a good long time and had way more patience then I would have. He started at an infohub and there were a few idiots afk or brain dead. He found one person at a sim and they poofed just as he started to approach them. It was a fair representation of what a noob would experience upon joining SL. He actually did get a response in IMVU. He asked "what's cooking" and after 48 seconds someone responded "chicken."
  12. That video is not going to entice anyone to visit SL. He visited several different regions and was not able to converse with a single actual resident.
  13. Create events is working for me. I just created a test event: Time: 12/31/25 11:30 pm Duration: 10 minutes Location: The Science Circle on The Science Circle Host: Randall Ahren Category: Discussion Cover: L$100 Let me know what event you want to have and will edit it for you so it's your event.
  14. Sexual depravity and debauchery is SL's economic niche. That's why SL has survived all these years. Sexual depravity is not allowed in Fortnite or Roblox, which keeps those platforms from driving SL into extinction. Almost anything of an adult nature goes in SL because that's what keeps the platform going.
  15. I thought buyer beware was a European custom, originating during Roman times, which is why it's often stated in Latin: Caveat emptor.
  16. Good sex appreciated but not required.
  17. Maybe there won't be sex, but, by God, there'll be dancing!
  18. Agreed. There is another main game in SL, also highly popular in life, which is to seduce as many people as possible. Edit: The popular RL Tinder app was replicated in SL as Thundr to support the seduction game.
  19. There have been many attempts, such as blood lines, sail boat races, zombie shooters, greedy greedy, and skippo.
  20. Evidently, not. However, I can suggest some destinations with 30 or 40 avatars present and they all stand around or dance AFK and it it is boring AF.
  21. Most of it. Try hiding your groups and your Russian background. People don't need to know that.
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