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Max Case
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11-24-2005 11:10
So, is there an SL Wide Buy Nothing Day on Friday? Anyone trying to organize it?
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blaze Spinnaker
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Join date: 12 Aug 2004
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11-24-2005 11:11
Buy nothing is meant to decrease purchases of consumables which are destroying the environment.
Last time I checked, the metaverse is pretty environmentally friendly. All too often the environment / pita movements are co-opted by people who just want to drop out and give up. It really saddens me, because sometimes I think the reason people don't take the environment seriously is because of the people leading the charge don't take anything seriously. Anyways - the point is, the metaverse is about enlightenment, community, and communication. If anything, you should be taking all that money you save from "Buy Nothing" day and spending it in SecondLife. _____________________
Taken from The last paragraph on pg. 16 of Cory Ondrejka's paper "Changing Realities: User Creation, Communication, and Innovation in Digital Worlds :
"User-created content takes the idea of leveraging player opinions a step further by allowing them to effectively prototype new ideas and features. Developers can then measure which new concepts most improve the products and incorporate them into the game in future patches." |
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Zapoteth Zaius
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Join date: 14 Feb 2004
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11-24-2005 11:12
Buy nothing is meant to decrease purchases of consumables which are destroying the environment. Last time I checked, the metaverse is pretty environmentally friendly. Surely its the priciple? But it might take extra electricity or resources I spose.. _____________________
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Max Case
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11-24-2005 11:14
Buy nothing is meant to decrease purchases of consumables which are destroying the environment. Last time I checked, the metaverse is pretty environmentally friendly. No, I would say it's about bring awareness to rampant consumerism as well. Not really about environment on that one day... You may be confused with Earth Day...  _____________________
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blaze Spinnaker
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Join date: 12 Aug 2004
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11-24-2005 11:14
Surely its the principle? But it might take extra electricity or resources I spose.. The principle of what? And hey, you're kind of "Buying Nothing" when you buy something in SL. Kinda fitting.. _____________________
Taken from The last paragraph on pg. 16 of Cory Ondrejka's paper "Changing Realities: User Creation, Communication, and Innovation in Digital Worlds :
"User-created content takes the idea of leveraging player opinions a step further by allowing them to effectively prototype new ideas and features. Developers can then measure which new concepts most improve the products and incorporate them into the game in future patches." |
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Yumi Murakami
DoIt!AttachTheEarOfACat!
Join date: 27 Sep 2005
Posts: 6,860
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11-24-2005 11:16
Buy nothing is meant to decrease purchases of consumables which are destroying the environment. Last time I checked, the metaverse is pretty environmentally friendly. AFAIK, "buy nothing" day is meant to encourage people to realise that it isn't necessary to consume things in order to function or express themselves as people. |
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blaze Spinnaker
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Join date: 12 Aug 2004
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11-24-2005 11:16
No, I would say it's about bring awareness to rampant consumerism as well. Not really about environment on that one day... You may be confused with Earth Day... I think you need to do some research. Rampant consumerism is a problem because it is unsustainable and is ruining our planet. There is nothing wrong with "rampant consumerism" in itself, just like there is nothing wrong with having lots of sex or playing lots of chess. Hell, all that mall walking is great exercise! _____________________
Taken from The last paragraph on pg. 16 of Cory Ondrejka's paper "Changing Realities: User Creation, Communication, and Innovation in Digital Worlds :
"User-created content takes the idea of leveraging player opinions a step further by allowing them to effectively prototype new ideas and features. Developers can then measure which new concepts most improve the products and incorporate them into the game in future patches." |
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Zapoteth Zaius
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Join date: 14 Feb 2004
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11-24-2005 11:18
*sigh*
Well its not gonna do any harm is it blaze? If people want to do it let them, if you don't, thats your choice.. _____________________
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blaze Spinnaker
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Join date: 12 Aug 2004
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11-24-2005 11:18
AFAIK, "buy nothing" day is meant to encourage people to realise that it isn't necessary to consume things in order to function or express themselves as people. People are free to express themselves as they so chose. If they wish to express themselves by their purchases - there is absolutely nothing wrong with that and for anyone to say otherwise is pure bigotry. What is wrong is when their purchases start impacting the commons, the environment that we share. When all those plastic gizmos you buy start sucking up earths natural resources - that is a problem. But so what if that's how you want to express yourself? Who are you (or anyone else) to say how we express ourselves is bad? _____________________
Taken from The last paragraph on pg. 16 of Cory Ondrejka's paper "Changing Realities: User Creation, Communication, and Innovation in Digital Worlds :
"User-created content takes the idea of leveraging player opinions a step further by allowing them to effectively prototype new ideas and features. Developers can then measure which new concepts most improve the products and incorporate them into the game in future patches." |
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blaze Spinnaker
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Join date: 12 Aug 2004
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11-24-2005 11:19
*sigh* Well its not gonna do any harm is it blaze? If people want to do it let them, if you don't, thats your choice.. Yes, it's all about choice. It's my choice to attempt to correct what I think is a generally harmful assumption. It's your choice to continue to reply to my posts, as well. Have fun. _____________________
Taken from The last paragraph on pg. 16 of Cory Ondrejka's paper "Changing Realities: User Creation, Communication, and Innovation in Digital Worlds :
"User-created content takes the idea of leveraging player opinions a step further by allowing them to effectively prototype new ideas and features. Developers can then measure which new concepts most improve the products and incorporate them into the game in future patches." |
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Max Case
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Join date: 23 Dec 2004
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11-24-2005 11:20
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Usagi Musashi
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Join date: 24 Oct 2004
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11-24-2005 11:20
Whats shopping
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Max Case
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Join date: 23 Dec 2004
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11-24-2005 11:21
I think you need to do some research. Rampant consumerism is a problem because it is unsustainable and is ruining our planet. So. within the context of it being unsustainable, it is a problem. So there. _____________________
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Jillian Callahan
Rotary-winged Neko Girl
Join date: 24 Jun 2004
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11-24-2005 11:21
Whats shopping ?!??!?!? Heretic!_____________________
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Zapoteth Zaius
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Join date: 14 Feb 2004
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11-24-2005 11:22
Yes, it's all about choice. It's my choice to attempt to correct what I think is a generally harmful assumption. It's your choice to continue to reply to my posts, as well. Have fun. I want to eat a lot of bananas today, because I think potassium will give me supernatural powers!! Please correct me if you believe I am wrong, whether it is my choice or not.. You could just simply have voted "no" in the poll.. _____________________
I have the right to remain silent. Anything I say will be misquoted and used against me.
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Yumi Murakami
DoIt!AttachTheEarOfACat!
Join date: 27 Sep 2005
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11-24-2005 11:23
People are free to express themselves as they so chose. If they wish to express themselves by their purchases - there is absolutely nothing wrong with that and for anyone to say otherwise is pure bigotry. That is true. And nobody is forced to participate in Buy Nothing Day. The point, however, is those who might not wish to express themselves by their purchases, but are forced to, because others do and that creates a societal standard. I think better than a "buy nothing day" would be a "text rebellion day". Everyone stands in one location, wearing the default avatar, and just types everything in text. As in, "*opens the door on her mansion and steps up the central staircase, running a hand over the marble banister*". A reminder that it's only the virtual society's belief that you don't have a house, or look a certain way, if you don't have matching graphics (even though in fact, one typed in text is no less real - both are not real at all - and provides far more freedom) that enables any of the capitalism in SL to operate at all. Knock out the social underpinning - by, say, pricing them out of the market - and it all comes crashing down. |
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Usagi Musashi
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Join date: 24 Oct 2004
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11-24-2005 11:24
Heretic!what...............  shopping is a lost art form right?! _____________________
Never Quote People that have no idea what they refering to..It give them a false feeling the need for attention...
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Jillian Callahan
Rotary-winged Neko Girl
Join date: 24 Jun 2004
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11-24-2005 11:27
what............... shopping is a lost art form right?! Blasphemer!*goes shopping* _____________________
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Usagi Musashi
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11-24-2005 11:30
Blasphemer!*goes shopping* Bunny Needs alittle carrot money to go shopping  _____________________
Never Quote People that have no idea what they refering to..It give them a false feeling the need for attention...
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Max Case
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Join date: 23 Dec 2004
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11-24-2005 11:50
Bunny Needs alittle carrot money to go shopping Ok, that's funny _____________________
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Eggy Lippmann
Wiktator
Join date: 1 May 2003
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11-24-2005 12:03
Heh, I havent bought anything in months
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Dianne Mechanique
Back from the Dead
Join date: 28 Mar 2005
Posts: 2,648
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11-24-2005 12:11
Buy nothing is meant to decrease purchases of consumables which are destroying the environment. Last time I checked, the metaverse is pretty environmentally friendly. All too often the environment / pita movements are co-opted by people who just want to drop out and give up. It really saddens me, because sometimes I think the reason people don't take the environment seriously is because of the people leading the charge don't take anything seriously. Anyways - the point is, the metaverse is about enlightenment, community, and communication. If anything, you should be taking all that money you save from "Buy Nothing" day and spending it in SecondLife. _____________________
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reddish Tigereye
antisocial recluse
Join date: 12 Nov 2003
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11-24-2005 12:51
No Way!!!! I Live To Shop!!!!
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Kazuo Murakami
Sofa King
Join date: 31 Aug 2005
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11-24-2005 13:04
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Alexa Hope
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Join date: 8 Dec 2004
Posts: 670
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11-24-2005 13:30
As I am not in world much I rarely buy anything but even when I am, I don't spend my L$. I shall save it up and convert to US$ when I am ready.
Alexa _____________________
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