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Jake Reitveld
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07-15-2005 11:13
From: Colette Meiji
This reminds me a bit of the first episode of John Doe , where people barage him with questions and he knows everything.


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Jake,

If I asked a Rhetorical Question, would you answer it?

^^

Of course. Anyquestion is fair game for me to answer. So before asking you must dec ide if you really want to know the answer to a question-even a rhetorical one.
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Jake Reitveld
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07-15-2005 11:16
From: Hiro Queso
I bet he doesn't know the speed of dark.

Is that a question?

Dark has no speed. it is simply the absence of light. its the light that travels through the dark. A really interesting related question is:
if light is a particle wave, and pases through a void called dark, does the dark remain while the light is there? So ultimately it could be possible for a place to be light and dark at the same time. There's a paradox.
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Jake Reitveld
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07-15-2005 11:25
From: Kathmandu Gilman
Hi there, long time Ditto Head... err listener and I have a question, actually a couple.

I heard in the Navy there are two types of light, incandecent and flouresent. I was told that incandesant lights like flashlights and regular lightbulbs actually push darkness out of the way where flouresent lights actually suck away darkness. Is this true? And if it is, where does the dark go?

My second question is if I put up a video capture of two avatars having sex on a pay website, would I need to maintain age verification of the avatars? Even if it just between my alts? Or would I have to verify each model was over 18 pixels?


In answer to question 1. Flourescent lights suck, true, but they do not suck darkness. Darkness is the absence of light, and light is an emitted particle stream that moves through space at a definite speed. the difference is in how the light is created. Where the dark goes is a meaningful question. When you can answer that you will have attianed mastery grasshopper.

In answer to question 2. First see my disclaimer about legal advice. Secondly if you live in Cali send me your mailing adress and a check for $25.00 and I'll give you a legal answer.

The common sense answer is a good one:

A still picture of an avi is analogous to a drawing, not a photo. and thus no age verification is necessary for the avatar. (unless the drawing is rendered from life..hmm interesting, somone should pay me to research it.)

If you are using streaming video will appropriate pornographic posing and texting, then these elements may qualify as performances and you would neeed age verification of the player not the avi.

So in short the age of your avi (and pixels are not a measure of age) doesn't matter. Its the age of the model/player that counts).
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Aimee Weber
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07-15-2005 11:32
Dear Jake,

What were the haps before the Big Bang? Know what I mean slide? Hit me with some wisdom, yo.

Easy-A from the East Side
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07-15-2005 11:34
From: Ulrika Zugzwang
Jake,

I used to make long thoughtful posts in the forums but they have recently degenerated into short goofy posts, acerbic remarks, and political rhetoric. Are the forums making me stupid and, if so, what should I do about it?

~Ulrika~


The forums aren't making you stupid. In all honesty the forums lend themselves to short acerbic remarks and political rhetoric. BUt you have to pretty intelligent and have a good sense of humor to stay ahead of this crowd.

I truth you can make the choice to post how you want. Simply decide before you post whether you want to say what you think, or are you simply repsonding to what others have said. Say what you think and ignore everyone else.


Of course you might simply accept that you are FIC and can do what you want to, as long as you properly rever your great leader Aimee! lol

Or, another possiblity is that you have moved from being Prokofy's alt to being Nolan's alt, and the philosophical change is just fucntion of your altness.

Or Finally yopu can confess that you are my Alt and thust have fluctuating posting style.

hope this helps and thanks for reading.
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Jake Reitveld
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07-15-2005 11:43
From: Aimee Weber
Dear Jake,

What were the haps before the Big Bang? Know what I mean slide? Hit me with some wisdom, yo.

Easy-A from the East Side


A singularity, floating in the vastness of infinte void, of course.

Another answer is since does not know..its all pure speculation.

another answer is god, on the can, with light to read his paper.

Another answer is that you weren't around for that one, and you won't be here for the next one.

Of course if you were talking about what the haps were before our big bang-well that was dinner and symphony, with desert at that quite little cafe where you drank too much of the Widow and feasted on strawberries and chocolate cream.

Well then there was a nightcap at your place, and a long teasing game of Jake trying to figure out the mechanics of a garter belt and Bling sandals, and then Bang..the universe was born.

I know which one I would chose lol.
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Eboni Khan
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07-15-2005 11:46
Dear Jake,



I have been in love with my best friend for the past 10 years. My best friend is married. I am not a homewrecker so what is a girl to do? Should I tell my best friend how I feel and ruin our 12 hour video game sessions with uncomfortable pregnant silences or should I just keep my mouth shut and slut it up with best friend look likes until I hit pay dirt?


Signed,

Slutty in Chicago
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Aimee Weber
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07-15-2005 11:49
From: Jake Reitveld

Of course if you were talking about what the haps were before our big bang-well that was dinner and symphony, with desert at that quite little cafe where you drank too much of the Widow and feasted on strawberries and chocolate cream.

Well then there was a nightcap at your place, and a long teasing game of Jake trying to figure out the mechanics of a garter belt and Bling sandals, and then Bang..the universe was born.

I know which one I would chose lol.


:eek:

A'ight. they don't call me "Easy A" for nuttin Yo.


:D
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07-15-2005 11:53
From: Aimee Weber
:eek:

A'ight. they don't call me "Easy A" for nuttin Yo.


:D


Aimee, yuou may be easy A, but at least you aren't cheap.

Thanks for being a sport, and I'll say many more nice things about you when I have a redsox jersey! lol
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Jake Reitveld
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07-15-2005 11:55
OK luch break is over. Keep the questions coming.

Eboni, I'm not ignoring yours..it just will take a little bit more thought, and I don't have time to formulate a proper reply. I will repsond later.

Keep the questions coming you guys are great fun!
And thats to all my readers.
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Hiro Queso
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07-15-2005 11:55
What is meant by 'Good'?
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Cienna Samiam
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07-15-2005 15:36
How long can an employee google terms and concepts before the sysadmin notices a spike in bandwidth and begins the hunt for whomever is responsible? (chuckle)

Nice thread. You might even turn it into a business. You too, could be Dr. Laura.

Oh. The. Horror. :eek:
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07-15-2005 17:16
If buttered bread always lands on the butter-side down and a cat always lands on its feet, what happens if you strap buttered bread to a cat's back?
MadJack Bukowski
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07-15-2005 17:17
How do blind people know when they are done wiping?
MadJack Bukowski
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07-15-2005 17:17
Why are hemorrhoids called "hemorrhoids" instead of "asteroids"?
Ulrika Zugzwang
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07-15-2005 23:45
Jake,

I killed a Tiny and stuffed it in a prim under my Werkstatt last week. Now there's a nosy cop poking around the city asking a lot of questions. Should I kill him too or wait it out?

~Ulrika~
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07-16-2005 00:30
From: MadJack Bukowski
If buttered bread always lands on the butter-side down and a cat always lands on its feet, what happens if you strap buttered bread to a cat's back?


Your cat hates you:

http://www.mycathatesyou.com/cats
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07-16-2005 00:41
From: Eboni Khan
Dear Jake,



I have been in love with my best friend for the past 10 years. My best friend is married. I am not a homewrecker so what is a girl to do? Should I tell my best friend how I feel and ruin our 12 hour video game sessions with uncomfortable pregnant silences or should I just keep my mouth shut and slut it up with best friend look likes until I hit pay dirt?


Signed,

Slutty in Chicago


Well this is a very hard situation. When you fell in love with your best freinds you compromised the relationship and never let go of the crush. Ten years later you remain attached to your best frined, who presumeably has no clue of your affections. Thus you have been, for ten years, hiding very profound feelings from your best freind.



What a girl is to do is quietly back off on the amount of time and energy she focuses on her best freind, and rechannels that time and energy inot a more healthy relationship with someone that does, and can, love her back. IN essence what you have now is a one sided fantasy with another person that is your best freind because you pour time and effort inot the relationship to hang on to some notion of having him.

This is not fair to you, to him, to his wife, and if he has them, his kids.

Let him go. Its time to move on.
Slutting it up is not the answer either, then you are just sleeping with men because they look like your fantasy, as opposed to knowing who they are. Again this is not fair to you, or to them.

The longer you stay in this "best freindshsip" the more damage you will do when it all come crashing down.
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07-16-2005 00:44
From: Cienna Samiam
How long can an employee google terms and concepts before the sysadmin notices a spike in bandwidth and begins the hunt for whomever is responsible? (chuckle)

Nice thread. You might even turn it into a business. You too, could be Dr. Laura.

Oh. The. Horror. :eek:


It depends on how good, or how dilligent the Sysadmin is. And what concepts you are searching for.

A dilligent sysop may notice the increased banwidth right away, but if thinks you are watching lesbian porn, he may be willing to ignored what he saw for sexual favors, or really hot links.
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07-16-2005 00:47
From: MadJack Bukowski
How do blind people know when they are done wiping?


Well i suppose it depends on what they are wiping: but I should imagine the easiest way is by touch. I mean a small kitchen table has a definite size, so they can recall what areas they have done.

Windows may make a squeaky sound when clean.

I think blind people develop an increase in other senses to compensate for all the difficulties faced in house cleaning.

Perhaps they just hire a maid.
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07-16-2005 00:48
From: MadJack Bukowski
Why are hemorrhoids called "hemorrhoids" instead of "asteroids"?


Because hemorrhoids are not asteroids.
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Jake Reitveld
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07-16-2005 00:50
From: Ulrika Zugzwang
Jake,

I killed a Tiny and stuffed it in a prim under my Werkstatt last week. Now there's a nosy cop poking around the city asking a lot of questions. Should I kill him too or wait it out?

~Ulrika~

I would lay low and wait it out.
Cops are harder to kill than tinys, and people really don't like you when you kill a cop-it totally ruins your ability to get out of a speeding ticket by showing leg.
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07-16-2005 05:44
From: Jake Reitveld
Well this is a very hard situation. When you fell in love with your best freinds you compromised the relationship and never let go of the crush. Ten years later you remain attached to your best frined, who presumeably has no clue of your affections. Thus you have been, for ten years, hiding very profound feelings from your best freind.



What a girl is to do is quietly back off on the amount of time and energy she focuses on her best freind, and rechannels that time and energy inot a more healthy relationship with someone that does, and can, love her back. IN essence what you have now is a one sided fantasy with another person that is your best freind because you pour time and effort inot the relationship to hang on to some notion of having him.

This is not fair to you, to him, to his wife, and if he has them, his kids.

Let him go. Its time to move on.
Slutting it up is not the answer either, then you are just sleeping with men because they look like your fantasy, as opposed to knowing who they are. Again this is not fair to you, or to them.

The longer you stay in this "best freindshsip" the more damage you will do when it all come crashing down.




good advice, but Dr Laura would have bitched it up a bit. I'm not crying so you did something wrong :(
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07-16-2005 06:06
Actually, I did think of a question for you, but it was a legal one, and then I remembered you are a lawyer and won't provide legal advice. The question has come back off and on to haunt me, though, over the past three or four months.

coco
Jake Reitveld
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07-16-2005 09:30
From: Cocoanut Koala
Actually, I did think of a question for you, but it was a legal one, and then I remembered you are a lawyer and won't provide legal advice. The question has come back off and on to haunt me, though, over the past three or four months.

coco


Well a general question about the law (like a debate on abortion laws or the legal effect of the UN charter, or the validity of the death penalty) is fine. But I cannot provide specific adv ice about your specific problem, unless you are in California, and we come to some sort of representation agreement.

I do not want to risk being engaged in the practice of law in other juris dictions without a license, so I am taking the safe route here. I will point out that given the huge advances in internet and communication technology of the past few years, I feel individual state bars are antiquated, and there needs to be a much more comprehensive scheme of reciprocity.
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