The Rich Get Richer, The Poor Get Poorer

Thank you for the hearty laugh. I have SO needed it this week in the forum.

Surreal

oh come OFF it, ulrika. That's just silly in this context. You post a coherent thought and back it up, sure some people will disagree and some will agree (or laugh). Lots of different opinions on here... no need for anyone to be a forum martyr.

Now I don't know why Hank (hey bear!) got so triggered, but it might be ye ole straw that broke the camel's back. letsee... this thread started out with

etc


I have never understood why people think SL is "la-la-land" where all their problems are whisked away. Ok. Ok. It IS "la-la-land" and most of your problems CAN be whisked away! fun! But it is still a business. Why should your financial troubles mean financial trouble for Linden Lab? Why should those very hard working entrepreneurs and engineers subsidize you? That's not right and that's not fair.



hmmm... i didn't think Hanks posts were terribly non-progressive. Maybe they weren't socialist, but certainly not non-progressive. He just wanted you to explain / back up your "ideas".



I never did see an explanation about why anything would lead to more culture or more community. Oh well.

Now on the other hand ... Zuzi's post! Kind. Open minded. Well said. Concise (unlike me). Yummy!

There's a perfect example of it right there.

~Ulrika~

Well, I thought your "please no eat kittens" was funny.

I adore you Zuzi. Log into SL so I can have the honor of spending at least $L 50 to pos rate you.

Surreal

Well, I'm secretly envious of your adorable forum icon!

~Ulrika~

Hee! Chipmunk AVs rule. Tickle me under my chin and I might give you a copy.


But MrsJakal has the #1 forum icon in my opinion.

Now THERE'S a poll for Blaze. Who has the best forum icon!

I'm with Surreal. You're my favorite new forum poster. I hope you stick around a good long time!

Thought? Ok. Here's what I think:

The changes have been needed for quite some time. They are great, and I wish they had happened sooner. They are relatively minor changes that will result in the betterment of all of Second Life.

There. How's that?

That's a chipmunk? I thought it was a mutant handpuppet.

LOL I'll be walking around SL tomorrow with my head attached to my right hand

(heh though I'm a gecko more often these days than a chippy)

Eugene,

Have you forgotten about the Golden Rule? Has your mother not taught it to you? I'm saddened... but for those of you who have never heard it:

Golden Rule: "s)He who has the Gold, Makes the Rules"

May it ever be so.

The sight of people dragging their real world ideological baggage into a computer game on the internet and fighting about it is a never ending source of quality entertainment and it's absolutely free!

"AAARGH! We need laissez-faire capitalism! HURRR! TANSTAAFL! John Galt aarraghh aaraaarhgghh!"

"Stupid capitalist son of pigdog! SL need land redistribution and worker ownership of means of production! Avatars of world unite aaarggh hurrr aaarrgghh!"

"Oh yeah, well get off welfare ya bum! words words words words words words words"

"Oh yeah, well that welfare pays your way too, capitalist exploiter! words words words words words words words"

I like bread.

The bakery down the street makes a really fine calamata olive loaf.

You know, last night as I was beating people up and taking their $L(unch money) by force it occurred to me, he may be right!

first off Linden Labs is NOT a government, they ARE a company

As a company with a service (entertainment) they need to charge money to support their service.

Second, where is there a monopoly?

Clothing designers? certainly not tons of them around

Animators? again, lots to select from

Scripters? Oh jeebus there is only one scripting empire!! Oh wait nope, my bad... lots of these too

Prim slingers? Hmmm DAMN THAT YADNI AND HIS PRIM LINKING EMPIRE... oh wait... anyone can make prims...

I guess this is about the people with talent have all the money maybe? Like *GASP* those who write good code can profit off it, or people who can use a graphics editor are rewarded for their time...

Cry me a river mister, go practice some skills, slap together some prims, try your hand at marketing, bust your ass working, take customer service calls.... Or did you just expect handouts forever?

if you expect handouts then, go have a government cake walk or something somewhere

I am SO adding this to my sig line!!

Surreal

Mmm. With some roasted garlic. And maybe some sun-dried tomatoes. And olive oil drizzled with pepper.

Yes, I meant protoge. I'm very sick right now, and I'm a little more not quite right in the head than usual.

(I was going to just say that I wasn't quite right in the head right now, but someone would say "What else is new" and then I would say "well more so than usual" so I figured I would save us a lot of time.)

It's that fork at fault, Lance. It killed the gerbil, who has started rotting, and the infection has traveled to your brain which now has rottinggerbilitis.

Isn't that what killed Richard Gere? Or am I thinking of somone else?

-Bone

I just couldn't resist:

1) Isis Becquerel - "the 2nd most profound statement I have read on the forums in some time."

OK Isis, the first is .......

2) Gene is neither a prodigy nor a protege. I think the word is Portage, n'est pas?

Ya gotta love the Threads, el oh el [ack. N. Nash]

hush Derek, the newbies dont know about that let em be doomed to repeat it..hehe

Richard Gere is dead OMG my Grandmother is gonna die...(She so loved that man)