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Aliasi Stonebender
Return of Catbread
Join date: 30 Jan 2005
Posts: 1,858
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03-19-2006 18:16
From: Merlyn Bailly One more time, we do not need a _government_. This is not the 51st state of the US, it's a FANTASY WORLD THAT EXISTS ONLY ON A HARD DRIVE IN CALIFORNIA.
The only relevant government in SL is LL. Well, I'd go as saying "government is optional". Any semi-formal arrangement to peaceably share a sim without going for the "Me Land Baron, You Tenant" method could be construed as a (usually simple) "government", after all, and these are certainly useful to some people; see Luskwood, Neualtenburg, etc. The important thing is, these are all local and optional. I wouldn't call it silly, as such, since it's merely applying tried-and-true methods from the "real world" to manage social interactions in a "virtual world" at a higher level than "one person is the alpha and tells everyone else what to do"... although it is important to realize that is all they are, ways of sharing something without having to like or even necessarily trust the other person. Since LL prefers not to impose such a thing (which is great!), it shouldn't be surprising that the users who want it, invent it.
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Moss Talamasca
Serpent & Thistle
Join date: 20 Aug 2005
Posts: 367
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03-19-2006 20:20
From: Adrian Harbinger If we go and make a government, we will just have to overthrow it. Hear! Hear! If it comes to that, I'm on the Browncoats side. Count me in for anarchy. ¡Viva personal responsibility! |
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Merlyn Bailly
owner, AVALON GALLERIA
Join date: 7 Sep 2005
Posts: 576
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03-19-2006 20:50
From: Bri Koolhaas you need a few 1000 hard drives for 20 mb ?  For the tecnologically illiterate, the SERVER software runs on a massive server in California -- each and every single SIM (named map section of SL) runs on ITS OWN SERVER. That way, if one sim goes down, the entire grid does not -- unless some nitwit griefer decides to script 5 million objects and trash the entire network, which happened back in October. The CLIENT software is run on the home computers of the SL "residents" -- and that is just software that allows you to connect to LL's servers and interact with the main grid.
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