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Nic Writer
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Join date: 25 Mar 2007
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10-09-2009 13:39
Second World is a place that doesn't exist, inhabited by people who aren't there.
Raudf Fox
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Join date: 25 Feb 2005
Posts: 5,119
10-09-2009 13:44
A poorly executed good idea.
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Dana Hickman
Leather & Lace™
Join date: 10 Oct 2006
Posts: 1,515
10-09-2009 13:48
From: PeterPan Price
I am going to cheat and quote someone else.
"a world that's full of fake tits and real arseholes."

It's full of fake pricks and real ones too.



Personally, I'd say SL is an unmarked, mystery freebie box.. where the contents are different for each person who opens it.
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Davin Romano
jerk
Join date: 21 Mar 2008
Posts: 384
10-09-2009 13:52
SL is a terribly bad idea for anyone with an imagination or lack of conscience.
Kokoro Fasching
Pixie Dust and Sugar
Join date: 23 Dec 2005
Posts: 949
10-09-2009 13:58
A place where I can steal all the chocolate I want and not have to keep changing my name to avoid the police! ^^
Scylla Rhiadra
Gentle is Human
Join date: 11 Oct 2008
Posts: 4,427
10-09-2009 14:02
On the basis of LL's takedown of Jokay Wollongong's SL Education site (which I've just found out about :eek: ), I'd have to say that SL is an idea with enormous creative potential . . . increasingly run by a pack of utter morons wearing corporate suits and carrying legal briefs.

Are these people INSANE?????
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PeterPan Price
Enthusiastic Amateur
Join date: 20 Nov 2007
Posts: 178
10-09-2009 14:04
Very good to get all that in one sentence.
Imnotgoing Sideways
Can't outlaw cute! =^-^=
Join date: 17 Nov 2007
Posts: 4,694
10-09-2009 14:07
From: Argent Stonecutter
SL is proof that even in a perfect technological utopia, people will still scramble for sex.
Fixed. (^_^)y
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http://slurl.com/secondlife/Ferguson/54/237/94
Argent Stonecutter
Emergency Mustelid
Join date: 20 Sep 2005
Posts: 20,263
10-09-2009 14:07
To paraphrase old Winnie, "SL is the worst of all possible worlds, except for all the others that have been tried".
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Argent Stonecutter
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Join date: 20 Sep 2005
Posts: 20,263
10-09-2009 14:08
From: Imnotgoing Sideways
Fixed. (^_^)y
If you have to scramble for sex in SL, you're doing it wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong.
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Scylla Rhiadra
Gentle is Human
Join date: 11 Oct 2008
Posts: 4,427
10-09-2009 14:10
From: PeterPan Price
Very good to get all that in one sentence.

I'm prolix, but efficient . . . :D
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Scylla Rhiadra
Morgaine Alter
dreamer
Join date: 10 Jan 2008
Posts: 1,204
10-09-2009 14:27
A place where Peter Pan doesn't have to grow up ...
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My zip gun stays right where it belongs - in my pants!
Smith Peel
Smif v2.0
Join date: 10 Jan 2005
Posts: 1,597
10-09-2009 14:31
From: Scylla Rhiadra
On the basis of LL's takedown of Jokay Wollongong's SL Education site (which I've just found out about :eek: ), I'd have to say that SL is an idea with enormous creative potential . . . increasingly run by a pack of utter morons wearing corporate suits and carrying legal briefs.

Are these people INSANE?????


I just read about this and as I understand it, there wasn't a takedown exactly but a "trademark" issue. Granted, that is kinda asshatish when the site in question does nothing but promote the use of SL as a platform for education, which seems to mesh pretty well with one of LL's most prominent goals. If it was me, I would argue that the site is nonprofit educational and therefore exempt from rules created for commercial sites.
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Or just be bad in public?
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Marigold Devin
Ghost Hunting Is My Life
Join date: 4 Dec 2007
Posts: 145
10-09-2009 14:59
From: PeterPan Price
OK. Summarise SL in a single sentence.

You can be cynical, humorous or even affectionate.

I am going to cheat and quote someone else.


SL is like the book "The Lord of The Flies" - watch how a world without anyone to run it degenerates into the lowest common denominator
Imnotgoing Sideways
Can't outlaw cute! =^-^=
Join date: 17 Nov 2007
Posts: 4,694
10-09-2009 16:21
From: Argent Stonecutter
If you have to scramble for sex in SL, you're doing it wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong.
Heh... You're very right, there. (=_=)

Immy ( Yet, so many people still do. =^-^= )
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Weston Graves
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Join date: 24 Mar 2007
Posts: 2,059
10-09-2009 16:32
Second Life is a carrot dangling on the end of a long stick.

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Imnotgoing Sideways
Can't outlaw cute! =^-^=
Join date: 17 Nov 2007
Posts: 4,694
10-09-2009 16:46
From: Weston Graves
Second Life is a carrot dangling on the end of a long stick.

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Naw. That's real life. In SL, the carrot's not real and neither is the stick. (^_^)y
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Argent Stonecutter
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Posts: 20,263
10-09-2009 16:54
Five tonnes of flax.
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Rasecel Masatada
Don't Ask
Join date: 31 Mar 2008
Posts: 108
10-09-2009 16:55
From: Desmond Shang
I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floating around accidental-like on a breeze, but I, I think maybe it's both.


Say wouldn't that quote be plagiarism or something?
Rasecel Masatada
Don't Ask
Join date: 31 Mar 2008
Posts: 108
10-09-2009 17:55
Second Life is first life!
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Scylla Rhiadra
Gentle is Human
Join date: 11 Oct 2008
Posts: 4,427
10-09-2009 18:06
From: Smith Peel
I just read about this and as I understand it, there wasn't a takedown exactly but a "trademark" issue. Granted, that is kinda asshatish when the site in question does nothing but promote the use of SL as a platform for education, which seems to mesh pretty well with one of LL's most prominent goals. If it was me, I would argue that the site is nonprofit educational and therefore exempt from rules created for commercial sites.

As a PR move, this was dumb, dumb, dumb. Even Pathfinder, responding with text obviously provided to him by the lawyers, managed to sound embarrassed by it.

This was a site built for the SPECIFIC purpose of promoting and assisting educational endeavours in SL. It was, in other words, "user generated content" (albeit off-platform) of the sort that SL is supposed to be designed for, that was working to help grow a facet of the app that, as you note, LL itself is targeting for expansion. The site was actually REFERRED to by LL itself as a place to go to get help setting up to teach in SL.

And instead of trying to accommodate a mutually-beneficial partnership, these idiots send her a FORM LETTER, demanding that she remove "SL" from the domain and title of the site.

"asshatish" doesn't begin to cover it.

PS. Sorry Smify, I'm not yelling at YOU.

:mad:
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Scylla Rhiadra
Desmond Shang
Guvnah of Caledon
Join date: 14 Mar 2005
Posts: 5,250
10-09-2009 20:37
From: Rasecel Masatada
Say wouldn't that quote be plagiarism or something?


I thought everyone would recognise the source immediately (Forrest Gump). It's from his message to Jenny at the end.

And one of the most profound philosophic statements of what it means to be human on this earth (when taken in entirety). I found it appropriate here too.
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Kaimi Kyomoon
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Join date: 30 Nov 2006
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10-09-2009 22:15
From: Desmond Shang
I thought everyone would recognise the source immediately (Forrest Gump). It's from his message to Jenny at the end.

And one of the most profound philosophic statements of what it means to be human on this earth (when taken in entirety). I found it appropriate here too.
I agree, Desmond.
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From: 3Ring Binder
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Czari Zenovka
I've Had it With "PC"!
Join date: 3 May 2007
Posts: 3,688
10-09-2009 22:31
I'm still thinking because it's hard for me to say anything in just one sentence so I'll paraphrase what one of my friends has in her profile:

SL is a "do-over" for life.
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Pserendipity Daniels
Assume sarcasm as default
Join date: 21 Dec 2006
Posts: 8,839
10-10-2009 00:29
From: Deira Llanfair
Should that be "of"?
From: Lindal Kidd
Pep made a typo? That's it, the world is ending now. :eek:

From: PeterPan Price
That's nothing! He misplaced an apostrophe a few days ago.PPP ( No, I will not let you forget it )
From: Scylla Rhiadra
AND he didn't correct it . . . ! /me looks fearfully out her window for the four horsemen . . . :eek:
Thank you all for noticing. I posted quickly last night between winning an important court case (I *love* sticking it up lawyers) and doing a bar crawl to celebrate. It's fixed now I've sobered up.

Pep (I'm tempted to add that the SL *Forums* can be defined as the place where a simple single typo can potentially derail a thread.)

PS Who is Forrest Gump?

ETA I googled him: he's a character in a fantasy about a really stupid but marginally charismatic guy that becomes President of the USA; or is it a documentary - one of a series?
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