Is everything a mall?

Not only that, but there are corporate lawyers who are willing to do pro-bono work in helping to set up 501(c)3 companies. One of my buddies is actually required by his firm to do a few hours of pro-bono work every month, and he sets up non-profits for free.

Perhaps the costs have gone up. When I last checked (in August) it was a 750US$ IRS filing fee.

Thanks for the kind words, but the Primatory game is not us. That's ASL (Academy of Second Learning). We do have Show & Tells and Blitz Building competitions, though.

Brenda, I did not mean to imply we need higher tiers, since I think its expensive enough as it is What i ment is that from the tier we already bring in alltogether, a little slack must be left to take care of community property like parks

On the other hand I did not think of the tip jars, as long as they do their job, the parcel should indeed pay for itself. Oryx made a very good point there Indeed Lindens would have to control who is entitled to the discount, which would not be a very good idea. So okay, back to the drawing table for now!

Oh yes, I than God for your dressing rooms for the first month I was here.

I just changed in public, and I still got a 5 rating.

It has gone up, but only to $300 (which is still a lot, I filed in 2004 so it has doubled since then.)

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f8718.pdf

It is $750 if your receipts are over 10k.....

Try someplace besides Help Island next time, dear.

Ah right...of course. Yes. I also go to the show and tells...the 'olbies' one of course. I showed up to the 'newbies' one the first time I went to one...showed an object, they deleted it right away and I misunderstood, got flustered, and left.

It was a little embarrassing. I go to the oldies ones now at the big top.

Oh, I never changed there. Heck, I didn't spend any time there. I was changing in clubs, and parking lots, and stores, and at theme parks.

I mean in Second Life, hon.

Oh, right. Well in Second Life I always hide in plain sight.

Hide in plain sight? Ummm... Is that like having your eyes wide shut?

Yes. As in I always closed my eyes and changed in public. If I couldn't see them, they couldn't see me.

My reading of the regulation in i1023 is that the law requires NCI to count L$ receipts and tier donations according to their US$ value, which puts NCI would be in the 750US$ filing fee range. But I would want to talk to a lawyer to be certain of how to proceed. I check into the pro bono option. That was a good idea from Oryx.

well actually in "real life" even national federal thingies have little tourist shops etc so there is always commercialism going to be around to a point in anything. Basically people need to raise money. I dont like malls as in the ones that look like a mall and I dont go to them often. I dont mind the mix eg: some guy has an island that is set up to be a zoo but in that zoo he has an area where you can buy zoo animals. This makes sense from a point most points of view. If you go to say the smithsonian institute there is a shop well shops actually. Most zoo's I have been to have an area wher eyou can buy stuff elephants and the like.

I would think a farm in order to raise a bit of cash to pay tier might sell some farm animals in a small kiosk somewhere. I really dont see how you can have a totally non commercial place because of the overhead unless you have 4096 of land or something and build a house on it or something. The costs are just to high to own half a sim and build a farm and not try to make a bit of cash off of the creations in one corner of it.

the 30 foot wall things are malls however to be fair there is a bit of commericalism in most things in SL as in real life unless its a private house