Train Wreck?

I am not surprised as you dont like your rubbish arguing ability to be shown up.

Damn Romans couldn't even keep an empire together could they??

See that made this whole nonsense worthwhile knew I could depend on you-

Sure!

Wait, there's some possibilities with that, for instance.....[fill your possibilities in here or read my mind and tell me what *I* think they are!]

That's easy. You will be thinking you want me to take you out dancing.

I forgive the Romans anything because they brought sausages to England

You are horrible at the ignoring game.

Stop...yer killing me. Really.

Trust me... whenever the media coverage is embarasing to Americans... everyone jumps on the band wagon and pays attention to it.

I think you need to go back an re-read my post.

1) I said it was "very likely" that people in the forum "know" which church she was referring to. Not that they DID know, without question.
2) The second reference to "know" was made under the assumption that she wasn't a complete idiot. So, chastise me for making that "assumption", if you want, but I think you know where that one will go.

I don't care to name it because naming it is redundant. If you can't figure it out, that's not my problem; *I* am not the one who posted the troll in the first place.

Well, Jack isn't worth much to begin with, but at least he has the sense to spot innuendo and know it for what it is.

Arielyn, I'm on the same page as you... I'm not going to repost the same thoughts from the grid-merge thread.

Honeybear, you are exactly right. I love SL when it's working, but lately it seems that there's one big headache after another. And nothing from LL.

I get the impression sometimes that they're working on something else entirely and don't even realize that the servers are on.

Making nonsense worthwhile is what I do.

*sits on the sidelines with a cleaned wooden branch with many forks... and big bag of rainbow colored marshmellows*

This is where I stand by Marianne and say "right with ya'.

06/06/06 which would ruin Second Life forever and destroy the SL sex industry single handedly (see.. when involved in the sex industry you often only use a single hand).

Things are going to be changing. We saw that coming the minute a marketing guy was put in charge of LL.

BUT.. here we still are. And if we weren't someone else would be.

I'm still trying to figure out how there can be a train wreck if the trains aren't running.

The trains are running. There just isn't anybody driving them.

/me puts on a nifty hat, hops on a train and starts driving!

Oh wait... someone said train wreck, didn't they? Perhaps I'll hop off and wander far away from the tracks.

/me thinks this thread needs this addendum:

Just ignore this and let it die.



Edited: Or should I say "Just ignore this and let it crash"?

It doesn't matter whether parents monitor their kids in SL or not. The politician will do the job. And if they find any minor having sex in SL or stepping into virtual drug store, they will get SL shutdown for good.

Still waiting to hear what this far-sighted vision is. Opening the grid to teenagers stifles creativity and learning for people who are not teenagers because there are certain subjects and concepts and projects which are not and will not be generally deemed by most communities to be suitable for discussion, or exposure to teenagers. Please explain how that fosters creativity. That is like saying that if one forbade the production and release of all films that were rated R or NC-17 or did not carry a rating that it would foster creativity in the film world.

Linden Lab has been willing to host adults on an invitation basis into the teen grid to interact with teen residents in creative and collaborative ways so why have all these organizations to which you refer (and fail to name) made no attempts to be invited into the Teen Grid to mentor and collaborate with teen residents? What evidence can you present that merging the grids will stir these alleged organizations out of preexisting apathy to interact with the teenage community when the grids are merged?

Still, this is only one subject of narrow focus among potential issues with merging the grids upon which you chose to apply your tunnel vision when, ironically, you spoke about "a bigger picture"

There are, for example, concerns about what will happen regarding access permission to regions, either by action of the region owners or Linden Lab itself, in connection with the still controversial and flawed age verification system overseen by the data mining business to which Linden Lab currently contracts the service.

You can feign erudition by making vague references to far-sighted vision and trite meaningless comments about how any arguments contrary to your view are based on an aversion to change (they are not) and are "ludicrous" but it wont compel anyone to treat your statements as anything beyond rhetoric unless and until you are willing to clarify your premises and address specific arguments against your claims.

You saved me the trouble, I was just going to reply to BB. But my reply was just going to be:

lolwut?

No, you are not far-sighted. You only see a single side, the education side. Everyone know there is could be a good source of revenue for LL. But to do so, LL have to convert entire main grid as PG. Does that means LL has nothing to loose doing that?

What makes SL so appealing is its diversity.

Imagine I have to order a statue of Zeus without nipples, statue of David must put on underwear. And no female statue with uncover breast. Bye bye all my lesbian and gay friends and wave Hello Kitty.

Since you are so far-sighted, please enlighten me

No, I don't think so. I've been here in SL since 2003, and for the most part, it just keeps getting better.

Lizzie

To be honest I have neither the time or inclination to argue details on a forum like this. One look at some of the preceding posts will explain exactly why. However, I am always happy to elaborate and discuss things in voice in-world, though my time is very limited.

Neither, I'm afraid, can I write in an open forum about projects being considered by - for example - a major UK terrestrial broadcaster and media business.

As I cannot go into detail, it's best that I don't get drawn into any further discussions in this thread, so I won't be revisiting.

All I really need to say anyway is 'watch what happens'.

Nice low post count there Thing is, sex made SL and a lot of people really don't want to lose that element. Even people like me who never hop on poseballs, what else would we have to point and laugh at?

This, folks, is what I see Linden's version of the future to be. Imagine a giant aqua stylised hand smashing you in the face. Forever.

PS for the lolwuts ... read between the lines dearies, BB can't elaborate any more, do the flipping maths.