Blondin, you have some Esplanin to do.

The first rule about Fight Club is that you never talk about Fight Club.

I like your sense of humor.

you know that quote comes up all the time, but I never have bothered to watch that movie.

BEST

MOVIE

EVAH!

So Blondin,

How is that 1 day notice thing working out for you?

Lots of happy customers I bet.

Hey what happened to that gambling thread?

My posts have even disappeared from my post history.

User CP/Edit Options What is your Default Thread Age Cut Off value set at?

The thread was from today or yesterday.

The One about the guy leaving Second Life because the gteam refused his gambling game

I just manually looked in the resmod area and then back 3 days here. Guess someone really did not like that thread at all. They bypassed a lock/move and went straight for the delete button.

well dang all he did was accuse the G-team of taking bribes.

Oh .. hmm .. the Gteam probably have moderator powers, huh?



For the record I do not think the Gteam take bribes

I missed that thread altogether. I don't suppose the gaming device maker would be the one already approved for every conceivable "skill-of-flatworm" variant of slot machines. Getting rid of those would lift a ton of lag from the grid.

Not that each one is especially laggy, of its kind, but there are just so goddamn many of them.

FWIW, I don't think G-Team takes bribes, either. Not in the conventional sense.

I don't know why anyone would go through any great trouble developing a game machine without clear guidance on why some are allowed and some not. Seems like a gamble on your time.

Dang, I saved a copy and meant to save it periodically until it disappeared, but forgot.

ahh cool least they didnt delete my thread yet.

The Declaration of the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe (2005)

The Declaration was finalised at the conference and is based on international human rights instruments. The process of establishing the Declaration was initiated by SIGN (the Sexwork Initiative Group Netherlands) and the Declaration was established based on a year long consultation with sex workers across Europe and international human rights, labour and migration experts. Based on the results of this consultation a draft Declaration was established for consideration at the conference. The Declaration highlights what the International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe calls “current violations of the rights of sex workers in Europe which occure across health and social care, housing, employment, education, administrative law and criminal justice system.” Furthermore the Declaration highlights “actions required to ensure that the rights of sex workers are respected in Europe.”

According to the Declaration different approaches to the sex industry have been adopted across Europe (regarding female, male and transgender sex workers, and including migrant sex workers). These approaches range from acceptance of sex work as labour and the introduction of labour rights for sex workers to the criminalisation of a wide range of practices associated with sex work. This criminalisation may affect the sex worker, sex workers partners or their clients. The Declaration states that “legislative measures that restrict the fundamental rights and freedoms of sex workers proliferate at local, national and international levels, claiming to be in the interests of combating organised crime and promoting public health.” The Declaration argues that this contradicts advice given by UNAIDS and the World Health Organisation stating that legislation restricting the rights of sex workers undermine public health policies by driving the sex industry underground. As well as the European Parliament’s Resolution on Violence Against Women, which called for the decriminalisation of prostitution and a guarantee that prostitutes enjoy the rights of other citizens. The Declaration states that “many measures are in violation of the obligation of States under international human rights law to respect, promote and protect the human rights of all persons within their territory, without discrimination, and including the right to privacy, to a family life, to legally leave and return to one’s country, to be free from torture, inhuman or degrading treatment and from arbitrary detention, and in favour of the freedom of expression, information, freedom of association, and movement.” The Declaration notes that “there is not one country within Europe – including those with regulated sex industries – where sex workers have not reported discrimination and violations of their human rights.”

The Declaration reiterates that under international law it is “a fundamental human right that “all persons are equal before the law and are entitled without discrimination to the equal protection of the law””. The Declaration identifies human, labour and migrant rights that sex workers should be entitled to under international law, hence synthsising rights that have been agreed in international treaties and covenants for all citizens. The Declaration furthermore proposes steps and policies to ensure the protection of those rights for sex workers. The Declaration cites 17 regional or international human rights and labour rights treaties, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.

According to the Declaration “all individuals within Europe, including sex workers” are entitled to the following rights”, which “European governments are obliged to respect, protect and fulfil”

* the right to life, liberty and security of person
* the right to be free from arbitrary interference with one’s private and family life, home or correspondence and from attacks on honour and reputation
* the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
* the right to freedom of movement and residence
* the right to be free from slavery, forced labour and servitude
* the right to equal protection of the law and protection against discrimination and any incitement to discrimination under any of *the varied and intersecting status of gender, race, citizenship, sexual orientation etc
* the right to marry and found a family
* the right to work, to free choice of employment and to just and favourable conditions of work
* the right to peaceful assembly and association
* the right to leave any country, including one’s own, and to return to one’s own country
* the right to seek asylum and to non-refoulement
* the right to participate in the cultural and public life of society

Under the right to work, to free choice of employment and to just and favourable conditions of work the Declaration effectively calls for the decriminalisation of sex work, stating that “the lack of acknowledgement of sex work as labour or a profession has adverse consequences on the working conditions of sex workers and denies them access to protection provided by national and European labour legislation”. The Declaration also demands that “sex workers should be entitled to equitable employment and social security benefits”.

I fail to see the relevance, Xanthia.

First of all, that declaration isn't a legal document. It's a statement by a group of people about what they think OUGHT to be their rights. It's not binding on governments or on corporations.

Linden Lab is a corporation, and they own the Second Life service. Their rules are what we must live by, if we want to use the service.

Lindal, I've copied Xanthia's post into a new thread on the off chance that you or anyone else has something interesting to say about it.

I learned a new word from it! "non-refoulement".

Hey maybe its relevant if it includes

"The right for SL Sex workers to get a dang Zindra Land Swap like Blondin said they could"

just saying hi to Blondin

You should im him, he's Jumpman Lane's twin!