How to prove you are not a minor in SL?

You'll find very few wooden or exposed metal ones in public playgrounds nowadays. Most bits is plastic nowadays, with a soft rubberized ground. Totally no fun.

Mari

Especially if you live in Arizona, where your skin melts to the plastic. Mmmm.. the smell of fried kid.

When you undo the safety bar on a saw or tape the safety guide up, you are willing disabling the safety mechanism and ignoring the warning signs. There is no way to build a device that will prevent people from choosing to use them improperly or to find ways to bypass them.

Which is why there is a the covenant on the box and the warning labels: Manufacturer is not responsible for misuse of this equipment

Did I mention sending in DNA yet?


Honestly I don't think a mail correspondance to LL, 1 page form signed by a Bank Officer saying "Yep this person is over 18" is too radically strange or unreasonable.

If what we've seen so far with the age verification is the best that can be done, then the whole thing is bound to get into problems later, considering the kind of things that go on in SL.

About as well as any system of verification short of an implanted chip in the person read by the computer to verify the person , pulling from a world wide database.

Oh ya, or where I grew up IRL. Would get roasty-toasty in the Summertime!



I personally think that is unreasonable.

Mari

Me too.

Well if these self proclaimed digital wunderkids can't devise a better way and they enrage the world and investigation turn up all manner of weirdness in SL, then they will look kind of stupid won't they?

I would just classify it as a necessary pain in neck.

*blinks*.... this jerk is a Republican, naturally. What planet are you on?

Don't forget, all politicians use "for the children" as the rallying cry to limit honest folks from doing things they dislike

Or parents can actually use the tools they have to control their kids?

I want to see a law ... oh wait I want the DAs to start filling contributing to the delinquency of a minor charges on parents for their kids committing fraud in order to get into places they should not online. Or even fine them for negligence in not using the tools built into all computers that allows them to control what can be done when they are not at home.

The current ave verification is a pain in the neck; I would not expect measures any stronger than is requires for RL me to surf the web or read whatever newsgroups I wish to, or any other internet-based content of an adult nature.

Agreed. Any site, game , or whatever the description of the week is that required anything more would not be one I'd visit. It's ludicrous.

There are plenty on both sides of the aisle.

LOL well I never did look him up. Just seemed like sort of a democratish thing to do. Well, live and learn. Don't trust ANY of them!

We need to decide whether kids are responsible for their own choices or not. If so, then they should be allowed to smoke, drink, drive, vote and have sex as much as they like. If not, then we cannot hold it against them if they do things we think are a bit naughty. We can't have it both ways.
It's got to be one or the other.

It's impossible for a Congressman to accuse someone else of lying. If they try, their heads explode.

Why not. They can't meet their trailer mortgage anyway.

The thing is, that regardless how obnoxious that article is, the only real lie being told is that there are 650,000 users of Second Life.

It's called making them take back some of the responsibility of being a parent/guardian.

Too many times it's never the child's fault in any way that they went out and did something they shouldn't have. It's never the parent's fault for allowing the child to do what they want and run wild.

Recently some parents in my area met a DA that isn't going to blame the owner of a dock by the river for their kids having beer out there late at night. The parents are now having to explain to a judge why they let the kids run free at 2 am on a weeknight with a truck they are not licensed (much less old enough) to drive. Especially since the kids got the beer from home.

The system is not perfect, it's being tweaked and worked on. But no system short of Orwellian systems will be perfect.

And the government had to consider the impediment to commerce. Make it so that it's too much aggravation for the public to use a service and they will not use it.

Look at how many consider the current system LL uses to be too much of a bother on age and payment verification.

Oh i see... so when a Democrat does something like this, Democrats are to blame. When a Republican does it, all politicians are to blame.

Oh well never mind. I'll go back to fighting the War on Christmas now.

Well unfortunatly I live in this guys district LOL

He is all over the place on all the issues he supports. Just got a phone call today telling me to call him about people being foreclosed on and congress bailing out Wall Street. Bunch of crap.

I remember being a kid/teenager (wasn't that long ago LOL) and doing what I wanted regardless of what people said or did to try and stop me. I don't believe kids belong on the main grid but I do think no matter what is done there is always going to be some to slip thru the cracks. We just have to be responsible adults and be more careful on who we share our SL with. JMHO!!

Here is a news story that can help with ideas for linden labs:

http://www.money.co.uk/article/1000390-13-year-old-steals-dads-credit-card-to-buy-hookers.htm

key point is the kid being charged for fraud

Start filing charges against some of those that raise a stink about their precious lying to get onto the adult grid.

Jail terms for the parents.....?

Maybe some waterboarding.