Thank You SL

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You don't even have to do that! Just simply entering payment information, becoming PIOF, is plenty sufficient to get verified. And, for anyone trying to hide from the FBI, NSA, MiB, or little green men, a pre-paid Visa card is all you need!

Well, damn! Why didn't you just say so in the first place?

Try giving someone that line instead of a paycheck.

I thought I'd share a poem that I've read recently...

I'll give you life,
and in return you'll give me hell;
something I can do without.
So lets let it all out.
I'd love to break your heart,
make you feel the pain,
make you eat your words,
make you swallow your pride.
I'm as cold as ice, so open your eyes.
I'll make you sell your soul,
maybe you'll be able to tell the tale,
but your mind will be mine, all mine;
whether you want it to be or not.



'Nuff said.

I see you just ignore my previous post about pre-paid cards to make it look like that is an option.

How mature. This thread needs to be closed if you've stooped to this level. That's what, Kindergarten level tactics?

But the line is true But if you prefer, time *sometimes* equals money but usually doesn't. In this case, the way that "time = money" was used here is not one of the "sometimes".

Apparently pre-paid cards are working again, some of them at least.

Indeed. Couldn't have said it better.

Try paying your utility bills by offering to work for the power company for a few hours rather than sending them the cash.

Yep, just like you ignored my question, refusing to answer it.

Your previous post about pre-paid cards not being universally accepted is completely irrelevant to the discussion at hand because LL *does* accept pre-paid cards. Nice try, though. Now answer the question I asked in post #503:

I like the way you decide what the discussion is when I started the thread. But its ok, I see that kind of arrogance all the time. You carry on cherry picking the parts you like within my posts.

If you think I am going to answer every single post that is opposed to my view of things, you are very mistaken: I got better things to do than to satisfy peoples egos with my time.

I agree. Satisfying your own ego appears to be a full-time job.

That's simple, I'm self-employed; which is why I didn't bother answering it. In fact, I have never ever been employed and always been self-employed.

But if you had concentrated on what I have written instead of seeing what you thought I was writing then you would have seen that I have already stated that I have a choice as to where I will give that information, just as I have exercised my choice not to now give it to SL because as you clearly know which is why you asked the question to try and trap me, because governments have made laws to be able to track everyone its impossible to step out of the system completely as it was possible in the past which is the whole point I am making anyway.

No Alvaro, like a true junky, you just want me to be part of the system that you are unable to distance yourself from. You probably even like it.

Strange that someone would want to ignore information unless they didn't like what they saw.

Like a train wreck?

I must admit, you're an especially lurid one.

I think I got a crick from all the rubber-necking.

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How is this an analogy for someone's time/efforts translating into profit for LL?

More to the point how does this disprove my own analogy, since time is exchanged for money daily in these things called 'jobs.'

There, now, see? That wasn't so difficult, was it?

I went in this direction because you made the insinuation that dealing with strictly cash keeps you out of the "system". So you're self-employed and were therefore able to dodge filling out a job application or resume. I trust you are reporting your income as required by law, yes?

Indeed. However, 37 pages into this thread, you have proven yourself quite adept at this skill.

And your assertion about prepaid cards not being "accepted by a lot of sites" is irrelevant to the discussion at hand because Linden Labs is not "a lot of sites" and quite happily accepts prepaid Visa. This leads back to my earlier assertion that you can, indeed, account-verify without having to divulge personal information - the complaint of which was the entire basis of this thread.

I can't help it if you can't stay on topic or keep track of your own lunatic ravings.

Maybe the word 'barter' would work better for some, but I still maintain that if someone sells things or pays tier, or pays rent so someone else can pay tier, they are very much contributing to user retention (something Philip Linden has said is a benefit, in a speech or interview) and bottom-line profit.

If I see something I want to buy, I get a lot more Linden $ than just for that item, and when in the mood to shop due to that one item I continue on shopping. The same thing happens for even freebie hunts or things like that. I will often see something that is so cute or unique or whatever, whether for me or for land, that I get L$ to get it.

Now whether or not that shop owner ever buys L$ is beside the point - their customers sure do!

Of course, but that wasn't the point being made. I don't think that anyone suggested that Debra isn't useful in that regard. All that's been said is that she is not, and has not, paid for anything to do with Second Life - she uses the system (someone else's system) for free - totally free - and so she doesn't have any justifiable grounds for complaint if the system owners restrict what she can do in it.

Well here we can see people how a hypocrite behaves even in the same post. You tell me what is relevant in my thread, then tell me below what is not relevant, then proceed to introduce taxation so trying to make me look immoral. Why on earth should I think you are doing no more than baiting me.

Actually, just using cash does keep you out of the system, which is why they are trying to convince everyone that we should have a cashless society, a process that started in the mid 1970’s by having wages paid directly into bank accounts and payments changed from weekly to monthly. If you study history just a tiny little bit, you will see that at one time, everyone was self-employed.

As for taxation, that really depends on which country you are domiciled in, except of course if you are a US citizen that has to pay no matter were they are in the world. Must be fun having to fill in a tax return each year when there isn’t even a law in the US that says you have to pay tax. Try ringing up the IRS and ask them what you have to fill in each year. They will put you on hold forever. And if you don’t believe me, there are lots of IRS agents that would like to know as well and have even asked members of the house and senate where the law is. But if you study the federal register you get the answer. Start in the year 1933 when the US was declared bankrupt. Oops, sorry, I forgot, that’s a bit above your capabilituies.



Now why would I want to pay an extra charge just to put some money onto a pre-paid card so that I can use that? Funny how there are continuously barriers put up and then solutions made available that cost you money where there was no cost before and where the same people that get governments to put up those barriers then earn the money from the solution to the barriers. Start seeing the wider picture. Having your head in the sand is no longer an option.