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Lex Neva
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03-09-2006 08:25
Discover Magazine's April 2005 issue features an article entitled "Virtual Law and Order", about the seeming lack of consistent law in online worlds, specifically SL. It features a bit of an interview with Nimrod Yaffle about his time in the cornfield, including pictures of the cornfield itself. The article goes on to talk about various attempts at an online-world-specific "Bill of Rights" and proposals for conflict resolution systems. Maybe it doesn't put SL in the most wonderful light, but it's still cool to see an article in such a popular magazine!
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03-09-2006 09:13
*Smirks* Woo-hoo! XD
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03-09-2006 10:01
Is this in the print version? I couldn't find the article online at Discover.com.
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nimrod Yaffle
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03-09-2006 11:23
From: Zero Grace
Is this in the print version? I couldn't find the article online at Discover.com.

Hey Zero, they said it would be in the 'Rising Technology' section. I'll grab a magazine when I see it on the stand, most likely someone will be able to answer it before then, but it's probably a yes.
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Patroklus Murakami
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03-09-2006 11:50
April 2005? Shurely shome mishtake?

/me scratches his head
Bertha Horton
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03-09-2006 14:12
This is a link to the future:

http://www.discover.com/issues/apr-06/

It will only work when the April issue's articles are put online, and then you will be able to view the SL mention.
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03-09-2006 14:17
Why does a dude who broke the rules in a pretty crappy manner keep getting publicity?
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Beryl Greenacre
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03-09-2006 15:49
Here's a rough scan of the article out of the April '06 Discover magazine, at least until they put the article online:

http://home.comcast.net/~berylgreenacre/disc0406.html
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03-09-2006 16:14
From: Gabe Lippmann
Why does a dude who broke the rules in a pretty crappy manner keep getting publicity?

Because they have the cornfield.

People who just get suspended wouldn't get the publicity.
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Lash Xevious
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03-09-2006 17:09
I love the Linden comment that it's for white-collar crimes. Is a crime white-collar for the "skill level" of the crime or just how much money the one committing it has in SL? :p

I want a blue-collar cornfield. Made to look like a giant WalMart parking lot with a busted car. And folks can only make tire donuts and listen to Celine Dion all day.
Aaron Levy
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03-09-2006 17:17
SPECTACULAR media attention there, Linden Labs. Top-notch.
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03-09-2006 21:44
It is good publicity for LL.

coco
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03-09-2006 21:55
They even mentioned the Impeach Bush guy! Politics in a science magazine!
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Torley Linden
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03-09-2006 21:59
Two things in name-particular that've constantly bugged me:
  1. capitalizing "nimrod Yaffle"
  2. mispelling "Raph Koster" as "Ralph Koster"
And the fact that James Miller wrote "My Proposal for a Resident Dispute Resolution System" over a year ago--not so recently.

I enjoyed the read and think it'll be fascinating if more private islands, with their own emerging self-governance, come up with regional means of "discipline".

I had forwarded ideas of notions in the Twilight Zone that would have been more fitting in a Stephen King story (a la Children of the Corn). Or you know, the subversive twist: corn eats people.

I am still waiting for a suburban-looking town, where it's all idyllic and folks are jovial and smiling, but they're really monsters. the lot of them.
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03-09-2006 22:46
From: Torley Linden
I am still waiting for a suburban-looking town, where it's all idyllic and folks are jovial and smiling, but they're really monsters. the lot of them.


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Selador Cellardoor
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03-10-2006 02:39
So-called cornfield. Pah! Now I'm even more sure it doesn't exist!
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03-10-2006 02:43
From: Torley Linden
Two things in name-particular that've constantly bugged me:
  1. capitalizing "nimrod Yaffle"
  2. mispelling "Raph Koster" as "Ralph Koster"
And the fact that James Miller wrote "My Proposal for a Resident Dispute Resolution System" over a year ago--not so recently.

I enjoyed the read and think it'll be fascinating if more private islands, with their own emerging self-governance, come up with regional means of "discipline".

I had forwarded ideas of notions in the Twilight Zone that would have been more fitting in a Stephen King story (a la Children of the Corn). Or you know, the subversive twist: corn eats people.

I am still waiting for a suburban-looking town, where it's all idyllic and folks are jovial and smiling, but they're really monsters. the lot of them.



Like the movie ”Body Snatchers” -?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106452/

Dident know it was a remade one.. this also exsists:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0782009980/103-4407246-4528619?v=glance&n=130


:-))))

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nimrod Yaffle
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03-10-2006 06:35
From: Gabe Lippmann
Why does a dude who broke the rules in a pretty crappy manner keep getting publicity?

That's the way it always happens. When you watch the news, it's usually bad stuff, no?
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03-10-2006 06:57
From: Torley Linden


I am still waiting for a suburban-looking town, where it's all idyllic and folks are jovial and smiling, but they're really monsters. the lot of them.



Um, you have BEEN inworld, haven't you? ;)
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All very well for people to have a sig that exhorts you to 'be the change' - I wonder if it's ever occurred to them that they might be something that needs changing...?
Lex Neva
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03-10-2006 09:37
From: Lash Xevious

I want a blue-collar cornfield. Made to look like a giant WalMart parking lot with a busted car. And folks can only make tire donuts and listen to Celine Dion all day.


Hmm, or maybe a cornfield filled with blue corn?
nimrod Yaffle
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03-10-2006 09:42
From: Lex Neva
Hmm, or maybe a cornfield filled with blue corn?

Or just have Blue Linden spend some time there with the person?
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Beryl Greenacre
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03-10-2006 14:38
From: Torley Linden
And the fact that James Miller wrote "My Proposal for a Resident Dispute Resolution System" over a year ago--not so recently.
Yeah, that seemed a bit odd to me, too, Torley. Maybe a year ago seems like a recent time period to the author of this piece, but in terms of an MMOG, that's like the equivalent to, hmmm, maybe 10 years? Even 20?

Still, it's cool to see some well-known SL personalities listed in a publication whose circulation spans a pretty broad sector of the U.S. population. (And at least there's no overt talk in this article of "make big bucks!" or "have wild, hot cyber-sex!" as so many other mainstream media mentions of SL feature. ;) )
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