Control your own City without Lindens

Really if you were listening i said that a lot of people i know feel this way and i decide to post there feelings thats all got a problem sue me lol

And Linden sometimes do abuse there power, but you are new so i dont expect you too know what I'm talking about.

I'm not trying to say the Lindens are bad , but stucking up wont get you anywhere. I know you are telling me not to play, but who are you what can you do to me????????? I know the Lindens own the severs I play on, but you forget with the players to pay they dont get paid at all(Next time use your brain)

I'd like to set up a Las Vegas SL-the Lindens would probably balk at that.

Just to take to task that one particular statement -

When Congress passes laws that are tailored to the situation of one specific person - Terry Schiavo - YES, they are abusing their power and ignoring the oath of their office.

When they pass laws that are re-statements and clarifications of three other laws, YES.

When they pass laws that authorise ridiculous pay raises and pensions, YES.

When they pass laws appropriating millions for bridges that will last twenty years and see less traffic in that time than the main street of the only /town/ on the other side of the bridge? YES.

When they pass laws to justify their continued existence in a legal system that has so many codifications, expressions, delineations, refinements of law that it takes professional legal corporations to provide full legal services and not merely a single barrister? YES.

When they pass laws that make it impossible for small family-owned businesses to rebuild with their insurance money from disasters? YES.

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Aside from that - anyone who wants to run their own grid - I POINT and LAUGH at you. You have millions of dollars to throw away on a foolish capade wherein you will:
Be unable to get VC financing because you have no way to properly differentiate your product to make it compellingly attractive to consumers;
More than likely will be inviting lawsuits for creating an attractive nuisance if you do manage to differentiate sufficiently;
Will have a massive user revolt to deal with when they finally figure out that your ToS are even more unfair than LL's and you're even more unbudging in your enforcement;
Have to recruit, manage, and employ the second-best staff available (the best are, by definition, already working for LL) or have to recruit the best away;
Sign three-year data/processing center leases to have your systems housed offsite and administered by outsourced IT staff OR you can deal with the inevitable National Security letters / FBI/NSA/CIA/Bush Administration Justice Department warrantless raids /yourself/ by hosting the equipment in your /own/ premises - I'm certain your life will be so much /better/ once you're living with a gag order/ NS letter which, by definition, allows them to kidnap you and fly you to another country to torture you if they don't like the way you comply with the gag order/NS letter - AND ADMINISTER THE ONLY DEATH PENALTY IN THE CONSTITUTION without a public court review, without access to a lawyer - /so stress free/. /Every/ professional IT staffer in the USA has to live under this specter, thank you so much Bush.
DMCA takedowns!
DMCA Counter-Take-Downs!
Appearing in court case after court case as a party to trademark/copyright infringement criminal / civil cases!
I'm sorry, did you plan to actually spend time with friends and family?

But in the end, you get to have personalised promotional pens.

Really if you were listening i said that a lot of people i know feel this way and i decide to post there feelings thats all got a problem sue me lol

And Linden sometimes do abuse there power, but you are new so i dont expect you too know what I'm talking about.

I'm not trying to say the Lindens are bad , but stucking up wont get you anywhere. I know you are telling me not to play, but who are you what can you do to me????????? I know the Lindens own the severs I play on, but you forget with the players to pay they dont get paid at all(Next time use your brain)

And Linden sometimes do abuse there power, but you are new so i dont expect you too know what I'm talking about.

I'd like to print my own money in RL but the Secret Service abuses their power.

Is this possible for you to be the governor of your own city without Lindens? I mean just you no Lindens no getting bannished for no reason. Just you laws....do you want this if so use detail and explain........

I hear that some people already do have unlimited power without worry of the Lindens. ZOMG! *gasp*

MM

I'd like to print my own money in RL but the Secret Service abuses their power.

In real life, the United States Government abuses its power by printing fiat money instead of using Gold or Gold Backed Money. Even Alan Greenspan in an article titled, Gold and Economic Freedom, said, "In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation."

The amount of Gold that comes out of the ground is only about 1% per year. In total, there is about 145,000 tonnes in the entire world above ground. The ability to create new paper money out of thin air would vanish. Nearly ending inflation as we know it. The price of a house today would remain nearly unchanged 20 years from now. A radical concept if you try to say that about the price of homes in 1986 vs. 2006.

We need to get back on the Gold Standard. We are printing ourselves into worthlessness. There is one major downside, and that is the Trade Deficit. If the US was on the Gold Standard overnight and out imports exceeded our exports, guess what ends up in the hands of foreigners to make up the difference? Our Gold. Or at least a claim on our Gold. Then you gotta wonder, what happens when we export all our Gold for stuff from China like Plasma TVs and Nikes? Our garages will be full of junk and our bank accounts empty.

We have to stop the blood loss. The US Dollar is dying. Just wait until we get to the point that the Dollar is so depressed that Commodities stop being trading in Dollars and start being traded in Euros or Yen. Then demand for the Dollar will tank and all those foreigners currently holding all that paper (thanks to our trade imbalance) will dump it before it turns into toliet paper...

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Someone seriously needs a macroeconomics 101 course. There's a reason the US economy isn't backed by gold - gold is a rather cheap and plentiful mineral with a myriad of industrial uses and if it were as valuable as you think it ought to be, it could be extracted from seawater at less than market value - and if it were as widespread a backer as you think it ought to be, it would be nearly valueless. Not to mention that at the values you want, rubbing up against a gold brick is like pocketing a quarter.

We have this other - much more valuable - commodity, called Oil. Our currency isn't backed by it, however.
We have yet another much more valuable commodity - it's called LABOUR. Labour is what our currency is based on, and that's enabled by open and transparent accounting practices. If we could actually /trust/ corporations to keep the figures straight, our economy wouldn't flutter. We are exporting quite a bit of our labour to places where there are no transparent and open accounting practices, where people are paid $50 every 1.5/1.8 man-months - or less - to make anything from flat panel TV's to two-hundred-dollar shoes that no-one needs*.

That's why our economy is tanking.

For the love of all that is right in this world, please stop drivelling about gold backing and modern macroeconomics. You're confusing people and distracting them from the real issues.

*I want to take a baseball bat into every Dollar General and Wal-Mart and Target and K-Mart in the country and destroy every resin lawn ornament frog I see that no-one but batty old cat ladies thinks are necessary.

What you can't do is print notes which take the place of Federal Reserve "Legal Tender".

NORFED prints Gold and Silver backed notes which are being used in barter legally. Another system which comes to mind is eGold. No reason you could not do the same thing.