Will Anche Chung dominate the World

The Hehe (also Wahehe) began as a number of independent chiefdoms made up of mixed people who were in some instances related to one another and are a Bantu tribe who live primarily in the Iringa region of Tanzania, numbering around 192,000, with no chiefdom over 5,000 people sharing a common language (ikiHehe) and culture. ...

Is that what you meant? I doubt it. You meant a laugh... therefore, you spoke improperly.

As a American, who speaks American english, I strive to spell without mistakes. I know certain words in American english are spelled differently in British English, like color (instead of colour), and emphasize, instead of emphasise, etc. However, these are accepted American spellings, spelled and defined in American dictionaries, and American pubishing expects the proper American spellings for newspapers, publications, etc.

Language is a fluid thing, constantly changing and evolving. 500+ years of separation between the British and Americans has caused a bit of a change in the languages, hence "proper" english in America is a different thing than "proper" english in England.

"Making up" words is hardly an improper thing to do. As I stated earlier, language is a fluid thing, and even within out lifetimes new words come along.. Back in the 60's, no one used worlds like upload, download, website, email, etc. Go back and read some middle english, barely readable, if at all, and old english, forget it. Just because I spell things minorly differently than you, doesnt make it wrong, and vice versa....

What gets my goat?

3,14159 instead of...
3.14159 )

What gets my goat is when people round pi off to only 3.14159 instead of carrying it out to at least 3.141592653589793238462643 .

When my kids were actually kids I enjoyed teaching them to recite pi and sing the alphabet song backwards and inside out.

Hehe.

She is the largest (or at least one of the largest) seller in that market arena. That could be positive, perhaps she has all customer service issues figured out due to experience. Or it could be viewed as negative, perhaps a single customer counts less than the customer of a smaller business. I never bought or rented land from her and can't judge that.

It's a question of belief I guess as in "Is there a problem with Windows XP, because it's produced by Microsoft and not by a small Linux distributor"?

Yep, most Europeans get that one wrong I wish LL would allow me to use commas as decimal separator. My prims often jump to the other end of the sim because of the inability of the Edit window to accept commas.

I'm more worried about Daniel Linden dominating the World.

To a certain extent it does.

Anshe Chung owed (at my last count) around 10% +- of all virtual land in Second Life, employs a number of virtual people, and has additional freelancers at her call.

In addition I would imagine her accounts collect millions of Linden Dollars daily.

Her business failure or withdrawal would impact on Second Life in much the same way as a major high street bank becoming insolvent in real life. In short there would be a really bad economic follow on within Second Life. I would imagine the real life economic impact on Linden Labs cash flow would also be bad news due to loss of tier.

A similar situation could possibly occur if the Ginko Bank failed. Currently according to Ginko's web site it holds $L 198,502,392 in deposits. At standard US dollar exchange rates that is about $750,000 US dollars, a truly mind blowing amount of money within a virtual bank, which many long term SL residents (which includes me) are totally unable to explain in terms of the rate of return

As far as I know Anshe's campaign of world domination has quietened down this year, her employees are no longer buying as many sims as they previously did. I've read reports that she has ventured into other games like Entropia now to increase her domininance on the vitual aconomy. Considering how much Anshe is paying for land now compared to 2 or 3 years ago, i am not suprised she is looking for more avenues of profit. In fact I would be suprised if Anshe/Dreamland is still the largest landholder in SL any more. It used to be anshe sale signs everywhere but not so much now.

I went back and had another look and both properties (both are mainland) are definitely purchase with no rental or covenant attached, and the purchase price seems below what I would consider the 'going' rate. There is a Mall nearby but it's a small one and as Mall's go; not unattractive.

I think I would tend to agree with that, I suspect there is an element of 'because she has done rather well and become something of a dominant figure she therefore must be somehow evil', which I hazard a guess at is not the case. Reading the reviews I would say there are very few that are particularly damning. I just might give the properties I viewed a serious look.

Mainland is mainland. It doesn't matter who you buy it from, once it's bought it's yours. The issues of "even after you buy the land you are beholden to the sim owner" only apply to private islands.

Incidentally, way back when we purchased the land, Lake Gnoma was purchased from Anshe. I found her "for sale" signs kinda interesting (they were more tasteful than the standard rotating red blocks) while my friends buying the land with me had never even heard of her.

Yeah.. and the metric system! Gawd!

I love these forums!

Why not? In RL there also is the belief among a certain percentage of the population that someone who has worked hard and attained personal wealth is not entitled to decide what to do with it. and should allow others to dictate where it goes.

Actually I think both are right?

Since 1776 was before English Spelling was Universally standardized?

Thus Americans dont spell wrong and neither do the English.

AT one point in history Spelling was pretty much left up to the writer.

Dont forget the Sharks with frikin Laser beams on their heads...

Is that too much to ask?

Brenda... I think people are taking this far too seriously!

*waves*

Hes even scarier than the Burger King

Anshe-bashing is so last year... or is that two years ago now?

No special rules, she was just here way before you or the Austrian Goverment. You can't have a sim named Cauntry coz she already has one. Whining now won't change that.

Dominate the world?? With interests in SL, EU, IMVU and other virtual spaces, I think she's out for domination of the entire metaverse. More power to her. She's gotten as far as she has thru smart business sense and good customer service (no doubt obtained in her previous profession as a virtual call-girl).

I often wonder if Anshe was a guy, if everyone would have so much of a problem accepting how well she's done for herself here.

Thats okay im allowed to take her serious - she steals the covers.

*Waves Back* Yes most people take everything here way too seriously. But knowing Colette as I do, it's just her way.

I agree with that, a well balenced post. And I am not on Anshe Chung's pay roll either although we do (virtually from a Second Life view point) know one another.

In addition I know Nicholas (Ginko Bank owner) too. He is either a super smart guy who has figured out a paradox, or he goes places I do not want to visit. Like many in RL financial services or the media aka Lord Black

Pie made a good point. I don't know Anshe Chung from Adam, but some people do have trouble with seeing people succeed with their endeavors, and instead of striving for their own success, whine about it.

Agreed. I've always thought that Conspiracy Theories are the easy way out, the easy excuse, for those who can't deal with complexity, or feel put upon by a reality--or virutal reality--in which they have failed.

More power to Anshe.

Now bring on the frikin' Sharks with Laser Beams on Their Heads!

High returns are always correlated with high risk. The only question is whether the risk part has been correctly quantified. As we are witnessing with the sub prime fiasco, even supposedly very smart wall street types grossly underestimated the risk in their snappily titled CDOs.

Personally I don't put my money into anything that resembles an opaque black box investment. That requires way too much trust.


As for Anshe, she had the fortuitous combination of luck, business smarts and an idea. She was successful and I say good for her.

Besides world domination isn't much fun, there's all the mundane day to day stuff such as running secret prisons for your critics and manipulating the media. Then of course there are the would be coups to deal with and unjust wars to prosecute . Why make your life harder than it is

Yes I am one of those people. I am having some intellectual problems in looking at the complex nature of what is known in Second Life as the Ginko Bank.

I hold up my hands and admit defeat. I cannot understand how Ginko as a virtual bank can return an average of around 0.1% per day compound interest to its depositors asnd may appear to have done so for several years. That amounts to around 45% per annum, a rate of return which even takes fluctuations in the Linden dollar vis-à-vis US dollar into account, and in pounds sterling represents an even bigger return.

I might also add I am an Independent Financial Advisor with around 30 years of experience

Regards

John

Brenda's humour is the one forum constant we can rely on. Well..apart from the *thread closed* and *moved* stuff which isn't so much fun.

Btw, speaking of Anshe's world domination, anybody know what's going on with the Dreamland Stock Exchange? No new IPOs yet, no dividends, no press releases, share price for the only listed company (Anshe Bank Entropia) down to 0.87. I don't mean that as a criticism. I guess there's a lot of work involved, and I'm genuinely curious about future plans for the DSE.