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Is it just me or have I not heard anyone talk about how their appeal took a week?

Cause they aren't done yet. LOL

Nope the wiki has gone quiet, hang in there man, it must stressful.

Every time I see Gummo's name as the last poster in this threat, I think oh this poor guy, I hope he's posting to tell us he got his land swap.....but no, he's still waiting.......

anyone have the name and address to M lindens work location. I wanna send him a large plastic item of unnatural size asking him to use it next time....it'll hurt less.

I re-opened my declined ticket twice and then it was sent for a second opinion. That was on the 17th. I have not heard anything since. That's really only 2 and a bit working days ago, so I'm not panicking yet. Maybe tomorrow I will.

Now posted at http://www.slapt.me/wiki/index.php/Office_Hour_transcript_-_Blondin_Linden:_7-22-2009

I will do this when I log in, I am sure that land in that area has gone,

Hi, I can't TP on Haxness, but as you said, on the next sim west of Haxness I landed, then I moved 1-2 north, and did the long cam east:

Result: these sims are denied at the moment. No TP possible. The first sim is subdivided in parcles (A, B, C, D) but not given to someone. I also cannot TP into Metcalfe Gully, which is one of the eastern sims from your start point. There is land given to a group. Even on Uthers Tarn is land given to a group - as far as I could see both large parcels on both sims are given to the same group. So at east from your point and at slightly south-east are two large parcels given to a group. But no access possible. There are no banlines. It is just not possible to TP in via map, nor to fly in. At the moment these sims/parcels are empty. No building activities.

Interesting how this land is given out if no access to view it, unless the lindens can give certain people access as you do see green dots on those regions

Yep. There is a river and kind of a bay. If you mean this, then is land, flat slightly sandy, beach sort of land, given to a group on two sims, both sides of the river/bay zone.

One hour before I saw there 9 and 12 green points running around, all on these very south sims of Zindra, where no TP is possible. I thought these people were moles, but mostly are only 1-2 moles working and not 9-12 at one time in a relative small area. Hm.

I don't recall which, maybe it was both, but Jack or Blondin said that people could request land be brought up that is offline, that is what I/we had done. Getting access when our ticket came up for processing.

However, I do not know about the rest of the sims in this area, but I know we are still waiting for them to "finish" the land, meaning parcelling to fit and baking. Meaning we cannot yet "buy" the land. But thankfully they did turn on build so we can get a start, since we face weeks of work.

We have been fighting them to come back from whatever they are doing (I assume they are working on the hidden sims) and finish the ones they have swapped, to no avail.

The fact these sims were showing at all is an oversight on their part, one they regret, in Jack's last meeting, saying something about it, and only answering they will be ready "soon"

(Recall that Linden "soon" can be weeks or months)

Only since March? I would date it to M's speech last year that essentially said it was time for SL's pioneers to get out and make way for the corps. You can easily make a case for even earlier too (gambling ban, VAT, etc).

I also reopened mine twice...to no avail.
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This is logical true. Banning this and that, VAT, Open Space, the speeches of M. before he went into strict silence mode..., etc. was the start of all bad developements beside the usual tech issues.

But the ACP on top was able to finally motivate my cables and wires to jump out of my neck. While VAT, etc, they were only swollen, - now they are cracked.

My personal level of anger on LL is constantly high since ACP. The times before it was a roller coaster ride.

on a more positive note... and hoping things get going for everyone as they wish.
Do what you want with this. If you want a texture of it I can send it to you or screen shot it.

that is fantastic

I'd love the texture and I'll put it up as a sign on my plots.

(as a side note.. much, much envy for your ps skills.. )

Me to please its great

This is a quick promo for those of you who have moved your shop to zindra. I'm in the process of finalising the details for our first grid hunt..

**this is for shops only. This time around it's only for content creators**

What you need to know at the moment..

It will run from 22 Aug - 6 Sept

I'll be calling for applications in a couple of days time. I'm hoping there'll be a group notice through the Zindra Alliance group and that all of you who do receive it will pass it on to other shopkeepers who may not be in the group.

When I ask for the applications you'll only have a short period of time to get them in. I'm looking at finalising the list in around a week as I want to get the info sign out to everyone quickly.

I'm allowing us 3 weeks to try to get some publicity for this so it will be really good if you can help with that - even if you're not a merchant in the hunt..

Blogging, group notices or putting the sign up would all be appreciated - particularly if you're still on the mainland.

That's about it for the moment. Once I've got all the details sorted (in a couple of days I hope) I'll post again to give you a gentle nudge.

So start thinking about your gifts and the hiding places.. you can be a bit more evil with this hunt than normal.. and that's all I'm saying for the moment..

Um . . . well, THIS is interesting. This particular quote from Margaret Mead has been, since the inception of the SLLUFN in January 2009, our "motto." It is, in fact, the text that you will find in the group's description when you look it up in-world. I also used it for the group's SL6B exhibit.

I am certainly not claiming proprietorship on behalf of the group . . . you have every right to use it if you wish. But you should probably be aware of that particular existing association.

I might also ask how applicable it is? Mead DID champion new attitudes towards sexuality, but her views are mostly usually seen within the context of her feminism. Perhaps more to the point, this quote is about social activism. Is that what Zindra is "about"?

hmmm? is that spite I smell?

I'm sure we can look at replacing it. It would appear to be more appropriate to your group since of course Margaret was discredited over her Samoan analysis.

LOL, yeah. No spite at ALL in your reply, eh?

No, I wasn't being spiteful. Just alerting you and others to the fact that that quote is already being used by a group that most of you seem not to like very much. And an entirely serious question about what you see as the function of the Zindra Alliance. Is it intended to challenge "received" notions of sexuality?

Zindra Motto?

How about "We got your Rule 34 right here!"