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A Real Living With Virtual Goods
RussHart writes "The BBC is reporting on a Julian Dibbell who has quit his day job to sell items from Ultima Online in the real world, hopefully making a living on which to support his wife & daughter."
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...instead of being afraid that officials'll crackdown on this and kill his livelihood?
Back in the 90's, quite a few people that visit Slashdot made a good living on virtual services. Ahh, venture capital.
Are his wife and daughter in the real world too, or are they virtual items? I have been thinking about purchasing a wife to auger my girl friend.
You now owe me a new Dr. Pepper, preferrably not dispensed through my nose.
It's the American dream!
How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life
Too bad you haven't stealed a dictionary lately.
no real-life but real goods.
Of course it runs NetBSD. BTC: 1NT7QvbetmANwaMzhpVL6
So did you. The prase is "Don't quit your day job."
BIA(Brittanian Industrial Average) plummeted today. Analysts cited over-valuation as a major cause of the sudden drop in virtual commodity prices. "Virtual Futures just aren't performing as well as most E-bay traders had hoped." ........ President Bush's invasion of Brittania for 'virtual weapons of virtual mass destruction' without UVN consent also seems to have contributed to the poor market conditions....... Two virtual traders jumped out their windows in response to the market's downward plunge, but only managed to break their ankles. "He must have thought he was in a skyscraper. Good thing he was only in our living room!"
I guess you could say the same thing about much of commercial law, the stock market,and insurance. And there is more money in all these things than in being a real producer or creator.
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SCO is trying to do that too.
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I'd like to see that on a resume'.
1996-2000 Senior account market manager, United Records Limited.
2000-2003 stock market day trader.
2003-2005 Role playing games account/item discount broker.
With all that experiance at that, you either qualify as a strategy book writer, or a 7-11 store clerk.
I feel sorry for his kid... come Christmas it'll be 'Guess what Santa's bought you - it's an IOU for a +4 Silver Sword of Burning!'
Yeah - and the traditional christmas meal of +5 fries-with-that of Arse Widening. (Arse Widening in the fat sense - not the goatsex sense!)
So did you. The word 'prase' [sic] is spelled phrase.
I forgot to mention that this closely parallels my own dream: to quit my full time job to sell porn all day. What did you say? No, I an not sick.
Put identity in the browser.
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world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Mr Dibbell would have no doubt that a crime had been committed but he realises that he might have a hard time convincing the police to investigate the theft of goods that have a tangible value but negligible reality.
SCO?
It's ALL virtual. The sooner you realise that the sooner you can stop being a slave to money.
Tell that to Chase, Wachovia, Discover, and Citibank for me will ya? I'd sure like to have my virtual credit card debt cleared. And while you're at it, do something about my student loans and car payment. Thank you, sir.
Still cannot find a girlfriend.
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Too bad he has to get a real job now to pay his bandwidth bill after being linked to by slashdot.
I'd rather be a conservative nutjob than a liberal with no nuts and no job.