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Second Life Shuts Down Gambling
Tech.Luver sends us to The Inquirer, which notes the banning of all gambling in Second Life. Here is the Linden Labs blog post about the change in policy, which is, to say the least, not popular. From the article: "[T]he large chunk of users that enjoyed using in-world casinos and betting Linden Dollars on events both inside and outside the game world will now have nothing left to do. Perhaps more to the point for Linden, the move will cut off the revenues earned from those owning Casino-style islands in the game, the owners of which are some of the top contributors to the Linden coffers through currency fees and land rental."
Where we will allow gambling and all other vices not available in Second Life.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Well at least they can still buy and sell genitals. If LL ever shut that down... that would be a low blow.
ccalam - acoustic versions of new songs.
I bet $100 that people will continue to gamble anyways, anyone want to bet against?
Hey! That's my sig you're smoking there!
Blizzard no longer allows you to roll for epic drops in WoW... duel flags are immediately set for all players clicking "need"
More music, fewer hits
Jesus. You really need to get a First Life.
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
It's clear that all gambling does is facilitates terrorist organizations and funds their causes. Every terrorist I know spends time on fulltilt.com taking money away from hardworking people of the world in order to build the BOMB. Now we should be vigilant to fight not only real, but also virtual terrorism.
No, Congress was confused over how the money would move through the tubes...
Bark less. Wag more.
Having sex with a puppy in SL doesn't feel, look, or smell like having sex with a puppy in real life.
Hey come on! Leave my sex life out of this! Geez, I'm not speculating about sex with rodents am I?
ad logicam Claiming a proposition is false because it was presented as the conclusion of a fallacious argument.
Don't knock it till you've tried it.
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. -- Carl Sagan
Well, that explains all the gambling and sex ;)