Second Life was immensely popular with people from all walks of life. They could visit and become who and what they wanted. It was a jointly held fantasy. Want to be a bipedal tiger or cat? No problem. Want to have sex with anyone and anything? No problem. Want to go to a club with strippers and play the slots? No problem.
People went to Second Life to have a second life, to be free of all the rules and social restrictions that made their first life so mundane.
In forcing their laws onto the onto the Lindens, real-life governments effectively sent everyone back home to Kansas. After all, if you must follow the same rules as in real life, why bother with a second version of the same dull thing?
Traffic is part about traffic being anonymous if one makes the effort. TOR, FreeNet, and anonymous proxies are vital.
Secondly, anonymous speech on the net is just as important as that of the spoken word. Secure communications between people is vital to maintaining freedom. Ask the Czech's about the importance of unhindered communication. Or, for that matter, ask the Iranian government about Twitter right now.
As long a citizenry has secure communications it has the means to eventually throw off an oppressive government. I'm not saying that all governments are bad, only that most are, and most are only interested in growing larger and controlling your life "for your own good."
I quit and went elsewhere. Admin is a thankless job where you are doubly punished for every mistake or missed deadline. The people you used to work with will gradually fade away from your sphere of close acquaintances until you have no one left. NOt to mention the speed with which your technical skills will lag behind your peers and those of newbies out of school.
IMHO, it's time to polish up your resume and bail out.
The idea of "Up or Out" is a failed policy that steals useful people from any organization's roles. It's the brainchild of some gormless git of an MBA with marginal, if any, technical skills, but unfortunately, one who believes that anyone is capable of managing and that everyone wants to.
In WWII, many shipboard radar operators were permanently sterilized by RF leakage. Don't think of it as radio waves, think of it as radiation. The tissue burn is almost the same.
In the Navy (at least in the airwing), the "Oh, shit" signal is that your belt buckle is getting warm.
Steppin Razor!. Sasha would be my choice for Molly/Sally.
Mindless needs more clarification in the context of a meat puppet. Especially since Sally wasn't stupid (mindless) and worked as a meat puppet to make enough money to score her enhancements and then went off to be a private security consultant (merc).
Characters in L. Neil Smith's series of books set in his North American Confederation used small nano computer implants. More ram, multi-threaded, multi-processors, applications...
It's not being dismissive, it's being less than enthusiastic. At least for me.
There have been so many great ideas and applications of existing technology that have failed for less of an issue, that I no longer get worked up about new ones. Too much emotional energy lost to invest without reason.
Sure, if the can of paint isn't buried in field that's been hit with artillery.
The main reason they are called "mines" is because the engineers who originally came up with it dug mines and civil projects when there wasn't a war happening.
There are a plethora of land mine types, many of which can be distributed via an air dispersal package from a cruise missile, an aircraft pod, and even from larger artillery shells. They aren't always manually buried, nor are they all subject to sympathetic detonation.
If the mine is lying under a couple inches of soil that arrived there as ejecta from a larger ground detonation, how much paint are you going to see?
I'm not poking fun at you. Experience with bang things makes one cynical about golly-gee inventions. I'll believe it when civilians aren't being maimed on a regular basis.
Your brilliant hindsight is a common flaw of youth. Displaying great wisdom when you have few facts and only one chance to do the right thing is harder than simply passing judgement on decisions made before you were born.
You'll see. Your grandchildren's generation will call you to task for missing the obvious solutions.
Had you started reading comics when you could buy them for five cents, you'd have had an easier time making sense of the story and not needed to worry about the graphics stealing your concentration. The artwork then, compared to that found in comics today could only be called primitive. This is not to say that the artists were unskilled, but rather that the medium was still, for all its color, only in its late infancy.
The graphic novels of today revel in the pure colors and glossy paper. 50-60 years ago, when they went to press with the "dick tracy" palette and stipple shading, plotlines were somewhat less complicated (stories were pretty cut and dried, good vs. evil with no shades of gray) and relied more on the text than they did on the art. The writers were passing their mores to the next generation, building a society viewed patriotism without today's fashionable disdain, without the snarky remarks about nationalism and right-wing beliefs. It was better then.
I learned to read paying a nickle a comic. I learned the 5x, 10x, and 12x multiplication tables figuring out how many comics I could get according to how many lawns or loads of trash I carted out of neighbor's basements to the alley. Yeah, times were good when I could pay a nickle for a good comic.
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Stop using it.
When the sugar companies start bitching, the congress critters will whine at obamanator to stop the embargo.
I'll have to take a peek at EO
It's long past its heyday. It will linger and wither.
Yes, it does have a tremendous number of player accounts register, but how many are active?
No, SL was fun while it ignored real life. Now? Not so much.
Second Life was immensely popular with people from all walks of life. They could visit and become who and what they wanted. It was a jointly held fantasy. Want to be a bipedal tiger or cat? No problem. Want to have sex with anyone and anything? No problem. Want to go to a club with strippers and play the slots? No problem.
People went to Second Life to have a second life, to be free of all the rules and social restrictions that made their first life so mundane.
In forcing their laws onto the onto the Lindens, real-life governments effectively sent everyone back home to Kansas. After all, if you must follow the same rules as in real life, why bother with a second version of the same dull thing?
I agree with this except for the two points.
Traffic is part about traffic being anonymous if one makes the effort. TOR, FreeNet, and anonymous proxies are vital.
Secondly, anonymous speech on the net is just as important as that of the spoken word. Secure communications between people is vital to maintaining freedom. Ask the Czech's about the importance of unhindered communication. Or, for that matter, ask the Iranian government about Twitter right now.
As long a citizenry has secure communications it has the means to eventually throw off an oppressive government. I'm not saying that all governments are bad, only that most are, and most are only interested in growing larger and controlling your life "for your own good."
Thanks for the correction. I don't know why I have that title fixed in my mind as Green Eyes.
I was lucky enough to buy them all as they were published. I wish he hadn't had problems with the publisher. I'd like to see the tales finished.
For those of you not familiar with the writings of Daniel Keys Moran, I suggest you obtain a copy of Green Eyes or The Long Run.
Once there is no way to have free, anonymous speech on the internet, there will be no arena left where one can have free, anonymous speech.
I'm not suggesting total anarchy, but a rather that such total control should be avoided at all costs.
It happened to me.
I quit and went elsewhere. Admin is a thankless job where you are doubly punished for every mistake or missed deadline. The people you used to work with will gradually fade away from your sphere of close acquaintances until you have no one left. NOt to mention the speed with which your technical skills will lag behind your peers and those of newbies out of school.
IMHO, it's time to polish up your resume and bail out.
The idea of "Up or Out" is a failed policy that steals useful people from any organization's roles. It's the brainchild of some gormless git of an MBA with marginal, if any, technical skills, but unfortunately, one who believes that anyone is capable of managing and that everyone wants to.
In WWII, many shipboard radar operators were permanently sterilized by RF leakage. Don't think of it as radio waves, think of it as radiation. The tissue burn is almost the same.
In the Navy (at least in the airwing), the "Oh, shit" signal is that your belt buckle is getting warm.
I sure as hell don't understand why you were modded to -1 troll. That was a very insightful and cogent explantation of fact.
A much better explanation than I provided. Thank you!
Steppin Razor!. Sasha would be my choice for Molly/Sally.
Mindless needs more clarification in the context of a meat puppet. Especially since Sally wasn't stupid (mindless) and worked as a meat puppet to make enough money to score her enhancements and then went off to be a private security consultant (merc).
Characters in L. Neil Smith's series of books set in his North American Confederation used small nano computer implants. More ram, multi-threaded, multi-processors, applications...
I'm ready. Open skull insert hardware here!
It's not being dismissive, it's being less than enthusiastic. At least for me.
There have been so many great ideas and applications of existing technology that have failed for less of an issue, that I no longer get worked up about new ones. Too much emotional energy lost to invest without reason.
Oh, yeah. I should have remembered. Just like the break and light tubes. Thanks for reminding me.
Perhaps, but most imaging systems are already displaying in green monotone ;-)
I also wonder how easily this stuff will be tracked on one feet? I don't think I'd want to leave any green footprints behind if I were out skulking.
Until you've walked a mile through a mine field, you can just stow your holier than thou attitude, noob.
Sure, if the can of paint isn't buried in field that's been hit with artillery.
The main reason they are called "mines" is because the engineers who originally came up with it dug mines and civil projects when there wasn't a war happening.
There are a plethora of land mine types, many of which can be distributed via an air dispersal package from a cruise missile, an aircraft pod, and even from larger artillery shells. They aren't always manually buried, nor are they all subject to sympathetic detonation.
If the mine is lying under a couple inches of soil that arrived there as ejecta from a larger ground detonation, how much paint are you going to see?
I'm not poking fun at you. Experience with bang things makes one cynical about golly-gee inventions. I'll believe it when civilians aren't being maimed on a regular basis.
I wonder if it works in the dark? It might be confusing when using night vision.
Exploded mines and artillery shells leave unburnt residue.
Me? Of course, I have. Chick's tracts were and are, always good for a chuckle. Zap, Satin Lust, Tart, FFFB, I've read them all.
Eisner's Spirit is an all time favourite. I like the pulp feel and story lines.
That effort began when Maureen O'Sullivan displayed her smoking hot body on the silver screen in a tarzan movie.
The Hayes Commission began their evil in the 30's.
But there will always be some group who wants you to think and act as they do, no matter how ridiculous there beliefs are.
Such insight.
Your brilliant hindsight is a common flaw of youth. Displaying great wisdom when you have few facts and only one chance to do the right thing is harder than simply passing judgement on decisions made before you were born.
You'll see. Your grandchildren's generation will call you to task for missing the obvious solutions.
Time makes fools of everyone.
Had you started reading comics when you could buy them for five cents, you'd have had an easier time making sense of the story and not needed to worry about the graphics stealing your concentration. The artwork then, compared to that found in comics today could only be called primitive. This is not to say that the artists were unskilled, but rather that the medium was still, for all its color, only in its late infancy.
The graphic novels of today revel in the pure colors and glossy paper. 50-60 years ago, when they went to press with the "dick tracy" palette and stipple shading, plotlines were somewhat less complicated (stories were pretty cut and dried, good vs. evil with no shades of gray) and relied more on the text than they did on the art. The writers were passing their mores to the next generation, building a society viewed patriotism without today's fashionable disdain, without the snarky remarks about nationalism and right-wing beliefs. It was better then.
I learned to read paying a nickle a comic. I learned the 5x, 10x, and 12x multiplication tables figuring out how many comics I could get according to how many lawns or loads of trash I carted out of neighbor's basements to the alley. Yeah, times were good when I could pay a nickle for a good comic.