"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
Actually, an impact that size would actually 'kill the Earth', in the sense that it would likely sterilize the planet of all life. A Mars-sized impactor would recreate the magma ocean that covered the planet when it first formed. Bacteria are hardy, but none of them can live in molten rock.
LOL, there's no such thing as a 'simple' social problem. And by your argument, we should never, ever, EVER research anything new, EVER, until we've solved EVERY problem we currently face. Grand idea.
Actually, the whole 'economy is failing' issue is a hot topic among maybe 10 regular forum goers who are extremely vociferous about their doom-and-gloom scenarios. They want Linden Labs to eliminate all 'free' income for players, so that they can make USD selling their accumulated Linden Dollars (gained through stipends) to other players who, if these people get what they want, won't be able to get it any other way.
Interestingly enough, the only way he can be indirectly 'withdrawing' from his Second Life account is if he had set something up to do so before his accoun was frozen. So it seems me that he realized before he even started that this outcome was likely, and planned for it. That's really not going to look good for him in court...
I always figured the oil was just a side benefit compared to the huge, huge, fat cash injection that was going to the military-industrial complex. THAT is what the 'war' in Iraq was about.
You are totally missing his point. The fact that he's not paying the other person completely justifies the other person's respone in, not just not 'going out of their way to solve his problem for him', but going through the effort of responding as a complete asshole?
So you should never expect anyone to give up their free time to help you, but it's perfectly normal and acceptible for them to give up their free time to lash out needlessly at you. Got it.
Section 6 of the act says such a prohibition "shall not apply" to "telecommunications carrier, cable operator, computer hardware or software provider or provider of information service."
So... the law doesn't even apply to spyware, since companies that produce spyware are technically "software providers or providers of information service", no?
I don't think solar particle radiation does much to heat the Earth's lower atmosphere, so I doubt changes to our magnetic field are going to do very much in terms of the actual climate.
For the money you spend on the game you can buy real paint and brushes give it to your kid then depending how old they are take the leftover money and pay someone to clean up the mess.
You've obviously never gone shopping for oil paints.:)
Lunar dust is -awful- stuff. It doesn't matter that there's no air or wind to waft the stuff around: it's constantly getting lifted from the surface by electrostatic levitation. It sticks to things persistently. And it's wretchedly abrasive. This isn't friendly fuzzy Earth dust we're talking about here, these are billions of tiny shards of sharp glass.
I think you went into it with the wrong expectations, which may be due to Linden Labs' marketing, or perhaps simply because there aren't any other multi-user environments quite like it.
It's not an MMORPG in any sense of the world. It's basically just a virtual environment, that provides tools and a world to use them in. The only 'goals' are the ones the users feel like setting themselves.
You don't NEED to own land to build, as there are public areas provided to do so, but in order to keep items in-world on a 'permanent' basis, then yes, you'd need to buy land or rent space from others to do so. Nor do you have to spend money to create objects in-world; however, importing sounds, textures, and animations into SL -do- cost small ammounts of in-game money.
You get an allowance of sorts on a weekly(?) basis; depending on your account type it goes from L$50 to L$500 per week(?) (that could be two weeks). If you want more, you can buy it with real money (boo), or you can sell your creations, scripts, or services to other players. There are some users who have replaced their IRL income with income from Second Life, believe it or no.
Actually, it's a combination of a rather approximate analogy and taking the analogy a bit too literally.
Imagine trying to roll a bowling ball across such a dimpled sheet in zero gravity, but where the ball MUST always remain on the sheet, it cannot leave the surface.
The ball will follow the curvature of the surface, regardless of the presence of gravity.
Actually, parasitism is a form of symbiosis. Symbiosis is just a blanket term for the group of intimiate interactions between species, harmful or beneficial.
Mutualism is the case where both partners benefit from the relationship.
And this is totally pedantic and I'm not even sure if we're still on topic.:)
The only thing the new Battlestar Galactica has done is made me wish every last character would suffer a horrible, horrible, slow, agonizing death. All of them. oO;
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Actually, Einstein said:
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
Actually, an impact that size would actually 'kill the Earth', in the sense that it would likely sterilize the planet of all life. A Mars-sized impactor would recreate the magma ocean that covered the planet when it first formed. Bacteria are hardy, but none of them can live in molten rock.
You could... oh, I don't know, maybe try being a parent, instead?
LOL, there's no such thing as a 'simple' social problem. And by your argument, we should never, ever, EVER research anything new, EVER, until we've solved EVERY problem we currently face. Grand idea.
Actually, the whole 'economy is failing' issue is a hot topic among maybe 10 regular forum goers who are extremely vociferous about their doom-and-gloom scenarios. They want Linden Labs to eliminate all 'free' income for players, so that they can make USD selling their accumulated Linden Dollars (gained through stipends) to other players who, if these people get what they want, won't be able to get it any other way.
Adults are not permitted on the Teen Grid in Second Life (other than Linden Lab employees, of course).
;)
SL has about the same porn/not-porn ratio as the rest of the intarwebs, I would estimate. Just watch out: us furries are taking the damn place over.
Interestingly enough, the only way he can be indirectly 'withdrawing' from his Second Life account is if he had set something up to do so before his accoun was frozen. So it seems me that he realized before he even started that this outcome was likely, and planned for it. That's really not going to look good for him in court...
In civilized regions of the world (ie. Ontario, Canada) it's not indecent for anyone to go about topless.
I always figured the oil was just a side benefit compared to the huge, huge, fat cash injection that was going to the military-industrial complex. THAT is what the 'war' in Iraq was about.
You are totally missing his point. The fact that he's not paying the other person completely justifies the other person's respone in, not just not 'going out of their way to solve his problem for him', but going through the effort of responding as a complete asshole?
So you should never expect anyone to give up their free time to help you, but it's perfectly normal and acceptible for them to give up their free time to lash out needlessly at you. Got it.
Could this be a sort of odd anti-patent by Philips? As in, patenting the idea first, such that someone else who might actually use the idea, cannot?
And longer, more widespread droughts.
And shifting rainfall patterns.
And more powerful storms.
And rising ocean levels.
And weakening of ocean currents...
Isn't that also known as facsism?
Section 6 of the act says such a prohibition "shall not apply" to "telecommunications carrier, cable operator, computer hardware or software provider or provider of information service."
So... the law doesn't even apply to spyware, since companies that produce spyware are technically "software providers or providers of information service", no?
You do realize he's just going to cover his ears and go "La la la I don't hear any REAL science la la la!", don't you?
I don't think solar particle radiation does much to heat the Earth's lower atmosphere, so I doubt changes to our magnetic field are going to do very much in terms of the actual climate.
For the money you spend on the game you can buy real paint and brushes give it to your kid then depending how old they are take the leftover money and pay someone to clean up the mess.
:)
You've obviously never gone shopping for oil paints.
Lunar dust is -awful- stuff. It doesn't matter that there's no air or wind to waft the stuff around: it's constantly getting lifted from the surface by electrostatic levitation. It sticks to things persistently. And it's wretchedly abrasive. This isn't friendly fuzzy Earth dust we're talking about here, these are billions of tiny shards of sharp glass.
Moon dust sucks.
I think you went into it with the wrong expectations, which may be due to Linden Labs' marketing, or perhaps simply because there aren't any other multi-user environments quite like it.
It's not an MMORPG in any sense of the world. It's basically just a virtual environment, that provides tools and a world to use them in. The only 'goals' are the ones the users feel like setting themselves.
You don't NEED to own land to build, as there are public areas provided to do so, but in order to keep items in-world on a 'permanent' basis, then yes, you'd need to buy land or rent space from others to do so. Nor do you have to spend money to create objects in-world; however, importing sounds, textures, and animations into SL -do- cost small ammounts of in-game money.
You get an allowance of sorts on a weekly(?) basis; depending on your account type it goes from L$50 to L$500 per week(?) (that could be two weeks). If you want more, you can buy it with real money (boo), or you can sell your creations, scripts, or services to other players. There are some users who have replaced their IRL income with income from Second Life, believe it or no.
Do you honestly believe that these terrorist groups are targetting the United States solely because they somehow can't stand the American way of life?
Actually, it's a combination of a rather approximate analogy and taking the analogy a bit too literally.
Imagine trying to roll a bowling ball across such a dimpled sheet in zero gravity, but where the ball MUST always remain on the sheet, it cannot leave the surface.
The ball will follow the curvature of the surface, regardless of the presence of gravity.
Actually, parasitism is a form of symbiosis. Symbiosis is just a blanket term for the group of intimiate interactions between species, harmful or beneficial.
:)
Mutualism is the case where both partners benefit from the relationship.
And this is totally pedantic and I'm not even sure if we're still on topic.
"F'lar", if you're referring to the character from Dragonriders of Pern, is actually a contraction, so the ' is perfectly appropriate.
The only thing the new Battlestar Galactica has done is made me wish every last character would suffer a horrible, horrible, slow, agonizing death. All of them. oO;
Unfortunately, -very- high frequencies tend to start reacting with the interstellar medium and CMB (indirectly).