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Philip Rosedale — Linden Lab

San Francisco’s Linden Lab is known for the wildly popular Second Life, which is a virtual reality game that offers users a chance to live a totally different life (or the same, if they choose) from their own. Using a self-designed avatar, residents of Second Life participate in the community by doing activities or socializing, and they can even buy property or trade services.

via Who are the next tech-geek billionaires? – Business – U.S. business – msnbc.com.

I must say the timing of this mention makes me wonder.   Is this an old article that got updated and thus got brought to my  attention, or is there something good going on regarding SL that has escaped  my attention?

Or is The Love Machine expected to take off dramatically?

So, cheer me up by voting Yes on Prop. 19.

Post-bots or spam-bots are posting repeatedly in the forums

The spam in the forums part of the Jive SBS powered blog system gives a powerful impression that no one is home at Linden Lab.  It’s like unrepaired broken living room windows in a house.

I just realized I forgot about the water I’d started  boiling for tea an hour ago or so.

Fortunately I also forgot to turn the burner on.  Crisis avoided.

The Libertarian Party is conflicted on a number of issues, which is to be expected of any political organization that doesn’t have strict ideological purity tests for membership.

One strand of libertarian thought supports non-interventionist military policy,  meaning basically that a nation’s military should never engage in aggression – it should only use force in defense against an attack on the nation’s territory.

Another aspect of many Libertarian’s thoughts on military policy is that wars should be fought only with a declaration of war by Congress, as required by the Constitution.  Adherence to this view would eliminate such things as the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

I think the Libertarian Party should  consistently support  non-interventionist military policy and place greater emphasis in its publicity on it’s support of non-interventionist military policy.  Peace supporters are still voting for Democrats, despite the  fact that that elected Democratic legislators are strong supporters of  U.S. military aggression, just like the Republican Party.  Many Libertarian Party slogans, pamphlets, press releases, etc. mention support for the free market and personal liberties but leave out the third element of the Libertarian triad, military non-interventionism.

As a user I’d like the files deleted by the uninstallation routine to appear in the Recycle Bin or equivalent OS appropriate place.  Currently they don’t appear in the Recycle Bin; they are deleted permanently, barring the use of special undelete utilities.  Having the deleted files appear in the Recycle Bin or equivalent would mitigate the effects of deletion due to user error during the uninstall process or programming error on LL’s part.

SL users, please vote for this issue and encourage others to do the same.  The chat logs it allowed restoring might be your own!

After seeing that the files were not in the recycle bin, I tried a system restore to yesterday.   That did not restore the deleted files.

There’s no reason for programs to delete files permanently like SL does.

This suggest to me that most people, deep in their hearts,  think of  people who are  citizens of a nation other than their own as sub-human.

It’s no doubt true that in many cases nation-state based bigotry is based on race  and religion based prejudice, but I think that pure nationality bigotry is a sad and very harmful reality.  Nation-state bigotry is a moral abomination,  the same as racism, religious bigotry, and other such collectivist prejudices,  but nation based discrimination is popular nearly universally.

There are  folks who claim to oppose nation-state bigotry, but few support the measures that a consistent opposition to nation-state bigotry implies,  such as  abolishing immigration restrictions, passports requirements, visas and other similar policies that impair freedom based on national origin or citizenship.

It’s a shame.

It would be useful to be able to do simple math in numeric edit fields.

Example:

An object is at postion X = 10.254.

You want to move it by 2.358 meters in the x direction.

Type “+2.358″ after “10.254″ in the object’s X position field and press enter.

The sum of the two numbers appears in the edit field and the object moves to that postion.

We can do this in the design program I use at work and I use it a lot.

There’s an old patch already written for this, created back in 2008.  Some third party viewers have had this feature for years.

I think this would benefit SL builders more than some of them realize – that is, I think that people who don’t see this as being very important would end up using it and liking it a lot.

This has 28 votes, another two or three hundred votes would be nice.

On my system, “Property Lines” in Development Viewer 2.2.1 (212233) are behaving abnormally. They are not where property lines should be.

Now it’s too fancy, with too many features I don’t need, and most importantly, takes too long to load its fancy features and makes me go through too many screens and dialogs and such to be much fun to use.

https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-6852

Description:  Choosing Advanced>Render>Axes renders the x, y, and z aves at the sim corner and places a solid white bar running vertically through the avatars. Picture is attached

Axes Bug

Axes in wrong place

Whatever happened to the old phrase “form follows function”?