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02/23/09
It is impossible for us to evolve or migrate to second life when we can't even stay calm driving to work.
Face it, as a human, you're naturally a self-centered fuckwad, dumb, and an asshole. The only reason you think you're smarter/better/nicer (and you're obviously not) is because delusion is the only thing keeping you alive.
Second life just magnifies this. And it shows sides of humans we don't see in real life like BDSM, furry sex, gay porn, and god knows what else. Second Life allows the normal obese, introverted homo sapien to show his true self. If you're on second life, I hope you get help.
02/22/09
Owen, Linden Lab execs have reported profitability at least since 2007:
Based on publicly known revenue sources, the company earns $100 million in yearly revenue.
I know you've visited Linden Lab since then; why are you reporting an outdated Kapor quote that distorts the situation? And what's your source for claiming education is its main market?
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02/22/09
Wow.
02/22/09
Of course, I wouldn't put an investment dollar within 100 yards of the place. Even if that money grew it would be coated in furry ejaculate and unusable.
02/22/09
As an educator, can we NOT encourage the use of that phrase, EVER, please? It's the reason that my students, when they learn that I was in scientific research BEFORE I became a teacher, ask me things like "You know so much stuff! Why don't you have an important job???"
And to keep this on-topic... who was using Second Life? Really? Because I'd be considered an "early adopter" and I never even bothered to scope it out. Academia seemed to ignore it completely.
02/22/09
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02/23/09
Oh, it's because they work for institutions that raise tuition on their students at double the rate of inflation and then encourage youngsters to go 60 to 100K in debt to get a social work degree so they can get out and make 28K?
That said, I loved my high school english teacher, so that absolves the rest of the bums.
02/23/09
Uh, and I agree with you that the state of our educational system (esp the institutions part) is fucked, but to blame it on teachers by calling them bums is the wrong way to go, buddy... wow.
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02/22/09
SL is a "failure" only is as much as it is able to be a sustained "business/commerce/finance phenomenon".
Dismissing the academic potentials of SL is kind of..well, stupid and seems to be right in line with the sort of "thinking" that helped drive the economy to the pit it's currently in.
The things that escape the business/advertising/marketing/finance sectors' interest are often the most rewarding.
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02/22/09
They should have moved the whole operation to the UK. Had they done so, they would be growing even today.
02/22/09
I would have bought some real estate there and created my own island if the surfing had been any good. There are a few places where you can actually get on a surfboard and paddle out into large virtual waves, but after an hour or so it gets pretty lame. They probably missed out on the thing that could have driven them to great success -- a launch pad for games. There is another start up out there which intends to do just that, only they plan on providing the planet earth as a platform for their partners. Want to drive your car and shoot gangbangers in Saskatchewan? You got it dude. Want to dance with leisure suit larry beside an Icelandic volcano? Check.
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I do like Rove as a net babbler, though. Maybe he'll let something slip from all the back pills and Stoli.
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01/20/09
@jrhys: How I really feel? Well, that this fucking fossil Anderson has been parading around as some kind of caustic reflection of America for 20 years when all he's ever been is a suck-up man for the rich horrors of Manhattan. His first magazine wasn't funny, and was essentially a vehicle for him to get reservations while he used that magazine to get reservations; that he presided over New York becoming fully, exclusively, for and by the rich; and that he followed it up by writing two very amateur novels about the rich.
The guy was always a hack looking for whatever Upper East Side dogbowl to eat from. Now that he's rich himself, he is that dogbowl. His very name should be struck from the record. MAD magazine invented what he did, and did it without kissing moneyed ass behind the scenes. And no one at MAD went on to run the phoniest, most wealth-worshiping garbage magazine ever.
Kurt is probably the worst person who ever managed a supposedly middle-view mag. He turned New York into Rich Fool Weekly. He's a suck-up piece of crap. That the press keeps featuring him and his bad ideas and his lame books is just further evidence of how weak it has become.
That's what I really think.
01/20/09
01/20/09
I would beg for a revolution, but everyone seems to be quite happy to have their magazines report exclusively on the rich. And when they deign to report on the poor, they send a rich white person. Kurt invented that. Someone has to end it.
01/20/09
Yeah. I just wanted to say that I agree with you.