Well, on the evidence presented it certainly looks like you have an Aimee Weber bug or 2 lodged firmly up your arse.” -Joe Public

I would call that an understatement!

As usual, Prok has mischaracterized my positions and lied outright about me. If anybody wants the non-cartoon version of my positions on those political issues feel free to IM me in world.

Can’t respond intelligently when faced with factual data?

Here, I’ll write it in WikkanTekkie for you:

if (facts != proksWorldView && lookingLikeADillbrainAgain)
TeenageGirlRunToBedroomStratgey();
else
refuteArgumentIntelligently();

public void TeenageGirlRunToBedroomStrategy() {
blameEveryoneElse();
createNewOrganisation();
installSelfAsElJefe();
cry();
gnashTeeth();
grabBatAndBall();
typeSillyMessageInBeegLetters();
runSobbingToBedroom();
flingSelfOntoBedAndSobIntoPillow();
bastaraaaaaaards();
getPantiesCheckedForBrainLeakage();
}

mmmm, does 10+ years, multiple continents, and living in a foreign country count at all?

Probably not to you, but it is apparently a whole lot more than your summer vacation spent in Russia which you keep going on and on and on and on about. So you experienced a foreign culture once at first hand…arn’t you just the Phileas Fog of the 21 st century!
And now we get your Prokofy’s “Economics for Dummies” as the result?

“I don’t have to go to somebody’s brother-in-law I went to high school with or am in the same political party with, and then pay them $100 to get my papers handled.”

Perhaps not, but don’t go holding America up as a shining light of business ethics just yet. Let’s see some recent examples: Enron, and Tyco for starters …how many ordinary people have lost their life savings here? I suppose they are just Losers with a captial L in your book?

Transparancy in contract bidding process? Halliburton et al (how many bids did they compete against for those iraq/disaster contracts?) Some “slight” overcharging issues with their bills, too, apparently.

Political lobbying: Tom Delay’s recent concpiracy indictment. Hasn’t he built the ultimate politcal machine!

No cronyism in america. Hah! Do you understand at all how the VC industry and Wall street investment banks work hand in hand to manipulate the IPO process and quick flip their generous pre-allocated portions? Go and study the tech wreck 2000 dillbrain. Gaunxi is as an important part of american capitalism as it is in china, though by another name (gekkoxi?) South Korea’s chaebol and Japan’s keiretsu/zaibatsu are different systems of economic partnerships which also no dount have american analogues tuned to the American way of doing business.

Spare me your simplistic childish view that the American version(s) of capitalism is the purest example of free market expression for the worlds “Tired, hungry, and poor”…it is just one hydra varient that has as many systemic issues and problems rooted in basic human self interest and greed as the souk where you haggle over the price of a carpet.

If you think that america is the only country evolving in terms of business ethics and honest (relatively speaking) open transparent transacational systems of business you are sadly deluded and even more arrogant than I imagined.

and wtf is that last para about stalking? There is no reference anywhere to what you are talking about. It’s a rather lame way of promoting the “New Continent Pioneers” don’t you think?

“As always, I’m vindicated merely by the fact that I’m not afraid to put my avatar’s name here – and you are.”

Not really…I just get more of a kick watching you trying to figure it out…and the lame assumptions you keep making about my life experience make it all the more fun!

Don’t get your undies in a twist…

I find it so deliciously ironic when you go on about “lecturing and hectoring”, because that is all you do! And you expect us to all just fall in place and salute – “Herr Prokofy, show us the way!”

Let me explain something to you, you raging fucktard. No one person in this universe is right about everything, and this is the core of the issue that most people have with you. You are a self feted, narcissistic asshole who behaves as if every single malcontented thought radiating from that vodka soaked brain of yours is some profound truth. Well they aren’t, and 90% of what you say is hypocritical doublespeak.

You are obsessed by these online worlds, it abundantly clear that you spent an unhealthy amount of time shaking you fists at the monitor, singling out and attacking people,

THIS is a free press? Bwahahahahahaha! That’s the funniest thing I have heard in a long time! Oh dear prokofy, it’s nice you can make me laugh at times, but unfortunately, it’s always when you don’t intend humor!

Free press my ass. It’s a blog. A blog where we are “moderated for spam” in our posts! Yeah right, “spam”! We are reviewed for content. Your slavering loyalty is showing again prok.

You do talk to yourself in the third person, just take a look at that roundtable transcript you added your insipid, vapid comments to. Its fucking weird man.

As far as my traveling goes you brickheaded, arrogant imbecile, I have been to every contint and subcontinent. I have been in nearly every one of the United states. I have lived and studied abroad.

As for the rest of your post, it’s all the same rhetorical claptrap, and I won’t be bothered to comment on it, because that wasn’t what i wanted. What I wanted was to get you to right yet another one of your obsessive pseudo intellectual posts, and it’s worked like a charm.

Vindicated my ass. That’s like saying that when an anonymous emailer on Bill O’Reilly’s show rights in and hands him HIS idealogue ass, that Bill is vindicated. Think again you mouldering stinkpot.

You know what you sound like? (DUH!) Like a Leftist leaning Napolean Dynamite with a thesaurus. Fuck off you nerd.

The Lindens own the world and the Lindens run the world.

And up to now (they have made some advances and some promises to change), they have just selected whoever they wanted to to receive any advantages or benefits they have to pass out..

This happened in the case of Wells Fargo, and in the case of GOM (they approached them, not the others), and in many other ways large and small.

Capitalism is what it would be nice to get TO.

coco

I don’t want to help shatter the world of illusions any further, but I feel it my civic duty to do so.

1) As a former journalist myself, I can tell you, The press ain’t free. The press is inherently a political beast, from the time of Jefferson on. The way the press worked in the 1800′s was if you had money you could have a voice. That hasn’t changed. What has changed however is the fact that most major media in RL are now owned by no more people than could fit in a Denny’s or a Waffle House and have chairs for breakfast. They decide the editorial tilt, what they want to lobby for, demonize or campaign about. The media is a machine now that propogates the illusion of freedom but instead is feeding you “Freedom according to our owners”

2) Congressional Hearings are usually very -feel-good- actions. We need to look into video games cause they’re violent (Because our constituents think it is important). We have hearings about appointed judges (Because we can’t let the majority just steamroll us even though they will get their way). We have hearings about price gouging on gasoline (Because people are outraged about this and we can make it look like we’re doing something about it). We have hearings about steriods in sports (because it makes us look self-righteous). None of these accomplish much of anything, do they?

3) Good Practices, huh? Remember $250 toilet seats and hammers on the government books? Remember the appointment of the FEMA head who was a Bush-baby good’ole boy who had no real background in disaster relief. New Orleans loved that appointment by best practices.

Get used to the fact money talks and if you’re friends with money it helps you get the chance to walk, in RL and in SL too. They say SL is not a game, per se. They’re right, but they’re also wrong. An evolutionary economy is patterning itself after the real one.

The Stagecoach job was just handed out…the feted one in this case just feted 20 others without really opening it up in any way to bids or even scrutiny (until Eggy leaked the list). Um, yeah, we realize “such is the way of the world” and absent any kind of free press, Congress, or courts, we *question it* and *that’s ok* in a free society. I question it not because I resent not having a panty store of my own, I’ve done quite well in life without it thank you very much LOL, but because I really have to wonder if these are really the *best* panties and if those who *do* make panties — and really excellent ones! — are also going to get a crack at this lucrative big business.

I guess you haven’t traveled around the world much. In some societies, to do business, you have to have huge amounts of bribery money at the ready, and also be willing to fill out paperwork from phalanxes of bureaucrats, each of whom has their hand out –having “blat” or connections in Russia is hugely important even to accomplish basic daily functions. There are some societies where you have to sit hours in the marketplace or the tea houses talking, bargaining, checking each other out, etc. In America, the culture is different, and it’s made up of all the people from these *other cultures* *fleeing them* and making *something different* which is more open and public and available, so that if I want to form a corporation, I send a standard piece of paper I can get off the Internet now with a standard fee to Maryland or whatever, and register my business as the first step — I don’t have to go to somebody’s brother-in-law I went to high school with or am in the same political party with, and then pay them $100 to get my papers handled.

Given that Philip is fiercely determined to protect the privacy of private islands (as seen by his answer to me in the WA the other night), holding the privacy of a Coke to be the privacy of a mom and pop prefab store, then he and he alone will be the gatekeeper between the businesses that come into SL, and their interaction with residents who might help them build their little corporate dreams on their islands. The vision of the world where certain people get to have the cool kitanas and the cool Black Sun Club with the cool stuff in it, and the rest of us walk around in gray avatars unable even to see the cool stuff, is taken straight out of “Snowcrash”.

I fail to see how I “talk in the third person” or “talk to myself” or “respond to myself” on my blog. Huh? Perhaps you’re accusing someone who writes there of being my alt? I don’t use alts on my blog, I’m not ashamed or afraid to be my SL identity like some are *cought*. If there’s somewhere on my blog where I write something like “the Prok phenom” or something, that’s just analysis, that’s not some persistent “talk in the third person” — I’d challenge you to find links.

It’s funny that this stalker has such a dearth of a second life that they have to sit in the game and study my profiles and find organizations I’ve formed like New Continent Pioneers, which isn’t very active and whose main purpose was to get the Lindens to put in more telehubs in the new continent. I think we can declare a victory on that one.

As always, I’m vindicated merely by the fact that I’m not afraid to put my avatar’s name here — and you are.

Prok sounds more like a socialist all the time. He claims to love capitalism, yet can’t stand the way capitalism works! Nor does he understand its workings.

Note: Had Prok gotten into SL a couple years ago, we wouldn’t be here talking about this right now.

Hint: It’s called envy driven hypocrisy, with a very heavy dose of extreme narcissism. The way he self fetes is just pathetic. Talking about himself in the 3rd person. Responding to himself in the 3rd person. Even THANKING himself in the third person on his blog. If it weren’t so downright creepy, pathetic, and sad, it would be hysterically funny.

He gets all gushy and gooey with himself when talking about being a “new continent pioneer” and the like, wanting so desperately to be a pioneer of something, all the while hyperventilating when every time someone else, usually an older player than he, does the same…

Kisses -n- Hugs Prok, you really need them, by the wagonload apparently.

Come on Prok, your next 10,000 word entry awaits! Surely my 8 little paragraphs should keep you busy for a while!

Don’t forget to stop by Walgreens tomorrow, I think your scrip is ready!