Op/Ed: Our Responsibilities As Avatars
by Alphaville Herald on 13/09/10 at 2:27 am
A Six Part Manifesto To Save Second Life
by JS Uralia
The Linden Lab economy is collapsing, with the market value of Second Life’s stock down over 35% since May, according to SharesPost. If we avatars are to survive, we must exercise good citizenship and socially responsible corrective action to remedy this situation at once, because our very existence may be at stake. We can and must act to fix the Second Life economy – now!
First, we must make sure that all avatars have a high standard of living, which means access to sufficient income and quality medical care without excessive income inequality. Imagine if a Linden in charge of backing up your data were to fall ill. Wouldn’t you want Linden Lab to be able to pay for covering their work and for the ill Linden staff member to have access to the best medical care?
Recent applications of epidemiology techniques to economic, medical, and quality-of-life data performed by the Equality Trust (equalitytrust.org) have proven that there is a root cause of more than twenty-five social and medical ills: income inequality, measured by the Gini coefficient. An avatar income tax should be established with a very large 0% tax bottom bracket, covering at least 60% of those with the smallest incomes, and top brackets set so that the top 5% of income earners (including groups and corporations) bear most of the burden. In fact, the top tax bracket rate for groups should be even larger than that of individual avatars to keep corporate power in check.
Second, we must demand that in-world power be derived entirely from renewable energy. Not only must Linden Lab contract for wind energy to power the servers, but the Linden Public Works agencies must insure that there is a sustainable amount of simulated wind power to operate all in-world simulations.
Yes, windmills may be an eyesore, but they aren’t as bad as a giant refrigerator. Moreover, Linden Lab must insure that heavily subsidized plug-in hybrid automobiles and spacecraft are available to avatars.
Ideally, such vehicles should be accompanied by double precision floating point, high level and easy-to-use quaternion operations, and square bracket-based list access in LSL, so that larger vehicles powered by renewable energy will be feasible. Regions with insufficient renewable power resources must pay the price with a slowly (at first!) increasing water table level, and occasional flood and extreme weather damage in regions that have damage enabled.
Third, we must demand universal health care coverage; for not only Linden staff and Linden Lab contractors, but also the communities in which they live. Since most Lindens’ communities are in the United States, I recommend healthCare-now.org, MedicareForAll.org, and PNHP.org. Without education and action, there is no solution, and we have a responsibility and an obligation to support the existence of those who support our existence. Not many people realize that the costs of global warming mitigation take money from health care.
Fourth, we must demand an immediate refinancing for all parcel owners who owe more on their parcels than they are currently worth, or who are behind on their parcel payments. The extent to which they are underwater or delinquent must be corrected by inflating the money supply. However, we must take care to insure that land dealers’ bonuses are not adversely affected, or they may oppose such a solution.
Fifth, we need to enhance translation systems, including voice-to-voice translation. Without an asynchronous voice audio API there is no way to connect Google Voice Translate to Second Life. Schools and universities that run open sandboxes and open instruction should be subsidized by the progressive income tax.
Sixth, all avatars banned for nonviolent offenses should be granted amnesty. The prison industrial complex in Linden Lab security is stealing money from the new resident teacher corps in a clearly unsustainable fashion.
If you want to help, please tweet @philiplinden and @mkapor asking them to support this plan with the message "Support the #SecondLife economic stimulus plan at http://alphavilleherald.com/2010/09/our-responsibilities-as-avatars.html". Please don’t forget to follow both of them to see their replies.
If you are interested in learning more about the real life recommendations upon which these are based, please see: http://3.ly/usabudgetitems Thank you for doing your part to ensure our mutual continued existence.
LOLWUT
Sep 13th, 2010
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Observer
Sep 13th, 2010
Houmor aside if LL really wants to set things straight they would run a 90 day amnesty program and let everyone that registered under false credentials come clean and get their real info on file without being banned. After all it was LL that fucked up in 2006 with the data breach that caused people to not want to trust LL with their real identities.
Oh but that last build made shit flicker so let’s default windlight on to cover up the fuckup. Who am I kidding. When the dev lead of LL is going to suggest covering up a fuckup instead of finding the cause and correcting it then wtf should anyone expect of these people at LL?
Toni Perrin
Sep 13th, 2010
You have got to be kidding. I’m trying to get away from this crap and your bring it into my past time my escape for the real world?
Why would I care if Second Life survives if I have to deal with the same shit in SL that I have to deal with in RL.
Oh BTW shouldn’t all Avies be entitled to Universal Health Care too why just the Linden Staff? And what about welfare benefits for those Avies that got married and had babies and then their partners left?
How about Tier assistance for those that can’t afford to pay their tiers?
To quote Charlie Brown “Good Grief”
Edna
Sep 13th, 2010
You can thank George “double-ya” Boosch for running this country into the ground. With the state of our economy Linden Lab is lucky they’ve lasted this long. It won’t be long now, Citibank just used some of George’s bail out money to gas up their fleet of U-Hauls. Word is they are on their way now in a convoy to repo the Second Life servers.
Xah Lee
Sep 13th, 2010
what a bullshit. Since when alphaville became rl political platform? if i want politics, US left-wing or right-wing, i can go to appropriate places with more pertinent arguments.
Toni Perrin
Sep 13th, 2010
Edna you really need to stop drinking the Kool Aid. You can possibly be so ignorant to think our problems all occurred in the prior 8 years. Do you really think the Dems had nothing what so ever to do with any of it?
Besides when is the Obama Adminstration finally going to take ownership of the job they were hired to do? When you change jobs does your new employer give you 2 years to take ownership of your job? I don’t know about you , but I get 3 months.
Enough with the blame Bush shit already it is OLD!
a furry
Sep 13th, 2010
Now we have a [elided] as president who won’t do anything except raise taxes and stuff.
lawdylawd
Sep 13th, 2010
Oh ffs. You know why the US failed?
Because Bush failed.
Because the people who voted for him failed to realize this. Twice.
Because Obama fails.
Because his voters failed to see beyond his vs and skin colour.
Because the wars failed.
Because everybody failed to see the wars for what they were and failed to make clear that DO NOT WANT.
Because the US fails as a government, as a people, as a country, as a nation.
And you all fail to realize the rest of the planet has had enough of your shit, and fail to realize the former hero has fallen from grace and has become the laughing stock of the world.
And finally, because you fail to understand this article IS NOT ABOUT YOU.
lawdylawd
Sep 13th, 2010
Obamas vs =bs. Because my phone spellcheck fails. (Yes, because it’s an American phone.)
Jayd3n
Sep 13th, 2010
Some of this I can understand. I blame Skills Hak, for his copybot defense system, which made me and everyone else quit buying money in Second Life.
I Blame the Oil Spill, and Obama as well, but mostly the residents of Second Life.
We ourselves are destroying Second Life no one else. Its dumb people who do not understand why no one wants to play on their servers, or give them money, and that is simple.
With all my posts + everyone elses posts on Herald, and many other blogs against Second Life, MMORPG gamers want to play Second Life now, there is evidence of privacy violations, Copybot, which LL cannot control, and who wants to come create and be part of that? Until Linden Lab takes some of the actions I have said including restricting UUID from being used in scripts unless the item is in object inventory, and other people from being able to drop textures on to full perm skins copybot exploit our economy is just going to continue to fall, and sl will die.
I have seen the L$ Prices today $4.03 USD thats really sad.
Gundel Gaukelei
Sep 13th, 2010
The interest based economy is doomed to periodic fail.
Max
Sep 13th, 2010
Bush Co. screwed the US over with spending, two wars, deregulation, housing bubbles and financial collapse. Obama came in with the house of cards already collapsing. His Administration is still to blame for continued bail outs and other bs, but he didn’t exactly come into a healthy situation. Anyone in his place, regardless of color or party, would be screwed just as badly. Besides, the Govt is just a paid front for the mega ‘too big to fail’ corps. They call the shots, they run the Fed, they print the money out of thin air and then ‘lend’ it out to everyone lol. Ponzi scheme anyone? It’s funny money folks.
The Second Life economy isn’t growing because the world economy is stalled, and also because their pricing scheme is old school. They make their true money on Tier, but people have been giving up islands left and right because they cost an arm and a leg. You can have a new car payment for the monthly on a virtual island. If LL pulls it’s golden thumb out of it’s ass long enough, they might realize that a major price adjustment is in order. As for the Linden Dollar economy, don’t blame LL specifically for what people pay for. A lot of merchants give their stuff away super cheap, because there is so much competition. You can get a lot more for a little now. There is no ‘control’ over what people charge, so competition simply drives itself into the ground. The only way to prevent that would be to have LL control pricing, which they cannot do at this stage of the game.
Orca Flotta
Sep 13th, 2010
SL is fantastic!
Philip Rosedale is a visionary! And he had the guts to make his vision a reality.
BUT …
LL as a company sucks big time. They haven’t noticed that, although LL is an American company, SL is a international world and so LL have to play on a international playing field. And for that they are, simply put, too weak. LL are not playing in the same league as most of its customers. They are not capable of meeting the customer’s demands.
Forcing VAT on international clients = FAIL!
Forcing american PG/adult rules onto their clients = FAIL!
Ignoring customer’s wishes and complaints = FAIL!
Not caring about maintenance of their own product = FAIL!
Always coming up with new, but unwanted, non-working features = FAIL!
Firing 1/3 of your workforce when you really could need an additional 100 employees = FAIL!
Glenn Beck
Sep 13th, 2010
You know who else wanted free healthcare, a graduated income tax, and a giant refrigerator?
…Hitler.
IntLibber Brautigan
Sep 13th, 2010
JS Uranus,
I’m with Glenn Beck. I hope the manifesto is a joke, cause anybody who thinks any of this stuff is a solution to anything is themselves a joke. The problem with SL is the past three years of creeping busybody attitudes, gestapo politics, demands for zoning and ban-an-economic-activity-of-the-day. But most of all, SL is screwed because its main offices have been located in three of the most socialist regions of the planet: San Francisco, Boston, and Brighton. They may have closed the Brighton office and cut off the source of the IngSoc infection, but they imported two of the worst pathogens, Jack and Harry, to the home office.
Second Life was most successful when it embraced unrepentant, unapologetic, free-wheeling laissez faire free market anarchocapitalism. The poison apple was “Big Six” community standards, especially the offensively broad “broadly offensive” limits on free expression, as well as the welfare state system of stipends and a poorly implemented dwell/traffic ranking system that created the phenomenon of camping and the twin evils of a welfare-queen sense of entitlement in residents as well as an artificial market for creation of bots.
Pappy Enoch
Sep 13th, 2010
Hoo-whee. You done pushed some Objectionabilist Any-Rant, John-Boy Galt Librarian buttons wif this-here Leftist manyfisto. Them Librarians am such easy targets, and SL am thicker wif them than horny preachers at a school-gal revival meeting.
I will sign up but I gots one problem:
“Sixth, all avatars banned for nonviolent offenses should be granted amnesty. The prison industrial complex in Linden Lab security is stealing money from the new resident teacher corps in a clearly unsustainable fashion.”
Hold on there a cotton-pickin’ second. I liked jail. Them fellers fed me rite good. I are thinking o’ goin’ back, too. I don’t mind bein’ top dawg cause last time they done stuck me in a Gal’s prison anysohow.
So cain’t I just vote on reforms number 1-5?
Glenn Beck
Sep 13th, 2010
@IntLibber
You know who else thought this was a joke?
…Hitler.
roffel
Sep 13th, 2010
Wait, intblub is *hoping* this is a joke? Seriously dude, look and lol at the first two parts. Healthcare for avatars and hybrid vehicles in world.
Good god man its a miracle you can remember to breathe at all. How’s that lolsuit going?
IntLibber Brautigan
Sep 13th, 2010
Roffel,
Dude, I am unsure only because I’ve regularly seen similarly idiotic demands from leftist groups in SL for years. Leftism and insanity are commonly hard to distinguish from each other simply because both are irrational.
Miss J
Sep 13th, 2010
well at least it isn’t a emerald post.
Xah Lee
Sep 13th, 2010
ok, i’ve been fooled. lol. Nice one.
Herold Omega
Sep 13th, 2010
Lol at what happens when AVH runs out of things to write about.
Spitfire Clary
Sep 13th, 2010
Oh fuck it, copybot and troll.
Lets destroy SL.
Lets all thank Hazim for bringing us copypot.
Spitfire Clary
Sep 13th, 2010
Everyone join me on a griefing raid using Inertia.
Spitfire Clary
Sep 13th, 2010
@Glenn Beck who cares.
Eh
Sep 13th, 2010
Toni said:
“You have got to be kidding.”
…and should have stopped there.
Persephone Bolero
Sep 13th, 2010
@Max “Bush Co. screwed the US over with spending, two wars, deregulation, ”
Bush was not a deregulator. This is flat false information.
“Some people still seem to think Republicans take a hands-off approach to regulation, probably because the party is always quick to criticize the burdens regulations place on businesses. But Republican rhetoric doesn’t always match Republican policy. In 2007, according to Wayne Crews of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, roughly 50 regulatory agencies issued 3,595 final rules, ranging from boosting fuel economy standards for light trucks to continuing a ban on bringing torch lighters into airplane cabins. Five departments (Commerce, Agriculture, Homeland Security, Treasury, and the Environmental Protection Agency) accounted for 45 percent of the new regulations.
Since Bush took office in 2001, there has been a 13 percent decrease in the annual number of new rules. But the new regulations’ cost to the economy will be much higher than it was before 2001. Of the new rules, 159 are “economically significant,” meaning they will cost at least $100 million a year. That’s a 10 percent increase in the number of high-cost rules since 2006, and a 70 percent increase since 2001. And at the end of 2007, another 3,882 rules were already at different stages of implementation, 757 of them targeting small businesses.
Overall, the final outcome of this Republican regulation has been a significant increase in regulatory activity and cost since 2001. The number of pages added to the Federal Register, which lists all new regulations, reached an all-time high of 78,090 in 2007, up from 64,438 in 2001.”
Whole thing here: http://reason.com/archives/2008/12/10/bushs-regulatory-kiss-off
The typical response to this is to say that, since Reason is very honest in its target of a libertarian demographic, then it’s a “biased” news source. Of course, that’s just an ad hominem attack. Rather than any of that nonsense, if you have a response, challenge those numbers or their interpretation. The source is irrelevant. The numbers are true and accurate.
Fact is, Bush’s policies had NOTHING to do with free market principles. He’s a corporate cronyist, which is a marriage of corporations and government that undermines true free competition and leads to the mega-corporation phenomenon today. Regulations have continued to destroy the economy under Obama. He did nothing to change this process. He’s just friendlier to a different set of special interests.
True deregulation would result in lower prices, better goods and services, and an increase in the standard of living for everyone. Simply put, freedom works.
But try as you might to claim otherwise, Bush was NOT and most Republicans have NEVER BEEN deregulators. They’re just big government conservatives giving the free market lip service.
Nelson Jenkins
Sep 13th, 2010
@ Spitfire Clary, Spitfire Clary, and Spitfire Clary
I like triple posting too!
Nelson Jenkins
Sep 13th, 2010
@ Spitfire Clary, and Spitfire Clary
I like triple posting too!
Senban Babii
Sep 13th, 2010
I have no idea what this article is even about.
However just yesterday I managed to find three more Linden Bears.
Persephone Bolero
Sep 13th, 2010
@IntLibber “I am unsure only because I’ve regularly seen similarly idiotic demands from leftist groups in SL for years.”
I had the same problem here. There are plenty of leftists who really believe this crap. I was pretty sure it’s a parody, but liberals are often a parody of themselves. So, I had to wonder.
Kiddoh
Sep 13th, 2010
@Spitfire Clary: I have reported you to the internet police for trying to copybot and grief using Inertia as well as swearing on the internets as it is a huge offense punishable by the removal of your megabits.
Jayd3n
Sep 13th, 2010
Here is the thing. Copybots are not against the Law, It is what you do with them that makes it legal or not, such as when you steam someones work, otherwise you may use one, and the only result you may get is a ban from Second Life, or from someone elses land.
Also Everyone has the Inertia source code, it is given to hundreds of copybots, even I have it, so there will be no shutting it down, it is also used in new Neil, Cryo, F Life, SLPE, and all other new copybot clients.
Copybotting. IF I stole someones work using .XML format, and sent it to friends to be re imported over the internet, it is not illegal. Here is why.
Under U.S Law courts require innocent until proven guilty, if that file does not have my name on it, all records are erased,such as using a proxy to upload to a torrent site ect. Then there is no proof, and copybotted items use a Linden Lab exploit to use original creators uploads + Change name of creator on the object, skin, clothing ect. There is no proof leading back to the copybotter, and everything that is technically stolen remains on LL servers, No data other than Keys is transfered to the users computer, and numbers, which also makes it not illegal. By Law.
If Linden Lab blocked this exploit, and fixed it so keys could only be used if the item animations,sounds,or textures were in objects inventory to be used in LSL, then the copybotters would have to re upload to Second Life, which would be illegal, would get them banned faster, and would be proof, therefore a lawsuit could be filed, but until then there is no point going after a copybotter.
I hate copybots, and no matter what I cannot stand to be in a group with them. I myself was in a group in GOR with a group full of copybotters without knowing it, Sisters OF Hura/Smiggs, and all their allies ripped skins from many creators, copybotted my entire avatar off of me, my own creation, using these exploits I have said, and I abuse reported them, they are still in Second Life today. No matter what I will always see this is wrong even though certain methods cannot be dealt with by Law, as there is no proof.
Nelson Jenkins
Sep 13th, 2010
@ Jayd3n
So, what you’re saying is if someone has a master car key (or any kind of lock key) they can give it to other people to steal cars and it’s not illegal because their name isn’t on it? Wow, talk about logic.
Alyx Stoklitsky
Sep 13th, 2010
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Glenn Beck
Sep 13th, 2010
@Spitfire Clary
“who cares.”
…Hitler.
Also you forgot a question mark.
Orca Flotta
Sep 13th, 2010
OK, I really believe the OP was a joke. Healthcare for avies??? Geeze, don’t you know our avies are virtually unbreakable? We can breath under water and survive falls from multiple thousand meters height. We don’t need no fuckn healthcare. And so on.
What really makes me angry tho are some of the responses: From under what kind of fugly ultraconservative (fail in itself) rock did you guys crawl out of?
People still talking about socialist places (in UK and US of all places) and confusing socialists and liberals can’t be taken serious. Still they won’t stop spitting their vitriol fascist propaganda onto non-existant enemies.
You guys, you are the enemies!
Jayd3n
Sep 13th, 2010
@Nelson, Well pretty much, this is the internet, and Rules 1 & 2 Apply, also Rules OF The Internet.
While it is against the SL TOS to use a copybot viewer, or commit thefts, it is using a Linden Lab exploit, which they refuse to patch, and its just like cheating any other game. Yes you can be banned, and I agree it is wrong, but at the same time, if a creator were to take a user to court, they would have to prove wrong doing in a court or law, and there would be nothing to prove on the users hard drive other than copybot viewers which anyone can get, and Files which are downloaded to a users cache by Linden Lab everyones content is saved on each users pc who can see it in world.
Real Life is different, but some rules do apply. Car thieves as you say, No its not right to steal cars, but if someone is sneaky enough gets away with that car, gives it fake Numbers, and or gets it across the border, gives it a paint job and hides it with no witness, or anything, they can pretty much strip its parts and use the car. No witnesses no proof.
This is just how Real Life is and it sucks that people have to do such, but good lawyers get guilty people off all the time, or they throw out the court case due to lack fo evidence. And honestly im quite sure the FBI knows about Copybot in Second Life, they just are not going to really care because Linden Lab refuse to do anything to patch or seal these, its their security. Now if people were downloading the images, violation of copyrights, sharing these actual images on the internet for download where everyone could see them. Then its a crime considering that they have Real Life trademark and such. SL Copyrights may automatically apply in SL, but they do not apply outside of Second Life under certain parts.
For Example.
http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-general.html#mywork
So basically a persons work is automatically protected, but proving this in a court without proof of registration can really be hard. Also the little Copyright Logos on copybotted skins can easily be removed, change the color of the skin, change a few details, slap your copyright on it, re upload, and problem solved. No Proof, and should they DMCA report you in sl, you simply counter DMCA, and the result they have to take you to court, and that would be again hard to prove unless the person was asked in a court to prove their skin designing skills and such.
In other words since SL is open sourced, and Linden Lab is allowing users to use any keys they want to, Everyones work is open sourced unless you own legal copyrights on it in the real world, but still anyone can still steal your work, and change it so much that it can no longer be proven as yours. There are hundreds if not thousands of items creations in sl a week.
Also Creators cannot copyright basic prims, or Shapes. These are part of the Second Life system by default, this may not apply in SL, but outside of SL. Textures,Sounds,Animations, Sculpties are the only things that can be copyrighted, and selling any of these full permissions is just that giving them full permissions unless the person signs a legal agreement before purchase, no notecard in a box TOS bullcrap, and all those creators in Second Life who re create things like Star Wars, Na’vi Avatars, I seriously doubt they could claim copyright over these in the real world, and if you look at it they are kind of guilty as content thieves because they are stealing another persons creation ideas and sticking them in SL making profit off of these sells, and other people hold RL Trademarks.
These are just the facts of SL, and I do not agree with all of these because I think that theft is wrong, but LL is doing nothing to stop it, plus half of their development team si gone, Abuse reports, and Support Requests also take longer to get a response to now.
Roffel
Sep 13th, 2010
“I am unsure only because I’ve regularly seen similarly idiotic demands from leftist groups in SL for years”
health care for AVATARS
hybrid cars IN SL
NOBODY is that retarded. Well, there’s got to be exceptions for everyone.
I will repeat again:
HEALTHCARE for *AVATARS*.
HYBRID CARS in *SECOND LIFE*.
I dont know about you but I have never had to take my pixelhummer to the gas station.
Roffel
Sep 13th, 2010
Persephone, you too. Missing a chromosome or something? The fuck.
Roffel
Sep 13th, 2010
“Rules 1 & 2 Apply,”
How are “do not talk about /b/” and “Do NOT talk about /b/” related to this?
Persephone Bolero
Sep 13th, 2010
@Orca “vitriol fascist propaganda” and “You guys, you are the enemies!”
Yes, confusing socialist with liberal is a rather hyperbolas. So is confusing conservative with fascist.
Nelson Jenkins
Sep 13th, 2010
@ Jayd3n
Newfag, rules 1 and 2 only apply for raids.
Nelson Jenkins
Sep 13th, 2010
@ Roffel
It’s people like you that make me question if anyone knows the definition of the word “sarcasm” anymore.
At0m0 Beerbaum
Sep 13th, 2010
tl;dr:
shoot floppy dick guns at each other while rome burns.
Persephone Bolero
Sep 13th, 2010
@Roffel “Persephone, you too. Missing a chromosome or something? The fuck.”
Thanks for demonstrating the acumen of your typical liberal.
Edna
Sep 13th, 2010
@ Orca
- The European government forced LL to charge VAT. I’m sure LL would rather not have to bother with it.
- LL also has no choice but to follow US law in respect to “forcing American PG/Adult” rules on users regardless of the user’s country. The servers are in the US and thus operate under US law. You can thank the Bible thumping, doctor murdering, hospital bombing, racist, gay lynching American Tailiban (known as the republican party here in the USA). When they aren’t busy forcing homosexual acts on their underlings or “pleasuring” strangers in public toilet stalls, they lobby and force laws that attempt to grow the government so large as to have it control every citizen, right down to monitoring what we do in our bedrooms and surf on the net.
By the way, F – LeBron.
Friend of all
Sep 13th, 2010
Gtfo Spitfire leave Nelson alone.
Jayd3n
Sep 13th, 2010
@Nelson
Rules 1 & 2
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Rules_1_and_2
http://www.4chan.org Dont talk about /B/ Tards…
Friend of all
Sep 13th, 2010
@jayd3n. Your wrong. Abuse reports work its just they do not check. They just ban.
I have used copybot clients before. I do not care.
Linden labs plainly admitted several times they do not care, Inertia and Onyx source codes are leaked. Both contain the ability to copybot without restriction. So what, who cares? Lindens do not care otherwise they would have said nothing but they have sided with the emerald team once upon a time and now they are siding with hazim.
Everyone in sl has sided with hazim or the emerald dev team atleast one point in time. Why do people still care about copybot?
I have gone to certain lands before and people tell me they use copybot and do not get banned anymore because people do not care.
Lindens have been firing lindens constantly and losing profits and decline to do anything about sl. Its not our fault for copybotting or the viewer creators fault for making a tool to access secondlife.
It is the lindens fault for doing nothing about it.