Re: April events on the grids
Good stuff going on.The RobStock event is something I really like seeing happen. It takes a ton of behind the scenes work by Volunteers to bring this off. I was happy to see Metropolis join in this...
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opps, forgot to mention, Thx U.S. Gov and all the people involved in that project.Also, this came up this morning which sounds interesting.http://forum.hypergrid.org/inn...
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Both HG and non-HG grids can use varregions, so I'm not seeing any benefit of separating out the stats for that reason.For example, InWorldz can easily, if they want, create a giant "Central Park" var...
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No worries...it will happen eventually anyways and as you say, we can discuss such things, properly, elsewhere.The other stuff I mentioned has much more value to me than those comments did.
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also a build contest busy from yesterday started for a week and this theme is build a mushroom some have me ask for take a longer week posible not a bad idea for future eventssome time can you me see...
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We all look like our Avatars...this is a known fact.I brought this up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L... and noticed Sidekick is discontinued...gosh, I will miss that!btw, your blurring of that photo is...
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Maria, one word: plastics. No..wait...i meant: Quinoahttp://www.whfoods.com/genpage...
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Its definitely best not to have the snacks in the house! I've been on a similar diet for 5 years, and feel so much better, and lost the middle age shape i was developing. I now also take one morning or...
View ArticleRe: Utopias, dystopias, and other traps
I disagree with the belief that Utopias are boring. Star Trek is supposed to be a Utopia (or as close to it as we could get), but it is anything but boring.Even in a Utopia, there are many sources of...
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The future will either be total collapse, about which there isn't too much to say, or we will all migrate into the Net, where everything will be totally different and yet somehow exactly the same as...
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Hi Paul,I appreciate with your thoughts on the why utopias are destined to fail.As for Star Trek, I don't think Roddenberry was conceiving of a utopia, but rather a better future. Having been a police...
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Just wanted to drop in and tell anyone reading here that http://robstockfestival.org/ is going very well. I have heard of lots of donations to this very worthy cause.It continues today and tomorrow,...
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Tips&Tricks: have a look at the x-sector image i made for my co-workers at http://www.opensimservers.com/... and see what i do:- I mentally apply a category to each of my to-do things: some are...
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"that Madonna was going to destroy our society’s moral values" she didn't? hmmm...well, maybe it was Antonio, then, he always seemed to me to have a sinister look about him, but in a handsome rakish...
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I can't begin to tell you how many "the robots are taking our jobs" stories I've seen. People just don't realize that the future that was envisioned from the turn of the 20th century has already been...
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Capitalist economies will tend towards Post-Scarcity economies. This is because of competition.When you have a capitalist economy, it include competition where businesses compete with each other do...
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I just happened to have picked up a book about exactly this -- Robert B. Reich's The Future of Success (http://www.amazon.com/The-Futu... from my local library's ebook app.The book dates back to the...
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While what you say is true, one must not forget the effects of Governmental influences on supply/demand economics...as it is very much a factor.For example:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...Being just...
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I think the reason people are working more is that they are working for money not value.When I work, I get paid in money. So the more money offered the more I will want to work.However, money is not...
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Definitely. Although a Capitalist Economy is driven towards a Post Scarcity economy it is by no means a certainty that it will become one. It is possible to drive a capitalist economy away from post...
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