Wait, I have an idea. Let's go to war with Iran. Then we can be really overextended militarily and economically, and further our hegemonic demise.
Word.
10.03.2007
Iran Says Booyah!
Wait, I have an idea. Let's go to war with Iran. Then we can be really overextended militarily and economically, and further our hegemonic demise.
Word.
Is It Artificial?
All things deteriorate and die, so the notion of property is, itself, totally artificial. If we choose to assign a tangible value for something abstract, we agree to do so through every level of abstraction.
The notion that "virtual" property is not equivalent to physical property is anachronistic. If The Walt Disney Company (itself a virtual individual) can own Mickey Mouse (an idea, rendered by masses) for over 100 years (a super-human timespan; thanks, Sonny), then I can own that sword in Everquest and nobody, but nobody, can tell me that I don't have all the rights that apply to property ownership in the world where I exist (aka "Real").
Here's what sucks. As soon as you accept that abstraction, and there is no distinction drawn between the Real and the computer-mediated, all the rules apply, too. Nobody wants the rules unless they're in their favor.
I get that the point of Dusan Writer's post here is about the decisions of the platform owners and the 'suggestion' that they should make those decisions with the input of the participants, but I would argue: what authority do the players have other than that derived from their choice to participate?
I'm all for democratization, but Linden is more like Lex Luthor
than Martin Luther
- their goal is money (with a dash of megalomania - but hey, takes one to know one).
The notion that "virtual" property is not equivalent to physical property is anachronistic. If The Walt Disney Company (itself a virtual individual) can own Mickey Mouse (an idea, rendered by masses) for over 100 years (a super-human timespan; thanks, Sonny), then I can own that sword in Everquest and nobody, but nobody, can tell me that I don't have all the rights that apply to property ownership in the world where I exist (aka "Real").
Here's what sucks. As soon as you accept that abstraction, and there is no distinction drawn between the Real and the computer-mediated, all the rules apply, too. Nobody wants the rules unless they're in their favor.
I get that the point of Dusan Writer's post here is about the decisions of the platform owners and the 'suggestion' that they should make those decisions with the input of the participants, but I would argue: what authority do the players have other than that derived from their choice to participate?
I'm all for democratization, but Linden is more like Lex Luthor
than Martin Luther
- their goal is money (with a dash of megalomania - but hey, takes one to know one).
Victory!
We've won the War on Drugs!
Oh, well actually, the US government is taking credit for the increase in cocaine prices due to a decrease in supply. For those of you unfamiliar with these economic terms, that means that your yay is gonna cost more for a while, and the DEA would like you to thank them for that.
But hey, if it's at all like the War on Terror, prices will be back to normal in, say, 24 hours, so it's a good thing they put out the press release today.
In related news, people are growing pot in the woods! Libertarians!
Somebody stop them!
Oh, well actually, the US government is taking credit for the increase in cocaine prices due to a decrease in supply. For those of you unfamiliar with these economic terms, that means that your yay is gonna cost more for a while, and the DEA would like you to thank them for that.
But hey, if it's at all like the War on Terror, prices will be back to normal in, say, 24 hours, so it's a good thing they put out the press release today.
In related news, people are growing pot in the woods! Libertarians!
Somebody stop them!
10.02.2007
MMORPG Lit
Yes! A brave soul has created the first (that I know of) synthetic world-based novel.
Someone read this and let me know how it is!
Someone read this and let me know how it is!
10.01.2007
Across The Lines
They
dared to go.
[But doesn't it look like the shape of the Korean peninsula in that image is actually a body of water?]
dared to go.
[But doesn't it look like the shape of the Korean peninsula in that image is actually a body of water?]
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