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The League Opens a Public Office

Special thanks to Mike Burleigh and his team at Remembering Our Friends for providing the Justice League Unlimited (JLU) an office in their new Headquarters.

Remembering Our Friends (ROF) is a place in SecondLife for those who have lost loved ones in Real Life and SecondLife to come to pay their respects to their friends or loved ones that have passed away.

The League has been proud to support their efforts to date and looks forward to many future partnerships with ROF.

Location: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sunset%20Arts%20II/205/151/22

Remember Our Friends: http://rememberingfriendsmemorial.com/home.html

About the Justice League Unlimited:

The Justice League Unlimited (JLU) in Second Life in (SL) is a public service organization who pattern their avatars after classic comic book heroes. While JLU members may model their avatars after these fictional personas, the JLU is not a super-hero role-playing group. The mission of the JLU is to provide mentoring and render aid to SL residents in need, primarily new residents, in such areas as building, scripting and security. The JLU often acts as a neighborhood watch organization, patrolling heavily trafficked public areas that are prone to abuse by griefers. We also hold seminars and conventions on public safety, and help estate managers learn effective techniques for keeping their own lands safe.

DailyKos Bloggers Share Thoughts

by Maverick Grunfeld

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Blogging has changed the exchange of ideas, allowing anyone to express their given viewpoints. Virtually Speaking Sundays focuses on bringing “Real Bloggers, Real Values, Real Ideas” to Second Life in a point and counter point talk show program. DailyKos bloggers Chris CS Kendrick and Adam Lambert (aka clammy) discussed their perspectives on the current “State of the Union.”

One of the key topics the bloggers focused on was the recent terrorist foiled terrorist attack. Both felt more preventative measures needed to be taken, and believed that body screening would not make a significant deterrent in preventing future attacks.

Adam Lambert said “It becomes a situation where the reaction is a reactive one instead of a proactive one.” He felt the possible solutions proposed in the aftermath of the attack would not serve as a long term solution. “Something that makes sense, something that isn’t a Band-Aid” would need to be found he asserted.

Chris believed that change would be extremely difficult given the nature of transportation both domestically and worldwide. “We are so dependent on two modes of transportation; the highways and the airways” he said. “People may say fine I can’t drive there, I’m not going.” He summarized with commenting that “It is a fragile, complex system” which makes it susceptible to a variety of security concerns.

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As the discussion transitioned to current military actions around the globe, Adam commented “Doesn’t this show how silly the current policy is?” He cited the terrorist attack as reason that “This isn’t working” from a policy perspective.

“I don’t know what it will take us culturally to change” said Chris in response. “Not just as a superpower, but culturally as a political power and as a mass society.”

Adam focued thoughts on the public perception of military action on foreign soil. “I don’t see the public support for continuing this military campaign and yet it doesn’t show any sign of ceasing” he said.

He asserted that to change the culture, a large aspect is the will of the people. “It seems like there is an overwhelming view, yet it is not doing anything really” stated Adam. “I don’t understand how here we are with something overwhelming unpopular .“

Chris added some future concerns regarding the Chinese long term in regards to military and political impacts to the United States. He believed their growing status as a superpower would eventually come to raise the concerns of Americans at some point within the next decade.

He transitioned to how military spending could be redirected to other areas to help the United States gain a better position within the world. “Think of how much of an investment a lot of this can be in our own country to bring it to the forefront again” Chris stated. “It goes back to unemployment and the stimulus bills.”

Chris added further that the strength of the American economy remains with technological innovations. “There’s a lot creative knowledge out there” he said. Chris elaborated further and cited Second Life as an example of what the future may hold for businesses.

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The discussion included the future of transportation especially with growing environmental concerns. Chris simply stated that “We love our cars.”

Adam’s position on the environment was that the topic has become too extremist with some political viewpoints to be productive. “The point is you need to have something to move the conversation to back where it was before” he said. “There’s got to be a way to pump some money back in to make these things happen.”

Adam later addressed politics and what he referred to as the “myth of the conservative independent.” “Really what this comes down to are republicans not identifying as republicans anymore. They’re not changing their ideology or their voting habits. But there are more of them being ashamed being linked to the Bush years” he asserted. The belief that American politics may be shifting to the conservatives again after recent political struggles by Democrats he dismissed citing statistics on voter preferences.

Chris reflected on what he referred to as a “Great Arc of Progress.” “We can dare to dream to do far greater work than we did this last year” he said reflecting on the country as a whole. “We have to demand this of ourselves.”

Upcomming virtual discussions include David Waldman and Olivier Knox on January 7, 2010 from 6pm to 7pm PST as well as Marcy Wheeler & Cliff Schecter on January 10, 2010 from 5pm to 6pm PST.

Daily Planet Second Life: www.kryptonradio.com

Blogs:
CS Kendrick – http://cskendrick.dailykos.com/ http://twitter.com/CSKendrick
Adam Lambert – http://clammyc.dailykos.com/ http://www.bluejersey.com/ http://twitter.com/clammyc

To Visit Virtually Speaking: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Virtually%20Speaking/164/111/25

How to Stop Dialog Spam

Second Life Tips for You!

by GreenLantern Excelsior

Sometimes griefers will use dialog box spam in their attacks. You can end up with hundreds of dialog boxes in the upper right corner of your screen. You can click “Ignore” on all of them until they all go away, but sometimes you get that sinking feeling when you see a different box flash across the screen but you didn’t have time to read what it said before you clicked “Ignore.” Was it an inventory offer or a friendship request? You’ll never know. Have no fear, because a solution is available. While working a griefer attack in Sandbox Island Extension I saw the following message in local chat: EmeraldSetupShieldsWindow

Blocked dialogs from Davi Kayor’s object (2dfede37-0dae-787b-ecde-2706ce91da23)

I discovered that the dialog boxes were blocked by my Emerald viewer. I had downloaded version 1.23.5 but hadn’t been involved in dialog spam until now. There were a few dialog boxes up there, but I was able to remove all of them by clicking “Ignore” fewer than 10 times. You can set it up with Edit > Preferences > Emerald > Page 1 > Shields > Dialog Anti-Spam. It’s just another example of fine programming from the folks at http://modularsystems.sl/, and another reason you should consider running the Emerald viewer if you aren’t already.

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Happy New Year from Second Life

Numerous places in Second Life, a virtual world, celebrated ushering in 2010.
One location recreated the historical New York City Times Square Ball drop. However, the prime attraction was developed by the creators of Second Life at Linden Labs.
The servers for the program closely are connected to world times. As the 2010 approached areas around the world, residents were able to come together and experience how a virtual world can bring everyone from all cultures and timezones together.
Happy New Year!